MOVIES - DOCUMENTARIES
TARIFA TRAFFIC - DEATH IN THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR
by Joakim Demmer
VOD
Tarifa, a city in the south of Spain, Europe's southernmost point, early morning. The wind surfers sail across the clear blue sea and the first tourists are taking their places in the deck chairs. Only a few steps away a dead body is being tossed up on the shore by crashing waves. They come when there is a full moon and a smooth sea. These are the nights of the «pateras», the motorboats that try to cross the Strait of Gibraltar in the dark. They are filled to the hilt with ever-more people from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa. Many cannot swim and have nothing except for the clothes on their backs. And it doesn't take much for an overfilled boat to capsize or sink, leading to a catastrophe. From a European perspective and with haunting images, the film looks at the people of Tarifa whose everyday life is influenced by the constant flow of illegal immigrants looking for a better future in the fortress that is Europe.
Credits
Year: 2003
Country: CH, D, E
Running Time: 60 Min.
Director: Joakim Demmer
Author: Joakim Demmer, Brenda Osterwalder
Co-Author: Brenda Osterwalder
Producer: Dschoint Ventschr, Samir
Executive Producer: Samir
Co-Producer: 3Sat, dffb, Joakim Demmer, Dschoint Ventschr
Camera: Hoyte van Hoytema
Editor: Joakim Demmer, Natali Barrey
Sound: Daniel Iribarren
Music: Matthias Trippner
Production Manager: Valentin Greutert
Awards Prix Suisse TSR , Visions du Réel, Nyon 2003
Publikumspreis der Rheinischen Post für den beliebtesten Film, Duisburger Filmwoche 2003
1er Prix du Concours Européen du 1er film documentaire, Aux Écrans du Réel, Le Mans 2003
Medienpreis, Evangelischen Kirche Deutschland 2004
Robert-Geisendörfer-Preis für Hörfunk- und Fernsehproduktionen (Frankfurt am Main)
Festivals 27. Duisburger Filmwoche, 2003
Neubrandenburg dokumentART, 2003
46. internationales Leipziger Festival, 2003
Visions du Réel Nyon, 2003
Locarno International Film Festival, 2003
DocPoint Helsinki, 2003
Belgrade International Film Festival, 2004
Freistadt, Der neue Heimatfilm, 2004
Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München, 2004
One World Prag, 2004
Amnesty International Film Fest Amsterdam, 2004
Bologna Human Rights Nights, 2004
Siracusa, Int. Doc. Mediterraneo, 2004
Copenhagen Salaam DK, 2004
Medienfestival Tübingen, 2004
DAsques et dailleurs Asques, 2004
Documenta Madrid, 2004
Environmental Film Festival Barcelona, 2004
Human Rights Doc Festival Glasgow, 2004
Swiss American Film Festival New York, 2004
One World Bratislava, 2004
Rencontres internationales Montreal, 2004
Tempo Doc Festival Stockholm, 2004
Globale Berlin, 2005
European Social Forum London, 2004
39. Solothurner Filmtage, 2004
DocHouse Zagreb, 2005
CineLatino Tübingen, 2005
Thessaloniki Doc Festival, 2005
Human Rights Rom, 2005
Biennale Cine Espanol Annecy, 2006
Verzio Film Festival Budapest, 2006
51. Int. Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar-
und Animationsfilm, 2008
Humanity Explored Online Video Festival, 2012
