BEHIND VENICE LUXURY wins the 24th Venice City Award 2017.
The
ceremony of Venice City Award 2017 was held on September 6th in Candiani Cultural Complex in Mestre of Venice where
the winner of the award was officially announced.
BEHIND
VENICE LUXURY- a Hazara in Italy pictures the struggles of a Hazara refugee who
came to Italy
ten years ago and despite all problems for refugees in this country, today he
is integrated into Italian society.
Before this
Hazara refugee, decades back Italy
had received two Afghan Royal families as refugees; King Amanullah Khan’s
family and King Zahir Shah’s family escaped to Italy. Each of these two royal
families had played a role in Hazaras’ lives back in Afghanistan.
Amanullah
Khan’s grandfather the tyrant King Abdur Rahman Khan had massacred almost 62
percent of the Hazaras, while Zahir Shah’s family had banned Hazaras from
higher education and governmental employment and imposed on them heavy extra
taxes.
Asharaf
Barati’s story is the story of almost every Hazara as one of the most
persecuted people on earth; despite their honesty, peaceful manner, hardworking,
natural talents and extraordinary capabilities, the Hazaras have to struggle
for survival, as they always face with systematic discrimination and brutal violence
in their homeland.
Directed by
Hazara filmmaker, Amin Wahidi, written by Hazara journalist and activist Basir
Ahang and Italian critic and activist Nicole Valentini, BEHIND VENICE
LUXURY is produced by Deedenow Cinema Production Afghanistan, Hazara
International Network, Academy
of Art and Cinematic
Studies in West of Kabul and supported by Hazara Film Fund.
The
director’s previous short film THE GUEST/L’Ospite had also
won the Venice City Award in 2014.
won the Venice City Award in 2014.
