[Picture from the same article - copyright alarabiya.net, 08/11/2012]
08.11.2012. “My name is Said
Mahran, and I am an Italian like you,” said the protagonist of Sta Per Piovere
(It's About To Rain), by Iraqi-Italian director Haider Rashid, who described
second generation immigrants as being stuck in a socio-political limbo.
The movie tackles
issues of cultural and legal straddling that many like fictitious Mahran
encounter.
Mahran, the son of an
Algerian immigrant is faced with the dilemma of returning to Algeria – a
country he has never visited – or remaining as an illegal immigrant, following
the bread factory director's suicide; the place where Mahran works and relies
on for his residency visa.
“In the attempt to
find a solution and bring attention to a problem that is more and more
widespread in nowadays’ society, Said embarks on a journey that takes him to
lawyers, workers' unions and the press through the meanders of a retrograde
legislative bureaucracy, the reconsideration of his identity,” Rashid explains
the movie's plotline.
