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The film, an international co-production between Italy, Belgium and France, is based on an original idea by Garrone, inspired by actual stories of migrants' African routes to Europe. Filming took place in Senegal, Morocco and Italy.
Sep 12, 2023 · A migrant drama told from the perspective of two Senegalese cousins who journey across West Africa to Italy, the film is an odyssey with touches of “The Odyssey,” alive to the spectacle of their...
Apr 5, 2024 · Matteo Garrone’s follow-up to the exquisite Pinocchio is based on real-life testimonies and dramatised with youthful verve.
- Matteo Garrone
Feb 23, 2024 · “Io Capitano” was shot in Senegal, Morocco and Sicily in 2022, and migrants worked on the crew and as extras, letting Garrone know when they felt the story didn’t ring true.
Feb 11, 2024 · The harrowing yet thrilling sequence (based on a true story about a teenage African migrant) builds like the rest of the film on a docudrama realism while simultaneously reaching toward the mythological.
Apr 4, 2024 · It is a portrait of migration, to many the most urgent political matter of the age, unfolding in microcosm through two teenagers: the boisterous Moussa (Moustapha Fall) and cousin Seydou (Seydou...
What inspired the film “Io Capitano”? The film is inspired by Mamadou Kouassi’s true story of his perilous journey from Ivory Coast to Italy, including his ordeals of being tortured and ...
