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Abel Ferrara’s Piazza Vittorio

Directed by Abel Ferrara

A vivid mosaic/portrait of Rome’s biggest public square, Piazza Vittorio, built in the 19th century around the ruins of the 3rd century Trofei di Mario. The Piazza is now truly a crossroad of the modern world: it offers a perfect microcosm of the changes in the west brought by immigration and forced displacement.

Ferrara, now a resident of Rome himself, talks with African musicians and restaurant workers, Chinese barkeeps and relocated eastern Europeans, homeless men and women, artists, members of the right wing movement CasaPound Italia, filmmaker Matteo Garrone, actor Willem Dafoe, and others, all with varying opinions about the vast changes they’re seeing in their neighbourhood and world.

Festivals & Awards

Russia-Italy Film Festival RIFF 2019

Farad 2019 - Documentary Film Festival

Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg2019: Dokumentarfilm

Cph:Dox 2018: Artists & Auteurs

Krakow Film Festival 2018: Somewhere in Europe

LIDF – London International Documentary Festival 2018: opening film

Los Angeles - Italia 2018: Special Screening

Sofia International Film Festival 2018: Abel Ferrara

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2018: Kaleidoscope

Vancouver International Film Festival 2018: Focus on Italy
Festival do Rio 2017: Foco Itália

Festival Internazionale di Mar del Plata 2017: Panorama

La Biennale di Venezia 2017: Fuori Concorso

New York Film Festival 2017: Spotlight on Documentary

Viennale 2017: Documentary

Fajr Film Festival 2019

EPA Cine - Festival de Cine Independiente de El Palomar 2018

BelDocs 2018: International Competition

Subversive Festival 2018

OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival 2018

Cyprus Film Days 2018