Hotel Splendid

How an Italian Hotel Became Home for African Refugees

Selected to screen at the prestigious Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, this award-winning film is an intimate account of a community of migrants from Africa who are living in an Italian hotel converted into an emergency refugee camp.

The film recounts the migrants' dramatic voyage to Europe -- the violence and abuse -- and the Kafkaesque, almost surreal experiences they encounter during the evaluation process.

The film has been screened in many international festivals and won Best Documentary Film at Valdarno Cinema Fedic in Italy.