🎬 Documentary film “One hundred four” (NONFY Documentaries) at festivals in Munich and Rostock

The documentary “One Hundred Four” (German title: “Einhundertvier“) by director Jonathan Schörnig will be shown as a preview at various film festivals in Germany at the beginning of May before its official theatrical release on May 23, 2024. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the film at Dok.fest Munich and the Fish Festival in Rostock. The film provides an insight into a rescue operation in the Mediterranean in which 104 people are saved from distress at sea. This documentary was already highly praised at Dok.Leipzig 2023, where it received four awards for feature-length films. It also received an honorable mention at the film festival in Bolzano in April 2024.

The explosive nature of the topic is due to the thousands of deaths each year on the world’s most dangerous escape route, the Mediterranean. The European border policy and its practices are being criticized.

The documentary “Einhundertvier” by director Jonathan Schörnig will be shown as a preview at various film festivals in Germany at the beginning of May before its official theatrical release on May 23, 2024. Visitors will have the opportunity to see the film at Dok.fest Munich and the Fish Festival in Rostock. The film provides an insight into a rescue operation in the Mediterranean in which 104 people are saved from distress at sea. This documentary was already highly praised at Dok.Leipzig 2023, where it received four awards for feature-length films. It also received an honorable mention at the film festival in Bolzano in April 2024.

The explosive nature of the topic is due to the thousands of deaths each year on the world’s most dangerous escape route, the Mediterranean. The European border policy and its practices are being criticized.

Synopsis

When the Libyan coastguard approaches the German sea rescue boat Eleonore, a hectic rush breaks out among the 104 refugees and the routine rescue operation has to be speeded up. How a sea rescue can take place is beyond imagination. The real-time documentary “One Hundred and Four” brings this dramatic situation closer. The film shows how agonizingly long it takes to rescue 104 people from a sinking rubber dinghy. Person by person, step by step, the action is accompanied by several parallel cameras. The situation comes to a head when the Libyan coastguard appears. The rescued people and the crew wait for days on the high seas, as no Mediterranean country allows them to dock. Only after a terrible storm does the ship reach a European port.