By Oriane Calligaro, EUDO CITIZENSHIP Consortium member.

The preview of the Italian film “Sta per piovere” (“It’s about to rain”) took place yesterday in Florence. It tells the story of Said, 26 years old, born in Florence to Algerian parents and very well integrated in the Italian society, who is suddenly threatened by expulsion. The film describes the difficulty for second generation immigrants to access Italian citizenship and the injustice that it provokes. The Italian-Iraqi director Haider Rashid considers his film as a way to nurture the on-going debate on access to citizenship in Italy. In the context of the electoral campaign (legislative elections will text place on 24 February 2013), several Italian political parties have made proposals for a reform of the citizenship law.

“Sta per piovere” will be in the Italian movie theaters in April 2013.

Read the article in Il Journal (in Italian) with the trailer of the film (with English subtitles).