Io Capitano (15)

★★★★ A harrowing yet hopeful migration odyssey; two endearing teenagers endure a gruelling journey from Senegal to Europe in Matteo Garrone’s extraordinarily rich drama. ~ Daily Telegraph.

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Directed by two-time BAFTA-nominee Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Tale of Tales), IO CAPITANO has been nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards, and won the Silver Lion and Best Young Actor Awards at Venice Film Festival.

It tells the story Seydou and Moussa, two Senegalese teenagers who leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await.

On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers and the beauty of the desert, the shock of detention centres in Libya, and the perils of the sea in their pursuit of a better life, in an epic story that offers a deeply human perspective on the migrant crisis.

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★★★★ Garrone, ever the stylist, can’t seem to help himself and shoots the Sahara in godlike wides and the claustrophobia of the Mediterranean Sea crossing like peak Hieronymus Bosch. ~ The Times.

★★★★ ~ Financial Times.

★★★★ ~ The Scotsman.

★★★★ ~ The Guardian.

★★★✭ ~ Little White Lies.