Dost Presents Screening and Q&A: Mediterranea

Mediterranea is a 2015 Italian drama film directed and written by Jonas Carpignano. It was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Koudous Seihon and Alassane Sy as friends who cross the Mediterranean Sea to immigrate to Italy, where they experience unexpected hostility from locals.

 

This tale looks at what happens to those African migrants who survive the journey and arrive in Italy seeking work to provide for their families back home and establish a life in their host country.  This film is the biography of real life migrant Koudous Seihon, who appears in the film playing himself under the character name of Aviya. It is Aviya, a new arrival from Burkina Faso, that we follow and it is his perspective on events with which the film is concerned.

 

The Dost Project will be making a trip to Calais in mid-December to bring winter essentials to those who are living in the camps.  As there is no electricity in these camps we are inviting attendees to bring blankets, flashlights, and/or sleeping bags to the screening to help support this cause.

Name of the event: Dost Presents Screening and Q&A: Mediterranea

Date: 04/12/2015 19.00 pm

Venue: The Common House

Address: Unit 5E Pundersons Gardens, Bethnal Green, E2 9QG London

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