Punta Sacra

By Francesca Mazzoleni, 98 min.

At the edge of Rome, at the mouth of the Tiber, the small district of Idroscalo di Ostia juts right out over the sea. The women who live there, such as Franca and her daughters, bear its stories, with the natural force of the site, between wild realism and popular imagination. This sacred point becomes a theatre for the resistance of a community that expresses its right to live there. - Madeline Robert

Francesca Mazzoleni is a director and screenwriter born in Catania in 1989. She graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome in 2015. She has directed short films and documentaries that have won several awards, like Nowhere, I Know You Can Hear Me, 1989. She was the assistant director to Marco Danieli in his production Worldly Girl (2016). In 2018 she directed her first feature film It Happens. Her latest film, Punta Sacra, which took seven years to produce, received the jury award for the best feature film at the Visions du Réel International Film Festival Nyon in April 2020.

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14.12.2021 H19:00

Casa del Cinema

Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, Rome

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