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Mediterranea (2015)

Mediterranea poster
Directed by
Jonas Carpignano
Genre
drama film
Country
Qatar, Germany, France, Italy
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 57 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Two friends travel from Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to start a new life in Italy. There they encounter prejudice and violence from the local people.

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What happens

Mediterranea (Italian: [mediterˈraːnea]) is a 2015 Italian drama film written and directed by Jonas Carpignano. It was screened in the 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. It is the first in the director's trilogy set in a Calabrian town, followed by A Ciambra (2017) and A Chiara (2022). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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