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18 Ius soli : il diritto di essere italiani / un film di Fred Kuwornu ; regia, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu ; prodotto da Struggle Filmworks
- Additional Titles
- 18 Ius soli : the right to be Italian, 18 Ius soli, the strange case of citizenship in modern Italy, and Right of soil, the strange case of citizenship in modern Italy
- Published
- Rome, Lazio : Privately Published, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (53 minutes)
- Additional Creators
- Kuowrnu, Fred Kudjo and Struggle Filmworks (Firm)
Access Online
- Language Note
- In Italian with English subtitles.
- Summary
- 18 Ius Soli (the right of soil) is a 2012 award-winning grassroots Italian documentary about the issues of the citizenship for 1,000,000 of kids born in Italy. Officially selected at Black Berlin International Cinema. This documentary "examines" the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of immigrant parents, because they have no Italian blood. It follows 18 stories of girls and boys born and raised in Italy whose parents are originally from African, Asian, and South American countries who moved to and have long-lived in different areas of Italy. They are children of immigrants: go to school in Italy, speak the language and dialects, have never even been to the countries that their parents are from, nor do they speak their parents' language. Yet they are not recognized Italian citizens. To obtain the Italian citizenship, they have to go through a lengthy and complicated application process and can only do so after they've turned 18 years old - a process that doesn't always end positively for the applicant, resulting in serious and unavoidable problems of social inclusion and identity. There are presently 1,000,000 of young people who were born in Italy, speak Italian fluently, have studied in Italian schools and have lived in Italy all their lives, yet, they are not entitles to Italian citizenship. It is a reality lived by Italian soccer champion Mario Balotelli and countless others.
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- Genre(s)
- Duration
- ["00:52:51"]
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Note
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 07, 2018).
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