Wop. WithOut Passport/papiers
EUROPEAN SCREENING ON MIGRATIONS.

With this first meeting with WOP, the result of a collaboration between Tekfestival and the Association Nova Cinema of Bruxelles (www.nova-cinema.com), starts a travelling project which will venture into one of the issues that are deeply influencing geographical and human contemporary landscapes: migrations. We will face this issue through the screening of 16 films by European directors and women directors. We will present these filmmakers in the same section, despite the fact that their works have been made in different periods and face varied themes.
We felt particularly involved in the research, selection and elaboration of their works. We believe we have the responsibility to confront this issue, beyond all the rhetoric, considering the role we play in the present social geography as collective and individual subjects. We tried to build a path of visions that touch some aspects of the migrations universe: La Blessure, introduces the issue of refugees rights and of forced repatriations; Remote Sensing, the issue of migrations related to the sex industry; Exoticore and Il Viaggio della Speranza, the stories of those who look for a place in the world; Mare Nostrum and Na Drugi, the aspect of internment and reception centres; Struggle, Calais and Paralelo 36/Latitude 36, life on the edge of a border, and many more.
We are aware that the new global phenomena of immigration have transformed Western countries and cities into a crossroad of transits and stays that rapidly alternate, creating an incessant challenge to confront with multiple identities, educating people to move within a culturally hybrid landscape. The new phenomena forces us to consider that a wide range of people feel the necessity or the wish to emigrate or move, that anyone could feel the need to intervene any time on his/her destiny; that anyone could experience a shock in finding him/herself in a different place and in meeting different languages and habits.
WOP is a work in progress. What we are presenting here is only its first stage. In September, WOP will move to Bruxelles and, afterwards, to other places, gaining each time new materials and looks.
In the last few months we had the fortune to examine, with our friends from Nova Cinema, a large number of works that were sent and proposed to us, a lot more than the ones we will screen. We chose those works that better represented our most urgent curiosities. This doesn’t mean that we rejected or gave a definite opinion on the other works, especially those that were submitted to Tekfestival.
WOP will host some directors and women directors of the films in programme who will introduce their works. We will host the historian Enrica Capusotti, who will tell us how Italian cinema represented migrations. We will host, for one day, the editorial staff of “Giravolte”, which will present the number 0 of the web magazine on multicultural issues.
We would like to thank a large number of people who have worked in the organisation of this screening, and in particular: Katia Rossini and Emilie Breugghe from Nova Cinema, Sandra Cristofanilli, Asp Productions, Agnese Trocchi, Peter da Rin, Nicolas Provost, Olivier Robyns, Fabrice Marquat, Enrica Capussotti, Edmond Budina, Miriam Tola, Carla Manfredonia, Roberta Agostini, Cecilia D’Elia, Tiziana La Torre, Alessandra Foschi, Alberto Giustini, Alfi Sinninger and Catpics Films, Domenico Lucchini, Carola Spadoni and the editorial staff of “Giravolte”.
We would also like to stress on the fact that this has been an occasion to build a important and promising relationship. Tekfestival and Nova Cinema met and shared their common interests and realised straight away that they could give life to a well-matched and itinerant proposal on one of the most important issues of today’s society.

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