original title:
Megalopolis
directed by:
screenplay:
production:
Rai Tre
country:
Italy
year:
2008
film run:
113'
format:
Digi Beta Pal - colour
status:
Ready (26/04/2008)
festivals & awards:
MEGALOPOLIS is a representation of the global cities of the XXI century, of the visible and invisible cities, about the relations and the solitudes of the human beings. During a day of a common day unfolds stories and images of six megacities: the stories of the students of a madrasah, two afghan profugees and a group of bloggers in Karachi; an escort girl and a priest in Sao Paulo; an homeless, a couple of adolescents, a young wishful suicide and a group of girls of Shibuya in Tokyo; a picker of garbage and a young secretary that decides to wear a veil in Cairo; Mr and Mrs Shenzhen, a couple of two old unemployed and two young girls looking for a job in Shenzhen; policemen of LAPD and LASD and a street gang in Los Angeles.