Meeting Aliou e Afif
AWARDS: “Pateh Sabally” Award for multicultural values
INSTITUTION: CSC Piemonte – Animation Department
YEAR: 2020
LANGUAGE: Italian
SYNOPSIS: The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.
BIOGRAPHY: After their graduation work En rang par deux, Margherita Giusti made “Innatura”, a short film, and “Body Rock” a music video for the british singer Regulus Red, Viola Mancini worked as a junior 2D animator on Xilam’s series “Lupin’s Tales. In 2020 she also founded the collective MUTA Animation, and Elisabetta Bosco did an internship with Showlab production company at the “Studio Ibrido” and then she took part in the artistic residence “ARgentiera in AR”.
