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A Donatello award nominated short film about two brothers travelling with their elderly father to a wedding. En route, old grudges rear their ugly head and neither realises just how poorly their father has become.

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.

A countryside adventure: two siblings, ill at ease in a subordinate social position, challenge the owner Alessandro; Giuseppe doesn’t want to work for him, while Carmela wants to force him to love her. However, class conflict isn’t hidden by emotions and characters.

The idle moments in the kitchen become an opportunity to reflect on oneself, on who one is, and on that elusive sense of lack that separates us from happiness. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”

A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.

A boy places a handful of roses on the ground. After that, he undertakes a lone journey into a desolate summer night.

A ten minutes short film that takes its inspiration from a real letter (from the collection “Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza italiana”) written during World War II’s Nazi-Fascist regime by Romolo Iacopini, a captured and life sentenced partisan by the German SS squadrons, to his mother Maria. Protagonist of the film, the woman in the fictional story takes on the task entrusted by the son in the heartfelt real letter: collecting the man’s wallet, held at a police department, and watch, left to a priest. Shaken by her loss, the woman is now deprived of the thing she holds most dear, but slowly realises it is somehow still living...

Altea, a young director, has lost her parents, both drug addicts. Many are their friends who died because of heroin but some remain, historical memory of a dissolved generation. These include Lindiota, named after it because it moved to Lindos on the island of Rhodes. There, Altea joins him to collect useful material for the film he is writing with the idea of reworking mourning through artistic creation.

Late at night, pitch black, a car approaches with the lights on. A man walks toward the shore, looking for something. A bunch of illegal immigrants from northern Africa are hiding in the bushes. The man works for the local mobster exploiting the immigrants. They will work at a local mine as modern slaves. Among them is somebody who is not supposed to be there. Sometimes inner conflicts come to the surface. This is the moment to take a look where nobody does, where modern hypocrisy turns other humans into misfits, and not only people from the third world.

Two prisoners, each of the other. Or maybe just of a predetermined order.

Set during World War I, Enrico Toti takes up a job on a railway. One day he rescues a kid and needs his leg to be amputated. He leaves his girl, Nina, and in 1915 when the war begins, he is enlisted but wants to be in the front as a postman. When he comes back from the war there will be a surprise in store for him.

Esther is a shy, introverted teenager who lives with her bad-tempered father in a smallvillage surrounded by forests. She is adored and idolized by the local community of believers because of the wounds she bears on her body (the wounds of Christ) and the frequent appearances of the Virgin Mary who seems to communicate through her.

A recollection of a night spent walking the streets of the Eternal City, following the steps of two young boys: Vlad, a modern Romanian boy of life, and Cosimo who has just moved to the city. Both cross the city from head to toe in search of redemption, liberation or perhaps a place to hide. To find it they will go as far as the sea, as far as the body of a young prostitute, but they will find it, perhaps, only in the feeling that brings them together and binds them.

Since their parents died in a tragic car accident 4 years previously Saverio and his seven-year-old brother Augusto have been living, in a village in the Italian Alps, with uncle Fausto and aunt Domenica. Saverio has a strong spiritual bond with nature and is planning to spend part of his summer break in the high prairies to experience life as a shepherd and to learn how to make 'Bitto', the local cheese.

Executed and printed with two hands, that is to say, made using all possible means of imprinting the right and arm freshly applied ink, sand paper, stamps, etc. Everything was done on non-emulsion clear leader.

Traveling through 15th century Italy, a young courtier faces the mystery of a girl with stigmata.

After finishing high school, six young people from Rimini are in crisis, in the throes of a thousand doubts about the path to take in life and work: lacerating doubts especially for those of them who would like to work in the artistic field.

A Donatello award nominated short drama about a couple, married for ten years, who are re-evaluating their relationship.

An art history professor, who identifies with Leonardo Da Vinci, is irremediably subjected to the machinations of the femme fatale he loves, who will ultimately also fall victim to the same obsessions and passions.

Fabrizio is unable to explain his impotence (which occurs only with his girlfriend). One evening he stares in the mirror and, after some hesitation, shaves, sacrificing a thick and characteristic beard goatee, typical of those years. Here begins, with a simple gesture that we could define as 'unconventional', the transformation of Fabrizio. Immediately a vital impulse emerges in Fabrizio that leads him to 'want more' from a life enclosed in watertight compartments and protocol rules. The viewer is an accomplice and faithful travel companion in his process of metamorphosis, who is not asked for a judgment or an opinion, but a simple understanding and vision of history, as it is, without prejudice.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also some passages from the Moral Operettas, as well as the unfinished Project for a hymn at Ahrimane, follow one another with deep and moving simplicity, with a quiet immediacy that causes the void of every other voice: therefore the listenere is ensnared in the pauses, bewitched by the unexpected descents of silence. The voice assumes a dark and ancestral tone in which the words seem to find their original nuances.

If you beat someone until you massacre him, if you possess a body until you break through, if you get high until you blast, if you eat until you explode, if you laugh until you choke, if you suffer until you wheeze, all this means: Sbundo.

A reality show offers a residence permit as a prize. Three young Sinti turn their lives into a game in front of the cameras.

A bird is caged for being too happy and energetic.

Fifteen-year-old Giovanni and his family move from southern Italy to Tuscany after his father’s death in WWII. He inherits Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and struggles to understand it. His older brother tells him about a library in an old castle, where Giovanni finds answers and a mentor who becomes his guide to knowledge.

Divided into chapters like a memoir and punctuated by an alternation of natural stillness and special encounters, this film celebrates the subtle discoveries that define our identity. It highlights not the grand events of life, but the poetry found in simple moments, the everyday, and the shared intimacy of those we hold dear.

Two old friends find themselves in their small hometown, setting out towards an unknown destination.

In a small village in the heart of Sardinia, during a terrible invasion of locusts that are devouring everything, a farmer has to come to terms with the passing of the baton, from father to son, for the management of the sheepfold.

AM remembers, maybe she dreams, and days and nights follow each other. The House in the Woods gets crowded with mysterious visitors while a Little Dragon moves tiny, unsteady steps out of the darkness of memory. The humanist vision of Anna Maria Ortese echoes through the collective dream of the guests of a drug rehabilitation center.

Inspired by the true story of Stefano Lotumolo. The film narrates the ascent of a photographer who wants to achieve his dream: to communicate the beauty and importance of diversity to the world.

A man, returning home, has a car accident.

In a Japanese garden, gather maidens with nets to catch butterflies, all in the joy of life and budding maidenhood; fresh Irish sweetness of blithe Spring; the light fantastic toe "tripping" the limpid music arranged for this unique piece of art in a large cage a pretty colored butterfly is brought in, to delight the winsome maidens, who execute a pretty umbrella dance ere the poor butterflies are forced to entertain the merry group. Scenes are passed and the pretty butterfly is imprisoned again in the cage.

A young man found himself struggling before a choice: to accept a world which he not belongs to or to face the truth, with whatever may come with it.

Mr. Emmer is a jaded Film Director, Catarina the assistant of an absent Producer. Together they embark on a journey in search of Hölderlin's places, for a never forgotten project on the German poet. But during the journey their aspirations will prove to be an obstacle for the realisation of any work. A love song for a suffering Nature.

Thoughts on contradiction through the mind and actions of a hypocrite in crisis.