NOTTURNO BUS

The story takes place in an obstetrics ward in Rome in early 1947. The war finished three years ago, but the dramatic marks it left are still painfully visible. The hunger and pain people suffered during the armed conflict are branded in nine women’s hearts and minds who are there to give birth. The protagonist, Nina, is the first one to be hospitalised because of some complications. The atmosphere in the room she shares with other women is of mutual support and solidarity. Nina will discover a completely unknown world: stories of difficulty and hardships, abandonment and betrayal, but also of love, passion, solidarity and sweetness. Thanks to the women she meets and their unique, yet universal stories, Nina will gain the necessary awareness and strength to face what is going to happen: the great and frightening experience of motherhood.

MARIA ANTONIA AVATI
From 1984 to 1996, while still studying literature at university, she worked for several Italian and international TV and film productions as assistant director and script girl. In 1996 she was production manager for Pupi Avati’s “Festival”, produced by Duea Film, and in 1997 she was co-executive producer of “Il più lungo giorno”, a feature film by Roberto Riviello distributed by Mikado which was winner of the Annency Film Festival Audience Award and received a special mention at the Montreal Film Festival. She also produced TV programmes, documentaries and fictions for Sat 2000. In 1998 , together with TV producer Andrea Scorzoni, she set up the Matteo Cinematografica srl and produced a 180-episode fiction for Sat 2000. As a producer and a director, she shot the high definition medium-length film “Anime”, shown at the B.I.F.F.F., the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film. In 2004 she produced and directed the 35mm feature film “Per non dimenticarti”.

2005 Per non dimenticarti (lungometraggio, feature); 2002 Anime (mediometraggio, medium-length film) (documentario, documentary);