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A Breathtaking Look at the Migrant Experience, Director Matteo Garrone’s ‘Io Capitano’ Is a Triumph
The Italian’s quest for authenticity has occasioned a film of heroic scope and harrowing brutality. It has been nominated as Best International Feature for this year’s Academy Awards.
Real-life ‘Io Capitano’ Skipper Fofana Amara Talks Oscar Hopes & Pleasure That His Story Is Being Told
As Italian director Garrone steps on to the Academy Awards red carpet on March 10 with Best International Feature Film nominee Io Capitano, the real-life skipper who part inspired the drama will be watching and rooting for the film from afar.
‘Gloria!’ Review: An All-Female Orchestra at the Turn of the 19th Century Does It for Themselves in Fluffy Italian Debut
Margherita Vicario’s film centers around women musicians at a Church-run establishment in early-1800s Italy.
Join a Senegalese teen on a harrowing journey in this Oscar-nominated film
One of the interesting things about this year’s Academy Awards race for best international feature is that in three of the five nominated movies, the filmmakers are working in cultures and languages different from their own.
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.
