The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, in collaboration with Concordia University, Facolty of Arts and Science Department of Classics Modern Languages and Linguistics, is pleased to presents the screening of the documentary-film “Dove vanno le nuvole”, produced by the Italian director Massimo Ferrari.
The documentary (75’) wants to recount some stories and experiences from the North of Italy, Treviso, to the South, Riace, passing through Bologna and Padova, of people who had the courage to try to transform the fear into opportunity and the utopia into reality. The docufilm is a about the Migrant Crisis in Italy and these are some of many extraordinary examples of cohabitation, humanity in the move.
Wednesday November 1 – 3pm
Concordia University
Hall Building, 1455 de Maissonneuve W. Room H-527
Free admission – Film (75min.) is in Italian with English subtitles
Info: Elena Benelli elena.benelli@concordia.ca
Trailer
At the end of the screening, the director Massimo Ferrari and the Prof. Antonio Calò will intervine.
In Treviso Antonio, who is a High School teacher of History and Philosophy, decided with his wife and his children to experiment a personal residential care of 5 migrants putting in practice all his believes and educational formation. It’s the first case in Italy of this kind of experiment and has become a model to be followed..
Massimo Ferrari was born in Rome on 27-02-1976. He graduated in Communication Sciences at La Sapienza University, in Rome. Writer and author of many documentaries on myths of Italian cinema for Sky Cinema: documentaries by Roberto Benigni, Sophia Loren, Totò to Manfredi, through Germi, Dino Risi, Tognazzi and Alberto Sordi.
Antonio Calò is a high school philosophy teacher at Liceo Ginnasio Statale in Treviso. He wanted to deeply explore the theme of reception directly in his home town, welcoming some migrants. His example of hosting has earned him the honor of the Order of Merit of the Republic by the President Sergio Mattarella with the following motivation: “For the example of civilization and humanity that he provided by opening his home to six young refugees“.
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