"Io Capitano," a film by Matteo Garrone, presented in preview with SOS MEDITERRANEE

Borrowing from the codes of the grand adventure film, Italian director Matteo Garrone depicts the journey of a teenager thrust into the helm of a makeshift boat, despite the fact that he "doesn't even know how to swim." Leaving home, encountering traffickers, crossing the desert, enduring the "prisons" of Libya, and fleeing across the Mediterranean... This is the story of Fofana Amara. And it resonates accurately with the life stories of the individuals rescued by SOS MEDITERRANEE. An intersecting interview of an engaged filmmaker and the person who inspired "Io Capitano," an "initiatory journey of a boy who will become a man."