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«I’m an exile and an exile always needs light at the end of the tunnel», says Kader Abdolah, an Iranian political refugee who arrived in the Netherlands in 1988 without knowing a word of Dutch and twenty-five years later he was able to write a novel, The house of the mosque, which was voted the second best book ever written in Dutch.
As the son of a poor deaf and dumb carpet mender, Kader was the ears and mouth of his father as a child. The exile who would then succeed in finding a place in the world of letters of his new country was thus already born under the sign of the lost word. A word that was then diligently rediscovered; a word that enables us to be in the world.

Fabrizio Polpettini
He was born in Rome to a French mother and Italian father, studied the Visual Arts and Environmental Science in Milan, Film in Paris and Documentary Making in Corsica. In 2009 he created Filmcaravan – the festival of open-air cinema – and in 2014 founded La Bête, an audiovisual and film production company specializing in creative documentaries. He lives and works in Marseille as both a producer and director.
His films include: The Houses there Wear Verandas out of Shyness (short documentary, 2010), La fille à la valise (short film, 2011), Rabbit Hole (short film, 2012), The Ancient Child (short film, 2017), Un usage de la mer (documentary, mm, 2021), Getting Older is Wonderful (medium-length documentary, 2023).

Riccardo Costantini
A cultural operator, he works at Cinemazero, where he is responsible for events and archives. He directs the Pordenone Docs Fest – Le voci del documentario festival. He has taught Audiovisual Didactics at the Faculty of Education of the University of Trieste and edited several monographic publications on cinema and photography (Modotti, Fellini, Bergman, Losey, Moretti, Pasolini…).
A curator of photographic exhibitions in Italy and abroad, he is the author of essays and lectures on film topics. He is president of the distribution company Tucker Film.