27/08/2025 - With his production company, Numero 10, the Oscar winner is supporting the debut feature by a young auteur, Margherita Ferrari, set during the G8 of 2021

Born for the main goal of launching new directors into the Italian cinema landscape, the company founded by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino with his wife and children, Numero 10, will produce Föa, its first film directed by a young filmmaker, Margherita Ferrari. Shooting will begin soon and will take place for five weeks between Rome and Genoa.

Written by Margherita Ferrari, Anita Della Cioppa and Veronica Penserini, Föa (a word that, in the Genoa dialect, means “fable” or “story”) is set in Genoa, on 20 July 2001, during the protests against the G8 summit. Nicole is 18 and eight months pregnant. Alone at home, unaware of the unrest, she opens her door to protesters on the run. In the background, we hear the noise of the street, during a day that will mark history and a generation. Inside her home, a forced cohabitation is created that turns into a clash and an encounter between the young woman’s private world and the public world of Julian, Irene and Elixi. Various fictional films and documentaries have been dedicated to these crucial and controversial events, such as Diaz - Don't Clean Up this Blood [+see also:
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The young filmmaker, born in Genoa in 1997, had made a short film with the same title and story in 2023, her graduation film for her directing course at the Centro sperimentale di Cinematografia, later presented at Alice nella città, the autonomous and parallel section of the Rome Film Festival. Previously, she had also presented her mini-series Riders (2019) at Alice nella città.

Numero 10 - which has so far to its credit the last two films by Paolo Sorrentino, Parthenope [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)