The Oscars will take place next Sunday and the New York Times criticizes the Italian film “I am Captain”, work by Matteo Garrone. “This only tells part of the story,” writes Richard Braude, translator and activist at Porco Rosso, a “laboratory of anti-fascist and anti-racist ideas” in Palermo, in the American newspaper. “We must not lose sight of the fact that even if the film wins an Oscar, Italy continues to imprison people who deserve to be rewarded,” says Braude. “I Captain” received a nomination for best international film but, according to the New York Times review, it tells “a world simpler than the real world, because it avoids addressing Europe's role in strengthening its borders while the punishment of the captains is covered in the credits. “. Because “what happens to people like Seydou is arrests, interrogations, long trials and in most cases prison,” writes Braude, specifying that “anyone who assists a migrant boat in the Mediterranean can be accused of human trafficking, whether humanitarian workers or migrants who, for whatever reason, took control of the ship.
If Garrone's film is partly inspired by the story of Fofana Amara, a young Guinean who escaped prison, “many others – specifies the activist – were not so lucky”.
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