2023 | Directed by Matteo Garrone | Italy | Italian with English subtitles | 123 minutes
Free admission. No registration required — please arrive early to be guranteed a seat.
In Io, capitano, the acclaimed filmmaker Matteo Garrone (Gomorra, Reality) confronts the exodus of African migrant to the "promised land," shedding the European perspective and endowing a Sengalese teenager, Seydou (who escapes alongside his cousin Moussa), with an admirable, yet deeply painful insiders' point-of-view. The film follows Seydou from Dakar through a harrowing Sahara passage, followed by an oasis of friendship with a fellow refugee, imprisonment in Libya and finally to the waters of of Sicily. Beautifully photographed and brilliantly enacted, the film burns with moral urgency and extreme suffering in occassionally graphic scenes for which viewer discretion is advised.
Sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies and the 18th Yale Festival of New Italian Cinema.
