Dönüs-Retour (doc, 50′)

Directed by Valeria Mazzucchi

Jérôme Bastion is a corrispondent for Radio France Internationale (RFI) in Turkey. He has lived for 20 years in Istanbul, becoming a reference for the French speaking radio audiences in world. A voice for civil rights and freedom of speech, Jérôme has witnessed Erdoğan’s Turkey returning in the state of violence and deprivation of freedoms, a situation, that reminds him the status quo when he first arrived in Turkey. Dönüş–Return follows the life of Jérôme in his last weeks in Istanbul, before his distressful decision to leave Turkey after the Turkish general election of November 2015.

Shooting: Emmanuele Delrio, Davide Preti

Editing: Emmanuele Delrio, Davide Preti

Festivals & Awards:

Reset award – Diritti Umani, Festival dei Diritti Umani di Milano 2017

Dok Preview and Dok Leipzig 2016

DIG Awards 2017

2017

Rehab & Refugees Camp

Reportages made in Sulaimaniya and Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, for Emergency NGO and published on Corriere della Sera.

Click here to see the reportage

A film by Davide Preti

Client: Emergency NGO

PhotoReportage

Three children show their lollipop
The biggest road of the IDP Camp divides it in two. They call it the ‘champs elysees’ road because it is the only street with shops. In this restaurant run by father and son I ate the best shawarma of my life
A family posing in front of his home
A grandmother poses with her granddaughter near Emergency’s surgeries
The flag of thePKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan at the entrance of a house. IDP camp in Ashti was divided into three areas: Kurdish, Arab, Yazida
A patient checks the newly made prosthesis
A prosthesis technician works in his laboratory
Two orthopedic technicians in the plaster room while preparing the mold for prostheses
Children play checkers on the sidewalk
Some old prostheses in a plaster room corner
A patient checks the newly made prosthesis

may 2016