“Anywhere, Anytime” – 23 November 2024 – Cinema Esedra – h. 9.00 pm
‘Anywhere, Anytime’ – Directed by Milad Tangshir, present in the cinema
Introduced by Professor Giaime Alonge, scriptwriter of the movie
Between Milad Tangshir and Giaime Alonge there is now a relationship of esteem that goes beyond the professional sphere. Milad, a director of Iranian origin and one of the protagonists of the old edition of Scienza Migrante, graduated at ‘DAMS – Disciplines of Arts, Music and Performing Arts’ in Turin and Professor Alonge, from being the supervisor of his thesis, became a close collaborator in his productions.
Milad’s cinematography ranges from documentaries denouncing the difficult life of migrants in Austria, Croatia and Italy, to short films on Italian prisons and neorealist films. Milad puts great emphasis in his movies on the lives of migrant people in Italy and their point of view, proving that tell about oneself and about events around you cannot be a privilege for a few, but it has to be the right and freedom of everybody.
According to Milad, making a film takes dedication, there cannot be a timetable, and the writing and scripting of ‘Anywhere, Anytime’ took him two years of studying of the rider phenomenon, which sees, for the most part, young migrant boys on bicycles speeding through the city. But that was not enough for him and to understand the phenomenon from the inside, he personally joined a rider in his home food deliveries for a few months and, only after a long research, he found the perfect lead actor for him, Ibrahima Sambou. Like all the other characters in the film, he is not a professional actor and he is happy to have portrayed a real character like a rider and to have given a voice to those who often are not heard. Turin is seen from the point of view of a person who is at the same time a boy looking for opportunities, a boy of Senegalese origin in Italy and a rider.
Milad shows us the socio-political situation of Turin through the neorealist cinematography and at the same time tells us the story of those who still today have to fight for the respect and protection of their dignity as persons and as workers. Riders are an integral part of our society today, so much so that they whiz around in the almost absolute invisibility of those who watch them. The similarities with De Sica’s ‘Bicycle Thieves’, a milestone of the Italian neorealist cinematography, are present and make us reflect, but they are at the same time different and displaced in our present in which a bicycle can still represent a means of livelihood, in its beauty and strength, and in its basic contradiction between those who – ‘anywhere, anytime’ – order and those who deliver, between those who pay for food at home and those who are paid too little for their work.
For Milad, the film speaks for itself, and the intention is not to denounce a difficult and precarious reality, but to show it as it is in its raw truth. What is most important to him is to create questions in the viewers so that they no longer forget those who transport food to their homes.
What really happens in the life of a young rider in Turin? Come and see the film and you will find out.
Scienza Migrante 2.0 project offers 50 free places.
For bookings please send an e-mail to scienzamigrante@unito.it and state your name and surname and the number of places required.
