Unexpected (2005 film)

Unexpected
poster
Directed byDomenico Distilo
Written byDomenico Distilo, Chiara Faraglia, Adam Mounir, Chiara Pazzaglia
Produced byCentro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
StarringMohammed Alì Abubakar, Samuel Teklu, Lual Shoull, Joanna W.M. Henneman, Gianni Calastri, Ridvan Ozmen, Nur Mohammed Jamshidi, Matteo Delbò
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Unexpected (Italian: Inatteso) is an Italian 2005 documentary film written and directed by Domenico Distilo.

Distilo's diploma film from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Unexpected is a documentary on the demand for political asylum in Italy. It was screened in 2005 at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, in 2006 at Berlinale (section Forum), an Alicante Film Festival, where the movie won the prize as best documentary, at the Arcipelago Film Festival in Rome, where it won the jury's special mention, at the El ojo cojo festival in Madrid, at the Unheard Voices festival in London and many other minor festivals.

Poet Erri De Luca composed a poem for the movie entitled Them (Loro).