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Overview
- Director: Daniele Gaglianone
- Country of production: Italy
- Production: Malfé Film, Yuk! Film
- Producers: Enrico Giovannone, Matteo Tortone, Damiano Giacomelli
- Expected runtime: 70 minutes
- Coming: autumn 2026
- Development support: Piemonte Doc Film Fund
- Development title: Per fortuna non si è fatto male nessuno
Synopsis
Wilson and Omar are two men living in the Marche region, a place widely considered one of the most peaceful areas in Italy. Wilson arrived from Ghana, Omar from Gambia. Both have endured the harrowing journey to Europe: the dangerous trek across the desert, the brutality of Libyan detention camps, and the life-threatening risk of shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Once they finally reached Macerata, their lives seemed poised to take a different direction, far from the daily violence that had haunted them since childhood. However, on February 3, 2018, something happened that once again turned their lives upside down: Luca Traini, a neo-fascist from Tolentino, attempted to carry out a mass shooting targeting Black migrants to avenge the death of Pamela, a young woman killed just days earlier by a Nigerian drug dealer. Neither Wilson nor Omar, nor any of the other victims of the racist raid, had anything to do with the girl's death. Both narrowly escaped death, hit by bullets fired that day, chosen at random as culprits simply because they were African. They were swept into a deranged spiral of “us” versus “them,” shaking the fragile tranquility of the Italian countryside.
Intentions
HEAVEN is a creative documentary that gives voice and presence to Wilson Kofi and Omar Fadera, two young men wounded in the attack carried out by Luca Traini on February 3, 2018, in Macerata, people almost completely ignored by the media. Who are they? What do they do? How do they live, and how did they become targets of that attack?
The project aligns with Daniele Gaglianone's documentary path and the long-standing experience and interest of the creative and production team. Supported in development by the Piemonte Doc Film Fund under the title Per fortuna non si è fatto male nessuno, it has since evolved: while the attack remains a turning point for the protagonists, the focus has shifted toward the concept of Heaven as a space where to build a future.
Following Wilson and Omar, the film becomes a reflection on the place one chooses to live, because “not fearing one's own time is a matter of space.” What is Heaven? A promised land or a mythical place of purity? And how do we respond when the place we called Heaven collapses, physically and symbolically?