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A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not allow him to travel or cross to the other side of his land.

Margherita Vicario talks about the making of “GLORIA!” Between departments, preparation, shooting and post-production, straight to the BERLIN 2024 festival. Dedicated to all the workers who contributed to making the film.

An investigative film, an "investigative itinerary" from 1960 to 1975, in the story of Pasolini alive, in search of the political truth of his murder. A violent death in the world of homosexual prostitution. And the "truth" is definitely written in black and white. But what happened to the testimonies of the inhabitants of the Idroscalo? Through testimonies and visual archival material, the true story of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini is reconstructed in the documentary.

Through archive images and interviews , a photographer embarks on a bittersweet journey back to his early years at Waldensian elementary school (Netflix)

Singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela's journey through Irpinia, telling stories related to music and tradition

An archive of personal photos and a voiceover tell the story of the dissipation of memory after the loss of sight.

Filmed for Rai 3 and aired on two evenings on 29 March and 5 April 1986, A train in the heart of the south is a journey that follows the "marginal" railways of the south and the marginalized who are found along them. Filmmakers and travelers Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi reveal the confined and marginalized Italy that has nothing in common with the glossy images of the 1980s. As always with the couple of filmmakers born on the wave of underground cinema, the filmed space is a conflictual space, which "fists with reality".

Navigating freely among the images produced for the Italian Communist Party between the 1950s and the '80s by important Italian directors, and after encountering the gaze of Luciana Castellina, the legendary communist politician and a founder of the “Manifesto,” a woman who has never been orthodox and still today is a tireless organizer, Giovanni Piperno ponders the significance of the “party-giraffe” - as Togliatti once defined it – and, above all, what still remains of an experience that involved millions of people in an attempt to transform themselves and the world.

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.

In the vast industrial spaces of the Pomodoro Foundation, Jannis Kounellis is preparing the installation for his "One-Act Play." A humble art, made of steel construction elements and animals, sacks of coal and piles of stones, grease, and fire. A small "film-shadowing," a "resonance of images that still linger in the memory as at the end of a beautiful journey."

An old wooden house, surrounded by walls and guarded by angry soldiers, and a director, Micol Roubini, who tries to enter this place. It's not just any place for her. That house looks a lot like one he saw in an old photo from 1919: the one built by his grandfather, and then abandoned by him to escape persecution against Jews during World War II. We are in Jamna, a small country in the west of Ukraine that is now independent. The guards prevent anyone from passing, and no one knows why. And the inhabitants of the country are of almost no help.

Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.

documentary on the play Infinities

A master and his pupil. As if in a mirror, Manolo, ex-matador de toros, sees himself in Mario, a young bullfighter. The long training sessions let us enter the controversial world of bullfighting through a particular gaze, far from the classic image of the bullfighter dressed in gold and surrounded by pomp.

Ulderica was a peculiar child, brave but at the same time afraid. Today she is an artist and retains the soul of the child she was. A never-before-seen portrait of the great Friulian photographer.

The female question in all its aspects is highlighted through interviews with women in different situations and conditions. Older women who have been working for years in the general markets since the early morning and who then return home and continue to work as housewives, then the workers of a factory occupied, a housewife, a woman who tells of her experience with sex and a woman who tells of her clandestine abortion, a new mother who tells about her motherhood and then interviews with girls elementary school that already, despite them, undergo an education based on patriarchy values.

Taking a detour from the usual settings of Africa and South America, this mondo film focuses on Japan and Sweden, exploring strange and unusual scenes like the effects of pollution in a Japanese fishing village, esoteric psychotherapy methods, assisted fertilization, heatt surgery, sex education for blind children in sweden, military training for young Palestinians in Lebanon, a female priest celebrating mass and a school for children with phocomelia.

The documentary follows the italian rock band Verdena during rehearsals for their Volevo Magia tour, their return to the scene after seven years of silence.

Mondo style documentary about European nightlife.

Two months before his death, the central figure of "The Guildford Four" Gerry Conlon meets Lorenzo Moscia to recount his remarkable life, from falsely imprisoned to world-famous human rights activist.

"From my house in da house - A history of Rome" is a documentary that with a light tone and a fast pace tells the last thirty years of the center of Rome. From the splendor of the early 90s to the darkness of today, without ever falling into rhetoric. The leitmotif of the film is irony. Sometimes bitter, in the story of the many well-known characters that are meeting places, situations and unrepeatable encounters. All together they combine to form a mosaic that gives the current image of Rome. Wounded, stunned, but still able to recover and return to its eternal splendor.

"He and I" narrates the reflections of a woman in her role as wife and mother lived between imposition and choice. Through the editing of the shootings of a single filmmaker who portrays his wife and life, the woman narrates herself being in opposition to her husband’s world, a militant always far from home. A reworking of female status as a political act to tell that love is an act of acceptance of differences and that personal memories are part of the collective history.

After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The circumstances leading to his death are re-enacted in three hypothetical versions in this attempt at counter-investigation. Released together with Nelo Risi's 'Giuseppe Pinelli', as 'Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli'.

Chronicles the 2005 tour and production for the Rhapsody of Fire albums "Symphony of Enchanted Lands, II" and "Triumph or Agony". Includes recordings from the band's first tour through US and Canada as well as their performance at the Eartshaker Fest 2005.

Two children are alone on the beach; the little girl plays while the older boy, Enzo, aged seven, collects firewood for the coming winter. Their parents are working, and the two children will have to grow up quickly.

Acclaimed documentarist Vincenzo Marra's work This Session Is Open constitutes an exercise in cinema direct filmmaking at its purest. Sans narration or any discernible viewpoint, the picture remains stringently objective in its inside portrayal of an Italian courtroom, during the assassination trial of a mafia unit called the 'Neapolitan Camorra.'

Documentary produced by the Propaganda Office of “Costruzione Meccaniche Riva S.p.a.” in collaboration with the Cinema Section of “Edisonvolta S.p.a.”. It illustrates in detail the construction of a Pelton wheel: from the design phase to construction and transport to its final destination. Every technical and logistical problem was solved thanks to the professionalism and joint efforts of technicians and workers, who together conceived, designed, and implemented the project.

A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti

A young woman returns to her childhood home to investigate a family history shrouded in silence. Digging into the past, she tries to awaken a dialogue with her father and reflect on her identity.

Once upon a time, there was a castle on a mounting, with a man inside. The man placed all the conflict and all the beauty of the world inside the castle. His name was Franz. He came by foot from the Alps, leaving behind a history of violence, and he dedicated his life to the creation of a cenaculum for the arts to redeem himself from the trauma of fascism. Over the course of a ten-year story, as his latest young artist grows up, the gallery owner takes possession of her memories and approaches death.

A thick forest hides a river landscape and the eye stubbornly fails to see.

A documentary that brings together voices of clergy and laypeople who question the Church and society about the meaning of faith today—touching on the body, emotions, sexuality, and relationships—finding in the city the concrete, everyday place where faith is embodied. The documentary explores the beauty of contrast through life testimonies that foster listening and dialogue, opening a space where people feel welcomed and can be reborn. A collective reflection on the incarnate love of the Gospel, the beauty of relationships, and the complexity of a Church that wants—or should want—to truly be a home for everyone.

A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after fleeing the war in Syria. They decide to help them complete their journey to Sweden, and hopefully avoid getting themselves arrested as traffickers, by faking a wedding. With a Palestinian friend dressed up as the bride and a dozen or so Italian and Syrian friends as wedding guests, they cross halfway over Europe on a four-day journey of three thousand kilometres.

How to survive the city of tormorrow? An Italian reporter in Beijing, Alessandro lives with his child and wife, alienated by the megalopolis. As he experiences the works of emerging local artists, Alessandro discovers unexpected views on the city, enhancing his own. Myjing is a storytelling in progress, a diary of this experience offering a unique in-depth perspective on today’s China.

The Rasman family, farmers in Istria, is devastated by the murder of their mentally disabled son Riccardo at the hands of the police. His elderly parents and his sister Giuliana are searching for a form of justice that will help them to process an incomprehensible event. As their hopes of finding the truth fade, they develop a persecution complex and irrationality takes hold.

An interview by Anna Maria Federici with then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in June 1985, created for Italian TV channel RAI.

A short celebratory film, the only moving images that have ever portrayed the celebrated composer. Giacomo Puccini enjoys his residence in Torre del Lago: he walks in the garden, pinning a fresh rose in his buttonhole. He plays the piano and composes, whizzes by in a motorboat, receives the mail and chats with the villagers, and finally goes duck hunting.

Bianca is a trans sex worker, whose life and work play out in her Milan flat. The camera follows her into her tiny realm: phone calls with clients, philosophy, sex and cigarettes, sing-songs with friends, conversations with her faraway girlfriend.

The documentary reconstructs the writer's experiences in Brancaleone, in the province of Reggio Calabria, quoting extensively from letters published in the book Il vizio assurdo (The Absurd Vice). In search of references between past and present, various images of Brancaleone flash by.