15 minutes. Two brothers. One impossible choice. This short film hits like a freight train.
Salim and Alì, two Nigerian brothers, work in a tomato field managed by Fulvio, a violent and racist corporal. Alì, as opposed to Salim, lives a life which goes over the legality. One day, Fulvio commands the two brothers to deliver a drug shipment to a notorious local criminal, but on the return something goes wrong. The corporal's son, Vincenzo, will help Salim to escape his father's brutality.
Direction
Cinieri squeezes feature-film tension into 15 relentless minutes.
Cinematography
Puglia's sun-bleached fields become a prison of gorgeous dread.
Acting
Agbalizu's silent desperation speaks volumes — no subtitles needed.
Director
Pietro Cinieri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Puglia's real agricultural belt, where thousands of African migrants work in conditions critics call 'modern slavery.' The film's setting isn't backdrop — it's indictment.
The tomato field setting deliberately echoes Italy's 'caporalato' system: organized exploitation of migrant labor by middlemen. Fulvio isn't just a racist — he's a cog in an economic machine.
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