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TV SERIES
5 Minutes Before (Cinque Minuti Prima)
Genre: Young adult
Duration: 8 x 25’
Year: 2023
Director: Duccio Chiarini
Cast: Tecla Insolia, Ludovica Ciaschetti, Alessandro Garbin, Simone Fumagalli, Edoardo Pagliai, Isnaba Na Montche, Laura Martinelli, Francesco Siciliano, Valentina Carnelutti, Tatiana Lepore, Olivia Manescalchi
Production: Rai Fiction, Panama Film
Life is a succession of first times, adolescence even more so: the first love, the first goodbye, the first important choices and, obviously, the “first time” par excellence, or the loss of virginity. A step that Nina, a sixteen-year-old from Turin with an incredible talent for comics, just can’t take. Shy and awkward, Nina feels wrong and she tries, also through her drawings, to understand why every time she comes close to the fateful moment, she stops, five minutes before.
Gerri
Genre: Detective
Duration: 4 x 100’
Year: 2023
Director: Giuseppe Bonito
Cast: Giulio Beranek, Valentina Romani, Fabrizio Ferracane, Roberta Caronia, Cristina Pellegrino, Cristina Cappelli, Tony Laudadio, Beatrice Bruschi, Lorenzo Aloi, Lorenzo Adorni
Production: Cattleya
Gregorio Esposito – known as Gerri – is a Neapolitan inspector who works in Puglia. Thirty years old, deep eyes and elusive air, he exerts a great fascination on women but not as the classic womanizer, loving them back and aspiring to a sentimental equilibrium that, however, he throws away each time. Gerri is a restless man with a painful past, his Roma origins are lost the night his mother abandoned him at a street corner when he was just five years old. In the sunny lands of Puglia, Gerri works tirelessly on investigations that involve the weakest victims, therefore losing the detachment that is usually required of a policeman, leading to unpleasant consequences with his superiors and colleagues. Inspired by the novels of Giorgia Lepore, Gerri’s four investigations are not the only mystery to be revealed.
Kostas
Genre: Detective
Duration: 4 x 100’
Year: 2023
Director: Milena Cocozza
Cast: Stefano Fresi, Francesca Inaudi, Blu Yoshimi.
Production: Palomar, Rai Fiction
This light crime drama is based on the books of Armenian-Greek writer and playwright Petros Markaris.
The head of the homicide section of the Athens police is Kostas Charitos, a tenacious and relentless officer, inseparable with his old car, a Fiat Mirafiori, reticent to technology including mobile phones and computers. Kostas Charitos has the peculiar hobby of obsessively consulting his many dictionaries, often in the middle of the night, as if in those pages he could find the most difficult answers and hidden truths. Operating in the Mediterranean area, character resembles both Pepe Carvalho and Montalbano, already defined by international critics as the Greek brother of French inspector Maigret.
Six Women (Sei Donne)
Genre: Mystery, Psycho-Drama
Duration: 3 x 100’
Year : 2023
Director: Vincenzo Marra
Cast: Maya Sansa, Isabella Ferrari, Ivana Lotito, Denise Tantucci, Alessio Vassallo, Maurizio Lastrico
Production: Rai Fiction, IBC Movie
The disappearance of a little girl, Leila, is the beginning of the search for the truth and intersects with the stories of six women, each with their own experiences, each with their own secrets. The mystery plot investigates the psychology of complex and multifaceted characters with a focus on female emancipation. Nothing is predictable in this noir that unravels, episode after episode, offering the audience clues, confirmations, confessions, and unexpected turnarounds, without reassurance of rhetoric, to the truth. The series creates a portrait of a contemporary Taranto, a perfect background to the choral tale where the protagonists’ stories are connected to an environment that is far from the usual stereotypes.
The Ladies’ Paradise 1-8 (Il Paradiso delle Signore 1-8)
8th season Daily 6
Genre: Period Drama
Duration: 1020 x 45’ (Complete series)
Year: 2015-2023
Director: Monica Vullo, Riccardo Mosca, Isabella Leoni, Marco Maccaferri, Riccardo Mosca, Francesco Pavolini
Cast: Giuseppe Zeno, Giusi Buscemi, Alessandro Tersigni, Roberto Farnesi, Gloria Radulescu
Production: RAI FICTION AURORA TV
The Ladies’ Paradise is a revolutionary store in Milan, where beauty and luxury are within everyone’s grasp. Thanks to the intuition of Pietro Mori, the store rows during the economic boom of the ‘50s. Teresa, a store assistant, has the courage to speak up and change her destiny. Day after day, she faces and is challenged by her environment which to her seems both fascinating and hostile.
Never again (Resta con me)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Duration: 16 x 50’
Year : 2022
Director: Monica Vullo
Cast: Francesco Arca, Laura Adriani, Antonio Milo, Maria Pia Calzone
Production: Palomar, Rai Fiction
Life smiles at Alessandro Scudieri, a brilliant Deputy Commissioner of the Naples Police Force: he has a wife that he loves, his first child on the way, a growing career, an insidious gang he finally managed to track down… all is going great, but sometimes a man should understand he mustn’t exceed certain limits. His life changes forever when he is involved in a shooting along with his wife Paola, a Judge at the Juvenile Court. Their relationship falls apart after she discovers that Alessandro was secretly following a lead. Scudieri will now be focusing on capturing the underground gang, and gaining back Paola’s trust. To reach his goals he chooses a path that seems to distance him from both: he moves to the Intervention Unit, a special team that only works after dark, from dusk until dawn. It will take all of his skills to be able to shed light on the many mysteries and finally take back, hopefully, his own life.
Hearts 1,2 (Cuori 1,2)
Genre: Period drama
Duration: 16×50’ (Season 1) 12×50’ (Season 2)
Year : 2021,2023
Director: Riccardo Donna
Cast: Daniele Pecci, Matteo Martari, Pilar Fogliati, Andrea Gherpelli
Production: Rai Fiction, Aurora TV
Turin, 1967. Cesare Corvara is the head of the heart surgery department of the “Le Molinette” hospital and has a big dream: to lead the team that will perform the first heart transplant in history. To do so, he decides to bring the most brilliant heart surgeon he has ever met, Alberto Ferraris, back to Italy. When Alberto’s father died in ‘47, Cesare took the boy under his protective wing. Alberto became his protégé and now he is like a son for him. Cesare decides to also enroll Delia Brunello, a special cardiologist with a diagnostic capacity bordering on the supernatural. Cesare has so much faith in her that he is sure that Delia will be able to overcome the resistance of a male-dominated environment such as the medical one. He also trusts Alberto and the help he will be able to give her, so he puts them to work together, confident that the two brightest minds in the hospital will be able to support him in the most important undertaking of his life. What Cesare does not know is that Delia and Alberto were about to get married six years earlier and move to Houston, where Delia, the only one in her degree course, had obtained a scholarship. Then something went wrong and the love that seemed destined to last forever ended. Perhaps finding themselves working closely together after having loved each other so much is a sign that fate is offering them an opportunity to resolve, once and for all, what was abruptly interrupted.
Mina Settembre 1,2
Genre: Contemporary drama
Duration: 12×50’ (Season 1) 12×50’ (Season 2)
Year : 2021,2022
Director: Tiziana Aristarco
Cast: Serena Rossi, Giorgio Pasotti, Giuseppe Zeno
Production: Rai Fiction, Italian International Film
Mina Settembre is a social worker who’s always looking for a solution to other people’s problems. Mina is a strong willed woman, but she’s also sweet and fragile and trying to get her life back on track. Recently separated and still undecided about her own feelings, Mina is torn between her ex-husband Claudio and Domenico, her new co-worker. She is temporarily staying at her mother’s house, a cold and cynical upper class woman with a sharp wit. Mina also has to deal with a mystery linked to her father’s past: after his death she found a photo hidden in his studio and now wants to find out who the woman in the picture is. What if her father had always lied, hiding a second life from everyone? Determined to find out, Mina embarks on an investigation that will bring her face to face with a truth far more uncomfortable than she had imagined. All this while running from one end of town to the other to help those who need her. Comedy, romance, drama and mystery are this series’ ingredients, which also offers a colorful portrayal of Naples and Italy and of the diverse and surprising humanity that populates it.
2023 – New seasons for the following shows
Lolita’s Investigations (Le indagini di Lolita Lobosco)
3rd season / 4 x 100’ – 2024
Imma Tataranni – Deputy Prosecutor (Imma Tataranni- Sostituto Procuratore)
3rd season / 8×50’ – 2023
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone (I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone)
4th season / 4 x 100’ – 2023
TV MOVIES
An Inconvenient Inheritance (Una Scomoda Eredità – Purché finisca bene)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 100’
Year: 2023
Director: Fabrizio Costa
Cast: Euridice Axen, Chiara Francini, Cristiano Caccamo, Mariangela D’Abbraccio
Production: Pepito Produzioni in collaboration with Rai Fiction
Two sixty-year-old lovers, Mariella and Domenico, have finally decided to confess to their daughters, Diana and Gaia, the truth about their hidden relationship. Unfortunately, the two die in a car accident before they can do so. Diana and Gaia, who do not know each other, will end up having to agree on the division of the villa they inherited. The two women are very different and immediately dislike each other, though forced to live together until the paperwork is done.
Fernanda Wittgens, the Heroine of Brera (Fernanda Wittgens)
Genre: Biographical, period drama
Duration: 100’
Year: 2023
Director: Maurizio Zaccaro
Cast: Matilde Gioli, Eduardo Valdarnini, Maurizio Marchetti, Valeria Cavalli, Francesca Beggio, Lavinia Guglielman
Producer: Rai Fiction, Red Film
Anti-fascist, feminist, art critic and historian, director of the Brera art gallery. This was Fernanda Wittgens, a twentieth-century heroine who during the Second World War managed to save not only dozens of works of art from the art gallery, but also Jews and opponents of the regime, whom she helped to take refuge in Switzerland. Born in Milan in April 1903, she became passionate about art from a young age, encouraged by her father, a literature professor of Swiss origin from Parini. She graduated in literature at 22, and was hired at the Brera art gallery by the director at the time, Ettore Modigliani. A working partnership was born that would last until the racial laws of 1938, when Modigliani, a Jew, was removed from the state administration.
Tina Anselmi – A Life for Democracy (Tina Anselmi – Una Vita per la Democrazia)
Genre: Biographical, period drama
Duration: 100’
Year: 2023
Director: Luciano Manuzzi
Cast: Sarah Felberbaum, Alessandro Tiberi, Benedetta Cimatti, Sara D’Amario.
Producer: Rai Fiction, BIBI Film
Partisan at 16, trade unionist in defense of female workers, first female minister, President of the Commission of inquiry into the P2 Masonic lodge. As she often was the sole woman in a man’s world, Tina Anselmi’s life was the life of our democracy: “If you want to change the world, you have to be there!”. Anselmi’s story is of someone who paved the way for women’s emancipation throughout the twentieth century, a fantastic and heroic character. Throughout her life she struggled against abuses, injustices, unnecessary waste and lack of protections that she regarded as unbearable insults.
Gardini
Genre: Bios – Docufiction
Duration: 90’
Year: 2022
Director: Francesco Miccichè
Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Pilar Fogliati, Sara D’Amario, Helene Nardini
Production: Rai Fiction, Aurora TV
Thirty years after the death, Roman director Francesco Miccichè pays a tribute to Raul Gardini with a docufiction that focuses on the few years at the peak of an astonishing career, until the sudden and violent end. Raul Gardini, an entrepreneur from Ravenna who became popular in Italy and around the world thanks to his investment in the “Moro di Venezia sailing company” and his endeavor to conquer the America’s Cup. The Corsair made millions of Italians dream and live that experience as a single, great, national emotion. This document is the opportunity to discover the entrepreneur, the businessman, his ties with his family and his country, his vision of the world, and his dreams.
Radical Novel (Romanzo Radicale)
Genre: Docufiction
Duration: 98’
Year: 2022
Director: Mimmo Calopresti
Cast: Andrea Bosca, Marco Leonardi, Maxence Dinant, Irene Casagrande
Production: Rai Fiction, IIF
This is the story of Marco Pannella’s political and human adventure.
In 1959, Italy is a country where a mentality closed to change prevails, it is not possible to divorce, abortion is a crime and military service is an obligation. Less than twenty years later, divorce, abortion and conscientious objection have become inalienable rights. Marco Pannella manages to shake up Italy, moved by the simple and revolutionary conviction that politics should deal with people’s lives and their happiness. And to make himself heard, he invents a new language of politics made up of fasting, arrests and provocations. Mimmo Calopresti, director of the film comments “The structure of the series, that also features archival images and interviews from those who lived those years, allowed me to write a gripping plot that, starting from the personal story of a brave and adventurous man, Marco Pannella, covers the history and the narrative of those days of political battle and of real revolution in the Italian Society”.
FEATURE FILMS
Flowing (Piove)
Directed by Paolo Strippoli
Genre: Drama / Horror
Duration: 95’
Year: 2022
Production: Propaganda Italia Production, in association with Polifemo. An Italy-Belgium coproduction with Gapbusters
After receiving the Best Director Award at the 2021 Taormina Film Festival for his film debut A Classical Horror Story, Paolo Strippoli presents Flowing, a drama-horror, defined as a coming of (R)age, set in a silver-tinted Rome, constantly on the verge of exploding. An unusual event pervades the city when it rains. A sinister steam of unknown origin and composition comes out of the street manholes. No one knows that those who breathe in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what they repress, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.
Piano Piano
Director: Nicola Prosatore
Cast: Dominique Donnarumma, Giuseppe Pirozzi, A. Truppo, G. Esposito, A. De Matteo, M. Caiazzo, L. Arena
Genre: Drama
Duration: 119′
Year: 2022
Production: Briciola, Eskimo, Soul Movie, Rai Cinema, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Regione Campania, Regione Lazio
Naples, 1987. Final season of the national soccer year, and the great « Scudetto » victory, for a city hoping for redemption. The inhabitants of a suburban condominium spend their last months in a neighborhood that will be destroyed to make room to a highway, living their lives while their little world is swept away forever.
75th Locarno Film Festival 2022 (In competition, screening Piazza Grande section
Desiré
Director: Mario Vezza
Cast: Nassiratou Zanre, Enrico Lo Verso, Antonella Stefanucci, Tonia De Micco, Brunella Cacciuni
Genre: Drama
Duration: 99’
Year: 2023
Production: CinemaFiction, TNM Produzioni
Desiré is a 16 year-old Senegalese girl who lives with her mother in a one-room apartment in the backstreets of Naples. Desiré doesn’t go to school, doesn’t have any friends and doesn’t have any interests. She seems to have neither a past nor a future. All she has is an electric scooter, which she rides through the desolate city on the night. Desiré is secretly in love with Emanuele, a guy her age. He convinces her to act as a mule for some local mobsters: they are given a rucksack to deliver to a certain place in the city. They see this as their chance to make some money and go on a trip together. They take Emanuele’s scooter and arrive at the delivery location, but a police patrol car spots them and decides to investigate. They make a run for it and split up. Emanuele manages to get away but Desiré is caught, and is given a two-year sentence, to be served in a young offender institution by the sea. During this time, she embarks on a slow journey of growth and self-discovery, but alongside her inner journey, events on the outside take an unexpected turn: the mobsters are searching for the rucksack – which contains a large sum of money! Only Desiré knows where it is…
Needing a friend? (Tramite amicizia)
Director: Alessandro Siani
Cast: Alessandro Siani, Max Tortora, Matilde Gioli
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 100’
Year: 2023
Production: IIF, Rai Cinema
Lorenzo is the owner of an agency, “Tramite amicizia”, that offers friends for hire. If you need comfort, company or just a shopping tip, Lorenzo is the fake friend for you! Affable, caring, kind. In short, the perfect friend… This time, however, those who need Lorenzo’s help are not strangers, but his close relatives, that work in a candy factory that the owner, Alberto Dessé, feeling extremely lonely, wants to sell. There is no doubt, the king of sweets needs a friend and Lorenzo is the man for him! Between gags and twists, the complicity of his cousin Filomena and a very special friend Maya, will Lorenzo succeed in convincing Alberto to save the company and its employees?
Almost an orphan (Quasi orfano)
Director: Umberto Carteni
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Vittoria Puccini, Antonio Gerardi, Grazia Schiavo, Adriano Pappalardo, Nunzia Schiano, Bebo Storti
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 95’
Year: 2022
Production: Rodeo Drive, Rai Cinema
Valentino and Costanza are husband and wife, they live in Milan and have founded a very famous brand in the world of design. Valentino, from Apulia, had progressively burnt all his bridges with his family, to the point of even declaring himself an orphan and changing his last name. Colorful as it is numerous, Valentino’s family tries to reestablish a semblance of a relationship and shows up in Milan like a hurricane.
DOCUMENTARIES
The Lion’s Share (La Parte del Leone) – History of the Mostra
Genre: Arts & Culture
Director: Baptiste Etchegaray and Giuseppe Bucchi
Duration: 52’
Year: 2023
Production: Canal Plus and Rai Com, with editorial supervision by Rai Cultura
In the documentary, Carla Bruni narrates the world’s oldest film festival through historical and unpublished stories and testimonies, retracing crucial steps and significant moments of the Mostra del Cinema that, since its first edition in 1932, has reflected its time and the Italian cultural heritage.
80th Venice International Film Festival, world premiere
Music Sets You Free (La Musica Rende Liberi) – Freedom through music, stories of musical notes, imprisonment, horrors and hopes
Genre: History, Culture, Social
Director: Alessandra Peralta
Duration: 52’
Year: 2023
Production: Rai Cultura
The documentary is a journey to concentration camps and other places of imprisonment during the years of the Second World War. Maestro Francesco Lotoro and the Foundation of the Institute of Concentrational Music Literature, the largest hub in the world dedicated to music produced in camps, carry on since 1989 the project that music is to be liberated and returned to humanity. Pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro has searched for over 20 years for music composed clandestinely, from Auschwitz to Prague, Berlin, Paris, Washington and to Jerusalem where he met with Holocaust survivors and their children, anyone who treasured a note composed during captivity, thus recovering thousands of scores, resonating many of the melodies that prisoners composed in Nazi concentration camps between 1933 and 1945 as an irrepressible hymn to life.
Italian Fashion Revolution (Moda: Una rivoluzione italiana)
Director: Laura Chiossone
Genre: Fashion, History
Duration: 4×52’
Year: 2023
Production: Panama Film – Sky Arte
The documentary series is dedicated to the Italian fashion revolution through an analysis of the social changes that have influenced the image itself of fashion. Material from archives with unpublished interviews enrich the exploration of the symbolism of fashion that have become style icons all over the world.
Enzo Ferrari. The red and the Black (Enzo Ferrari. Il rosso e il nero)
Genre: Bios
Director: Enrico Cerasuolo
Duration: 50’
Year: 2022
Production: ARTE G.E.I.E., SEPPIA FILM, ZENIT ARTI AUDIOVISIVE
Mythical, the red Ferrari embodies success and glamour. But before being one of the most coveted objects, with millions of fans, there is Enzo and his childhood dream. The man in the dark glasses has dedicated his life to the automobile: a life made up of successes, performances and dramas. The most famous of Italians, looks back on his career and his personal life based on autobiographical documents and several hours of unpublished archives materials. Behind the legend, who is really Enzo Ferrari?
Winning on the rise – Alberto Tomba (Alberto Tomba – Vincere in salita)
Genre: Sport, Bios
Director: Tommaso De Bon
Duration: 90’
Year: 2023
Production: Rai Documentari
An outgoing personality, for someone he is too arrogant, for others he is the strongest sportsman ever, none of the Italian ski champion has excited more than Alberto Tomba. And it is still difficult today to find an heir to that aggressive, risky and decidedly spectacular style. Through an unpublished and unusual interview with Tomba on skis, the docu-film brings to life the most exciting moments of his sporting history, revealing who Alberto Tomba really was and who he has become today. Among the snows of Madonna di Campiglio and Corno alle Scale, forty years after its debut in 1983, he talks about the most representative events of the eighties and nineties. What emerges is an unprecedented portrait of the media personality “Tomba la Bomba”, so called by the international press for his explosive style on the track and outgoing character, who, with fifty World Cup victories and three Olympic gold medals, is, up to now, the fourth skier in the world for number of successes.
Ezio Bosso – The Things that remain
Genre: Bios
Director: Giorgio Verdelli
Duration: 104’
Year: 2021
Production: Sudovest Produzioni, Indigo Film, Rai Cinema
Ezio Bosso was a double bass player, pianist, arranger, composer, conductor and refined communicator. During his very intense existence, within each of his musical souls there’s always been a love for art, lived as a discipline and a reason for living. The documentary is a great human story. Throughout his artistic career, Bosso has often launched himself into hybrid forms of narration and music.
Meraviglie – The land of Treasures 1-3
Genre: Travel
Director: Alberto Angela
Duration: 18×50’
Year: 2018-2021
Production: Rai, Rai Com
Meraviglie takes the viewer on a tour of Italy, its art works, its wonderful places and unique ways of life inherited from the creativity of the ancestors. The places visited are World Heritage Sites by UNESCO: Italy has more UNESCO sites than any other country in the world. The special thing about Italy is that these vestiges of the past are all over the country and cover to all historical periods, from the Neolithic and Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque period and the Age of Enlightenment. This journey is therefore an opportunity to show the value of the things that the men and women constructed and preserved in the centuries.
A night in Naples (Stanotte a Napoli)
With Alberto Angela
Genre: Art, Culture
Duration: 52’
Year: 2021
Production: Rai Com
If Naples had had a large grassy plain in front of it instead of water, its history would have been very different. The sea is the silent half of the city, a calm and intimate oasis, the place where you can admire extraordinary sunsets, the one where you can hear the “breath” of the Greeks who founded it. The Gulf of Naples is made up of two arms outstretched towards the Tyrrhenian Sea: it is as if they were holding you to your chest to make you feel all their warmth. Alberto Angela will lead this trip to this magic city.
A night with Caravaggio (Stanotte con Caravaggio)
With Alberto Angela
Genre: Art, Culture
Duration: 52’
Year: 2020
Production: Rai Com
We know something about the life and works of one of the greatest, loved and most controversial painters in the history of art: Michelangelo Merisi. But most of his life is in shadow. A few glimpses of light on a dark background, exactly like in his paintings. What did Caravaggio do once he left Milan, before reaching Rome? Why did he have such stormy relations with the powerful people of the time – who also admired him? Was it only because of his bad temper? And again: we do not know how he managed to escape from Malta’s prisons and, above all, the circumstances and causes of his death.
The Dreams’ reality – Venice art biennale (La realtà dei sogni)
Director: Maddalena Labricciosa
Genre: Art, Culture
Duration: 60’
Year: 2022
Production: Rai
The documentary dedicated to the 2022 Art Biennale “The reality of dreams” is an imaginary artistic journey curated by Cecilia Alemani. It is a path of surrealist spirit through metamorphosis, transformations of figures, a real fluid journey for imagination and change. The fil rouge of the documentary is the journey of fantasy – that crosses the city with the art works that remain for months in Venice and represent a vital presence. The documentary intertwines images, voices, meetings and special interviews with the artists, the great interpreters of the international art scene, Anselm Kiefer, Caroline Bourgeois, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Anish Kapoor and Mario Codognato, Luca Massimo Barbero, Roberto Cicutto, Simone Leigh, Cecilia Vicuna, Sonia Boyce and many others.
Hollywood Cinecittà
Director: Marco Spagnoli
Genre: Art, Culture
Duration: 70’
Year: 2022
Production: Samarcanda
The presence of the “Americans in Rome” has never been told in a “vertical” manner, as in this film. In fact, The Eternal City, since its liberation in June 1944, has been the favourite attraction for American writers, actors and actresses, that have left a significant mark in Italy’s history during the period of Hollywood on the Tiber, the Dolce Vita, but also during the economic Boom and the revolutionary changes that happened in the second half of the twentieth century. This enormous cultural and economic liveliness was due to the immense work done in Italy and Europe by the men of MPA, Motion Pictures Association, who used filming as a key point for connecting with the Old Continent The film – among the un-released archive material coming from the Istituto Luce and Rai Television, but also thanks to a series of interviews of prominent industrial and filming personalities – aims to illustrate a century of American presence in Italy and the Old Continent
The world’s most dangerous borders
Director: Reza Pakravan
Genre: Travel, Current Affairs
Duration: 4×50’ – 90’
Year: 2019
Production: Samarcanda Film, Loft
Explorer and filmmaker Reza Pakravan has set off on an epic journey along Africa’s most volatile and dangerous borders to discover the lives of those who live there. The series tells the story of this troubled, forgotten region through the eyes of Reza. Taking the audience on a visually stunning journey across the continent, Reza explores nations devastated by war and terrorism, and unearths the life-and-death consequences that climate change has wrought upon the land, where desertification has contributed to the greatest internal migration ever witnessed on this planet. Tracking across eight nations in the Sahelian belt, Reza discovers enduring traditions, religious diversity and extraordinary landscapes.