San Marino: Wednesday 26th at the Concordia “The version of Jean”. Human rights and conflicts
Last appointment with the first works review. Human rights and conflicts created by the Cultural Institutes, in collaboration with the University of the Republic of San Marino, focused on independent producers, directors and militant directors with their emerging works.
“The films were chosen both for their value as a civil commitment and because they testify to an independent and original way of producing, which offers an offer to mainstream productions”, underlines Maria Elena D’Amelio, creator of the show.
On Wednesday 26 January, at 9 pm, at the Concordia Cinema, the film “Jean’s version, the story of a person who lives in a huge and populated” Roma “camp in the northern suburbs of Turin will be screened and who wants to show with his films and those shot by other slum dwellers a truth, a world, which continually ends and falls apart because it is continually assigned by “special projects” for the Roma, by the violence of the institutions, by sudden judicial kidnappings that justify continuous forced evictions and kicking out of kind of people.
A different version to the rampant one spread by those who formally hold power and by the media, which has always been full of prejudices, stereotypes and racist languages that adapt and label the Romani populations as “culturally” nomads, undesirable and criminals. In the specific case, the documentary shows Roma and poor people from Romania who arrive in Turin since the end of the 90s and find themselves living permanently, for decades, in shacks, although they previously lived in houses or apartments.
The Roma camps, the slums, have never been the suitable or chosen place for Roma and poor people to live on the basis of some “nature” or “custom”, but within our cities they materially constitute a possibility of home, a form of living for those who are structurally excluded from the real estate market and respond with the self-construction of a shack to the need to have a roof over their heads in order to survive.
The introduction of the film and his will see the participation of the directors in conversation with Professor Maria Elena D’Amelio.
The screening will cost 4 euros.
To access the cinema it is necessary to have the reinforced green pass and wear FP2 masks.