DISTRESS CALL


Special Mention Award

Category
Short, Drama
Director
Michele D'anca
Year
2024
Country
Italy
Runtime
00:19:52
Budget
10.000 EUR
Key Cast
Michele D'anca, Nina Pons

Two Italian operators are working for “Watch The Med Alarm Phone” receive an emergency phone call from the central Mediterranean Sea. For about eleven minutes the operators remain in contact with a man in danger and struggle to save the lives of one hundred migrants sinking on a rubber boat. The situation on board gets worse: the migrants fall into the water, the boat sinks and the communication is interrupted. The destiny of the people on board remains a mystery. Maybe a ship will arrive to save them, maybe someone will die, maybe everyone will die.