PLANET AFRICA is presenting Noi, i Neri by Maurizio Fantoni, for the occasion of the ODYSSEYS exhibition taking place at Palazzo Madama.

For the occasion of the ODYSSEYS. Diasporas, invasions, migrations, voyages and pilgrimages exhibition – scheduled at Palazzo Madama from 16 November 2017 to 19 February 2018 – PLANET AFRICA will unfold with a series of dates on the theme of travel and migration, in Africa and from Africa, starting from the screening of the film Noi, i Neri by Maurizio Fantoni Minnella, shot in Italy and in Senegal (between Dakar, Gorée island, Kayar and St. Louis) in order to retrace a voyage at the source of disquiet and of the idea of emigration. The evening is organised in collaboration with CISV onlus - Community Commitment Volunteer Service in Turin. Meeting with director Maurizio Fantoni Minnella before the film begins. Admission 4.00 euro.

Maurizio Fantoni Minnella

Noi, i Neri (We, the Blacks)

(Italy 2017, 90’, DCP, col.)

The lives of migrants captured in a grey zone, a sort of limbo suspended between the tragedy of arrival and the illusion and the hope of a new life. The storylines are the tales of new writer and poet Lamine from Senegal, who escaped his country for political reasons, and of Valentine, a young singer and musician from the Congo living with an elderly mother.