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Fire on the Marmara
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Fire on the Marmara

70 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara in international waters as it sailed toward Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy assembled to break the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory. Nine people died in the raid. Director David Segarra, working for Telesur, tracks down survivors and journalists who were aboard, interviewing them across a string of cities: Caracas, Valencia, Barcelona, Brussels, London, Stockholm, Istanbul, and Gaza itself. Their testimony reconstructs both the chaos on deck during the boarding and the planning that put roughly 700 activists on the ship in the first place. The film stays close to firsthand accounts rather than official statements from either government, letting the people who were on board describe what they saw and why they joined the voyage. Vicent Chanza's camera work and the editing by Alejandro Jurado and Thairon Martínez keep the focus on personal testimony as the film moves between the incident itself and the international network that organized the flotilla.