Finding a film like BEYOND THE RAGING SEA is the reason I continue doing Unseen Films. Because I am writing on film I get all sorts of people putting films on my radar I would ever have seen otherwise. Such was the case of this film, which I got information on and watched one afternoon when I wanted to go off the board of highly promoted films.

Extreme athletes Omar Nour and Omar Samra accept the Talisker Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile Atlantic Ocean crossing by rowboat with no assistance, and no stopping. Training and preparing for two years, they commit their adventure to the plight of displaced people crossing the Mediterranean with support from UNHCR and UNDP.

Self-indulgence on a reckless scale or a genuine attempt to draw attention to the plight of the refugees who risk their lives crossing seas to escape persecution?

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Two endurance sailors’ perilous voyage is supposed to lead them to empathy for refugees’ plight – but they sure take their time discovering that

The sea is like a cruel mistress. You can love her, you can hate her, but you can never trust her.

In ‘Beyond the Raging Sea,’ Omar Samra and Omar Nour relive their failed attempt to row across the Atlantic Ocean

Documentary about two Egyptian adventurers rowing across the Atlantic to call attention to refugees' plight had its world premiere in 2019

The documentary “Beyond the Raging Sea” will make its European premiere July 4 as the centerpiece presentation of the Monaco Streaming Film Festival. The screening will take place in Monte Carlo’s Grimaldi Forum prior to the Festival’s Gala Awards evening. The film’s writer-director, Marco Orsini, will attend.

This documentary not only grips the audience in fear and excitement, but it transmits an energy to the audience in a way I have not witnessed before. This energy is brought to the forefront by the vivid descriptions of the ordeal as related by the two Omars.

Two Egyptian athletes who set out to row across the Atlantic meet near-tragedy in 'Beyond the Raging Sea,' documaker Marco Orsini’s harrowing adventure tale with a message.