Iuventa

Since its launch in July 2018, Iuventa has been selected at more than 12 international film festivals, has been screened at the European Parliament and in several prestigious universities around the world. The film has become a political manifesto against the criminalization of solidarity at sea and the humanitarian movement that supports NGOs in search-and-rescue missions in the central Mediterranean. Because of the political role of the film in the European context, the production decided not to focus primarily on film festivals; instead, the main goal was to spread the film as widely as possible, focusing on its social impact through every possible distribution channel. Right after its premiere at the Biografilm Festival in 2018, the film was released theatrically in Germany with the partner FarbFilm Verleih and, a few months later, in Italy in collaboration with Zalab and Wanted Cinema. In one year, the film was screened 300 times and was seen by more than 500,000 people in Germany, and it had almost 100 screenings in Italy. It inspired the Netflix feature film 23.000 lives. Iuventa ia avilable on Netflix Europe since July 27th 2026.