People of Love and Rage

Shot inside Rome’s monumental Nuovo Corviale, a one-kilometre-long public housing complex on the outskirts of the city, People of Love and Rage follows the story of Massimiliano and Alessandro, two friends determined to rebel against the destinies too often assigned to life in the periphery.

Together, they create an association dedicated to arts and crafts, setting in motion a bold and unlikely project that forces them to confront both personal and social limitations. Around them, an entire community is gradually drawn into a romantic, courageous and at times wonderfully eccentric adventure.

Filmed in black and white, the film evokes the legacy of Italian Neorealism while offering a contemporary, intimate portrait of marginal urban life. Its protagonists, places and stories are not merely observed: they become the living substance of an emotional journey where bodies, glances and words carry the same force.

Rome Independent Film Festival Jury Mention:

“The black and white and the settings of everyday life bring to mind Neorealism and the more recent “Cittian” suggestions. A direct account in which the “performance” of the protagonists engages and moves the viewer, bringing the questions of life back to their rawness and immediacy.

Stories, characters and environment lead back to the concreteness of a “peripheral”, “marginal” existence, which is not merely background or representation, but the substance of an emotional plot in which physicality speaks as much as glances and words.

A way of entering those “lives of others” and becoming personally involved, while being questioned about how “revolutionary” social planning can be.”