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It was Tomorrow

201752 minPGdocumentary

Three Egyptian men, Ali, Mahmoud, and Mohamed, return to their original points of arrival in Italy after gaining legal status following a decade of undocumented living.

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Alexandra D'Onofrio

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Three Egyptian men, Ali, Mahmoud, and Mohamed, return to their original points of arrival in Italy after gaining legal status following a decade of undocumented living.

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Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed are three Egyptian men who lived in Italy without documents for almost ten years. Suddenly thanks to an amnesty they finally manage to legalise their status and their future is re-inhabited by possibilities. As part of their need to rediscover their dreams and hopes they decide to take the journey back to the first places of arrival, when they disembarked from the boats that had brought them as teenagers to Italy after crossing the Mediterranean.

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