Documentary: Those who feel the fire burning – by Morgan Knibbe; Friday, 20.01.2017, 18:30, Cinema 2

The night is pitch-black, the sea stormy. Wild waves break on a little boat full of refugees, where a girl laments that she does not want to go to Europe. Suddenly an old man falls overboard. In vain he tries to grab the saving hands. Colored lightning flashes over a busy city seen from above. From that point on, the drowned man sees reality from another dimension. Unconventional and poetic in form, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning documents a serious social problem: the hopeless situation of the refugees who actually manage to make the crossing alive. The seeking soul of the old man hurries along the southern European border and dwells on the many disillusioned people, observing them calmly and up close. They would seem to be in limbo just like him, waiting on the edge of a presumed paradise. He sees people on the street chased away like dogs, follows an illegal worker and a drug-addicted mother and slips inside packed shelters. The voices of all these people blend together with his, creating a patchwork of loving memories, dreams and desires.

Morgan Knibbe

Morgan Knibbe graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in 2012 with the experimental documentary A TWIST IN THE FABRIC OF SPACE. This film was selected for the IDFA Student Competition and awarded with the VPRO Documentary Award 2012 and a Netherlands Film Fund wildcard. Morgan has most recently directed the film SHIPWRECK which was awarded the Pardino d’argento SRG SSR per il Concorso internazionale at Locarno FF, and a European Film Award. THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING is Morgan’s first feature length documentary.

release date:

2014

director:

Morgan Knibbe

country:

Greece

duration:

74 mins

languages:

Original with German subtitles