Lifeboat

Directed by Skye Fitzgerald · Starring Aisha, Miriam · 2018

Volunteers from a German nonprofit head into the Mediterranean at night to pull refugees from sinking rafts, while survivors recount what drove them to risk the crossing.

An urgent, Oscar-nominated look at life-and-death rescues at sea that puts human faces on the migration crisis.

One of the nominees for Oscar, volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts in the middle of the night.

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