When forced to separate, 12-year-old Alì and his older brother Mohammed (17), have been travelling already for a very long time. Three years earlier a bomb destroyed their house in Kabul and killed their parents, leaving them no option but to flee, all alone suddenly and without anything to lose anymore. From Turkey, the closest gate to Europe, Mohammed decides to use a dinghy to sail across to Greece, where he hopes to make enough money for Alì to join him. In the few hours preceding his departure, Mohammed tries and teach his brother what he'll need to survive, but when one morning Alì wakes up and Mohammed isn't there anymore....

Dialogue between Don Mattia Ferrari and Damiana Aguairi (journalist of Radio Città del Capo, coordinator of Radio Bologna Cares!)

Baradar will compete for this edition of the Festival for the EmilBanca Award.

Beppe Tufarulo

He is an Italian film director. Several of the social issue-based documentaries he has directed in various countries around the world have received honourable mentions and won awards such as the Ilaria Alpi Journalism Prize. In 2010 he won the Short Films section of the Solinas Talent Prize, and this allowed him to realise the short film We Love Our Clients which has participated in more than seventy national and international festivals, winning numerous prizes and awards. For Rai Cinema Beppe has directed the documentary I Figli Della Shoah, which premiered at the International Film Festival of Rome, and a several music documentaries for Sky Arte HD.