In Rome, Italy, engineers are building Line C—a hyper-efficient, 25 km metro line that will connect the suburbs to the urban center. It's the most ambitious underground construction project ever seen in Rome. However, it cuts through the historic city center of ancient Rome, uncovering secrets buried for millennia. Building a new metro line in any urban center is always a challenge. But this is Rome—it requires digging into 3,000 years of extraordinary urban development, including layers of Medieval and ancient Roman history. It’s an underground dilemma like nowhere else on Earth, and has arguably become one of the most important archaeological adventures of the modern age.
Screening: Saturday, May 16th, 4:49-5:38 PM, The Shedd Recital Hall
Length: 48 min
Country: Canada, France, Italy
Language: English, French, Italian
Director(s): Laurent Portes
Producer(s): Olivier Mille, Victoire Buff, Massimo My, Josette D. Normandeau
Distributor: Cineflix International Media Limited