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Matteo Garrone And Agnieszka Holland Films Join Refugee Week Lineup, Mubi & BFI Player To Host Screenings


Mubi and BFI Player will host streaming screenings.

EXCLUSIVE: Io Capitano, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone, and Agnieszka Holland ’s Green Border have joined the lineup of this year’s Refugee Week arts and culture festival, running June 17 to 23. ● Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone: This Oscar-nominated film follows two Senegalese teenagers, Seydou and Moussa, as they journey from Dakar to Italy, facing deserts, detention centers, and perilous seas in pursuit of a better life. While gathering her strength, she begins a friendship with a rootless tour-guide (Alia Shawkat) and together they find the resilience to forge ahead

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