Somalia94 - The Ilaria Alpi affair

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Trailer

original title:

Somalia94 - Il caso Ilaria Alpi

directed by:

screenplay:

cinematography:

editing:

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country:

Italy

year:

2017

film run:

39'

format:

DCP - colour

status:

Ready (11/04/2017)

genre:

animation film

festivals & awards:

  • Cartoon Club - Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Animazione e del Fumetto 2017: Competition
  • Cartoons on the Bay 2017: Panorama Internazionale
  • Cartoomics 2017: Movies
  • Japan Media Arts Festival 2017: In Competition
  • Imaginaria Film Festival 2018: Panorama
  • Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2018: Special Jury Mention
  • Hiroshima Animation festival 2018: Animation for Peace Award

Ilaria Alpi finds a ship that runs between Somalia and Italy with not well identified loads. Back in Rome she asked to travel to Somalia. Obtained office, albeit with extremely low badget with her cameraman Miran Hrovatin arrive in Africa. Quickly they reconstruct the facts: on those ships are toxic and radioactive waste disposal, a traffic that is intertwined with weapons sold by the West to the Somalis for their war. The story starts from the interview to an Italian diplomat, then moving to Bosaso: it is therefore the time to tell the names of who is involved in these "operations". To achieve their scoop Ilaria and Miran return to Mogadishu, but at their arrival they find a a commando ready to eliminate them.