Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood

Set during the much-discussed last days of the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Daniele Vicari's 2012 drama Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood centres on the police raid on the Armando Diaz school, where protesters from the summit were staying. Italy, France and Romania produced it jointly. Shown in the Panorama section of the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, it won the section's second audience prize.

On the night of 21 to 22 July 2001, more than three hundred police officers entered the school, which held both activists and journalists. Sixty-one people were seriously injured and one fell into a coma. The film tells that night from the view of both the protesters and the police. The cast includes Claudio Santamaria (Max Flamini), Jennifer Ulrich (Alma Koch), Elio Germano (Luca Gualtieri), Davide Iacopini (Marco) and Renato Scarpa. The events are often described as among the worst human rights violations in Europe since the Second World War.

Vicari wrote the script with Laura Paolucci, drawing on court files and conversations with eyewitnesses. The officers' trials lasted eleven years, delaying the film. The school was rebuilt in Bucharest, and shooting began in June 2011 in Bucharest, Genoa and South Tyrol. Fandango and Le Pacte produced it.