Kissing Gorbaciov

Gurwinder comes from Punjab, he’s been working for years as a farm hand in Agro Pontino, not far from Rome. Since he first came in Italy, he’s been living with the rest of the Sikh community in Latina province. Hardeep is also Indian, but her stress is Roman, and she works as a cultural mediator. She, born and raised in Italy, is trying to free herself from the memories of a family that emigrated in another age, while he is forced, against his faith, to take methamphetamine and doping to bear the heavy work pace, to be able to send money in India.

Ameer is just 12, but he's already an adult. Every afternoon, after school, he grazes his family's flock of sheep. Ameer has a dream, passed on for generations: to see his land and his people free from the Israeli military occupation. This is not a movie. This is Ameer's everyday life. Welcome to At-Tuwani, a little Palestinian village between the arid hills south-east from Hebron, in the so-called West Bank's C Area. Under constant menace of evacuation since 1999, the village repeatedly undergoes attacks from Israeli soldiers who live in the near settlement of Ma'on. In response to all these injustices, ten years ago it was created the Popular Resistance Committee, as a direct expression of local peasant class.