After winning the Silver Lion for directing (and the Marcello Mastroianni Award for lead actor Seydou Sarr) at the Venice Film Festival last September, Matteo Garrone's "Io Capitano" is among the Golden Globes nominees in the Best Non-English Language Film category. The film, which Italy has set its sights on for the Oscars, will have as its competitors on January 7 Justine Triet's "Anatomy of a Fall”, Celine Song's "Past Lives", J. A. Bayona's "The Snow Company”, Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" and Aki Kaurismaki's "Fallen Leaves". The director of "Gomorrah" brought the theme of immigration to the big screen, telling the story of Seydou and Moussa, two young Senegalese men who leave their country to reach Europe by facing the sea, detention centers in Libya and the crossing in the Mediterranean Sea. "Io capitano" is the brainchild of the director himself, who wrote the screenplay with Massimo Gaudioso, Massimo Ceccherini and Andrea Tagliaferri, based on the stories of emigration from the African continent by Kouassi Pli Adama Mamadou, Arnaud Zohin, Amara Fofana, Brhane Tareke and Siaka Doumbia.
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