A moment of the evening.
«On the evening of the Sanremo final our room was full. People remained until midnight talking about father from the commission. When it seems that the whole country is paralyzed by the Festival, an Italy, of which no one speaks and that has other priorities, has looked at the docufilm passionate and participated in the debate “comments hot segatori, director of the documentary Father Dall’Ogliovisible on Raiplay. After the screening in the Senate of the Republic, the film triggered a series of itinerant forums throughout Italy, the first in Lombardy last Saturday in Monza, at the San Biagio Oratory (next March 16 at the Antoniano in Bologna). A formative moment, under the supervision of Monsignor Umberto Oltolini, who joined the story with the testimonies, not to celebrate the Roman Jesuit who disappeared in Raqqa in 2013, but to update the figure and example. Also present Immaculate “Machi” Dall’Oglio, one of the sisters, Sister Deema Fayyad and Don Stefano Stimamiglio, director of Christian family.
From here we start. As a father Dall’Oglio, a truly free man, guided by a dream bigger than him: the dialogue between Islam and Christianity, for whom he put life at stake. A dream so powerful as to “call” it to rebuild an abandoned monastery and almost inaccessible in the Syrian desert: Deir Mar Musa, three hundred steps to access it. It is the last twenty years of the last century when Father Dall’Oglio, in his wandering in Syria, comes across that old ruin that dominates the desert: to hit him is not the dramatic beauty of what remains of the building itself, but the disruptive strength of the place, of that deafening silence that he would soon be going to fill in meaning.
Today that the dream of a reconciled Syria seems to vanish, a river in full questions arises: is it still willing to fight for your dreams? If so, until what price and in the name of what? What are the (false) myths, the ideals? Are we capable of visions? But above all, the spirit of sacrifice is still part of this era of the “Bathe and Fuggi”, of “everything and immediately”?
«Deir Mar Musa built him, stone on stone, calling new friends and a lifetime to the summer. One of the things to say to our young people is precisely this: that there is another way of spending the holidays, as well as making the apprenticeship on the beach or disasters whose news pages are full. This way those young people, not Marzians but boys and girls like ours, had found him in putting a monastery back on his feet »says Segers in his speech. “Why did I shoot the docufilm? Because these extraordinary lives must be told, because this humanity cannot, must not be lost. If nobody does it, young people will never know them, they will think that these things do not exist. Reconstructing a church does not belong only to San Francesco, of which we all remember San Damiano in Assisi, but also to Father Dall’Oglio. I firmly believe that making films with an ethical relevance, for example for the new generations, is the task of us small artisan producers: to follow the algorithms of what works most there is the film industry “.
Continue: «We are preparing the subtitles in French, English and Arabic for the screenings in the Italian institutes of culture abroad. One of my goals is to make this work also dialogue with the Muslim world, to air on Arab televisions. Dialogue exists if it is bilateral. As they say in the film, peace becomes with the enemy ».
“In a very significant passage of the Gospel it is written:” You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt becomes underwater, with which it will be used? “. Father Dall’Oglio was a “salty” person. Are our young people too? ” The essayist Maria Martello, author of the book is questioned The sense of mediation of conflicts. Between law, philosophy and theology (Giappichelli). «There is talk of a society where teenagers are disoriented, they lack social commitment, they have no ambitions. How can we do to help them, to promote a proactive and design attitude in them? The docufilm of segores seems to me a very effective way, more than a thousand words, because it shows how much fullness there is in a life spent with courage and determination. Which more eloquent testimony than Father Dall’Oglio can trigger awakening? Segores did not sanctify the figure, indeed the realistic presentation of man, with his path and also his contradictions, makes him even more accessible as a model to young people, who can take it as a source of possible inspiration. Father Dall’Oglio found the meaning of his life in giving himself to others. The docufilm speaks to teenagers and launches an important message to him: those who live with passion, expressing their talents, their own way of being, despite the limits that each of us has, creates in fullness, making others happy. The model of Father Dall’Oglio is accessible, imitable, desirable ».
Martello concludes: «In a competitive society like ours, which leads to the victory of one on the other, it is necessary to enhance the emulative style, look with admiration the beauty and the good that the other represents and try to do it proper. The young people who build together with Father Dall’Oglio Mar Musa are not simply working: that layers together is a building bridges, creating sharing, alliances, reception. Father Dall’Oglio did not use them in place of the workers, but gave this construction, their commitment, a higher meaning. The dialogue had already begun there. “
