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Thursday, October 5th
7:00pm
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Elisa Menon, a 37-year old theater director and actress lives in Gorizia, a small provincial town in northern Italy.
Having worked for years locally, she is invited to join a theater company in Berlin. She is just about to leave for Germany, when Hassan Zeidi, a 26-year-old Pakistani cultural mediator, contacts her and asks her to organize a theatrical workshop for some friends of his, asylum-seeking boys and young men who frequent the Jungle, part of the woodlands bordering the banks of the Isonzo, the river running through the city. Elisa is hesitant at first but accepts, mentally reserving the option to leave if called to work in Berlin. The workshop induces her to reflect on the intrinsic meaning of departure while it also provides the young migrants, hovering on the margins of city life, with the chance to confront themselves with the local residents by means of a theatrical performance staged in the Jungle itself.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with movie director Cristian Natoli and a cocktail reception offered by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.
Screening in Italian with English subtitles
Cristian Natoli, Italy/Croatia, 2021, 75 minutes
POST-SCREENING Q&A
On Thursday, October 5th, The Jungle screening will be followed by a conversation with director Cristian Natoli and a cocktail reception offered by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.
Christian Natoli was born in Gorizia (1981). Since 2004 he has worked in film productions and television, working with some of the major Italian production firms. In the meantime, he began producing music videos and short films. Since 2010 he is author and director of several award-winning documentaries, including Attores and Allamhatar, dedicated to the theme of borders, Per Mano Ignota (nominated for David di Donatello and finalist at the Golden Door Film Festival) and Figli di Maria (hiring on Rai Storia). In 2016 he was unit director for docu-reality Chiedi a Papà , produced by Indigo Film, on air on Rai3. In 2017 Cristian founded together with Chiara Toffolo the production company Tesla Production, for which he wrote and directed two branded content short films for Coop Italia. His latest documentary, La Fiaba Perduta, was awarded at the International Tour Film Festival, and is now hiring on Rai3.
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP
The Jungle screens as a part of the Migrant Stories in Italian Cinema program presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in collaboration with FACETS, running October 5-8, 2023. View full series.
