Fondamenta delle Convertite (2008)

Filmed over the course of an entire year in the Venice women's prison, "Fondamenta delle Convertite" is an in-depth, intimate portrait of life in the corridors and courtyards of this former convent overlooking the lagoon. Women from Italy, the Balkans, Caribbean, Nigeria, together with their young children and the guards, all find themselves striving to navigate their way in an ambiguous and paradoxical institution: an "open" prison.