Films A-Z
Via Anelli
Via Anelli
Marco Segato / Italy / 2008 / 68 min.
The Serenissma complex of residential houses on Via Anelli consists of six buildings. From the 1990s, it was primarily African refugees who lived here in almost three hundred apartments with an area of 28 m2. The area rapidly became less safe in this time and crime increased. Locals began referring to the refugee quarter as a ghetto. In 2005, the local town hall decided to remove this stain on the beauty of the north Italian city of Padova by moving all the inhabitants to apartments in other parts of the city and closing the buildings. This film documents the two-year process of closing the Serenissma complex from the point of view of both the penurious refugee families (who often have no choice but to move into the stigmatised environment) and the officials who are trying to defend the rights of all the city's inhabitants. The film is interwoven with lots of news footage, particularly from 2007, when the area became the centre of international attention because of the steel wall that the city authorities built around the complex, which sealed its fate as a socially excluded locality.
» Trailer