with
- Maki Berchache
- Saidi Shaharedin
- Shadi Al Fawaghra
- Mahmoud El Saleh
- Badreddine Nobigh
- Selim Sohbani
- Nathalie Nambot
- and the Berchache
family
Maki, a young migrant Tunisian, who among many others, crossed the sea
to Lampedusa after the revolution, said to me one day: "History is only written about
great people, us, we don’t exist". Months later, we decided to write a piece of history together.
"The sea burns" stands at the paradoxical crossroads between the dynamic energy
of an ongoing revolution, the drive to set out for Europe, and the violence of
being refused entry. The film seeks that which constitutes the sensitive core of a life
at the moment of rupture. That which is tiny, common to us all, far from exoticism,
but haunted by the dream, like a call.