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BEYOND THE RAGING SEA (WIP) + PANEL

IEFTA - INTERNATIONAL EMERGING FILM TALENT ASSOCIATION - as PROMO

Social issues - Completed 2018

Participating in the world’s most grueling open ocean race, two elite athletes endure the same misery, terror and danger as the refugees whose situation they were trying to publicize and assist, men and women whose own experience unfolds in dramatic contrast.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Social issues, True Story, Documentary
- Countries
- EGYPT
- Duration
- 45 mn
- Synopsis
- Triathlete Omar Nour and mountaineer Omar Samra enter the Atlantic Challenge - a rowing race across open ocean - as the ultimate test of endurance and a fine way to bring awareness to the refugee crisis. In an ironic twist, they’re soon facing the same dangers, terrors and decisions of those they meant to recognize and relieve, whose own experience unfolds in pointed comparison. In this film, an elite adventure introduces us to extraordinary people in exceptional circumstance, navigating existential threats and grueling ordeals, fighting for survival and what comes after.
  
  IEFTA presents Beyond the Raging Sea, followed by a panel discussion. A collaboration of DHL, UNHCR, UNDP and IEFTA, this documentary examines the harrowing ordeal of two Egyptian athletes, Omar Samra and Omar Nour, whose disastrous attempt to cross the Atlantic – and thereby raise awareness of the global refugee crisis – is brought into relief, by the lived experience of actual refugees.