PESARO – The Pesaro Mostra renews its tradition of commitment with events linked to the activities of Emergency and Cinemovel.
In particular Emergencycharity partner of the festival, porta Emergency in the Mediterranean Sea: Life Support on the Frontlinesdirected by the documentary maker Francesca Tosarelli and produced by Al Jazeera. Guests for the occasion, on the stage in Piazza del Popolo, Roberto MaccaroniClinical operations manager migration, e Michela GrecoContents specialist – Events & Cinema.
“In the year in which Emergency celebrates its 30th anniversary – says Michela Greco – we renew our participation in the Pesaro International Film Festival for the fourth year with three contents – different in tone and language – which will allow us to get to know the our search and rescue work in the Mediterranean with the Life Support ship. In a sea that continues to be a cemetery, with over 28 thousand people dead since 2014 (according to IOM data), Emergency did not stand idly by: in 19 missions it rescued over 1,600 people who were in difficulty. To talk about this commitment, bring the video to the exhibition Man overboarda dystopian fairy tale created in collaboration with Ogilvy, the reportage Emergency in the Mediterranean Sea: Life Support on the Frontlines in addition to VR video The Life Support – The EMERGENCY ship, special screening in the new Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Vr section. An important possibility to communicate the work in defense of human rights to an increasingly wider audience, also through cinema.” Man at Sea shows the sea of indifference in which thousands of migrants have died, failing to comply with the elementary imperative that requires us to save a drowning person.
The project is also fundamental Cinemovel traveling with I am Captainpromoted and presented by Elisabetta Antognoni And Nello Ferrierifounders of Cinemovel Foundation, an organization that has been operating since 2001 for the planning and sustainability of traveling cinema and social communication initiatives in Italy and abroad. From 15 to 27 April 2024, the Cinemovel caravan traveled around Senegal carrying the film Matteo Garrone where the stories were born. The traveling cinema stopped in Pikine, Guédiawaye, Rufisque, Thiès, Mboro, Mérina Dakhar, Kolda, Sédhiou Ziguinchor, screening in schools, squares and youth centres. A journey of 2,316 kilometers through stories of migration and hope. Together with Cinemovel, the director Matteo Garrone (who followed the first part of the caravan) and the actors Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall, Amath Diallo and the cultural mediator Mamadou Kouassi who with his story inspired part of the film and animated all the screenings involving the large audience. Some numbers: 9 stages, 11 screenings, 4,300 people who saw the film, more than 200 people picked up the microphone to ask questions, reflect, tell their story.
