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In This Heroes’ Tale, Real People Risk Their Lives to Get to Europe
Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated feature “Io Capitano” dramatizes the harrowing journeys made by thousands of Africans each month looking for a better life in Europe.
Io Capitano’ Review: A Migration Odyssey
The Italian director of the film “Gomorrah” focuses his tender yet unsparing lens on two teenage boys journeying from their home in Senegal to Europe.
Migrant’s 3 brutal years trying to reach Italy inspired the Oscar-nominated film ‘Io Capitano’
CASTEL VOLTURNO, Italy — Mamadou Kouassi’s searing, epic journey over African deserts, through illegal prisons and across the Mediterranean Sea in a smugglers’ boat informed Italian director Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated film “Io Capitano.” Some episodes that the Ivorian migrant witnessed on his three-year odyssey were too strong to make the final cut.
The harrowing migrant story of ‘Io Capitano’ is pope-approved
Landing roles in Matteo Garrone’s “Io Capitano” was a life-changing experience for Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall. The young Senegalese actors were cast to play African migrants Seydou and Moussa, respectively. Two young men hoping to live out their dreams in Europe and, eventually, the United States, after crossing the African continent and the Mediterranean Sea. Their director, best known for 2008’s “Gomorrah,” threw them a curveball for their first real professional gigs, though. It turns out no one in the cast ever had a complete screenplay.
Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Io Capitano’ Gets Pan-African Theatrical Release Ahead of Tour With Director (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Ennio’ Review: Ennio Morricone, the Maestro of the Movie Soundtrack, Gets the Entrancing Documentary He Deserves
It’s a documentary devoted entirely to a celebration and exhaustive analysis of Morricone’s music — a portrait of the artist as virtuoso soundtrack renegade.
