NON SONO EMERGENZA

Arianna Massimi is a photographer and filmmaker whose work explores social transformations, inclusion, female empowerment, and urban marginalization. She collaborates with national and international organizations, including Enel Foundation, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI), the Institute of International Affairs, and the social enterprise “Con i Bambini.”
Her documentary STATI D’INFANZIA (2022), which focuses on child educational poverty in Italy, won Best Short Film in the Children World section at the Prato Film Festival and was selected for numerous national and international festivals. In 2024, she directed NON SONO EMERGENZA, a documentary about the mental health of adolescents and young adults. It premiered at Cinema Farnese in Rome as part of a national awareness campaign on adolescent distress.
Massimi is also the author of NEXT GENERATION (2022), a photographic project about second-generation youth in Rome, exhibited as the Rome Pavilion at the Biennale delle Città del Mondo – Countless Cities, promoted by Farm Cultural Park in Sicily, and later in other Italian venues. Her latest work, SUBURBE (2024), is a visual investigation into Rome’s marginalized suburbs, presented in March 2025 at the Chamber of Deputies as part of an initiative promoted by the Periferie Commission to raise awareness about urban criticalities.