The Earth Doesn't Move (La Terre Ne Se Meut Pas)
Qumra Projects
Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi / Feature Documentary / Tunisia, France, Italy, Qatar / 2020
In Arabic, French, Italian
Interests: Immigration, Arthouse, Creative Documentary
Rated: This film has not been rated.
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Synopsis
In a small village in the heart of the Italian Alps, asylum seekers are waiting for the end of a long and exhausting judicial process and hoping to get the Italian government’s response to their asylum applications. They live in an old three-star hotel converted to a reception centre for asylum seekers by its managers—an Italian family that’s also living there. Sandrio’s Prefecture supervises the place. In this mandatory waiting interval, they learn the rural and mountain reality that characterizes the North of Italy. They also discover the institutional and bureaucratic face of a Europe that “welcomes” them. Moreover, they face the disciplinary deployment keeping a constant eye over them. One day, a film crew comes to the centre to make a
documentary about the building and its residents. The camera takes place under the suspicious look of the asylum seekers who are used to living with the supervision of dozens security cameras set up everywhere in the centre.
About the Director
Yosr Gasmi is a Tunisian filmmaker, a post-graduate in French and comparative literature from Paris IV and the ENS of Tunis. A writer, actress and director, she is mainly interested in the image in its various artistic and scriptural expressions. In 2014, she and her partner Mauro Mazzocchi began their first film project ‘I Want to Be Mad, Raving Mad - L.E.N.Z.-’ (2016). This independent production has been considered by “Nawaat” as the second-best movie made between 2011 and 2017 in Tunisia. ‘The Earth Doesn’t Move’ is her second film.
Credits
- Director
- Yosr Gasmi, Mauro Mazzocchi
- Producer
- Mauro Mazzocchi
- Co-Producer
- Nesrine Ben Taleb