Showtimes March 15 - 18:

Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) are two teenagers from Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Italy. They’re talented musicians with dreams of more money and eventually even fame. Yet between their aspirations and their reality lies a treacherous journey through the scorched Saharan desert and the vast waters of the Mediterranean, where thousands before them have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.

Sensitive to both the hardships of ordinary life and to its comedy and strangeness, Garrone’s movies blossom at the meeting point of human dreams and social struggles. Io Capitano, which the New Yorker calls his “most trenchant and fully realized work since Gomorrah,” is accordingly not just an intimate closeup of a migrant experience but a stirring story about hope and survival against the odds. With the increasingly draconian immigration laws coming into force across Europe and North America, it reads as a plea for humanity. But however bad things may get, with its grand and honestly felt emotional sweep, you’ll be held by a storyteller’s touch.

(Italy, Belium, France / 2023 / Directed by Matteo Garrone)
Unrated / 2 hrs 1 min
In Wolof and French with subtitles