Torino Boys

A film on Nigerian emigration to Rome, seen through the eyes of the migrants themselves. The Torino Boys are a group of young Nigerians who travel down from Turin to Rome to watch a football match where one of their compatriots is playing. They meet the Roma Girls, with whom they discuss the problems of a community transplanted from the other side of the world, struggling to find its place within an indifferent society.

Torino Boys tells a love story that offers a social cross-section unprecedented in Italian film production. Touching on topics such as trafficking, prostitution, marginalisation, extended family, soul music, hairstyles and even magic. Told with a light and good-humoured tone that conceals deep intentions, Torino Boys also features a hip-hop soundtrack that has made history in modern Italian music.
A breakthrough film that began as a television project but broke out of the shackles of the small screen to land successfully at Locarno and the Turin Film Festival, where it won an audience award. Torino Boys became a phenomenon within the festival circuit.

– Manlio Gomarasca