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FESTIVALS Italy

Event brings Africa, Asia and Latin America to Milan

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Running through March 20, the 10th African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival kicked off yesterday in Milan. The exclusive event is the largest in Italy that offers the latest cinema from those regions.

Many of the competition films by African, Asians and Latin American filmmakers are European co-productions. These include: Nassim Amaouche’s Adieu Gary [+see also:
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, a story about Algerian workers in the south of France, produced by Les Films A4; Rigoberto Perezcano’s Norteado [+see also:
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, a light look at illegal Mexican immigrants in the US, produced by Mediapro; and the documentary Enemies of the people, by Thet Sambath and Rob Lemkin, in which a Cambodian reporter searches for years for the murderers of his parents and the right arm of Pol Pot, produced by Old Street Films.

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There are European filmmakers are out of competition, mostly with documentaries. Mugabe and the White African, by the UK’s Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thomson, is a surprising story about racism against white in Zimbabwe. From Somewhere to Nowhere, by Swiss director Villi Hermann, looks at Chinese nomadism towards the cities.

There are also several films on non-European immigration in Italy, including Ymer Dagmawi’s C.A.R.A. Italia and La Trappola (“The Trap”) by Lemnaouer Ahmine.

Forget Africa, organised with the Rotterdam Film Festival, is a lively section that asked 12 non-African directors to depict an African country of their choosing, in collaboration with local directors. Of the sidebar’s European filmmakers, Slam Video Maputo, by Austria’s Ella Raidel, is an entertaining portrait on how the media presents the citizen of Mozambique; in tranzania.living.room, Germany’s Uli Schueppel compares his childhood fantasies about Tanzania and asks the locals how they imagine a German living room.

A further section that should appeal to audiences is Africa nel Pallone, a series of titles on African football, which pays homage, critically as well, of the upcoming World Cup games in South Africa.

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