A Custom of the Sea

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.

• Release date
• October 26, 2021
• Runtime
• 52 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Fabrizio Polpettini