Mediterranea (film)

Mediterranea
Film poster
Directed byJonas Carpignano
Written byJonas Carpignano
Produced by
  • Jason Michael Berman
  • Chris Columbus
  • Jon Coplon
  • Christoph Daniel
  • Andrew Kortschak
  • John Lesher
  • Ryan Lough
  • Justin Nappi
  • Alain Peyrollaz
  • Gwyn Sannia
  • Marc Schmidheiny
  • Victor Shapiro
  • Raphael Swann
  • Ryan Zacarias
StarringKoudous Seihon
CinematographyWyatt Garfield
Edited byAffonso Gonçalves
Music by
Release date
  • 19 May 2015 (2015-05-19) (Cannes)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Mediterranea (Italian: [mediterˈraːnea]) is a 2015 Italian drama film written and directed by Jonas Carpignano. It was screened in the Critics' Week section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The film stars Koudous Seihon and Alassane Sy as friends who cross the Mediterranean Sea to immigrate to Italy, where they experience unexpected hostility from locals. It is the first in the director's trilogy set in a Calabrian town, followed by A Ciambra (2017) and A Chiara (2022).