Italy
11′23″, 2021.
DIRECTED BY
Francesco Di Gioia
PRODUCED BY
Fondazione - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
SCRIPTWRITER
EDITED BY
Francesco Di Gioia
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1910s. Poems with alternate rhymes narrate a journey by sea and by rail. These are the verses of Fadil Hasin Ash-Shalmani who witness a historical fact often forgotten: the deportation of numerous civilians during the first years of the Italian occupation in Libya. The short film follows the poet's experiences and memories using only archive footage, thus subverting the original propaganda function of the images.

Francesco Di Gioia (1993) has nurtured an interest in the cinema field since his years at the Giovanni Sello Art School in Udine. In 2016 he achieved a BA (Hons) at the Politecnico of Milan in Communication Design, after which he began a course at the Civica Scuola Luchino Visconti in Documentary Filmmaking. Since 2019, he has been studying editing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.