Io Capitano

Academy Award nominee for Best International Feature.

Two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.
The immigrant experience from the immigrants point of view Il Capitano combines magic realism with ultrarealism to tell the story of a dream always on the verge of being a nightmare.