The cinema is perhaps the best witness to the social and cultural transformation taking place in Europe. The recent success of authors like Fatih Akim and Abdel Kechiche, directors with double passports of second generation immigrants, shows that the integration between the different cultures of the Mediterranean, beyond the slogans, the opening and closing of borders, is in place. Not only that, it also shows that the filmmakers who manage to live together in their training dialogue between two cultures have something more to tell us, that we are all Europeans at the beginning of this new millennium.
Many European countries have developed mechanisms to support the production and co-production of films that opens dialogue between North and South: festivals such as Locarno and Rotterdam, as well as funds reserved for this type of production from France, Germany , United Kingdom.
Italy in this field has done little or nothing about it.
The Prize Mutti - Amm, born from the synergy between Officina Cinema Southeast and the Cineteca of Bologna has allowed the productions of numerous directors migrants today, from Mohamed Zineddaine, Laye Gaye, Dagmawi Yimer to Alfie Nze. A far-sighted and courageous gesture that makes this award an offer of dialogue that opens in a more concrete way to an international horizon.
