2024 Programme
Event #14
Gabriele Del Grande
A century in motion
Until 1914, visas and passports did not exist. People boarded and disembarked from transatlantic ships without documents or passes. Today, the Mediterranean seabed is littered with the fish-eaten bodies of fifty thousand migrants who drowned along smuggling routes. How did we come to this ingratitude towards humanity? And more importantly, how will we overcome it? Gabriele Del Grande revisits the history of migration towards Europe and its gradual criminalization through an exclusive selection of photos and archival videos from the 20th century. The result is a captivating journey of images and words that reveals the present from a new perspective and show us the future with a visionary proposal. Duration: 95 minutes.
Gabriele Del Grande, writer, journalist, and filmmaker, he has been documenting migration since 2006, when he founded the blog Fortress Europe, the first European observatory on migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. Since then, he has traveled as a freelance journalist through around thirty countries across both shores of the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, and the Sahel. He is the author of the books Mamadou va a morire (2007), Roma senza fissa dimora (2009), and Il mare di mezzo (2010), published by Infinito edizioni; Dawla (2018) and Il secolo mobile (2023), published by Mondadori. In 2014, he conceived and co-directed the film Io sto con la sposa. Since 2024, he has been touring with the multimedia monologue Il secolo è mobile.
Event #43extraFestival
Minotauro Institute, with Loredana Cirillo and Filippo Rosa
Thank you! What we have never told our children and students
