Nyumba, less than a month after the international premiere in Milan, takes it beyond national borders
Calabria and the stories of hospitality in Italy. The intertwined tales of Abdulaye, Alex, Hafsa,
Moussa, Yesyes – protagonists chosen for the docufilm created and written by Paola Botterodirected by
Francesco Del Grosso and produced by Indaco Film with the support of the Calabria Film Foundation
Commission – are convincing an increasingly wider audience.
After special events in Castiglione del Lago and Turin, with two screenings at Job Film Days,
Screenings in competition at various national festivals continue and international ones begin.
Nyumba will be the only Italian documentary film in competition at the Warsaw International Film Festival, which
presents “the best films from around the world to Polish and international audiences to encourage a
better communication and understanding between people living in different and different countries
cultural extraction”.
«Communicating to understand, telling to share: this was the primary objective of
Nyumba” he explains Paola Bottero. «Looking at the reality around us with different eyes is perhaps the only thing
way available to us to recover an increasingly absent humanity. The stories of the 5
protagonists can help us reclaim the healthiest and most important values of everyone
community, which is precisely home, nyumba in Swahili. And today, chasing their desire for freedom, the
heart of many young people is in Calabria, where we shot the docufilm, but also in Italy and in
Europe”.
There will be 4 screenings: Friday 10th, Sunday 12th, Wednesday 15th and Friday 17th October, also follow
from the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, thanks to which it will be possible to delve deeper into the themes of
Nyumba directly with the screenwriter and the director, present in the room.
«I will never get used to prestigious selections like that of the Warsaw festival, an event
Academy Award Qualifying» he declares Francesco Del Grosso. «This European preview, with the
selection in the competition, is the best we could hope to have. Poland is a land of good
knows the deepest meaning of pain and genocide: I am convinced that he will be able to welcome the
our docufilm in the best way. We will accompany the film on this beautiful trip for
present it to the public and participate in the Q&A at the end of the screenings.”
But the international tour of the documentary film continues. In fact, on November 7th Nyumba will fly
overseas, in South Carolina (USA): it is in competition at the Nuovo Cinema Italiano Film Festival, a
Charleston. In mid-November he will go to France, for 5 special events at the Dolce Cinema Festival – les
Meetings of Italian cinema in Grenoble and Isère. Before and after there will be other participations
national festivals.
Comment Luca Marinoproducer: «At the moment, just over three weeks from the premiere
worldwide, 15 festivals have already chosen our Nyumba, and we are just at the beginning. In Indigo Film
we believed it was necessary to combine experience with the production of fiction
documentary and the result is of the highest level. My hope is that the stories of our
protagonists continue to surprise us and give us reasons for pride.”
«Telling Calabria with different eyes: the subject of Nyumba convinced us immediately» states the
president of the Calabria Film Commission, Anton Giulio Grandewho continues: «I really believe in
project. I have already made and renew my compliments to the Nyumba team, sure that the documentary film
will be able to bring the purest emotions of our land to many international festivals, but also
in schools and in all spaces where the stories of the protagonists and the places they are will be projected
became their new home. Works like Nyumba give a sense of Calabria Film’s work
Commission, which supports and will continue to support those who know how to describe our region in their own way
beauty of places, but also and above all of hospitality and emotions”.