IO CAPITANO / ME CAPTAIN

Seydou and Moussa are two young men who leave Dakar to make their way to Europe. A contemporary Odyssey through the dangers of the desert, the horrors of the detention centers in Libya and the perils of the sea.

MATEO GARONE / MATTEO GARRONE

Matteo Garrone (Rome, 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Garrone won the Sacher d’Oro, an award sponsored by Nanni Moretti, with the short film Silhouette (1996) that became one of the three episodes that are on his first long feature, Terra di Mezzo (1997). For Gomorra (2008) he won the Grand Prix in Cannes and five European Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. With Reality (2012) he once again bagged the Grand Prix in Cannes, where he competed a second time with Tale of Tales (2015) and Dogman (2018). He made the cinema adaptation of Pinocchio (2019), nominated for two Academy Awards. Io Capitano (2023) won the Best Director Silver Lion and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Performance by an Emerging Actor in Venice.

 

Reveiws:

The long and difficult migrant journey of two Senegalese teenagers with dreams of Europe becomes a hero’s quest in Matteo Garrone’s impressive new feature.

Lee Marshall, Screendaily

 

Garrone almost never puts a foot wrong with this painstakingly composed work, an adventure peppered by moments of nauseating horror but also ravishing beauty and grace.

Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter

 

For Garrone, this proves an energizing shift in focus, yielding his most robust film since his Gomorrah 15 years ago.

Guy Lodge, Variety