Films about immigration to Italy
The filmography on immigration in Italy is a phenomenon started with the arrival of the first migratory flows in Italy, since the 1990s.
Italian films[]
1988 - 1999[]
- Emir Kusturica, Time of the Gypsies (United Kingdom/Italy/Yugoslavia, 1988)
- Michele Placido, Pummarò (Italy, 1990)
- , (Italy/Tunisia, 1992)[1]
- Claudio Fragasso, (Italy, 1993)[2]
- Gianni Amelio, Lamerica (Italy/France/Switzerland, 1994)
- Maurizio Zaccaro, – L’Articolo 2 - (Italy, 1994)
- Renzo Martinelli, - Sarahsarà (Italy, 1994)[3]
- Various directors, (Italy, 1996)[4]
- Carlo Mazzacurati, Vesna va veloce (Italy/France, 1996)
- Matteo Garrone, (Italy, 1996)[5]
- , (Italy, 1996)[6]
- , - L’albero dei destini sospesi (Italy, 1997)[7]
- Bernardo Bertolucci, Besieged (Italy/United Kingdom, 1998)
- , (Italy, 1998)[8]
- , (Italy, 1998)[9][10]
- Matteo Garrone, - Ospiti (Italy, 1998)[11]
2000 - 2009[]
- Corso Salani, - Occidente (Italy, 2000)[12]
- Marco Manetti and Antonio Manetti, Zora the Vampire (Italy, 2000)
- Vincenzo Marra, - Tornando a casa (Italy, 2001)[13][14]
- , (Italy, 2001)[15][16]
- , (Italy, 2001)[17][18]
- , (Italy, 2002)[19][20]
- , (Italy, 2002)[21]
- Alessandro Benvenuti, Ti spiace se bacio mamma? (Italy, 2003)
- Francesco Munzi, (Italy, 2004)
- , (Italy, 2004)
- Vittorio De Seta, - Lettere dal Sahara (Italy, 2005)
- Marco Tullio Giordana, Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide (Italy, 2005)
- Giorgio Diritti, Il vento fa il suo giro (Italy, 2005)
- Daniele Vicari, (Italy, 2005)
- , Cover Boy (Italy, 2006)
- Vittorio Moroni, (Italy, 2006)
- , (Italy, 2006)[22]
- Carlo Mazzacurati, La giusta distanza (Italy, 2007)
- , I, the Other (Italy, 2007)
- Marco Simon Puccioni, Shelter Me (aka Riparo) (Italy, 2007)[23]
- Claudio Cupellini, (Italy, 2007)
- Laura Muscardin, (Italy/Senegal, 2007)
- Paolo Genovese and Luca Miniero, This Night Is Still Ours (Italy, 2008)
- Cristina Comencini, Bianco e nero (Italy, 2008)
- , (Italy/France/Romania, 2008)
- , (Italy, 2008)
- , (Italy, 2008)
- Francesco Munzi, - Il resto della notte (Italy, 2008)
- , - Ti ricordi di Adil? (Morocco/Italia, 2008)[24]
- , - La cosa giusta (Italy, 2009)
- , (Italy, 2009)
- Claudio Noce, Good morning Aman (Italy, 2009) [25]
2010 -[]
- , (Italy, 2010)[26]
- , (Italy, 2010)[27]
- Andrea Segre, Il Sangue verde (Italy, 2010)
- , (Italy/Switzerland, 2010)[28]
- , (Italy, 2010)
- Peter Del Monte, The Ballad of the Windshield Washers (Italy, 2010)
- Marco Turco, (Italy, 2010)[29]
- Ricky Tognazzi, The Father and the Foreigner (Italy, 2010)
- , - Hai paura del buio (Italy, 2010) – TV Movie
- Stefano Incerti, Gorbaciof (Italy, 2010)
- , (Italy, 2011)
- and , (Italy, 2011)
- , Things from Another World (Italy, 2011)
- Andrea Segre, Shun Li and the Poet (Italy/France, 2011)
- Emanuele Crialese, Terraferma (Italy/France, 2011)
- , To Paradise (Italy, 2011)
- Ermanno Olmi, The Cardboard Village (Italy, 2011)
- and , (Italy, 2011)[30]
- Guido Lombardi, (Italy, 2011)
- , (Italy, 2011)[31]
- , , (Italy/Romania, 2011) [32]
- , (Italy, 2012)[33]
- , (Italy, 2012)
- Paolo Bianchini, (Italy, 2012)
- , (Italy, 2012)[34]
- , (Italy, 2012)[35]
- Claudio Giovannesi, (Italy, 2012)
- , (Italy, 2013)[36]
- Andrea Segre, First Snowfall (Italy, 2013)
- Daniele Gaglianone, (Italy, 2013)
- Alessandro Gassman, Razzabastarda (Italy, 2013)
- Haider Rashid, (Italy/Iraq, 2013)[37]
- , (Italy, 2014)[38]
- , and , (Italy, 2014)[39]
- Pupi Avati, (Italy, 2015) – TV Movie
- Laura Bispuri, Sworn Virgin (Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany/Albania/Kosovo, 2015)
- Gianfranco Rosi, Fire at Sea (Italy, 2016)
- , Per un figlio (Italy/Sri Lanka, 2016)
- , Bangla (Italy, 2019)
Other films[]
- Olivia Lamasan, Milan (Philippines, 2004)
- Valeriu Jereghi, Arrivederci (Moldova, 2008)[40]
- , (Podul de Flori) (Romania/Germany, 2008)[41]
- Mark A. Reyes, (Philippines, 2008)[42]
- , Francesca (Romania, 2009)
Italian short films and documentaries[]
1992 - 1999[]
- , , 19’
- Arnaldo Catinari, (Italy, 1992) 28’[43]
- , (Italy, 1992) 14’[44]
- , (Italy, 1994) 13’[45]
- , (Italy, 1994) 60’[46]
- , (Italy, 1995) 50’ [47]
- , (Italy, 1996) 40’[48]
- , (Italy, 1996) 20’[49]
- , , (Italy, 1997) 23’[50]
2000 - 2009[]
- , (Italy, 2000) 43’[51]
- , (Italy, 2000) 56’[52]
- , Mario Martone, (Italy, 2000) 76’[53]
- , (Italy, 2002) 49’[54]
- , (Italy, 2005) 70’[55]
- , (Italy, 2005) 14’[56]
- , (Italy, 2005) 18’40’’[57]
- , (Italy, 2005)[58]
- , (Italy, 2006) 25’[59]
- and , (Italy, 2006) 49’[60]
- , (Italy, 2006) 93’[61]
- and , (Italy, 2007) 50’
- Claudio Giovannesi, (Italy, 2007) 40'
- , (Italy, 2007) 22’
- , , , (Italy, 2007) 65’[62]
- Dagmawi Yimer, , , , , (Italy, 2007) 60’[63]
- , (Italy, 2007) 6’[64]
- , (Italy, 2008) 30’[65]
- Andrea Segre, and Dagmawi Yimer, Come un uomo sulla terra (Italy, 2008) 60’
- , (Italy, 2008) 68'
- , (Italy, 2008) 55’[66]
- Marco Simon Puccioni, (Italy, 2009), 70’
- , (Italy/Algeria, 2009), 54’
- , (Italy, 2009) 50’
- , (Italy, 2009), 38’
- Edoardo Winspeare, (Italy, 2009) 80’[67]
- and , , (Italy, 2009) 20’
- and , (Italy, 2009) 60’
- , (Italy/Polonia, 2009) 56’
- , , (Italy, 2009)[68]
- , , , (Italy, 2009) 55’[69]
2010 -[]
- Dagmawi Yimer, (Etiopia/Italia, 2010)
- , (Italy, 2010)
- Dagmawi Yimer, and Giulio Cederna, (Italy, 2010)
- , (Italy, 2010) 5’
- , (Italy, 2010) 8’20’’
- and , (Italy, 2010) 52’
- , (Italy, 2010) 49’30’’
- , , , , (Italy, 2010) 52’[70]
- , MEI [MEIG] Voci Migranti (Italy, 2010) 50’[71]
- , (Italy, 2011), 38’[72]
- and , (Italy, 2011), 44’[73]
- and , (Italy, 2011) 5’
- and , (Italy, 2011) 46’
- , , , e Dagmawi Yimer, (Italy, 2011) 60’
- , (Italy, 2011) 73’
- , , , , , , , (Italy, 2011) 109’
- and , (Italy, 2011) 52’
- , (Italy, 2011), 61’[74]
- , (Italy, 2011), 50’[75]
- and , (Italy, 2011), 33’[76]
- Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, (Italy, 2011) 50’[77]
- , (Italy, 2011) 15’[78]
- , , (progetto ) (2011) 52’[79][80][81]
- , (Italy, 2011) 62’[82]
- , , , (Italy, 2011) 65’[83]
- , , , (Italy, 2012) 37' [84][85][86]
- , , , (Italy, 2012) 47' [84][85][86]
- , (Italy, 2012) 62’[87]
- and Andrea Segre, (Italy, 2012)
- Daniele Vicari, (Italy, 2012)
- , (Italy, 2012), 48’[88]
- and , (2012) 21’[89]
- , , (2012) 38’[90]
- and , (Italy, 2012) 18’[91]
- , (Italy, 2012), 59’[92]
- , (Italy, 2013), 15’[93]
- Dagmawi Yimer, (2013)[94]
- and , (Italy, 2013) 62’[95]
- , (Italy, 2013)[96]
- , , (Italy, 2013), 62’ [97]
- , [98]
- and , , (Italy, 2014) 75’ [99][100]
- Andrea Segre, (Italy, 2014), 110'[101]
- , (Italy, 2014) 78’[102]
- , (Italy, 2014), 54’[103]
- , (Niger, Senegal, Italy, 2016), 63' [104]
- R. Benbrik, E. Colanero, R. Danise, A. Riccardi, S. Tali, T. Fischer, Fuori fuoco (Italy, 2018), 78'[105]
See also[]
- Forced displacement in popular culture
References[]
- ^ (in Italian)City of Bologna – media’s catalog
- ^ Teste rasate at IMDb
- ^ Sarahsarà at IMDb
- ^ Intolerance at IMDb
- ^ Terra di mezzo at IMDb
- ^ Pole pole at IMDb
- ^ L’albero dei destini sospesi at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)Page on Udine Library
- ^ (in Italian) Giamaica - MYmovies
- ^ Giamaica at IMDb
- ^ Ospiti at IMDb
- ^ Occidente at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)Tornando a casa, www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ Tornando a casa at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)Nemmeno in un sogno, www.cestim.it
- ^ Nemmeno in un sogno at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)L'italiano - MYmovies
- ^ L’italiano at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)Lettere al vento, www.movieconnection.it
- ^ Lettere al vento at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian) Page on www.fandango.it Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Il mondo addosso on MyMovie.it
- ^ (in Italian)Riparo - MYmovies
- ^ Films about immigration to Italy at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian)Good Morning Aman - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore in Piazza Vittorio - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Into Paradiso - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Il Nuovo Sud dell'Italia (2010), di Pino Esposito - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)La straniera – My Movies
- ^ (in Italian)Il Castello (2011), di Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti - CinemaItaliano.info
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- ^ (in Italian)Sette opere di misericordia - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Sotto lo stesso Cielo (2012), di Mary Griggion - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)La sabbia nelle tasche - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Black Star - Nati sotto una stella nera - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Il santo nero - MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Sta per piovere - MYmovies
- ^ Io Rom romantica at IMDb
- ^ "Site of the film". Archived from the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
- ^ (in Italian)Arrivederci al cinema. Migranti a Venezia
- ^ (in Italian)Mihai Mircea Butcovan - L’Osservatore Romeno Rassegna Cinema senza frontiere: l'emigrazione e la famiglia Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ (in Italian)About film on www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Italian)About film on www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Italian)About film on www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Italian) Page Ragazzi del Ghana on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Abdellah e i suoi fratelli on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)About film on www.kataweb.it
- ^ (in Italian)Tra Genova e Fez. Una famiglia in viaggio - Archivio delle memorie migranti Archived 2017-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Page Tra due terre on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Jasmine on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Foku - Fuoco sporco on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Approdo Italia on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Love difference on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Cricket Cup on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)L’orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, MyMovies.it
- ^ (in Italian)Page Merica! on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Andrea Segre: Il deserto e il mare
- ^ (in Italian)Page about the short Archived 2015-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Emanuela Giampaoli, Cinema & diritti umani, on www.bologna.repubblica.it, March 26, 2009
- ^ (in Italian)Page Maistrac - Lavorare in Cantiere on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Sotto il Celio Azzurro on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page on Udine Library
- ^ (in Italian)Page on Udine Library
- ^ (in Italian)Page Non è un paese per neri on www.cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)MEI [MEIG] Voci Migranti (2010), di Federico Greco - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Life in Italy is Ok - Emergency Programma Italia (2011), di Gianfranco Marino - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Un Luogo Comune (2011), di Diego Garbini, Toni Garbini - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ Films about immigration to Italy at IMDb
- ^ (in Italian) Le due storie di Adamà – MYmovies
- ^ (in Italian)Page Aicha è tornata on cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Film - Archive of migrant memories[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Italian)Film - Archive of migrant memories[permanent dead link]
- ^ (in Italian)http://www.icinquefavoriti.net/it/pitch.html Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Tan Kosh, lo spiritualità sikh umiliata dallo sfruttamento - Stranieri in Italia Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Marco Omizzolo, Tra Roma e Latina, storie di ordinario sfruttamento per 30mila Sikh, www.paesesera.it, March 5, 2012 Archived 2014-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Le Perle di Ritorno, Odissea di un Vetraio Africano (2012), di Franco Basaglia - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Diwan - Hoverlook Hotel
- ^ a b (in Italian)Documentary Project
- ^ a b (in Italian)Cestim. Movies and Migrations
- ^ a b (in Italian)Daniele Comberiati Raccontare lʼItalia postcoloniale. Note sparse su identità e cultura a partire nei documentari Aulò e La quarta via
- ^ (in Italian)Nadea e Sveta - un film di Maura Delpero
- ^ (in Italian)Padrone Bravo (2012), di Simone Amendola - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)La Prigione degli Altri (2012), di Mattia Levratti, Alessandro Levratti - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)L'Altra Città (2012), di Cristian Sabatelli, Filippo "Pippo" Cariglia - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Arcipelaghi (2012), di Martin Errichiello, Gabriele Sossella - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Mineo Housing on cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Page Margerita on cinemaitaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Va’ pensiero. Storie ambulanti, www.doppiozero.com
- ^ (in Italian)EU 013, l'Ultima Frontiera (2013), di Alessio Genovese - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Schiavi (2013), di Stefano Mencherini - CinemaItaliano.info
- ^ (in Italian)Container 158, on www.zalab.org Archived 2015-05-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Il Premio Mutti ad Alfie Nze farà un film sulla "Karin B", in www.bologna.repubblica.it, 23 aprile 2013
- ^ (in Italian)I vincitori del 24° Festival del Cinema Africano, www.festivalcinemaafricano.org
- ^ (in Italian)Page about the documentary Archived 2015-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in Italian)Come il peso dell'acqua, transmitted October 3, 2014 on RAI 3 Tv
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- ^ (in Italian)MyMovies
- ^ ""Le buone notizie non arrivano dal cielo, ma dalla porta". La speranza e l'attesa nel film doc dei detenuti". L'HuffPost (in Italian). 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2021-05-08.
Awards and Film Festivals[]
- Festival del cinema africano, d'Asia e America Latina, Milan
- Festival Cinéma et Migrations, Agadir
- Terra di tutti Film Festival, Bologna
- Lampedusa in Festival, Lampedusa
- Festival del Cinema dei Diritti Umani, Naples
- Festival di cinema africano Verona
- Premio Mutti – AMM, per il Cinema migrante[permanent dead link]
- RIACEinFESTIVAL - Festival delle Migrazioni e delle Culture locali, Riace
- Bando internazionale per cortometraggi sull'immigrazione
- Festival migrantskega filma - Festival of Migrant Film, Ljubljana
- Rassegna Crocevia di sguardi. Documentari e approfondimenti per capire le migrazioni, Turin
Bibliography[]
in English[]
- ,The Troubled Passage: Migration and New Cultural Encounters in Southern Europe in The Mediterranean Passage: Migration and New Cultural Encounters in Southern Europe, ed. Russell King, 1-21, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press (2001)
- , Myths and moral panics: Italian identity and the media representation of Albanian immigration, in: Grillo, R. D and Pratt, Jeff. C, (eds.) The Politics of Recognising Difference: Multiculturalism Italian Style. Research in migration and ethnic relations series, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 77–94 (2002) ISBN 9780754618911
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- , Postcolonial Theory and Italy’s ‘Multicultural’ Cinema, "The Italian Cinema Book", ed. Peter Bondanella, Basingstoke: Palgrave, (2014) 295-302.
in Italian[]
- , Immigrati, Bruno Mondadori, Turin, 2003
- and , Migranti in celluloide: storici, cinema ed emigrazione, Editoriale umbra, Foligno, 2003
- , I migranti nel cinema italiano, Kappa Edizioni, Rome, 2009
- , Media e immigrazione tra stereotipi e pregiudizi. La rappresentazione dello straniero nel racconto giornalistico, FrancoAngeli, Milan, 2011
- , Senza frontiere. L’immigrazione nel cinema italiano, Kappa edizioni, Rome, 2012
- , Cinquanta sfumature di mare (per gli immigrati al largo del cinema italiano), “Liberta Civili”, May-June 2012, 29
- , Cinema e diritti umani. Una breve storia, Ti Pubblica, 2013
- Andrea Corrado, , preface by , Cinema e autori sulle tracce delle migrazioni, Ediesse, Rome, 2013 ISBN 978-88-230-1625-5
- , Racconti di immigrazione nel cinema del reale, on "Officina della Storia", June 10, 2014
in French[]
External links[]
- (in Italian) Gianluca Arnone, Immigrazione, il cinema non indifferente, www.cinematografo.it, July 8, 2013
- (in Italian) Simone Saibene, Gli immigrati nel cinema italiano, on Popoli, 2008
- (in Italian) Gli immigrati di seconda generazione nel cinema europeo contemporaneo, on www.minori.it, June 10, 2011
- (in Italian) Filmography on "Movies and Migrations" - Cestim on line
- (in Italian) List of films and documentaries - Archivio Memorie Migranti
- (in Italian) Documentaries on migrations to Italy, “Libero Bizzarri” Foundation
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