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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Ayiva (Koudous Seihon) and Abas (Alassane Sy) are close friends from Burkina Faso determined to make it to Italy in order to find work and provide for their families back home. But even after surviving the harrowing journey—desert bandits, a treacherous sea voyage, arrest—nothing can prepare the two men for the hostility and violence tha...

Directed By: Jonas Carpignano

Written By: Jonas Carpignano

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Sundance Selects
  • 1 h 47 m

Mediterranea

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary Ayiva (Koudous Seihon) and Abas (Alassane Sy) are close friends from Burkina Faso determined to make it to Italy in order to find work and provide for their families back home. But even after surviving the harrowing journey—desert bandits, a treacherous sea voyage, arrest—nothing can prepare the two men for the hostility and violence tha...

Directed By: Jonas Carpignano

Written By: Jonas Carpignano

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
10 Reviews
9% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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90
Nov 19, 2015
This calm, hardheaded film never sacrifices its toughness for a swooning, misty-eyed moment of hope.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 21, 2015
It renders a global crisis in strikingly intimate terms.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 17, 2015
The film proves a piercing character study whose narrow view frustrates complete empathy.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 21, 2015
If a movie as rich and understanding as Mediterranea suddenly appeared every time we read about a difficult issue in the paper, maybe all of the world’s problems could be solved.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 16, 2015
The film is unwaveringly attentive to problematizing the dividing line between predator and prey.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
75
Oct 21, 2015
For the most part an assured film, confident in both the drama and the truth of the scenario it observes, this ground-level view of the immigrant experience feels both pinpoint specific and all too representative of the obstacles and attitudes that face so many illegals, in so many parts of the world.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
40
Nov 19, 2015
Writer-director Jonas Carpignano glosses over much of the sociopolitical context in his depictions of the chain of events.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW

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Universal Acclaim Based on 16 User Ratings
8.1
81% Positive
13 Ratings
13% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 16 User Ratings
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81% Positive
13 Ratings
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6% Negative
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Production Company Audax Films, Court 13 Pictures, DCM Productions, End Cue, Good Lap Production, Grazka Taylor Productions, Grisbi Productions, Le, Hyperion Media Group, Maiden Voyage Pictures, Nomadic Independence Pictures, Sunset Junction Entertainment, TideRock Media, Treehouse Pictures
Release Date Nov 20, 2015
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Stockholm Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 3 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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