In a world in which the migration of people is strongly opposed, there will never be happy immigrants. And the consequences are for everyone to see. Fear, desperation, and discrimination are approved of by governments, supported by the media, and tolerated by citizens.
Immigrants coming to Italy never feel delighted. On the contrary, they mainly feel pain.

Milano Film Festival, in collaboration with the Milan-based Naga association, wants to offer immigrants and all festival-goers a pleasant day, and - through films - call on civil society, the ruling class, and public opinion to get back to common sense, and the respect for human beings and their rights.

A day dedicated to immigration, featuring documentaries by young and daring filmmakers, and short films from Rumania, the Arab countries, Albania, and South America, screened in the original language.
A call for everyone to be there - immigrants, as well as settled people.

Meeting chaired by Gad Lerner.

Naga
More than 15,000 out-patient treatments, over 800 people living in degraded areas of the city contacted by the Medicina di strada group, hundreds of street workers helped yearly by the volunteers of the Cabiria group, who provide health prevention services.
Moreover, since 2001, the volunteers of the Naga-HAR Centre have been providing asylum seekers, refugees, and victims of torture with social and legal aid.
The Naga association was set up in Milan in 1987, and it supplies its services for free, with no discrimination whatsoever.
naga.it Tuesday September 16th - Teatro Dal Verme


Programme: Documentary

4 pm
The infinite border by Juan Manuel Sepulveda, Mexico, 2007, 90'.
A heartfelt portrait of the men and women who leave various Central American countries in search of better opportunities, knowing full well they have everything to lose.

6 pm
As a man on the earth by Riccardo Biadene, Andrea Segre, Dagmawi Yimer, Italy, 2008, 68'.
The firs-hand account of Ethiopian immigrants on the cruel way in which Libia is controlling migratory flows from Africa - for, and thanks to funding from Italy and Europe.

9.30 pm - Sala Grande
The Arabian Dream by Maher al Sabbagh, Netherlands, 2008, 83'.
This documentary is about the true origins of the arabic anger with the western world, their struggle with ongoing colonisation, the Israel-issue and the way radicalism began. But it is also about he story of Mohammed, the ever existing hunger for science and knowledge and the struggle the arabs have in finding each other in the pursuite of realising an old and maybe utopic dream :the realisation of a United Arabia.
medinaterranea.org
aljarida.it Short Films
8.30 pm - Sala 100
Short films from Africa, South Americaand East Europe

Meeting
7.30 pm
Meeting with Stefani Liberti, Gabriele Del Grande, Andrea Segre, Lola Friedrich, Maher Al Sabbagh and Pietro Massarotto.

Chaired by Gad Lerner