A Custom of the Sea (2021)

Porto Maurizio, where the director, who lives in France today, grew up, is located on the Ligurian coast. The village is the starting point for a cinematic journey into the past that spans a surprisingly wide arc to a time when Muslim pirates, the corsairs, haunted the Mediterranean and took Europeans as slaves. To this end, the film light-handedly draws from the rich fund of film history and its iconography.

• Year: 2021
• Genres: Documentary
• Countries: France
• Languages: Arabic, English, French, Italian
• Runtime: 52 min