First Assistant Director
Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, an alien princess chased by giants who want to kidnap her and her friends. After a tragic accident happened to Nicola, an obscure secret surfaces in a struggle between reality and imagination, unveiling a horrible truth. A dark fairy tale, based on a true story.
Co-Writer
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
First Assistant Director
To support her family, Maria works as a trafficker of surrogate mothers, transporting them from place to place along a river — but when one disappears, Maria is left with the task of finding her and must enter deeper into a world she wishes to escape.
Second Assistant Director
Ernesto é um pintor reconhecido, ilustrador de histórias infantis, separado de sua esposa Irene, pai do pequeno Leonardo que ele está profundamente ligado. Ele aprende a partir da misteriosa Don Pugni, Secretário do igualmente enigmático Cardinal Piumini que a Igreja quer para santificar sua mãe. Ernesto fica chocado com esta notícia, não só porque ele percebe que tem sido mantido no escuro sobre sua família, mas também porque este evento está em completa oposição a sua vida artística, de Freeman e ateu. Dentro de algumas horas, as pressões e os passos que ele participa do processo de beatificação se intensifica. Conflitos explodir. A memória de sua mãe e seu sorriso induz uma confusão que vai empurrá-lo a reconsiderar seu passado e viver o presente de forma diferente.
