Talia Project is a collective of independent documentary filmmakers founded in 2018 by former students of the Italian National Film School: Alessia Foraggio, Giacomo Fausti, Filippo Gobbato, Paolo Rosi e Claudio Selicato.
“Notes from CARA” (ITA, 2019) is the first documentary short made by the collective. The film began as a collaboration with the Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras (Citizenfour, Risk) and the video-journalism unit Field of Vision.
Sicily, summer. A wall of barbed wire separates the biggest refugee camp in Europe from a deserted, unwelcoming hinterland. The camp is the CARA of Mineo. Here migrants are blocked in endless waits, with their lives dotted with dreamy, absurd, even comical situations.
Near the camp fence we meet Mohammad, who wants to run away; Aqib and Malik who dream…