Io Capitano: Sunday, May 12

Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm and 5pm
Discussion following the 2pm show

Drama, Wolof, 2 hours, Not Rated
Director: Matteo Garrone

Awards:

  • Academy Award Nominee for Best International Feature Film
  • European Film Award Nominee for Best Director and Best Film
  • Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film

Seydou lives with his widowed mother and little sisters in Dakar. They are poor and live cramped together under the roof of a tiny, ramshackle house, but family life is happy. Seydou’s mother thinks he has been playing football all day, but the 16-year-old has secretly taken a day job as a laborer, being paid cash in hand. His cousin Moussa acts as treasurer and buries the accumulating money in the sand, digging it out every now and then to count and recount it.  The money represents a dream they have: to travel to Europe and become famous pop stars.

The two boys take off in the middle of the night, taking a long, cramped bus ride to Agadez in Niger, the first leg of a journey that will take them through the Sahara Desert to Tripoli, and from there to Italy.

Io Capitano combines magic realism and ultrarealism to give audiences insight into the emotional journey of two lovely and loving young men who share a dream that threatens to tip over into nightmare. Harrowing and uplifting. ” — AARP Movies for Grownups

“The films of Italy’s Matteo Garrone always bloom at the meeting point of two different realisms: social and magic. They’re alive to the hardships of ordinary life, but also its comedy and strangeness….” — Daily Telegraph (UK)

 

Douglass Theatre

355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Macon, Georgia 31201

Films are presented the second Sunday of each month at 2pm and 5pm, with a discussion following the 2pm show. Documentaries are quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon.