Sacro GRA

Sacro GRA (2013) is an Italian documentary film you can watch online on iFILM — the first documentary in Venice Film Festival history to take home the Golden Lion. Director Gianfranco Rosi spent over two years filming from a minivan along Rome's Grande Raccordo Anulare, the city's vast ring road.

What he found on the margins: a night paramedic who runs the outer loop waiting for accidents; a Piedmontese nobleman sharing a one-room apartment with his university-student daughter; an eel fisherman working drainage ditches beside concrete barriers. No narration, no thesis. Rosi just lets these small worlds accumulate until the ring road stops feeling like infrastructure and starts feeling like a city the city forgot it contained. Stream Sacro GRA online on iFILM.