After the Odyssey
After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
| Director | Helen Doyle |
| Actor | Julia Minne |
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With After the Odyssey, Helen Doyle delivers a rare and powerful choral narrative devoted to women caught in the nets of trafficking in Italy. The film unfolds as a woven fabric of voices, images, and sounds in which women’s creativity becomes an act of resistance. The director excels at bringing into dialogue the creative gestures of photographer Elena Perlino, writer Isoke Aikpitanyi, and singer Daniela Fiorentino, whose contributions intertwine to carve out a sensitive space where stories of exile, violence, and survival attain renewed dignity.
In this intimate mapping of lives shattered and then pieced back together, Doyle summons a profoundly beautiful documentary imagination, where every shot seems to listen, gather, and breathe. The film takes the shape of a visual poem—at once clear-eyed and luminous—transforming pain into presence and memory into a force of creation.
Julia Minne
Programmer
- Année 2024
- Pays Quebec
- Durée 85
- Producteur Tatouages de la mémoire
- Langue French, English, Italian
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life.
- Compositeur
- Mention festival
- Feministe equitable
- Image revue
- Description revue
- Lien revue
- Avertissement
- Texte bouton revue
- TLF_Applismb_CA 1
- Date édito CA 2025-11-14
With After the Odyssey, Helen Doyle delivers a rare and powerful choral narrative devoted to women caught in the nets of trafficking in Italy. The film unfolds as a woven fabric of voices, images, and sounds in which women’s creativity becomes an act of resistance. The director excels at bringing into dialogue the creative gestures of photographer Elena Perlino, writer Isoke Aikpitanyi, and singer Daniela Fiorentino, whose contributions intertwine to carve out a sensitive space where stories of exile, violence, and survival attain renewed dignity.
In this intimate mapping of lives shattered and then pieced back together, Doyle summons a profoundly beautiful documentary imagination, where every shot seems to listen, gather, and breathe. The film takes the shape of a visual poem—at once clear-eyed and luminous—transforming pain into presence and memory into a force of creation.
Julia Minne
Programmer
- Année 2024
- Pays Quebec
- Durée 85
- Producteur Tatouages de la mémoire
- Langue French, English, Italian
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life.
- Compositeur
- Mention festival
- Feministe equitable
- Image revue
- Description revue
- Lien revue
- Avertissement
- Texte bouton revue
- TLF_Applismb_CA 1
- Date édito CA 2025-11-14
