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Italy – 2021 – colore – 50’

CREDITS

Direction: Giuseppe Bellasalma, Michele Lipori, Claudio Paravati

Ideazione: Onofrio Rota 

Cinematography: Ilyà Sapeha

Editing: Isabella Guglielmi 

Fonico di presa diretta: Marco Aruta 

Cast: M’hamed “Franco” Ben Haddada, Naoires Ben Haddada, Monica Giacalone, Onofrio “Nuccio” Giacalone, Rosaria Giacalone, Rosetta Ingargiola, Marco Marrone, Pietro “Piero” Marrone, Salvatore Quinci

Producer: Rossano Colagrossi, Ludovico Ferro, Stefania Sarallo

Production: Fai Cisl, ConfrontiKino

SYNOPSIS

Mazara del Vallo is a small town whose history is inextricably linked to fishing. Although it is no longer experiencing the splendour of the “golden years”, the fishing community continues to fish for red shrimp in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan, Tunisian, Cypriot and Turkish coasts. Each fishing trip lasts about 40 days, interspersed with a “break” of a few days on the mainland. It is in this glimpse of time that families and loved ones come together and live out their concentrated “holiday”. But this routine was once disrupted by a shocking event: on 1 September 2020, the crew of two fishing boats (18 people in total) were kidnapped off the coast of Libya and held in General Khalifa Haftar’s stronghold. They were released on 17 December 2020, after 108 days of captivity.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

“The history of Mazara del Vallo is inextricably linked to red shrimp fishing in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea, off the Libyan, Tunisian, Cypriot and Turkish coasts. Each fishing trip lasts about 40 days, interspersed with a few days’ break on the mainland. A routine that was disrupted on 1 September 2020, when the crew of two fishing boats (18 people in total) were kidnapped off the coast of Libya. They were released on 17 December 2020, after 108 days of captivity. Centootto is the account of this experience by some of the crew of Medinea, one of the two hijacked fishing boats. Such account is matched by the story of those ashore who waited and worked to make the return of their loved ones possible. Centootto is the story of a community that resists.”