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“Promettimi” is a spell-like dialogue that imagines and invokes a queer future, navigating desire, reality, and collective transformation.

14 August, sunrise. In the south of Milan, the most international city of Italy, three figures wake up at dawn and are brought to work. They are the silent guardians of a great Italian agricultural tradition that has undergone profound changes in the last century.

Adrian Paci’s sensitive gaze enters an aluminum transformation plant to explore the relationship between the workers’ bodies and the factory environment, celebrating the enduring value of labour. Through meticulous observation and perfectly composed framing, Merging Bodies delves into gestures and materials that blur the boundaries between the workers and the machinery. Paci’s hypnotic camera captures details that transcend the immediate context, liberating the visible from a singular interpretation.

The film recounts the glorious half a century of an important festival not only in the history of the Italian theatre, but also cultural policy, public goods, instances of participation, management in the cultural sense of the public space.

Visual illustration of D'Annunzio's poem of the same name read by Giorgio Albertazzi.

Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.

In three symbolic places of a global production, "Spirits I've called" describes the impact of the mining and steel industry on the fragile natural balances and on the health of people living close to the production sites.

A sophisticated visual essay that delves into the "ambiguously fascinating world of toys", drawing direct inspiration from the semiotic theories of Roland Barthes, the work approaches childhood objects not merely as playthings, but as a dense microcosm of cultural meanings and social constructs. Originally presented within the "Woman’s Gaze" section of the Kinomata showcase, Faloja’s lens acts as an analytical tool, peeling back the layers of everyday symbols to reveal the ideologies embedded in domestic life. It is an intellectual and cinematic reflection on language, education, and the subtle ways in which our material world shapes human behavior.

Northern Italy, mid-1960s. Carla is a novice architect and is called to supervise the construction sites of a series of public works in the countryside. Carla meets with a team of construction engineers, tasked with making structural measurements. Locked in the laboratory they reproduce scale models of buildings and landscapes. Their dedication is alienating, as they reproduce life in scale like aliens from another dimension. The more time passes, the less motivated Carla is to work with them. For her, building means being among people, in the world. She dreams of knocking down walls, rather than raising them, and seeing the sky. Instead the engineers are locked in the laboratory, where there is no sky and the sun cannot shine.

After a computer crash, a girl struggles with the loss of her long-time virtual pet, Bubba.

Violet Albina Gibson (31 August 1876 – 2 May 1956) was an Irish woman who attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini in 1926. She was released without charge but spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital in England.

John Cabot University

Planting the Seeds, growing the future. Technology pervades every aspect of our lives: the way we move... the way we work... the way we meet and communicate… how we make love and what we eat... Crops all over the world are grown using increasingly technological methods. It is now possible to grow plants at night and in hostile environments, increasing yields and saving water. Most of these methods are based on... Hydroponics. Since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World, technology has allowed man to grow great amounts of food. Abundance of food allows man to explore new frontiers... In January 2016 the first flower has blossomed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Yet, in pursuing his quest, man also generates huge amounts of increasingly technological waste... Space Waste is already an issue of cosmic concern...

A documentary about the rebirth of the Neapolitan neighborhood Rione Sanità

Along an old country road, where an ancient legend of the sea, wolves, and men lingers, three generations of women come together to face a deep sadness. Something is changing: the time has come to remember buried dreams, mend broken ties, consult the tarot, free themselves from their fate and bring the old legend back to life.

What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Garbo and Sergei Michajlovič Eisenstein, could have declared their love for each other? The world's most famous actress, an honorary Russian citizen of cinema for her many performances; the world's most radical director, who could have immortalized her face in one of his famous close-ups? Sphinx Garbo did not want to be alone: she just wanted to marry the great Sergei. Perhaps she could have played Trotsky or Pancho Villa in one of his films. Perhaps their friends Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and Josef von Sternberg would have approved their love. Maybe they could have had a child together. Maybe all this could still have happened, in a Mark Rappaport film.

Architect, Designer, Sculptor. Three labels in strict alphabetical order, three facets of a single designer: Angelo Mangiarotti. Certainly, one of the most multifaceted and "asymmetrical" personalities on the Italian scene, a promoter of cross-disciplinary research, almost a "solitary warrior" with respect to the evolution of the prevailing schools of thought in post-war Italy.

Naples. A Virgin with bruise on her cheek who performs miracles. Three female characters, each connected to the Virgin in their own way but who never meet. Giusy, a girl in a wheelchair who had no right to a miracle; an atheist, free-spirited, and an anthropologist specializing in the worship of the Virgin Mary. Fabiana, a transsexual at the head of a troupe faithful supporters of the Virgin in a popular district of the city center. And Sue, a Korean pianist in search of a new direction for her life, teaching music to children in difficulty in a city far removed from her original culture. Each with their intimate wounds and each searching for a "miracle".

Documentary on the Messina earthquake

Produced in Italy in 1974, Anna Baldazzi’s Greta Garbo is a 30-minute color short that embarks on a singular quest: a journey through the streets of New York in search of the legendary screen icon. Far from a traditional documentary, the film serves as a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s own relationship with the city, navigated through a lens of irony and farce. Baldazzi engages in a playful, dialectical game with the concept of stardom; her stated objective is to "destroy the myth" of the diva, yet she achieves a striking paradox. By maintaining the total absence of Greta Garbo for the entire duration of the film, the legend is not erased, but rather powerfully re-established through its own void.

A documentary that immortalizes the attempt to stage a reinterpretation of a seventeenth-century collection of comic short stories.

Forty kilometers from Verona, at the southernmost tip of the Alps, lies the hamlet of Giazza. Here live the last representatives of a Germanic language and culture originating in the 13th century: the so-called Cimbri. Industrialization and modern means of traffic and communication have almost eradicated this community. These people have thus become a symbol of all that has been lost for good.

Mara Blasetti became one of the first Italian women to take on the role of production supervisor. In 2012, almost by chance, evidence of her exceptional career begin to emerge.

Short documentary on Pier Paolo Pasolini.

A documentary about the 1981 earthquake in Irpinia.

The daily life of the women of Bagnara, amid the comings and goings of boats and the transport of stones to build protective walls.

Enrico is a under-motivated and unfriendly boy who grew up mostly in front of the computer. His sexuality has evolved accordingly, climbing up pornographic sites and erotic images, which he seems to be obsessed with. It's clear that his happiness comes from two different sources: on the one hand Clarissa, his girlfriend, a real and living being who accepts him in his imperfections, and on the other hand pornography, perfect and inexhaustible, but virtual and non-existent.

Marco Paolini discusses with poet Andrea Zanzotto about nature, history and language.

A mountaineer and audiovisual director begins a trip through Argentina to reconvene with the two friends with whom he tried to make a summit in the Himalayas. Alone and with them, he will try to understand what happened to Dario, the fourth friend, who decided to keep going up, the only one who did not return alive from the expedition.

It's summer and Silvia confides her intimate secrets to her diary. On the beach, under the hot sun, her body is exposed, vulnerable, and at the same time the object of a desire that is still unknown. Sweat, skin, and glances mingle in a game of curiosity and fear, where every little gesture seems to carry weight. Silvia feels she is completely abandoning her childhood and is afraid of growing up. How does one give their first kiss?

The truth is that stories just happen, through the magic that connects all humans and which attracts even strangers to one another: it's the force of attraction towards others. And so it goes that we share intense experiences with people we meet by chance and never see again, or with those that remain forever, or with others who have yet to decide whether to stay or go. The basic condition for all this is the chance to be intimate". Some Strangers have gone on a blind date in a hotel room in Naples and have shared their personal stories with someone they have never heard of and never met before. The film shows that it's not necessary to be relatives, friends or lovers to share private truth and personal emotions. Room 431 celebrates ordinary's people daily life.

Two Italian filmmakers visit veterans of the Soviet space programme and juxtapose 50-year-old visions of the future – in archive footage, monuments and memorabilia – with their present-day tales of the past.

A film by Alfredo Leonardi.

The hard work of a family of farmers during hay-making season.

Bobby, the grandparents' dog, guides us on a journey through memories and the hills of Irpinia, the silent guardian of a world made up of ruins, memories, and the scars of time.

After a whole life spent in jail for being a serial bank robber and a rebel inmate, Alberto Maron is now approaching the end of his sentence. The relationship with the film director and the filmmaking process are the first opportunity to express himself freely, not hiding regrets and guilt: Alberto seems finally ready to build a human relation as a free man. Could that be the key to stop the past repeating itself?

experimental documentary

Il Regista di Matrimoni from Marco Bellocchio seen from a different point of view, a movie inside a movie.