Watch Dagmawi Yimer’s Va Pensiero, Walking Stories, preceded by a screening short film screening I am Fatou by Amir Ra. 

Va Pensiero, Walking Stories: An interwoven account of two racist attacks in Milan and Florence and the victims’ painful attempts to piece the fragments of their lives back together. This powerful account brings together the overlapping stories of the three protagonists’ ordeal and their enduring hope of building a life in Italy, despite the fear and uncertainty of suddenly being plunged back to the moment of the attacks by one look or gesture. 

Screens in Italian with English subtitles, Dagmawi Yimer, 55 mins, Italy, 2013 

I am Fatou: Fatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with his mother, who would like to educate according to the rigid impositions of her culture of origin. But Fatou is looking for his own identity that combines his black Muslim being with Italian society, and unlike most of his peers, the social stigma of the immigrant is imprinted on her, who isolates her and reduces her friendships with other young children of foreigners. A universal reflection on the sense of identity, so longed for and, for many, never really possessed. 

Screens in Italian with English subtitles, Amir RA, 19 mins, Italy, 2020