Domani torno a casa (Back Home Tomorrow)

The Italian aid organisation Emergency offers medical help to civilian casualties in warzones, of whom about one-third are children. In Back Home Tomorrow, directors Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Paolo Santolini use the moving stories of two of these children to show the work Emergency does. Yagoub, who fled with his family from Darfur and now lives in the Mayo Refugee Camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, looks jealously at the other kids playing football. He has to undergo a serious heart operation, but neither his family nor his fellow tribesmen can come up with the money to pay for it. Then there’s Murtaza. He’s recuperating in hospital in Kabul after losing his left hand to a landmine. Murtaza also has to find his way among his fellow patients, who fervently compete with each other in wheelchair races and kite-flying contests. The directors deliver these two fascinating and heartfelt stories without commentary and combine them in a way that is both compelling and poignant.