Film director Costanza Quatriglio will introduce her last film “Sembra mio figlio” (Italian for “Looks like my son”) at the Sala Pegasus in Spoleto. The event is scheduled for Sunday 30 September at 21.30 and is included in the series of public meeting that give voice to the most interesting new figures of contemporary cinema.

At the end of the projection, Costanza Quatriglio and cinema expert Roberto Lazzerini will answer the audience questions.

The film

Ismail (Basir Ahang), after fleeing persecution in Afghanistan as a child, has been in search of his lost mother ever since. Costanza Quatriglio stages the tragedy of the Hazara genocide, an 8-million people repeatedly attacked by Sunni terrorists between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

«Mine’s a film that intentionally gives questions, not answers. It started from a short movie I did in 2009 that made it clear to me how just it is to listen to those who had their land, and their mothers, torn off». The roots of this narration, explains Quatriglio, are to be found in the destiny of «an ethnic group which is possibly among the most oppressed in the world; very few know or wish to learn about this once-Buddhist, now-Shiite people».