“Io Capitano”
About the Event
Co-organized with Tenley Bick (art history, FSU), Michelle Bumatay (French, FSU), Martin Munro (French, FSU) and Silvia Valisa (Italian, FSU).
Please join us for an event organized jointly between French, Italian and art history programs to screen and discuss the film “Io Capitano,” directed by Matteo Garrone.
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film’s themes and representation of migration.
“Io Capitano,” released in 2023, is the epic story of a teenage boy who, together with his cousin, decides to leave Dakar in Senegal and make his way to Italy. The film is a contemporary odyssey in which the protagonist must overcome a series of obstacles and in the process is transformed from a human, to a commodity, to an animal, finally becoming a hero. Passing through Niger and Libya and grand adventures through the dangers of the desert and the sea, the ambiguities and contradictions of human beings, in which dreams, hopes and the ambitions of the main characters turn into a struggle for survival, where there is no space for piety.