The first ever documentary to win the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, SACRO GRA follows the stories of those living on the fringes of Rome’s ring-road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare. Hailed as “one of the most interesting documentary makers on the current scene” (Screen Daily), Gianfranco Rosi weaves a tapestry out of the river of traffic in perpetual motion and the people that inhabit it. The worlds of a nobleman, a botanist, a paramedic, an eel fisherman, and a modern-day prince all intersect while completely unaware of each other, and it is at these intersections that the simple beauties of life are revealed. Far from the iconic sites of Rome, the GRA is a repository of stories of those at the edges of the ever-expanding universe of the capital city.