MARCO SPERONI

ITALIA | 2016 | 52’

Lota and Tigist, two girls living in two very different countries, Bangladesh and Ethiopia, are linked by the same journey starting from poverty and ending up in the hell of an extremely difficult life.
They were both born in rural areas, they both faced poverty or abuses. The only option was to run away. Next destinations were the mega-cities of Dhaka and Addis Ababa. They embark on parallel, incredibly harsh journeys through which they meet their destinies.
 In Dhaka young girls like Lota work in garment factories, which are a sort of slammer, exposed to every kind of imposition and restriction.
 In Addis Ababa young girls like Tigist quickly downfall into the hell of sex work on the streets or in hotels. Yet in spite of how tough their lives are, they reveal an inner strength and great dignity. They come from poverty, they fall into even worse conditions, but they never stop striving to try to improve their state.
 They both fight for a life that, maybe tomorrow, will be better.

Marco Speroni started his artistic career as painter: since 1985 he has realized a lot of artistic and cultural documentaries with his Society of Productions Officinema, based in Parma. Afterwards, he moved to Rome and in 1996 won the Solinas’ Prize for best screenplay, from which he produced “What as to do with love”, presented during international festival as Locarno (1997). Since 1998 he has started a collaboration with Rai Uno and Sky. In 2011 he realized the docufilm “In Hell’s Heart”, shoot in the war zone of Congo. In 2014 he realized the documentary “Time to look at girls”. In 2016 he realized his most recent: “2 Girls”.