A small child and the mayor, in a small town on the Calabrian coast with few other inhabitants, where it is even hard to rustle up a football team, are the central characters of Wim Wenders new film on immigration in Calabria.

The town's fate changes whern a boat of immigrants arrives from the sea - and generates debate about how they should be treated and/or accepted.

This is a short film, that the German director Wim Wenders will film in Calabria this September - based on a collection of true stories and situations that have developed in the small tows of Badolato, Locride, Riace, Caulonia and Stignano. In many cases the inhabitants of these towns they have chosen to help the integration of the immigrants - populating entire abandoned towns - towns that were emptied because of the Calabrians emigrating to the North of Italy or to countries like Germany and the USA.

This is an interesting film to present at a time where Italy seems harsher than ever in its treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers - a human story of solidarity in a place that has much less to offer than the rich towns of the North of Italy.

For Wim Wenders this is also a chance to return to South Italy - which he has visited often and is very fond of- the last time two years ago in Palermo to film Shooting. The current film - to be called "Il Volto" - will be shot in 3D which is probably the few times that a non-science fiction or horror film is down with this technique.