“To Whom It May Concern”– Screening & discussion with Zakaria Mohammad Ali, 17 September 2024 (Tues) ICC Sophia University X Free University Berlin

[Megha Wadhwa]

Dear all, 

 

We would like to invite you to the fourth lecture of our Online lecture series: Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film. We will be screening Zakaria Mohammad Ali’s 16-min film – To whom it may concern on 17^th September 2024, 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST), 18:00 to 20:00 (JST). Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Young Somali journalist, landed in Lampedusa as an asylum seeker in 2008. After four years he returns as a free man, recalling his stay in the CIE and going in search of his lost memories. 

 

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ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film – Lecture 4

 

Screening & discussion with Zakaria Mohammad Ali, Somali Journalist and a filmmaker

 

To Whom It May Concern 

Zakaria Mohamed Ali |Lampedusa, Italy|2013|16 min |Italian, Somali with English subtitles

Hosted by Megha Wadhwa & David H. Slater

 

17 September 2024 (Tue)
11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
18:00 to 20:00 (JST)

 

All the lectures will be on Zoom. 

Register here - https://forms.office.com/r/YRfdXeybLt

 

To whom it may concern, a documentary by Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Young Somali journalist, landed in Lampedusa as an asylum seeker in 2008. Until today he has been able to remember the island as a place of exclusion rather than arrival. After four years he returns as a free man, recalling his stay in the CIE and going in search of his lost memories.

 

Zakaria Mohamed Ali is a Somali journalist, video-maker, and freelance documentary filmmaker. He lives and works in Rome and is vice president of the Archive of Migrant Memories (AMM). Born and raised in Mogadishu, he landed in Lampedusa on August 13, 2008 after crossing the desert and the sea. In 2011, he participated in Benvenuti in Italia, the documentary film shot by ten hands, in five episodes, produced by the Migrant Memories Archive as a video- training course. He made one of the episodes of Dadir, a film that gives voice to the dreams of glory of Dadir, a soccer champion who has made a name for himself in his country and is now forced to travel without a ticket from Milan to Rome to play with the "Somali national team of Rome." His short film To Whom It May Concern was selected by the House of European History of the European Parliament in Brussels. Currently he is engaged in an artistic elaboration of his own work, capable of combining storytelling, documentation and experimentation.

For more about Zakaria Mohammad Ali – https://tedxreggioemilia.com/speaker/zakaria-mohamed-ali/

 

This project is a part of BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany) funded project – Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia (QuaMaFA) and supported by Free University of Berlin, Goethe University Frankfurt and the ICC Collaborative Research Unit “Visual Studies and Displacement in/to Japan”, a Joint Research Unit between Institute of Comparative Culture of Sophia University and Free University of Berlin.

Looking forward to seeing you

Best wishes,

Megha 

 

 

Megha Wadhwa, Ph.D. 
Post-Doc/Research Associate 
Institute of East Asian Studies

Japanese Studies 
Freie Universität Berlin 

 

Ad. Assistant Professor

Temple University Japan 

Communication Studies

 

Visiting Fellow
Institute of Comparative Culture
Sophia University Tokyo