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The friendly Nut-Nuts have to contend with the mischievous Mog-Mog population who have seen fit to steal their large supply of the mouth-watering chocolate cream. And as in any self-respecting fairy tale, the good guys prevail over the mischievous Mog-Mogs thanks to the help of a kindly Princess and the Great Sage. With a grand finale that will bring everyone together.
Michele Bernardi has created a portrait of the dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940-2015), inspired by various film and video clips of her in the incessant studio of movement. The animation is rotoscoped and it recapture the almost abstract quality of dance. The soundtrack by Luca D’Alberto enhances the succession of images and recomposes a unique cameo whom the legendary Pina she is.
A series of Moving Images against the war in Ukraine. Make Art Not War. Peace for the People. Freedom!
Middle Ages, year 1077. Sant’Anselmo, a grumpy hermit living on the top of an icy mountain, is accidentally dragged downhill by Ranin, a strange wild child with whom - unwillingly – he will navigate the foggy river Po among monstrous creatures, crumbling boats, ancient legends and strange companions, in search of a legendary giant pumpkin and, perhaps, a mysterious feeling called affection.
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
La Gola (The Belly), Diego Marcon’s film commissioned by the Kunstverein in Hamburg, revolves around the correspondence between Gianni and Rossana. The two characters are portrayed by hyperrealistic dolls with digitally animated eyes and facial expressions. The combination of human voices, analogue dolls, and digital (post-)production brings forth hybrid characters whose status between analogue and digital defies clear distinction.
Created especially for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, "La Divina Iliade" emerges as a unique artistic work that combines visual sensitivity with musicality. The video presents a collection of paintings created by a young 22-year-old Venezuelan artist, whose illustrations capture the essence of the cosmic balance of sexual energies and the search for the "I AM". With the soundtrack by Brunello de Napoli, the work transforms into an immersive experience that invites the viewer to reflect on the invisible forces that shape the universe. The simplicity of the images, combined with the depth of the music, creates a silent dialogue that transcends words, inviting the audience to an introspective and spiritual journey.
Riccardo Calimani, writer and historian, during a walk in the Venice ghetto, encounters two teenagers to whom he recounts the story of his parents in a journey through time across the years of Fascism and the Shoah. The two young people on a trip to the lagoon listen today to the experiences of two very young people who, many years earlier, were forced to flee their city like leaves in the wind in order to save their lives.
A widowed grandmother lives alone in her house, every day they repeat themselves with the same habits, when one day something unexpected happens. From the radio there is a rumor that something terrible is awakening from the cemeteries, the dead have returned to walk among us!
An animated film based on the typefaces and scripts of the 1920s and 30s set to an Italian song of the 1950s.
While the pig is being dragged out from the sty he has the chance to see the sky...
Cambia Tutto is comprised of over 2500 images that, when brought together in sequence, take the viewer through the small Italian village of Cavaso del Tomba — a place that has changed from a cultural epicentre of its rural region to a sleepy town surrounded by industrial sites. Each frame of the film is a carefully photographed or painted image of a specific aspect of the area and the score is interwoven with local field recordings. All these details come together to celebrate this small overlooked village and show how immensely beautiful those unnoticed things and forgotten places are if you pay attention.
A kaleidoscope of monsters, animals and other strange creatures brought to life by the primitive and frenzied pace of Zu's music.
The film explores the idea of self-healing. Within the video game The Sims 4, a Sim hovers lightly over its empty body, guided by an audio track of a guided meditation. Meanwhile, random videos interfere with the search for that moment of tranquility.
"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.
A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.
Guido Manuli reveals to us a secret tape from Disney's off-limits archive: the casting of characters for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves".
The Guardian is a free interpretation of the parable "Before the Law" from Kafka's book "The Trial". A peasant after traveling the world arrives in front of a gate, controlled by a fearsome Guardian. The peasant tries to pass through but the Guardian denies him entrance. Peasant and Guardian are the same character, the peasant, like each one of us, in front of his own fear; the guardian, something shapeless, that surround and control him. the Door/Gate the possibilities we encounter during our life.
A group of three kids escape the control of their families to try to make Miriam's dream come true: coloring the crib to celebrate Christmas.
Short experimental animation by Donato Sansone and Enrico Ascoli
As in an old film, the protagonist Carmelo relives the moments of his youth in a nostalgic atmosphere.
A Dadaist collage that plays on the concept of identity, elaborated through impossible selfies taken by the protagonists of famous masterpieces in the history of portraiture and self-portrait. What do you hide under your skin, flayed by the toxic radiation of mobile phones? What would Leonardo da Vinci or Andy Warhol have done with this evil device?
"indian ink on 16mm film" -CC
A bride leaves her father’s home to reach her love.
A mystery resolved by two contemporary teens, uncovers one of the saddest chapters in human history during the Nazi occupation of Rome.
An underground fight is taking place in a painter's studio between the artist and the ten tyrants.
A young mushroom, Fey, goes off on an adventure to find the legendary Flame-watchers, now reduced to an unlikely, though well-meaning, crew of layabouts. When the arrival of humans provokes a fire, will Fey manage to protect the forest and save her beloved world, no one seems to care for anymore?
A duck is lost in the woods but stumbles upon a rather creepy house.
While on a quest with their quirky leader Otto, the Puffins discover a mysterious ancient idol. To their surprise, they unleash its wild powers. The feathered heroes must embark on a hilarious quest to tame the chaos and restore harmony.
An ordinary day in the woods, examined from a mushroom’s point of view.
A visionary trip into a common man's subconscious.
Three ghosts, representing three different generations, keep a portrait of themselves as the unique sign left of their own identity after death. Two of the ghosts have an analog portrait (a black and white photography and a painting), while the third one has a digital portrait contained within a computer. Soon they will experience the obsolescence of technology, which will challenge the preservation of memories and data through time.
“The Inexact Sciences” tells a particular love story set in a unique and strange place populated by many bizarre people. Our protagonists, Rebecca and Jonah, will be put in danger by an unexpected guest, Rachel, the ghost of a little girl who disappeared many years before
In the near future, the Earth has become a desert. Milos is a teenager committed to environmentalism, dreaming of saving the planet from destruction. He feels strange, different, to the point of believing he's an alien on Earth on a mysterious mission. But is Milos really an alien, or is he simply crazy?
Lucia is a little insect that comes out of her hiding place at night because only in the dark she is not afraid of other animals.
An animated short narrating the origins of the "Palio dei Bracieri"
A Silver Bear winning short animation.
Italian animated feature film
Rita was my grandmother, a big snail who got around with a walker. She passed away in 2024, and this short film tells the story of our bond. It is about Rita, but it is also a way to confront the theme of death, to look it in the eye and overcome the fear it brings.
A stop-motion musical film with plasticine figures; a satire on relentless over-civilization.
Undulating Lovecraftian gutbags straight out of your worst (best) nightmare. Per Bavari, “Videos entirely made with the use of A.I.”
My grandfather tells me a story that he invented, and asks me to make a film out of it. Because of pollution, pesticides, and other toxic substances, a bee decides to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable place for her to live in.
The story of a classic rebetiko night in the port of Piraeus.
Early special effects film in which a woman throws a basket of flowers in the air, upon which the flowers create different shapes and figures and eventually spell out the words "Buona Sera".
From amateur archive footage a 6 episodes film for a new collective memory, after the quarantine period.
An animation for the “Animated Projective Environment”, in which C. Cecchi performs the “Behavior” of “Staying at the bar”.
The film is about an eccentric head collector.
The 13th Dalai Lama has just died. The armies of the terrible Warlord are at the gates. The fate of Tibet seems sealed. But a vision emerges from the waters of the Great Lake of Prophecies. Does it point the way to the Dalai's new reincarnation? Only he could save Tibet. The situation is almost desperate, but a small expedition has set out from Shangri-La to find him. It is an improvised and apparently ill-assorted team consisting of Alexandra, a very young French explorer, Aphur, a young warrior monk, and Kewstang, an elderly and very friendly Lama. Will the trio be able to find the new 14th Dalai and save Tibet?