“Poor creatures!» Greek cult director Yorgos Lanthimos And Golden Lion of the 80th Venice Film Festival.. Glory also for Matteo Garrone For “I’m the captain“who won Silver Lion for Best Director with dedication: “To the under-arrived migrants.”
Garrone’s film is a moving, dramatic and poetic modern odyssey of two young men who, from Dakar in Senegal, decide to face the dangers of the sub-Saharan desert and torture in Libya.a dangerous journey on a boat full of migrants to arrive at the promised land: Italy. Seydoux and Moussa are the two main characters, aspiring actors.
“This award will help the film. To make a film with Africans, I tried to give a voice to those who usually don’t have one. I thank my actors for their extraordinary interpretation: they managed to give three-dimensionality to what we wrote, great humanity and spirituality,” said Garrone.
“We filmed Io Capitano in Senegal and also in Morocco, so at this moment our thoughts turn to the tragedy that has struck that country.– said the director.
TO Seydou Sarr, a 21-year-old Senegalese man, won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Emerging Young Actor for his performance in the film Io Capitano. Then the director gives the floor Kouassi Pli Adama Mamadou, activist of the former social center Canapificio and the movement of migrants and refugees of Caserta, whose story inspired him. “The film tells a real reality,” Mamadou emphasizes. “I managed to get to Italy, but I would like us to dedicate this award to all the people who could not get to Lampedusa. And I would like to remind you that when there is a desire and a need to leave, no one can stop you. We young people need to be given the right of access, a travel visa, and I believe this will be a tool to unblock human trafficking.” For Mamadou:a regular input channel, as President Mattarella also said, would help solve the problem. I thank the festival and the entire Caserta community, which helps immigrants in their integration.”
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