'IO CAPITANO'
di Matteo Garrone (2023)
- Trailer Ufficiale
"Italian director Matteo Garrone’s emotionally searing but ultimately uplifting epic, on the other hand, confines itself to the experience of Seydou, a 16-year-old boy from Senegal." - Hollywood Reporter
In the official competition at the Mostra de Venezia, Matteo Garrone took home the Silver Lion award for Best Director for the film, while Seydou Sarr won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor for the same title.
I don't know who I'm writing this to...
If you're reading, thank you.
September has so far been a bittersweet time this year, and we're only mid-month...
Lots of good news on the personal level.
But I worry. About the bad decisions taken by France's elite, about the state of the UK, literally collapsing... About our inaction against the climate crisis (see my post on solutions in my newsletter here).
And there are so many catastrophes all over the world...
This fortnight, two of my dear friends also lost their dads, one of long disease, the other in horrific circumstance, in the earthquake in Morocco.
I'm trying to help and bring support, but there's so little I can do.
And so much to do, around.
I'm therefore grateful for the few good people who know the right words.
Thank you for not given up on us when the times weren't so good.
Courage, world.
Dear friends,
The story I posted a few days ago about Morocco didn't end well...
Euphemism.
But a tragic story could become one of resilience.
A young Moroccan man really helped my friend in her quest, and now he's the one who really needs our help.
When the earthquake hit I was in the hotel with a couple of French clients, I hurried to get everyone out of the hotel making sure nobody was hurt, and ran down the hill to check up on my family that was living about a 1km down the hill, screaming for help and wishing that everyone survived, in the dark I heard my father shouting ''everyone is okay son, our house is destroyed''. luck has been on our side, many of the villages surrounding were destroyed and its people were buried within.
The earthquake destroyed all the roads leading from all sides, and in a matter of seconds we were isolated from the world, the deads are dead and Their friends and families were there by themselves trying to get everyone from under the ground and rescue those who were still living, with basic equipments.
The Moroccan Army was flying the helicopters to get to us by air but it wasn't enough, people were dying and the surviving were dying of heat and thirst during the day, and hanger and cold during the nights.
3 days after the earthquake hit, the Moroccan people from the rest of the country came with food and clothes to help us. but still, we don't have tents to hide from the sun and sleep during the night, hoping that rain will not come soon.
I beg all of our kind hearts to help us to by some tents and rebuild our houses, so our families don't freeze in the winter that will come soon.
Thank you so much for every coin, Hamza from Tizi n'Test Morocco.
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https://gogetfunding.com/hamzatizintest/
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Over 2,300 dead and thousands missing in eastern Libya, after catastrophic floods:
Several countries have offered to send aid, among them Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, France, Italy, Qatar, Tunisia and the United States.
Read more here: https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20230912-thousands-dead-missing-in-eastern-libya-after-freak-floods
Libya Storm Daniel Emergency Appeal
Terribly sad news from Morocco...
A woman searches through the rubble of a home in Imoulas village of the Taroudant province, one of the most devastated in quake-hit Morocco, on September 11, 2023. Moroccan rescuers supported by newly-arrived foreign teams on September 11 faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages, on the third day after the country's strongest-ever earthquake.
- Fethi Belaid / AFP
A British friend of mine is worried for a father, who had been cycling in the region of Taroudant, near Tizi n' Test, between Agadir and Marrakesh...
He's been seen last on Friday evening.
He's very experienced and has raised funds for the British Red Cross for years.
https://www.davebardenworldcyclist.com/
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If anyone has contact in the area, please let me know.
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Here is the helpline for everyone: +212 537689900
Check Bristol Ideas here: https://www.bristolideas.co.uk/projects/festival-of-the-future-city/
France ・ Police brutality |
Seven years after the death of Adama Traoré, a young black Frenchman who died in custody in the summer of 2016, the court concluded that the three officers responsible for his arrest had not committed illegitimate violence. While the circumstances of his death are still disputed, his family have denounced efforts to protect the police officers and made the case a symbol of police brutality. Assa Traoré, the victim's sister and now an icon of the French Black Lives Matter movement, organised a rally on Tuesday to protest what she describes as "a shame for France and the French justice system."
 | Melissa Chemam The Adama Traoré affaire is a highly mediatised case that became the symbol of the police brutality debate in France. Despite the lack of clarity around his death, it remains today a rallying cry for those protesting police brutality in France, especially as the country grapples with the aftermath of unrest in late June and early July following the police killing of a French teenager of North African descent at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. |
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From late September onwards 'The Old Oak' from Ken Loach is out in the UK and in France.
The Old Oak pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees, placed in the village without any notice...
Presentation:
THE OLD OAK is a special place.
Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline.
TJ Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian Yara [Ebla Mari] with her camera.
Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other?
So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes.
THE OLD OAK is directed by BAFTA winner Ken Loach, written by BAFTA winner Paul Laverty and produced by BAFTA winner Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen Films, all of whom continue their long-time collaboration following acclaimed films including Sorry We Missed You and I, Daniel Blake.
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Ken Loach's films have been with us for many generations now, but in a year like 2023 very few other filmmakers have had to energy to remain so engaged with the collective and with the world around them.
Loach and his films are to be treasured.
I wrote about his latest films, and particularly loved 'The Angels' Share' and 'I, Daniel Blake'.
I also wrote about how his legacy influenced some of the new generation of British filmmakers, in 2016, for a French magazine.
Meeting him in person for a discussion about Palestine, at Bristol's Arnolfini art centre, was a highlight of a particularly difficult period for me.
Thank you, Mr Ken Loach, and I so look forward to see your new film!
