Samuel Feller

Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, Tongo Saa is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa's nights.

Since the large waves of migration in summer 2015, many are ready to house and welcome the less fortunate people of this world. Long before that Doctor Bartolo took responsibility for Omar, an 18-year-old Tunisian who stranded on Lampedusa's coast. Dr Bartolo offers Omar a family, a home and a job as an interpreter in the local detention centre. Around the same time also Adam, a 16-year-old from Ghana, is taken in by a hotelkeeper, who gives him a job as the hotel's valet. Both boys have been lucky. Or haven't they? Because a future is more than a roof above your head. And good intentions don't suffice for true integration. We should at least listen to the boys themselves. Lampedusa: promised land or prison in the Mediterranean Sea? These 2 unique adoption stories reveal the search for freedom and happiness of both the Lampedusiani and the newcomers, and are a metaphor for the task that awaits the European continent.

静かな海辺にある孤島の灯台で、お父さんのコナー、お母さんのブロナー、愛犬のクーと幸せに暮らしていた男の子のベン。彼らは、新しい家族を迎えようとしていた。大好きなお母さんから、「あなたは世界で一番のお兄ちゃんになるのよ」と言われ、ベンも赤ちゃんが生まれてくる日を楽しみにしていた。 優しくて物知りなお母さんは、ベンにたくさんのお話や歌を教えてくれた。巨人のマクリルと愛犬の物語や、アザラシの妖精セルキーが歌うと妖精が家に戻れる不思議な伝説、古い言葉で綴られる美しい歌など……。 ある晩、ベンはお母さんに海の歌が聞こえる貝の笛をもらう。うれしくて、笛を大事に抱いて眠りについたのだが、目を覚ますとお母さんの姿が見当たらない。 お母さんは赤ちゃんを残して、海へ消えてしまったのだ。