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Toronto: Gianfranco Rosi on Documenting the "Victims of History" in 'Notturno'

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After winning the Berlinale 2016 Golden Bear — and later an Oscar nomination — for Fire at Sea, a moving and deeply empathetic examination of Europe’s migrant crisis shot on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italian documentary maker Gianfranco Rosi has turned his deeply artistic lens to the original starting point for many of those boarding small boats seeking refuge.

Notturno, which bowed in Venice (seven years after he won the Golden Lion for Sacro G.R.A.) before moving on to Toronto, is the result of a three-year odyssey for the filmmaker, who traveled across the war-torn borders of Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan and Syria, documenting the day-to-day lives of normal people existing behind the battle lines, people whose lives have been.

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