Coming to MUBI today, Wednesday, August 25:
PURPLE SEA
Director:
Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Visions du Reel, Doclisboa, Ann Arbor, RIDM, Camden
About:
Made from images filmed by the Syrian artist Amel Alzakout after the boat on which she was fleeing Syria sank off the coast of Lesbos, a revisitation of the moment in which the co-director and the other passengers are floating in the sea in their life-jackets, waiting to be rescued.
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