Acqua Fuori Dal Ring

Acqua Fuori Dal Ring English Ring of Water is 2012 Italian film written and directed by Joel Stangle, and cowritten by Esther Stangle in Arabic and Italian. The film uses a largely Cinma vrit style, and the director employed nonprofessional actors and an improvised script, shooting in Catania, Sicily. The film parallels the lives of two boxers living in Catania, one a Sicilian native, and the other a Tunisian migrant.

I was thinking about the migration situation and the cultures of the Mediterranean and for an unexplainable reason I felt boxing had something to do with it. Later in researching I was reading a two thousand year old text from a roman historian, Polybius, and he said to understand the conflict between two cultures you need to think of it as two boxers fighting in a ring. For me history is repeating, and todays issues are similar to those of the past. If two thousand years ago they used the analogy of boxing, I think it applies today as well. But, it goes back to letting the story find its way. Boxing was part of the neighborhood I was filming in, and I had an intuitive feeling it was right. The film was primarily shot in the Librino neighborhood of Catania in the public housing projects, with additional scenes filmed on the Black Lava Fields of Mount Etna. ........

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