Presented in more and more exhibitions and film festivals dedicated to short films from around the world, winner of many awards including Best Short truly, best screenplay, best theme and more, the short "Pre Carità" (2012), directed by Flavio Costa, tells the story of Francis and Luke, two former high school classmates who meet after many years at a road intersection. Both pull a living, one juggles between two precarious jobs, the other asks for alms at traffic lights in the city. The eye of the director, ironic and attentive to detail, soon reveals that all is not as it seems and takes us on a paradoxical and current training center on poverty, chaired by one of the Slav shrewd and prepared to teach the unemployed how to become millionaires by practicing the art of begging.

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