Migration, human rights, cinema for social transformation
A perspective from Italy
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https://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-139.8Keywords:
Italy, migrations, activism, human rights cinema, artivismAbstract
Italy, a land of emigration, has gradually become, especially since the 1990s, a land of immigration and traffic of transmigrant flows. In this context, it is gradually losing what motivated its reputation as a hospitable and open place and is, together with other European countries, responsible for the suffering and death of many human beings. However, a movement for the rights of migrants and for human rights in general does exist, and is striving to change the situation and make us “restare umani”, as Vittorio Arrigoni said about Palestine before he was assassinated; and, within this movement, or accompanying it, are artists committed to human rights, who use their art to denounce, manifest solidarity and poetically open up worlds where we would all live much better. The article traces a brief historical journey and recalls the role of cinema in raising awareness in society.
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