The subject is based on the idea that asylum applicants and refugees live among us and so are part of our social reality. The main characters are three men and two women who are actually going through this experience in real life. They are representatives of an African, a Middle East, an Eastern European and a Latin American country. The film plays on the particularities of the characters' mother tongues in order to render the identity of asylum applicants and refugees living in Europe more real. This narrative choice may disorientate viewers at first but then begins to involve them in this multilingual conversation.
Equal Voices
Genre
Documentary
Country
Italy
Year
2007
Duration
7'
Production Companies
Unione Europea Fondo Sociale Europeo, Ministero del Lavoro e della Previdenza Sociale, IntegRARrsi, AwarNet, ANCI, International Organization For Migration - IOM
Languages
Italian
Director's Notes
Director's Notes
«It is always a thrill to work with people who have directly experienced what we want to transform into images. So, after some conversation, their experience became a sort of music score composed of their various languages, while the shooting location became a metaphor of the asylum applicant and refugee. The bare wooden beach structure became an open cage: a delicate condition to be in, to cope with and from which to start a new life».
Geographical areas and populations
Geographical areas and populations
A visual environmental guide showing the global health status and the transition of local crises to global emergencies, country by country, area by area, and continent by continent.
Food on Film project
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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Creative Europe Media Program. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.