The plight of those caught on the borders of fortress Europe forms the backdrop to Venice festival films like 'Io Capitano,' 'Green Border' and even World War II drama 'Comandante.'
with De Angelis, said the film started as a direct response to Italian government policies in 2019, when then-interior minister Matteo Salvini essentially declared war on the non-governmental organizations trying to save migrants drowning at sea, closing Italian ports to migrant rescue ships and threatening the rescuers with fines and criminal charges if they defied him.
“[It was] a disgrace, disregarding the most basic rules of the sea: that of coming to the aid of those in need … I didn’t want to be part of it,” says Veronesi, callinga story “that restores the honor we were losing amid unrepeatable political slogans and social media teeming with putrid things.” Veronesi doesn’t refer directly to him, but Salvini, currently Italy’s infrastructure minister, was in the audience at theAn even more direct link is made in two Venice competition films: Matteo Garrone’s, which follows the journey of two Senegalese teenagers trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, and Agnieszka Holland’s Polish feature.
“It a forbidden zone, a zone of fear, and a zone of the dead,” says Holland. “The situation is so dangerous for the future of Europe because if we accept this violence as a response to the political problems, if we forget the rights of the human beings just because they are ‘illegal’ or Black or whatever, the next step [will be] to kill them. I did three films about the Holocaust [
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