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Senegalese actors Seydou Sarr, right, and Moustapha Fall pose for portraits for the movie Io Capitano (Me Captain) in Fregene, near Rome, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Both act in Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano (Me Captain) 96th Academy Awards-nominee movie that is inspired by Mamadou Kouassi, a migrant who made the journey from his native Ivory Coast to Italy and now dedicates his life to working with migrants in Castel Volturno, an impoverished city near Naples in southern Italy where thousands of migrants from Africa live. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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