Abstract:
Forms of ‘otherness’ and marginalized sectors of society are prevailing social themes in contemporary Italian documentaries. Women directors are increasingly exploring how to represent transnational mobility. Their documentaries draw attention to the complexity and cultural specificity of migration experiences from different locations of origin and at different times. In this article, we focus on two documentaries that engage with such complexities and which, we argue, are both political and poetic. Sidelki/ Badanti (2007) by Katia Bernardi and La stoffa di Veronica (2005) by Emma Rossi Landi and Flavia Pasquini explore transnational mobility by presenting a search for a new notion of home that requires spatial and mental mobility away from familiar spaces into new territories