PIAZZA VITTORIO, Abel Ferrara's latest documentary chronicles from Rome

Ferrara has evidently found a true home away from home. The Piazza Vittorio and its environs in the Esquilino district are known as the Italian capital's most multicultural area, bustling with long-settled migrants and more recent arrivals from trouble spots in the Mideast and northern Africa. The film touches on some hot button themes of migration, integration and racism in a breezy and accessible style.

Director’s Statement A day in the heart of the Eternal City, between the Termini Station and the Colosseum, where Piazza Vittorio has become the center and the symbol of a multiethnic neighborhood. An incursion into this microcosm, between stars of the cinema and hobos, through faces and stories, past and present, problems and contradictions. A topical reflection on the evolution in our societies of the eternal question of the “stranger.” As Svetlana Alexievich wrote, “History through the story told by an unnoticed witness and participant […]. True I don’t love great ideas. I love the little human being.” [source: LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA]