Go, Friend, Go
Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini
Italy. 2023. 68 min
Every year thousands of people try to reach Europe by land, journeying on foot across the mountains, rivers and fields of the Balkan route connecting Asia to Europe. They face “the game”: attempting repeatedly to cross borders trying to avoid being arrested and pushed back by border police.
Go, friend, go spans across the ports of Patras in Greece, the forests by the border town of Šid in Serbia, the abandoned factories in the Bosnian Una Sana canton, and the arrival point in Trieste’s public squares, all peripheral hotspots of migrant lives in transit.
In bringing together different stories employing several narrative techniques, the film is an experiential journey made of observation, found footage and animation, and it aims to draw the viewer to feel the contrasting experience of resilience and resourceful hope that can be found in a context of destitution and violence.
GABRIELE LICCHELLI, FRANCESCO LORUSSO, ANDREA SETTEMBRINI
Gabriele Licchelli (1993), Francesco Lorusso (1993), Andrea Settembrini (1991) come from a small village in the extreme South-East of Italy. Together they directed and produced “Anche gli uomini hanno fame (2019), co-produced by Fondazione AAMOD and Broga Doite Film in collaboration with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, premiered at IDFA 2019 and selected at several national and international film festivals (MakeDox, MedFilm Festival, Fest – New Directors New Films, Lucca Film Festival & Europa Cinema, Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce). They have prior experience working on the topic of migration with “Arca Hotel” (2017), selected at the 58. Festival dei Popoli and distributed on Guide Doc in 2019. They worked also on the mid-length documentary “Il Fiore in Bocca” (2021) directed by Valeria Civardi and Andrea Settembrini, presented in development at “Doc at Work Campus” at the 59 Festival dei Popoli, premiered at 19. Ischia Film Festival and selected at
CinemAmbiente Torino.
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g.licchelli@brogadoitefilm.com