Agrigento, Licata and Lampedusa, landscapes, visions and people on the move: films and more on migration

AGRIGENTO – From 16th to 19th December in Agrigento, Licata and Lampedusa, the film competition, debates and shows will be a Festival bringing you closer to “Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025”promoted by the Superintendency of Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the Sicilian city and by the archaeological and landscape park of the Valley of the Temples. Three cities are involved, namely Agrigento, Licata and Lampedusa which create the acronym “ALL” and which will host screenings, artistic performances, conference-shows, meetings and aperitifs on the theme of migration.

The gaze turned to migration. Cinema is at the center of the event with an eye to the migrations imposed by unequal economies, by wars, by climate and environmental changes and by peoples on the move who, yesterday as today, have changed, influenced or mixed cultures, traditions, architecture, expressions artistic.

A long list of guests: here are some. Among the guests, Vito Fiorino, who saved 47 Eritreans from the shipwreck of 3 October 2013 in which 368 people died, with the authors of the documentary “North of Lampedusa”, Davide Demichelis and Alessandro Rocca, who 10 years after that tragedy gave life to a road movie across Europe in search of some of those people to whom Fiorino gave a second life. The artist and animator Gianfrancesco Iacono presents a preview of the animated short film created specifically for the festival which offers a reinterpretation of the Odyssey. Luca Misculin, journalist from Il Post and author of historical dissemination podcasts, and Riccardo Ginevra, professor at the Catholic University of Milan, talk about the points of contact between the great migrations of the past and the more recent ones in “Invasions of yesterday, of today”. Stefano Allievi, professor of sociology at the University of Padua, specialized in the study of migratory phenomena, with the show “Of water and land. Migrations and other movements” explores the intricate network of human migrations through the centuries, between nomadism and contemporary human mobility. And then many others.