Safari Njema

original title:

Safari Njema (Buon viaggio)

editing:

Pierluigi Darino

music:

Francesco Giannico

production:

Dispàrte, Speha Fresia Società Cooperativa, Folias Cooperativa Sociale, ENAIP Impresa Sociale, with the support of Regione Lazio

country:

Italy

year:

2021

film run:

17'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (17/12/2021)

festivals & awards:

  • UnArchive Found Footage Fest UnArchive Short – 2021
  • Vie di Fuga – Festival delle Umanità in Pericolo 2022
  • Civita Cinema 2022
  • PerSo – Perugia Social Film Festival – PerSo Short 2022: Special Mention
  • Visioni Italiane – Visioni Doc 2022

Uriel at the age of 14 flees his country in war. He makes a long journey to cross Africa and the desert but in Libya he is interned for three years in a terrible detention center for migrants. He gets to know hunger, disease, the most extreme violence and, even there, war. He survives all this by dreaming of freedom, until one day, with some of his fellow prisoners, he manages to get on a boat and leave for Italy. As soon as he lands on the Sicilian coast, he is sent to a Center for Asylum Seekers, the second largest in Italy, which houses 500 people, but even this will not be an easy experience. A story that lives again thanks to the images made by dozens of migrants and collected by Italian journalists and activists.