Gateway of Europe - The Migrant Crisis OTT Release Date: When and where to watch hard-hitting refugee documentary

Gateway of Europe - The Migrant Crisis OTT Release Date: In a world constantly talking about migration, refugee numbers, and borders, Gateway of Europe ¨C The Migrant Crisis lands at just the right time and with the right tone. This powerful documentary will start streaming on DocuBay on June 20, 2025, perfectly timed with World Refugee Day, and it aims to shake viewers out of their detachment with real stories from people who¡¯ve risked everything for a chance at survival.

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Directed by Max Serio, the documentary is set on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, which has been at the centre of the European migrant crisis for years. Lampedusa, often the first piece of Europe many migrants set foot on, has seen it all - hope, despair, rescue, death. Through Serio¡¯s lens, Lampedusa becomes a character in itself: overwhelmed, exhausted, but still quietly standing strong as it receives wave after wave of desperate human stories from across the sea.

Unlike most headline-driven content, this film shows you faces. The migrants featured in the film speak from their gut. One recounts surviving nights in an overcrowded rubber boat, another talks about fleeing war with nothing but a plastic bag of belongings. These are people who had no choice but to leave everything behind, not for a dream, but for a chance at staying alive.

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What adds weight to the film is how it also includes the voices of locals, the fishermen, volunteers, medics, and coastguards of Lampedusa, people who wake up to this reality every day. One moment you're watching a man offer food to an exhausted mother with a baby in her arms, and the next you're in a rescue boat with coastguards trying to pull people out of sinking vessels.

The camera never looks away, and neither can you. The documentary was produced by DocuBay, under the IN10 Media Network, and both the director and the platform have made it clear this film is meant to move you. IN10¡¯s MD, Aditya Pittie, backed this vision fully.

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