Indovina chi ti porto per cena (2018)

A young man from Somalia but raised in Rome is getting ready to meet the parents of his girlfriend, a Russian girl raised in Italy and living in Albano. The story focuses on the hours before the meeting takes place, following the life of our young protagonist, Mohamed, 25 years old. We get to know better the streets of Termini, which appear to us as the streets of a film by Spike Lee, populated exclusively by black people; we get in touch with Mohamed's friends: all second-generation kids who spend their time screwing around on a bench in Piazza dei Cinquecento. His friends start to tease him about his clothes, typical of the black people raging in Spike's movies. They do it good-naturally, but Mohamed starts to fear the possible reaction of his in-laws, who are not aware of the color of his skin. For this reason, he is convinced that it is better to thin out his Afro haircut. At the Black Hair, an African hairdresser/barber, in a whirlwind of jokes, a generational conflict on the theme of identity explodes. But Mohamed suddenly puts the discussion to rest by pulling out all his innate optimism: "We are in 2018, the color of the skin is not an issue anymore!", screams indignant, taking the sudden decision not to cut his hair and to meet his in-laws for what he really is. With this conviction, actually weaker and weaker, Mohamed gets on the train that takes him to Albano, where his girlfriend is waiting for him.