I Captain, Italy's bet to win a new Oscar, aspires to be the best international film. Awarded in Venice, it was directed by Matteo Garrone, of "Gomorrah" and "Dogman" Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall play the two cousins who dream of making it as musicians in Europe.
The film pivots between the realism of docudrama and the mythological, with Seydu visiting an African sorcerer and saving a woman from the desert.