We meet Maria Luisa Forenza. She graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, in Directing at the Experimental Center of Cinematography-Rome, with Duetto, based on Alberto Moravia's “Roman Tales”, played by Giulio Brogi. Assistant to Dino Risi, Francesco Maselli, Giancarlo Sepe, after a scholarship at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade with the Serbian director Dusan Makavejev, she mainly dedicates herself to documentaries with a historical-social slant, shot in Italy and abroad, with production and distribution Rai, Rai-Trade, History Channel (Usa-Uk), Netflix. Among these: Guatemala Nunca Mas (with Rigoberta Menchù), Mussolini: the last truth, Albino Pierro: investigation of a poet (from which a multilingual theatrical show with Agneta Eckmanner, staged in Rome and Stockholm). Conceived in San Francisco, presented and awarded for Special Mention and Best Documentary in Film Festivals, Mother Fortress is the latest result of this cinematographical journey. It seemed to us an operation as for Antonioni’s depth, a reflection on evil and good understood in a metaphysical sense, investigated in their mystery with an authentic and powerful language, a road movie in the Mediterranean light, captured with splendid photography both in its spectacular power and in the dim light of a mystical place like a monastery.