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Roaming in a minivan, Italian director Gianfranco Rosi (El Sicario, Room 164) went after stories and characters living on the fringes of a ring road around Rome. From this invisible world, hidden behind a seemingly endless anti-noise barrier, emerge characters such as a Piedmont nobleman or a botanist struggling to save his palm trees. A collection of stories on the backstage of an expanding universe. Chosen best film at the Venice Film Festival 2013, this is the first documentary ever to win the Golden Lion.
Gianfranco Rosi
Born in Eritrea. His directorial debut was the documentary Boatman (1993), shown at the Sundance Film Festival. He directed several shorts, among them, Afterword (2000), selected for the Venice Film Festival. With the feature Below Sea Level (2008), he won an award for best documentary at the Horizons Section of Venice. Two years later, at the same Festival, he won the FIPRESCI award for El Sicario, Room 164.
