VICE News travels to Lampedusa a year after the boat capsizing disaster that killed 360 migrants and brought the refugee crisis to the forefront of the European immigration discussion.
"To whom it may concern", a film by Zakaria Mohamed Ali
Zakaria, a young Somali journalist, landed in Lampedusa as an asylum seeker in 2008. He remembers the island as a place of exclusion rather than arrival. Four years later he returns to Lampedusa as a free man, recalling his stay in the CIE and searching for lost memories.
Haunted by a Sinking Ship
The two brothers escaped a war in Syria and unrest in Libya. They survived the shipwreck at Lampedusa on October3rd, 2013