"Five Stars – A masterly and moving look at the migrant crisis."

"Critics' Pick – Impressionistic and intensely absorbing."

"Deliberate storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking."

"The European migrant crisis has found its cinematic Pietà in Fire At Sea, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's powerful, at times shocking but also intensely human documentary."

"Five Stars – Fire at Sea is a masterpiece not only of documentary filmmaking but of timely and abiding storytelling. The filmmaker/cinematographer is a master of light, bathing each image with meaning."

"Where journalism leaves off, Fire at Sea begins. It takes a unique documentary filmmaker like Gianfranco Rosi to capture the drama through the periscope of his camera focused on the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa."