Synopsis

Issa is a young undocumented immigrant, struggling to survive in a large city in Italy. Thanks to a friend who lends him his identity, he starts to work as a rider.

The precarious balance collapses when his bike is stolen. As he searches for it, Issa is sucked into a dramatic spiral of events.



Reminding us that for many, something as simple as a bike can guarantee or raze someone’s survival, Milad Tangshir’s fiction feature debut is a bold nod to Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 classic Bicycle Thieves and heralds a courageous and striking cinematic voice. --TIFF

Cast: Ibrahima Sambou, Moussa Dicko Diango, Max Liotta, Success Edemakhiota

cinematography by: Giuseppe Maio
film editing: Enrico Giovannone
art director: Leonie Heys-Cerchio
costumes designer: Silvia Nebiolo
producer: Carla Altieri, Roberto De Paolis, Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Paonessa


A modern-day riff on Vittorio De Sica’s classic film Bicycle Thieves, Iranian-Italian filmmaker Milad Tangshir’s debut film Anywhere Anytime is yet another in the long line of recent European films following the struggles of immigrants trying to survive in Europe. While Tangshir doesn’t reinvent the wheel in terms of storytelling, his modestly-scaled story is a gripping character study of Issa (Ibrahima Sambou), an undocumented Senegalese immigrant living in Turin who, with the aid of his friend Mario (Moussa Dicko Diango), obtains work as a food-delivery rider. Issa’s fragile stability is almost immediately shattered when his bicycle is stolen while on the job, and much of the film’s slender 80-minute runtime is devoted to his seemingly hopeless quest to recover the bicycle. --iCs Film