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I am Fatou

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 18 mins

  • Director: Amir Ra
  • Writer: Amir Ra
  • Producer: Giulio Baraldi

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Fatou is a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin. She lives in a suburb of Rome with his mother, who would like to educate according to the rigid impositions of her culture of origin. But Fatou is looking for his own identity that combines his black Muslim being with Italian society, and unlike most of his peers, the social stigma of the immigrant is imprinted on her, who isolates her and reduces her friendships with other young children of foreigners. Her authentic passion and screen against prejudice is singing: music is what will never betray herself. After a night at the disco, Fatou is attacked by a thirty year old Italian who first insults her, and then tries to physically mistreat her. She confronts him with courage, opposes him, and finally manages to get on the bus that takes her back to her neighborhood.

In the short walk to home, Fatou finds the strength to break the fear and humiliation with the song. An intimate nocturnal song in which Fatou tells herself, in the silence of the sleeping city, expressing his dreams as a girl, the hope of a radiant life that is perhaps already waiting for her. Fatou says she does not know love, if not in her mother's feelings, she sings about the possibility of love, which means first of all to love oneself. And its poetic momentum becomes universal reflection on the sense of identity, so longed for and, for many, never really possessed.


Trailer...

I am Fatou -Trailer-ENG from Kess Film on Vimeo.

Cast & Characters

Nar Gada Gaye (as Fatou's mother)
Riccardo Petrozzi (as Man in the street)
Fatou Sokhna (as Fatou)