Hot topics of today's society such as migration and radicalised Islam make the object of two thematic sections within the official programme of AFF 2016 (17-23 October 2016).
Fuocoammare/Fire at Sea (directed by Gianfranco Rosi), winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2016 and Italy's proposal to the Oscar for Best Foreign-language Film, reveals the drama of thousands of African refugees arriving on the Italian island Lampedusa, in their run away from the war and totalitarian regimes' abuses. The film is to be screened on Friday, 21 October, from 21:30 at Thalia Hall.
Trapped by Law (directed by Sami Mustafa) paints a controversial episode of the recent history, the expulsion of tens of thousands of Roma from Western European states, through the story of two Roma brothers forced to leave Germany, the country where they were born, and sent to Kosovo, from where their parents ran away 30 years ago.
Those (directed by Krizstina Maggyes) makes use of a series of interviews to locals in order to show the building up of a refugee camp near a Hungarian city, which throws upside down the life of the entire community. Discreetly approaching the subject of Somalian refugees travelling the roads of Europe in search of a safer life,
Abdul & Hamza (directed by Marko Grba Singh) captures the
two protagonists in a limbo between states and spaces, on a never ending road.
In Between (directed by Liis Lepik) is the touching story of a young woman from an Estonian Muslim family who volunteers to go to a refugee camp in Jordan.
The festival's audience will have the opportunity to view and gain knowledge on radicalised Islam at its place of origin, through local dramas and burning realities, to which they would not have access otherwise. The films in this programme avoid the useless exploitation of shocking images and offer new perspectives through news materials.
Among The Believers (directed by Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi) show how a new generation of extremists is systematically created, the children being indoctrinated from very young ages through a very well established system.
The Empty Room (directed by Jasna Krajinovic) reveals the drama of several families from Belgium, whose children decided to go to Syria to become Jihad combatants. And all of them die!
Sonita (directed by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami) is the moving story of an Afghan refugee 18-year old girl opposing the rigid rules of arranged marriages, and finds her way as a student and aspiring rapper in the USA.
Details at:
www.astrafilm.ro
