... because Italy, to my eyes, is a country which in 2009 still fails to have ethnic identity is hidden behind an illusion of national pride and do not wish to hear the positive value of multiculturalism.
consider fundamental and exciting melting pot of all forms: the crucible, the amalgam, in a society of human beings, ethnicities, cultures and religions.
The immigrant population is in fact what we call our new social fabric, a wealth that must be upheld in its complexity and its endless contradictions.
This documentary is the result of a collaboration that began in 2007 with the Technical Sales Istitituto "Paul Toscanelli" Ostia. Up to thirty percent of students Toscanelli is not derived from the Italian origin of manifold: a community symbol of an area of \u200b\u200bOstia, whose identity, much more of the capital, is absolutely multiethnic.
I chose three teenagers as the protagonists of foreign origin: their stories have the theme of identity, told the privilege of daily life, observation of their relationships and their conflicts.
Alin, who was born in Romania: the story is the conflict and the desire for communication, all lived within the school, including his membership in the Romanian and the Italian community of classmates and teachers around him for half of its day.
Masha, born in Belarus, adopted by an Italian family: the story is the confrontation with its past, with the return to its origin.
Nader, second-generation immigrants, born in Rome by Egyptian parents: his story is the conflict, lived in the home, with its own culture, and the comparison of his blood and his Egyptian to be Italian.
I tried to consider the concept of integration beyond its utopian abstraction, but dropping it into reality. I realized that integration, even when it is strongly desired, is not always feasible: it is a path of experience and training that never ends, and that requires a redefinition of difficult and responsible, equally in both the parties, the native and foreign . Branko Schmidt
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