Matteo Garrone’s “Io Capitano” is getting a particular screening on Wednesday in Brussels, the place a whole bunch of EU parliament members will watch the well timed immigration drama on which Pathè has introduced a slew of gross sales.
The movie, which is Italy’s Oscar candidate for greatest worldwide characteristic movie, world premiered to robust evaluations in September at Venice Movie Competition, the place it received greatest director for Garrone and greatest rising actor for its co-star Seydou Sarr.
Shot over 13 weeks in Senegal, Italy and Morocco with a solid of non-professional actors, the Italian auteur’s newest characteristic – the title for which interprets to “Me Captain” – narrates the Homeric journey of two younger African males, Seydou and Moussa, who determine to depart Dakar to succeed in Europe. It depicts their plight by the pitfalls of the desert, the horrors of detention facilities in Libya and the hazards of the ocean.
Pathé Worldwide has introduced “Io Capitano” gross sales to: Paradiso (Benelux); Pathé Movies AG (Switzerland); Immina (Canada); Weirdwave (Greece/Cyprus); Nos (Portugal); Youplanet/Caramel (Spain), Altitude (UK), Exponenta (Cis), Edge (Baltics/Scandinavia), Unhealthy Unicorn (Romania); Beta Movies (Bulgaria); Vertigo (Hungary); Pilot Movies (Czech/Slovakia); Aurora (Poland); MCF (Yugoslavia); CTV (Central/South America); Alliance (India); Falcon (Indonesia); Rialto (Australia/New Zealand); New Cinema (Israel); Transferring Turtle (Center East); Mongol Movie (Mongolia); BIR Movie (Turkey); Entermode (South Korea) and Svoekino (Ukraine).
Following the movie’s American tour in New York and Los Angeles earlier this month, they’re now in superior negotiations for a U.S. sale.
Together with Garrone, producer Paolo Del Brocco,and your complete “Io Capitano” crew, two former Senegalese migrants, Fofana Amara and Mamadou Kouassi, will attend the Brussels screening. Amara and Kouassi had been inspirational for Garrone and suggested the director when writing and taking pictures the movie.
The EU parliament occasion, titled “Europe Seen With Different Eyes,” will likely be adopted by an onstage dialog and debate which comes as Italy’s right-wing authorities is making an attempt to stem the hovering stream of migrants eager to enter the nation. Up to now this yr, 145,000 migrants have arrived in Italy by sea — piled into smugglers’ boats unfit for sea voyage — in comparison with 88,000 throughout the identical interval final yr, based on authorities figures.
“This movie tells a narrative that everyone knows, solely that it’s seen from a unique angle: not from a Western perspective of the boats coming in, however from the perspective of those that undertook this journey in an try to pursue their goals,” Garrone stated throughout a latest screening for Rome highschool college students.
In Italy, “Io Capitano” has scored greater than 700,000 admissions, and grossed above €4 million ($4.3 million) on the Italian field workplace, which is a good-looking take for a social drama with no stars. Pathé will launch the movie in France on Jan. 3.
“Io Capitano” has additionally garnered key nominations in the very best European movie and greatest European director classes on the European Movie Awards, which can happen in Berlin in early December.
The movie is an Italy-Belgium co-production, produced by Garrone’s personal Archimede shingle, RAI Cinema and Belgium’s Tarantula, together with Pathé and Logical Content material Ventures.
