MFF - Io Capitano

Join the MFS for the second film in our 2024 Mildura Film Festival program. A film that takes us on a Senegalese teenagers journey across the Sahara escaping severe poverty for the dream of a fortunate life in Europe and the hope of providing for those he has left behind.

Two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar, Seydou and Moussa, yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison, and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.