Human Flow Page #3

[children chattering]

[indistinct chatter]

- Hello.

- [Weiwei] How are you?

I mean, one thing is to make

sure that people get food.

And one thing is to make

sure that people have,

like, the possibility to shower.

But the hardest is to actually

make them feel like

they are a human being,

and they are not just

one of, I don't know,

one million who came to Germany.

So I really, on a daily basis,

make people feel like

they are human beings

and we actually care about them.

[man yelling]

[men cheering]

[metro rumbling, horn blowing]

[sirens wailing]

- [man] No, no, no.

- [indistinct chatter]

- [car horns honking]

- [sirens blaring]

[cops speaking in French]

[indistinct yelling]

[truck horn honking]

[coughing]

[Middle Eastern music playing]

[chanting]

[clamoring]

[whistling]

[indistinct chatter]

[gunshots in distance]

[indistinct chatter]

[gunshots in distance]

[gunshots continue]

[middle Eastern music

playing on car radio]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[indistinct chatter]

[Avis] Every time

We took people off the deck

more people appeared.

It just never stopped.

We thought it was

going to be around 400,

but I guess it's somewhere

between 720 and 730 people.

[Giles] As a group, they were

the sickest people I've seen yet

on this mission.

Uh, we had adults

with severe malnutrition.

I had a woman

who weighed 36 kilograms,

she was very, very sick.

Uh... there was

a high, high amount

of diarrhea and dysentery.

And, uh, there were people

who had scurvy

as well as chronic

vitamin C depletion,

like sailors used to see.

[Pagotto] A lot of them

came from Eritrea,

a few also from Somalia

and other places.

But the journey

they have made through Sudan,

through Khartoum up into Libya,

it was really shocking to hear

some of the stories,

to hear what they had been

through inside Libya,

often kept for several months

and just exploited, just, uh...

giving up anything they have,

any money they have

to pay for this journey

and to make it out to sea.

[Giles] There were a total of

eight pregnant women on board.

Two of whom were due any day,

and one lady went into labor

our first morning.

We knew that she would have

complications that would not

allow her to successfully

deliver on the boat,

so we came to the decision

that we needed to medically

evacuate her.

So she went onto

a Coast Guard ship from Malta,

straight to the hospital,

went on to deliver

a healthy baby girl.

If that baby had been born

24 hours earlier,

the mom and the baby

would have died.

[singing in foreign language]

[singing continues]

- [hammering nails]

- [dog barking]

[motorcycle roaring]

[indistinct chatter]

[Kirisci] I think we've entered

a period in world history

where movements

of people across borders

has accelerated.

Maybe social media

plays a role in this.

Maybe the fact that

transportation has become

so much cheaper and more

effective plays a role in this.

And also that globalization,

though it has had

very positive outcomes,

it also has created

greater inequalities.

And inevitably, people are

going to move from locations

that are insecure

and economically nonviable

to areas where there is

more opportunities

and more stability,

and prospects of prosperity.

It's going to be

a big challenge to recognize

that the world is shrinking,

and people

from different religions,

different cultures

are going to have to learn

to live with each other.

[children chattering]

[waves splashing]

[soft classical music playing]

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