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A fairy tale about two brothers and their little sister with Down syndrome, reminding us that there is no such thing as "different."

A Van Gogh like man meets the root of his self consciousness at the end of an unreal trip inside his own mind.

Documentary with rich archive of films and photos along with footage from the 1962 film Le quattro giornate di Napoli depicting the uprising in Naples against Nazi occupation during World War II.

It's the story of a double trip. A physical journey, the one in which the chemist Albert Hoffman really took his bicycle to go back home in the 1943's spring under the effects of an unknown substance he was testing (lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as Lsd). But it's also the symbolical journey, inside the scientist's mind, representing the feelings he may have felt. Our bet is to narrate this event researching new images, creating our own version of a '40s styled psychedelia.

The Mayan Prophecy or just another year, Happy 2013 from Bruno Bozzetto.

Three characters in three different ages are united by a dream of freedom and a small masterpiece of literature. A journey through the mysterious and timeless aspirations, sufferings and 'Reveries' of a poet, of a young student and a child lost in the woods.

In peaceful Taigasville, the Puffins enjoy carefree days filled with arctic games, and even lazy Otto Von Walrus loves his picnics. But when a surprise snowstorm strikes, the Puffins must rally together to save their world. Otto included.

The story he has been told by his grandfather was about people's dream to go out of their small town to Russia. For them, the greatest pleasure on the earth was taking a prostitute.

Homeless women live off salvaging food from the dumpster of a discount grocery store. Meanwhile, the store's employees struggle under hardening working conditions. Complex relationships, conflicts and dependencies arise between the groups.

The film was created in relation to a musical improvisation project in which Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, and Massimo Carrano participated. The work is based on abstract animations made with various techniques directly on 35mm cinema film that are interspersed with live action sections that creatively document the stages of the jam session.

Alex feels like a girl trapped in the body of a man and, in 1933, she moves to Berlin, the capital of sexual freedom, hoping to find her place in the world. Thanks to an encounter with Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld, Alex becomes the first transsexual in history to undergo surgery. Unfortunately, this happens in parallel with the rise to power of National Socialism.

Emanuele Luzzati was a talented artist, director and animator. One of his best known short films was 1978’s The Magic Flute set to the music from Mozart’s two-act opera. As a stage director, Luzzati had mounted a lavish 1963 full-scale production of the opera and fell in love with the music and the story. His animated The Magic Flute, made fifteen years later, was met with glowing reviews and multiple awards. He followed the completion of the film with a children’s picture book that succinctly retells the story. (by Joseph Crisalli)

Marilyn Monroe didn't leave us in the summer of '62. She decided to disappear from the scene and has been living far from her fans for fifty years, until the day that a letter convinces her to give one final interview...

Two petty and foolish thugs extort a poor farmer and his wife in the countryside near Rimini. But the farmers, tired of always being the victims, decide to take revenge and devise a diabolical plan that will land the bandits in prison for murder.

At this rate where will they end up for the new year.

A salami wreaks havoc in a kitchen.

A film version of an Estonian fairy tale. A witch cuts off the sun's rays and orders a girl to spin them into golden thread.

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.

Human beings have become war machines, unstoppable destroyers of everything that surrounds them. Is there still hope for the future or are we stuck in an endless nightmare?

Blending animated storytelling with intimate narration, this documentary paints a soulful portrait of the anonymous Neapolitan singer known as Liberato.

An introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror. A struggle between anxiety, restlessness and calm, evoked by music composed by Claudia Ferretti and Piero Modena. The mix of animation techniques remains consistent with the idea of the uncertainty of dreams

The naivety of youth is confronted with the brutality of war in this sombre tale set in Sardinia in 1940. Realising some horses on the island are to be sent into battle, two boys plan to release them before they are delivered to the army.

Life just happens, it depends on nothing but fate.

It all starts with the discovery of a severed head and a dead cat, and ends up with a journey into the bowels of dreams and nightmares.

A wall painted animation by Blu from the year 2007

Why do we stay at home during these times of pandemic? Not out of a sense of civic duty or solidarity with other people. No, we stay home out of fear instead.

In the first century, after the death of Herod the Great, Judea goes through a long period of turbulence due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising of the population and a cruel war that lasts several years and causes thousands of deaths, a catastrophe described in detail by the Romanized Jewish historian Titus Flavius Josephus.

A man entertains briefly the idea that suffering can't be counted, that two who suffer are not more than one who suffers. Adapted from the book: "Visit to Hades: Auschwitz and Breslau" (1966) by Günther Anders.

Short animation by Donate Sansone

In a school of magical arts, Violetta and her classmates are intent on listening to their first levitation lesson. But the exercise just doesn't succeed to Violetta...

James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.

Little Cupid has the key that allows him to travel in dreams. When night falls, he visits young Chloé, who wakes up with a shiver. Without a doubt, this strange visit causes her to lose control of her body, which only seeks to experiment on its own.

Alba remembers how she fell in love with Pierino, her brother's friend, in the early fifties in Italy.

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

The reflections of a boy who shares a room and a childhood with his gigantic brother.

Henkel ad by Pinschewer.

An entangled exploration of Sendai City (Marco Bolognesi's long life creation and obsession), as it is presented and as it really is. Or maybe not?

35 mm – pencil and colored chalks on paper. Produced by: MTV Europe Created, directed, designed and animated by: Mario Addis

The film is set in Cagliari, Sardinia, in a fantasy world where the political leader has absolute power. In this fantasy world, a group of gays, lesbians and transgenders kidnaps the despotic leader and demands a ransom for his release. But can those who have lived in total hypocrisy, who have made lying the key to their success, ever really be sincere?

A guy in a depressive state is addicted to television and can no longer distinguish fact from fiction. One night he stumbles upon a bizarre red light channel...

History flows, the darkness wets our clothes. Inspired by the poem “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà” by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, the film condenses iconic images of Italy’s political history into a narrative about this life and the hereafter.

Furio’s Furious Fragments & Friends - Furio Jesi (1941 Turin -1980 Genoa), enfant prodige moving between a plethora of disciplines – egyptology, history of religions, German philology, literary criticism - passed away prematurely, not without leaving bright fragments which throw light on mechanisms beneath many socio-cultural practices, for instance regarding cultural belonging, the functions of myth in modern society. He saw kind of “mythological machines” at work underneath our cultural production of meanings, historically determined, departing from a void, something that is still in culture but as residue, a missing link to an alleged authentic experience nowadays compromised up to the point to became just rhetoric, a byword, which is in no way neutral, but a tool, a macchina, for maintaining the status quo and serving the power apparatus. As in the case of holidays, celebrations and festivals.

A short animation about the destruction of social relations and personality under war conditions.

A procession of Disney characters are followed into a TV broadcasting Station located inside of a sequoia tree.

Short animation by Alvise Renzini inspired by a C.G. Jung's dream

A nightmare reconstruction.

Experimental animation meets Disney iconography. A failing attempt to create the best Pluto ever.

Early animated short from Fabrizio Spurio.

Fine is the story of birth, life and death of a soldier, represented on a hand (mine, for instance). The movie is inspired by the concept of handpainting and the finger videos movement. Dedicated transitions created with the technique of the shuft pan has been used to create a true cinematografic editing through the hand. both the initial and final soundtrack, as well as the military salute of the last scene are a hommage to Jiri Trnka’s masterpiece “The Hand”.

For decades, Transalpina Square in Gorizia marked the dividing line between two different Nations and cultures. Alongside this segment of the Italy-Slovenia border, tragic events took place, though dreams and hopes persevered. It is thanks to those hopes and dreams that the separating wall was eventually torn down and the border was finally crossed.

Scenes of wars, from World War II to the refugee camps of the 6-Day War, from the attack on the Mostar bridge to the cars set on fire in the war in Syria.

The artist returns to his studio, at night. Fantasies, anxieties, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world resumes its daily routine.