SUNU GAAL (OUR CAYUCO)
Spain, Senegal | 2025 | 72 min | col. |French, Wolof, Diola
Emigration from Senegal is a current and charged topic. This film offers the perspective of those who remain in the country while harbouring dreams of leaving, and those who refuse this option, with pride and confidence. The footage shows harsh living conditions, poverty, lack of technological resources. At school, a teacher asks his pupils whether they would indeed leave for Europe if they could. Over the course of the debate, what emerges first is how difficult it is to live in Senegal; another theme is that racism is still at work in the old continent; life for those who emigrate to Europe is tough; isolation, loneliness, exploitation, the risk of slavery are to be expected. Every shot denotes extreme precision in a film which casts a lucid, conscious gaze upon reality. (D.D.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 04 Nov 2025
- Time: 9:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Josep Tomàs París
Josep T. París is a director, documentary film scriptwriter, and journalist with a career dedicated to migration movements and racism. He trained as a scriptwriter and playwright at the Scriptwriters’ Workshop, the School of Writing at the Ateneu Barcelonès, and the Obrador at Sala Beckett. In 2018 his documentary Menores lejos de casa addressed for the first time in-depth the arrival of immigrant minors without family references in Catalonia. In 2020, he co-directed Mama Congo. Mujeres en el corazón de África, a documentary about the feminist struggle in the Congo. In 2019, he won the Ciutat de Manacor Award with Pirómanos. In 2024, he won the Montserrat Roig Research Award for a project on the Foreigners’ Detention Centre in Barcelona.
