I 2023, Documentary, OmeU (Italian, Pashto, Urdu. ENG SUB)

TRIESTE SHINES AT NIGHT a film by Andrea Segre, Stefano Collizzolli, Matteo Calore Produced by ZaLab Film e Vulcano with the support of Open Society Foundations in collaboration with Associazione Culturale ZaLab e Forum

Berlin Premiere in Anwesenheit von Andrea Segre

Per Cambiare L'ordine delle Cose in association with Banca Popolare Etica in collaboration with ICS e Rivolti ai Balcani with the patronage of Amnesty International e Medici Senza Frontiere

𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 - 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗶𝘁 𝘃𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮 𝗦𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲
a film by Andrea Segre, Stefano Collizzolli, Matteo Calore Produced by ZaLab Film e Vulcano with the support of Open Society Foundations in collaboration with Associazione Culturale ZaLab e Forum.

The border between Italy and Slovenia is located on the hills above Trieste.
If you walk through it at night, you can see the lights of the city shine on to the sea. It may seem like a dream come true.
Or the beginning of a nightmare.
Documentary, OmeU (Italian, Pashto, Urdu. ENG SUB)

Synopsys
On an internal EU border – the one between Italy and Slovenia, a few kilometers from Trieste, migrants who manage to cross the border risk being stopped by Italian law
enforcement and sent back to Bosnia without being allowed to apply for international protection.
The Ministry of the Interior calls these operations “Informal readmissions” and has introduced them in May 2020.
A ruling by the Civil Court of Rome forced the Ministry to change its policy: refoulements could not be made. This practice was stopped, until November 28 2022, when the
Ministry Piantedosi restarted them.

How do these operations take place? What happens to the migrants?
The stories of migrants who have experienced refoulements and readmissions are interwoven with the videos recorded by the migrants themselves on their smartphones
during their long journeys, as well as with the increasingly contradictory responses of the institutions.
Meanwhile, in an abandoned house in Bihac, Bosnia, a group of Pakistani and Afghan migrants want to leave to reach Italy
What will happen to them? What response will Italy and the other EU Member States give?
Will they continue to defy their own law to turn away migrants they consider illegal?

𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗘̀ 𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗔 𝗗𝗜 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗘
un film di Andrea Segre, Stefano Collizzolli, Matteo Calore
Premiere - alla presenza del regista Andrea Segre.
un film di Andrea Segre, Stefano Collizzolli, Matteo Calore
Prodotto da ZaLab Film e Vulcano

Italia 2022, 75 min
Logline
Il confine tra Italia e Slovenia è sulle colline, sopra Trieste.
Se lo attraversi a piedi di notte le luci della città brillano nel mare. Può sembrare l’avverarsi di un sogno. O l’inizio di un incubo.
Documentario, in lingua originale con sottotitoli in inglese.

Interview with director Andrea Segre