March 04, 2019
06:30 pm

Haiku on a Plum Tree (Documentary)

Casa Italiana
24 West 12th Street
New York, NY
United States

A film by Mujah Maraini-Melehi (2017, Documentary, 73 min.).

Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini. Further guests to be announced.

Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today, Toni’s daughter Mujah explores her family’s experience and legacy by trying to bring their memories to life by retracing their steps in her own journey to Japan.