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Beginning with the aftermath of the 2011 racist attack in Florence that killed two Senegalese men, the film explores how migrant communities negotiate belonging within contemporary Italian society. Through multilingual testimony\u2014including Italian, Wolof, and French\u2014and observational documentary practice, Va' Pensiero challenges conventional narratives of migration by foregrounding the voices and lived experiences of migrants themselves.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a conversation with Yimer about the making of Va' Pensiero, documentary filmmaking as a form of witnessing and political storytelling, and the representation of migration and Black life in contemporary Italy.\n\nThe event is part of \u201cMigration, Memory, and the Politics of Witnessing: A Residency with Filmmaker Dagmawi Yimer,\u201d October 7\u20139, 2026. 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