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Mediterranea 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).