Io Capitano
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“I want her to know that I'm alive, I'm not dead.”
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Overview
Senegalese teenagers Moussa (Moustapha Fall) and Seydou (Seydou Sarr) are cousins and friends who leave their families behind and embark on a journey to Europe, with a dream of escaping the poverty in their homeland. The young men face violence and cruelty from the dangerous environment and the apathy of people-smugglers and authorities alike as their odyssey takes them through Mali, Niger and Libya, travelling on forged passports across perilous seas and the harsh Sahara desert towards Italy. Io Capitano is both a captivating work of cinema and a call to action, foregrounding the real humanity affected by the immigration policies that welcome some as refugees while treating others as undesirables.
Silver Lion (Best Direction)
“Io Capitano is as unflinching as it is robust with empathy.”
“Garrone’s film has a three-dimensional and devastatingly realised human soul at its core.”
“Io Capitano stands as Garrone’s plea for empathy in a debate that sorely lacks it.”
Why You Should See This Film
Director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah) worked with regular Italian collaborators and Ivorian migrant advisor Mamadou Kouassi to develop the screenplay for Io Capitano, consciously acknowledging the tension inherent in framing the struggles of migrants as a narrative film. To cast the leads they held open auditions in Senegal, introducing them to newcomers Moustapha Fall and Seydou Sarr, who won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor at Venice 2023 for his incredibly assured lead performance. Garrone crafts astonishing visuals— endless desert dunes and roiling seas— that place the young men's trials in the tradition of a mythic voyage, never losing sight of the very real dangers they face.
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