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G. Taviani
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un film di Giovanna Taviani
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Code VD200-2000
ISBN 978-88-8020-674-3

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"Se la conoscenza dell’altro ci turba, significa che siamo turbati anche dalla conoscenza di noi stessi"
(ADONIS)
Hundreds of Maghrebins coming from all over Italy and Europe, queueing under the August sun, embark on the ship bound for Tunis at the pier in Trapani, in the Strait of Sicily, every year, in summer, in order to spend their holidays with their families. They are those who have made it and go back home every year to tell their European 'dream'.
Karim Hannachi - a Tunisian teacher of Arabic at the branch offices in Ragusa, Sicily of the University of Catania, Sicily - is chief of the Maghrebi community in Mazara del Vallo, Sicily where he arrived as a very young man and now lives with his Sicilian wife and two children. He embarks on that ship too every year in order to go back with his family to his town of origin, Nefta, where he's awaited by his mother and sisters, some teachers friends of his, the recollection of his Arab students and, above all, the loneliness of his desert.
The film is about faces, landscapes, words and silences characterising this long voyage southwards. Meanwhile, another two voices join Karim's voice from the unusually sunny and desolate northern town of Paris: the voices of two great personalities coming from Maghreb, who have made migration their raison d'être as well as the starting point for their cultural research - as Karim did - and who now think about their country of origin being culturally far from it after having experienced life in the West. Assja Djebar is a French-speaking Algerian director and writer who has recently become a member of the French Academy, living both in France and the United States. She hasn't gone back to Algeria since the Nineties as she is a voluntary émigré and dissident. Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun has just come back from Tangier where he spends a two-month holiday every year and now thinks about the destiny of relationships between the West and the East in his office in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Three out of the several voices that have been heard and lost in the slow whirl of bodies and sounds characterising this voyage. Mixture, conflict and homesickness. Three different return journeys and only one question. Travelling, discovering, going, returning. Is it still possible in a society that is tormented by religious fanaticism and homogenized by a process of globalization?