a border of mirrors

Stefano Savona, Italy, 2002

Producers synopsis


Sicilian emigrants in Tunisia and Tunisian emigrants in Sicily, exchanges and flows that have generated interesting stories to tell. Stories of integration and hate between the races that are part of our one universe. Where the border between the Islamic world and the Western one is both evanescent and insurmountable. Stories told “from below”, that perfectly illustrate the concept of how globalization is both obsolete and unreachable. The daily life of a precarious life on the borderline. “We seem to have forgotten about Italian emigration to Tunisia, that began at the end of the 19th century and that continued with alternating intensity until 1960. As often happened in the case of Sicilian fishermen, this emigration resulted in double nuclear families of people with one family in Sicily and another one in Tunisia” (Stefano Savona).