Sacro GRA

Director: Gianfranco Rosi

2013 / 93min / DCP

Winner of the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival—the first nonfiction film to be awarded that honor—Sacro GRA dedicates itself to chronicling life as lived, by a heterogeneous cast of characters, in the vicinity of the Grande Raccordo Anulare (the “GRA” of the title), a nearly 44-mile highway that circles the city of Rome. Drawing inspiration from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Rosi draws us into a world seen only as a passing blur by commuters—his subjects including a scientist studying the damage wrought by beetles on area trees, a nostalgia-prone eel fisherman, and a DJ specializing in Mexican pop—his film both potentially endless in scope and humbly intimate in execution.

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Introduction by director Gianfranco Rosi on Saturday, June 13th

Part of Gianfranco Rosi: Firmament of the Real