Based at the legendary DETOUR Arthouse Cinema, in the heart of Rome since 1997, ON THE ROAD FILM FESTIVAL is devoted to contemporary independent cinema – fiction, documentary and experimental – presenting travelogues, urban and waste-land wanderings, real or imaginary topographies, unexpected detours, psycho-geographical drifts, migration and nomadism.
We look for films that develop, through linguistic and narrative skills, a critical and inventive approach to the subject guidelines of the Festival: a traveling mood with digressions from fixed paths, where the route is what matters, not the destination. The Festival hosts screenings, master classes, meetings, art exhibitions, live performances and music, both at DETOUR Cinema and at a variety of cinema venues, film clubs, schools, public libraries and other unusual locations in Rome and and in its surrounding area.

It is our last screening of the season! Inspired by the early years of two Russian rock stars from the 1980s, Kirill Serebrennikov’s film pays tribute to the Leningrad underground scene just before the dawn of perestroika. Premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. She crossed 11 countries involved in wars, hitchhiking with another Milanese artist, Silvia Moro, both wearing a wedding dress. This was a performance for peace, trust and hoping to prove that if you rely on others, you’ll receive good things only. After travelling many roads, the two artists decided to split for a while in Istanbul, planning to meet again in Byblos. Pippa left then, alone, and nobody heard from her again.

“In reality, almost nothing of the things I care about remained standing.” Luigi Pintor, one of the most important Italian left-wing intellectuals, tells himself and thinks aloud, with the filter of a very particular sensitivity, on the facts, experiences, ideas, emotions that have marked Italian history from the war to the present day. But also on the gloomy prospects that loom over our future and the few hopes that oppose it. A long video interview, the only one in existence, in which the thread of reflection and memory unfolds following a series of key words that underlie the plot of Pintor’s thought: the search for a critical conscience which, distrusting systematic thinking, is constantly feels tested.