L’Ospite
/The Guest Wins Carpine D’Argento Award 2015
The short
film L’OSPITE / THE GUEST directed by Hazara director Amin Wahidi and produced by Hazara poet, journalist and human rights activist, BasirAhang, won the Absolute Best Short Film Award and Popular Jury Award
2015 of Carpine D’Argento during Cortifestival International Short FilmFestival of Visciano- Naples Italy.
Premio
Carpine D’Argento Award 2015
Premio
Carpine D’Argento is an annual award given during Cortifestival/International
Short Film Festival of Visciano by social and cultural associations and municipality of Visciano in Naples of Italy.
The aim of
the award CARPINE D’ARGENTO is to promote through the art of cinema, the social
participation of the citizens in humanitarian activities in this town and in
the national level. The other important aim of the award is to bring into
attention of the citizens the important social issues of the year.
The main
theme of this year of the Cortifestival/International Short Film Festival of
Visciano was the critical social problems such as immigration, integration and
especially acceptance of asylum seekers and their situation in Italy.
The Cortifestival/International
Short Film Festival of Visciano is organized by a professional panel of
jury that include cinema critics, professors and social and cultural activists.
This young
festival is considered an important event for social activists and a strong
platform for young filmmakers.
This year,
beside filmmakers, a senior official of the Italian navy, Admiral Felicio
Angrisano, the commander in chief of Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast
Guard was awarded for rescuing the lives of thousands of asylum seeker in the Mediterranean Sea.
About
the film
L’Ospite /
The Guest that is located in Venice, pictures
one night of an asylum seeker in Venice Italy and points out the weakness of immigration
system in Italy.
Italy
for long has been under critics by the European Community and International
Human Right Organizations for violations of refugees rights. The refugees and
asylum seekers are vulnerable in Italy because of lack of an organic
native law to guarantee the asylum seekers and refugees’ rights and protect
them based on international conventions.
With this
short film, with a simple language the director, Amin Wahidi has pictured the sociology
of “the fear
from the other” because of ignorance and lack of dialogue, and lack of exchange
of information between the host groups “natives” and the guests “refugees”.
This short
film had already won three awards of VENICE CITY AWARDS during a special
program of the 71st Venice Film Festival in 2014.
The coming feature
film by Amin Wahidi is THE PERSIAN DINNER that will be screened in September
this year.
Photo Gallery Premio Carpine D'Argento Awards 2015 Visciano-Naples
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