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Social cinema and performing arts from the Global South

9th special edition for the European Year for Development 2015 | 7-11 october

MOUNT GOUROUGOU

Bruno Rocchi | Morocco, Spain | 2015 | 10'

A triple wire mesh, motion sensors and security cameras protect the city of Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Moroccan territory, against illegal entry. The documentary highlights the desperate conditions that hundreds of Sub-Saharan migrants experience in Gourougou mountain, near the city of Melilla. These people wait the chance to get a permit for Europe and cross the border, at the mercy of Moroccan police and its violence and oppression.

Rocchi Bruno was born in Bergamo in 1983. After graduating in cinema at the University of Bologna attended a course in Milan as video reporter. In recent years he traveled in northern Morocco and produced in total independence a documentary on the economic / employment in the Rif Bled el Makhzen - On the verge of Morocco, 2015. In the same year he has completed the reportage Mount Gourougou, selected to BBC Aan Korb Arabic Festival.