Corrado is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior specialized in international missions related to irregular migration.

da Mymovies/Giancarlo Zappoli

A city situated in the North of Italy. Immigration influences the social structure. Golfetto, an industrialist, can’t stand it and he projects all his xenophobia in a local tv he finances.

da Mymovies/Giancarlo Zappoli

Pergine, a little city in Trentino, in Val de Mocheni. It’s from this city that Dani comes from. He escaped from Togo and, later, from a fire in Libya.

da Mymovies/Giancarlo Zappoli

Between 2009 and 2010 hundreds of thousands of African people were stopped in the Strait of Sicily and sent back to Libya. It’s them who illustrate, in a documentary, what it means to be rejected; they describe exactly what happened on the ships.

da Mymovies

Om Puri is an anglicized father but not enough to avoid his children to have a traditional marriage. Basset is his British wife who argues with him. Children are more English than a native person.

da Mymovies/Fabrizio Caleffi

Samuele’s story, a boy from Lampedusa who goes to school and loves to throw stones with the handmade sling he created to hunt birds. He prefers to play on the mainland even though everything around him is about sea and thousands of men, women and children that in the sea, in the last twenty years, tried to cross it seeking for a life worthy of the name but finding, too often, the death.

from Mymovies/Gianfranco Zappoli

A nomad bottom-up financed documentary, Team bride performs on screen a wedding with deeply involved guests. Main characters of this adventure are five people running from the war and their exhausted Country. Palestinians and Syrians who survived the sea swell, landed in Lampedusa and are determined to reach Sweden ‘creatively’.

from Mymovies/Marzia Gandolfi

In early 20th Century Sicily, Salvatore made a vow: he wants to set sail to new world. Crialese couldn’t choose a better moment to walk through Italian migration’s history, questioning the origin of prejudice that always matches with it and the inclusion dynamics of the reception society, today that Italy is the “new world”, a sought-after destination for immigrants.

from Mymovies

Shun Li packs forty shirts per day to pay back the debt and documents to re-embrace her son. Employed in a workshop, she has been transferred from Rome’s suburb to Chioggia where she will meet Bepi, a Slavic fisherman in Laguna’s waters for thirty years. Despite they’ve been separated, they will found a different fate, but speaking the same language. The language of love.

from Mymovies/Marzia Gandolfi

Davide Fedele gives us the possibility to enter in desperate and hidden intimacy of Sub-Saharan Africa’s migrants living on the mountains in the North of Morocco. Most of them hopes to enter Europe jumping over a very militarised barrier to reach Melilla, Spanish enclave in Africa.

from thelandbetweenfilm.com

1984. Hundred thousand African people find shelter in refugee camps in Sudan. Israelis, helped by Americans, rescue Ethiopians of Jewish origin, Falashas. A child is rescued by her mom who puts him on a convoy as a Jewish. He will be adopted by an Israeli family and will grow up with the desire to see his mother again as well as an inner conflict due to the awareness of not belonging.

from Mymovies/Gianfranco Zappoli

An actor impersonates a teacher who gives lessons to a class of foreigners playing themselves. They are non-Europeans who want to learn Italian to get the residence permit, integrate themselves and live in Italy. They come from various places in the world and each of them brings to the lessons his world. But during the filming something happens and reality takes over.

from Mymovies/Gianfranco Zappoli

Since 2003 Italy and Europe ask to Libya to stop African migrants. But what regularly does Libyan police? What happens to thousands of African men and women? And why everybody pretend they don’t know? The documentary gives the floor to African migrants, witnesses of the brutal way that Libya use to control migration flows, at the request of Italy and Europe.

from Mymovies

Samba Cissé is a Senegalese boy forced into a reception camp at the gates of Paris for ten years. Waiting for a residence permit and pressed by the fear of expulsion from France, Samba addresses to an association that deals with legal issues about immigration. It gets committed to his case in the person of Alice, a young middle-class woman on a leave period from work.

from Mymovies/Marzia Gandolfi

It tales the phenomenon of Nigerian girls traffic from their Country to Italy for sexual exploitation. The movie is set in Benin City, called the “Italian factory of prostitutes”, and in different Italian realities where victims end up on the street and different circumstances intertwine.

from casadelcinema.it