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After a good drawing in the lower formulas (British Formula 3 champion in 1983), he made his debut in Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix in 1984 at the Toleman-Hart. During his first season has been proven to be an exceptional talent for capturing the small British team results ever recorded before, of all the sensational second place in the Monaco Grand Prix, held under a deluge incredible ...

First of all, the music. The music in Night and Day by Gianni Castaglioni is in the repetitive rhythm of the images, usually very rapid (with some suddenly slowed down, figements, yet with a fiery intensity). And as each shot, (brief like those of Mekas or Brakhage), moves,; as the camera moves to the nervous rhythm of a wrist, the music becomes a sort of Free Jazz — and not only visually, since the soundtrack is composed of piano frenzies à la Elton John. The extreme close-ups that sprinkle this sort of intimate journal and which are among the most admirable - as well as the most rapid - ever made in cinema, don’t float adrift like the film’s music through a hundred flowing veins.

From her roots in Southern Italy to her landing in Bologna, the trans leader Porpora Marcasciano relives her self-discovery, from a negated identity to battles for human rights.

La battaglia dei polli is the story of a discovery: students discover an 8mm film reel and postcards under a chicken skeleton in the science classroom. Curiosity drives them to investigate among the school's staff. A public screening of the film will lead them to the discovery of a forgotten story in Battaglia Terme, never before passed down to future generations.

A true crime documentary shooting is overturned by the disappearance of a few troupe members...

Actor, clown, archeologist and university researcher Alberto Musacchio took his own life in 2001. His death hurt many people who had been touched by his vitality. One of these was Stefano who, fourteen years later, goes on a journey looking for the emotional traces left by Alberto’s life and work. He visits Rome – Mostar, where together they had run theater workshops for children and youths traumatized by war – and Canada, where Alberto spent the last years of his life studying and teaching. And where he had also left a written request that his ashes should remain.

“Did you have any relatives living there?” asks the lady: in a certain way… The fifth walk descends a park, where once was a street and a hairdresser’s shop, at number 24.

An emotional and philosophical plunge into that invaluable period of life, which is life's own end. Through a year of encounters and conversations, between the filmmaker and the main character; terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. A road movie about love, pain and the need for freedom.

Reflections on the first films of Pier Paolo Pasolini with his considerations on the real language of cinema.

Francesco resumes his world as if it were a sheet on which Hana can draw: a dialogue between friends in a movie game.

From amateur archive footage a 6 episodes film for a new collective memory, after the quarantine period.

Pearl fishermen from Red Sea, scuba harpooners from Polinesia, Japanese diver women expose themselves every day to attacks by sharks infesting their waters. Fishermen of abalone from Mexican California work in waters where they often meet the killer whale, the biggest predator of all the oceans. Scuba divers collecting the black coral at the Hawaii do their job 80 m deep, where a bad encounter and a risk of an embolism are continuous. Even bigger is the risk the coral fishermen from Sardinia take, when they reach 120 m deep using special respiratory mixtures. Then there're also the scuba diver geologists trying to study underwater volcanic eruptions and the biologists who approach dangerous animals

Cesenatico, a town located on the Romagna Riviera, has always been synonymous with seaside tourism. Every 100 meters, an endless series of massive buildings alternate—structures that, over the years, have welcomed generations of teenagers during the summer: the colonies, many of which have since been abandoned and left to decay. In 2014, Simone Tribuiani—known as Tribu—with the help and support of other local creatives, decided to revitalize one of them: the former Santarcangiolese colony, later renamed Bronx Ponente. Inside, he created a space dedicated to local artists, surfers, and skaters—a place for meeting and self-expression. In 2020, members of H.C.B.P. (Hard Core Bronx Ponente)—a collective of skaters that emerged from the events of La Santa—breathed new life into another structure, located just a few meters from the Bronx.

Starting from the discovery of a propaganda film from 1927, L’Estate Silana, made when King Victor Emmanuel III visited Calabria, the film Sons of No-one focuses on the unused fragments in the film, and digs into the edges of the shots pointing a finger at how history, and cinema, is staged. The texts, from the book Calabria grande e amara by Leonida Repaci, seek in these reels what propaganda excluded and deliberately kept in the side-lines. Sons of No-one is a short film made during a workshop conducted by Gaetano Crivaro and Margherita Pisano for The Memories Film Fest, organized by the Cineteca della Calabria Association.

Chronicle of the historic trial held between April and December 1985 against the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-83), responsible for the disappearance of thousands of people and other State crimes.

Marginalized members of Italian society gather in a meeting and welcome center. They have experienced drugs, prison and homelessness. Talking about their existence, singing and living life, they show that humanity is not lost. A visionary, poetic film referencing the masters of Italian cinema such as Pasolini and Bellocchio. A vibrant work that puts the sadness of the world to song.

Men and women in the Horn of Africa and adjiacent regions of the Middle East tell stories of their relationships and contacts with demons and spirits in their life and culture.

The children are ancient tribal creatures who mysteriously became extinct in just a few years. All that remains of them are images: photographs and film clips from all over the world that immortalize them as they conduct incomprehensible rites. A scholar inherits the diary of a colleague who went to the Amazon, convinced that, in the forest, he would find the last tribe of children still remaining on earth.

A voyage to discover the painters of the 14th-century School of Rimini. These painters were students of Giotto, the greatest and most important Italian painter in the middle ages, who is even mentioned by Dante in the Divine Comedy.

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world, was the scene of an exciting cinema utopia. With the support of the young president Thomas Sankara, the festival became a symbol of the cultural renaissance of a whole continent. The assassination of Sankara stifled the hopes of millions of young Africans, but the dynamism of FESPACO and African cinema did not stop.

In Lignan, a village of few souls in the Saint-Barthelemy Valley in the Aosta Valley, an Astronomical Observatory scans the skies every night. Like a bell tower or a lighthouse, the large telescope marks the time of the small mountain community. In autumn, the astrophysicist Paolo Calcidese moved into the structure as the sole custodian and inhabitant to carry out his scientific research and experiment with new technologies. Due to a technical accident, however, he will be forced to put aside the stars and solitude to dedicate himself to other forms of life not yet considered: human beings.

The story of the journey on foot from Rome to Athens for the love a girl.

Pontecorvo is one of those Italian filmmakers marked for life by neorealism. He declares that he decided to do cinema after leaving a screening of "Paisa" by Roberto Rossellini. The future filmmaker was then in Paris, a year after a war during which he became one of the main figures of the Italian resistance and one of the founders of the Youth Front. Leaving his status as a war hero behind him, Pontecorvo made his directorial debut with "Giovanna", a short film heralding a cinematic career dedicated to what he himself calls the "dictatorship of truth."

Lily looks inside, then leaps. A dive into the consciousness of an industrial database. The film reconstructs the fictional memories of an industrial computer plant. Blending the present with the past, an artificial consciousness grapples with three ways of looking at reality. Photographs, archives, and fiction, hybridized with rotoscoping and digital reconstructions using photogrammetry, help Lily, the industrial software, increasingly approach human perception.

A Donatello award nominated short feature about four former prison inmates who are incarcerated in a small plexiglass prison cell erected in full view of the public then interviewed afterwards about the experience.

We started to make an extra to be included in our first DVD "Democratic Optimism", a collection of short films in black and white we shot between 1990 and 1999.

An intimate, ironic, and freewheeling portrait of Patrizia Cavalli.

Among old films sent to pulp, the fortunate discovery of nitrates in country farmhouses and the rediscovered treasures of silent cinema, the work of safeguarding and conservation of the Italian Film Library in Milan.

Hear the words of Pope Francis and follow him on his travels through video footage and interviews.

The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".

Postcards—and the forgotten act of sending and receiving them—belong to a bygone era. A Venetian gentleman has been collecting them for years, preserving especially the old ones from his city. Some messages written on the back struck him so deeply that they sparked his imagination. From there, two stories take shape: two children playing among the squares and the water; a Venice immersed in emptiness, silent and stripped of presences. With their head in the clouds and their gaze lost among the faded lines of ink, the viewer is drawn into a small journey between memory and disappearance, childhood and desolation, presence and absence.

Paolo is a 22-year-old boy and experiences a constant sense of inadequacy and ineptitude, due to his complex relationship with his mother, unaware of his homosexuality, and to the conflict he has with his hometown, Lanciano. Driven by a great desire for emancipation, he decides not to give up and to interview those who have remained in the province and continue to fight just like him.

Documentary that collects interviews with various researchers at the Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Eva Giolo’s latest work takes us to Val Gardena, where people still speak Ladin, a Rhaeto-Romance language. Giolo subverts the usual representation of mountain communities to deliver a portrait of a precious cultural heritage in constant evolution. Here, the inhabitants preserve and nurture their culture for future generations with awareness of the world and creativity. Shot on 16mm film sensitive to the grandeur and fragility of nature, Memory Is an Animal, It Barks with Many Mouths is an exquisite essay on the vital importance of linguistic diversity. Made in Ladin language.