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- November 14, 1951, the left bank of the Po river a few hundred meters from the Padua-Bologna railway bridge breaks. The tide invades the Polesine's lands in a few minutes, one of the poorest regions in Italy at the time. Thousands people, men, women and children flee while the water remains stagnant for months between the houses and the countryside. Today, 70 years later, the children of that time remember those months immortalized by the films perfectly preserved in the Istituto Luce's archives.
- From February to March 2011, 23 thousand young Tunisians reached the island of Lampedusa, in the south of Italy. The Italian government is torn between the urgent needs and its own rhetoric of closure and security and doesn't know what to do. The tiny island is going to collapse. The "humanitarian tsunami" dominates the political debate of those days: they call it an invasion, accusing Europe to "leave us alone". Northern and Southern Italy as well as the Government and the opposition rebound responsibilities and human beings. Just a few talk about the paradox of a country of sixty million inhabitants, for twenty years in the centre of Mediterranean migration, unable to handle a peak of 6 thousand people on a overall flow of 23 thousand refugees: just the 0,04% of the Italian population. What is not never mentioned is what is left of the lives of these young people of the revolution and the change of regime they've just gone through: these are two of the most important events in the Arab history of the last thirty years, and these are also two of the main reasons that pushed them to leave. Our inability to understand the situation becomes an incapacity to accommodate. The flow from Tunisia turns into a pure matter of law and order. On March 5th 2011, the Italian Government and the Tunisian interim Government sign a bilateral agreement. Tunisia contracts to intensify controls on its own shores and accepts forced repatriation for all the Tunisians landing at Lampedusa after the midnight of that same day; Italy, on the other hand, promises to provide a six months temporary residence permit for humanitarian reasons for all the people already arrived on its shores before that date. After some days of absurd overcrowding in Lampedusa, while waiting for these permits the young Tunisians are moved to some first reception camps that, for almost two months, become the second gateway to Europe. There we met them. We've spent many days talking to them through the thick nets of the camp of Palazzo San Gervasio (Pz), among olive trees and in the orange groves encircling the camp of Mineo (Ct) and also around the makeshift fires in front of the camp of Manduria (Ta). Five of these young men, five simple guys, tell us their stories. Five different stories but with something in common: the duress, the repression and the misery of the long years under Ben Alì and the relief of finally been able to talk about it, the pride of the revolution and the decision to leave for urgent change, out of curiosity, in search of experiences, or simply because for the first time in twenty-three years there was that possibility, and clearly such a possibility wouldn't have lasted for long. In one word they claim a right, the right to travel, the freedom of movement that their European age mates have for granted. Five stories connected by a curious and disappointed, but never defeated, glance resting on the unexpected facets of freedom, travel and Europe.
- na piccola scuola elementare in mattoni rossi, in una borgata in mattoni rossi: Montecucco, Roma. Inizia la primavera. In quarta A nasce Freccia Azzurra, una radio bambina. Viaggiando fuori dalla classe sulle onde radio, i giovani autori radiofonici si incontrano con loro coetanei di tutta Italia ed ascoltano i loro racconti. E si raccontano di una scuola fantastica. In un paese fra i boschi dell'Appennino toscano, una terza ed una quarta inseguono lupi per sentieri nebbiosi: quest'animale irriducibilmente selvatico mette più paura o fascino? Le asine nella Rho dell'Expo sono più rassicuranti; ma, se sono ospiti nel cortile della scuola, possono riservare sorprese... Anche nel rione Ascarelli di Napoli i corridoi scolastici ospitano un animale: un immenso e strepitoso cavallo rosso di cartapesta, Marco Cavallo. Il viaggio prosegue a sud, a Craco Peschiera, nella campagna materana, la terra dei calanchi, i bambini della "Padre Pio" indagano sulla storia del proprio paese abbandonato a causa di una frana che segna tutte le generazioni. Infine a Padova, nella scuola "Arcobaleno", ci si appropria dell'Antigone di Sofocle, per ri-raccontarla in piazza, ad adulti stupiti. Attraverso gli affascinanti racconti di questi laboratori, i bambini della radio scoprono il nostro paese e noi scopriamo quanto può essere creativo andare a scuola, dentro e fuori classe, se la scuola è agita in modo aperto, curioso, orizzontale. Scopriamo che la scuola fantastica è una scuola possibile. E scopriamo, attraverso la dignità e lo stupore del pensiero infantile com'è vivere nella periferia lombarda, o nella campagna della Basilicata: com'è ora l'Italia, dal punto di vista dei bambini.