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IT'S ABOUT TO RAIN

STA PER PIOVERE

By Haider RASHID

Drama - Completed 2012

Following the expiration of his residency visa, Said Mahran, born and raised in Italy from Algerian parents, embarks on a journey through the meanders of a retrograde bureaucracy, the reconsideration of his identity and a deep dilemma: should he remain illegally in Italy or leave to Algeria with his

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- ITALY, IRAQ, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, KUWAIT
- Languages
- ITALIAN, ARABIC
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Haider RASHID
- Writer(s)
- Haider RASHID
- Cast
- Lorenzo BAGLIONI, Mohamed HANIFI
- Producer(s)
- Haider RASHID (Radical Plans)
- Synopsis
- ‘It’s About to Rain’ tells the story of Said, a confident and ambitious young man, born and raised in Italy from Algerian parents, who studies and works as a part-time baker. When the director of the factory where his father works commits suicide, the family is suddenly faced with the worrying reality of not being able to renew their residency visa as they have done for the past thirty years and receive a letter of expulsion. Said's life takes a sudden dark turn: Italy, the country that he has always considered as his, now appears to be a rubber wall that pushes him to 'go home', to Algeria, a place he has never even visited. In the attempt to find a solution and bring attention to a problem that is more and more widespread in nowadays’ society, Said embarks on a journey that takes him to lawyers, workers' unions and the press through the meanders of a retrograde legislative bureaucracy, the reconsideration of his identity and a deep dilemma: should he remain illegally in Italy or leave to Algeria with his father, helping him to build a new life in the country he has left thirty years ago?