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A short homage and portrait that Franco Maresco dedicates to his friend Letizia Battaglia, a world-famous photographer and symbol of the committed, indignant and anti-Mafia side of Palermo.

Fabrizio, Dante and Roberto have 14 years old and they live in Palermo in the ZEN. How is their life, their universe?

Documentary film on Gianfranco Baruchello, Alberto Grifi and Agnese Naldoni's visit to Man Ray's studio.

Pino Boresta is an artist from Rome, in his own work he shares the approach and aims of situationist art. Through a reference to the historic Italian television show, Blob, BPB summarizes a significant part of his appearances that are visible on the web.

Let the Show Begin documents the preparation and staging of the first Baghdad International Short Film Festival, which took place in September of 2005. In spite of formidable obstacles, the event’s young organizers remain determined to create an event that is both creative and constructive during a time when daily violence keeps many people paralyzed.

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited following the rehearsals of Mysteries and Antigone.

After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown up in the worship of her father who fought as a partisan during the war, Lorena realises that she must start digging in the secret story of her mother if she wants to understand aspects of her own life. The pages of the diary feel like a book from another time. Working as a nurse, her mother was covertly working for the partisans passing them intelligence that she astutely acquired from wounded German soldiers by administering more morphine than usually required to ease the pain.

With irony and lightness, the pair of authors intertwines their story with that of the Roman neighborhood of Torpignattara, between intimacy and collective memory, with a meta-narrative approach that layers different narrative dimensions around the themes of the nursery.

Dyspnea is a documentary built with underwater archive materials that tells the story of the bond between the director and his father. The images intertwine in an intimate, blurry, sweet and ferocious story.

During February of 2020, a tragedy began that struck, as the first Western nation, Italy, and then went on to devastate the rest of world—the Covid-19 pandemic. So many images come to mind at the mere mention of this terrible virus, but one, above all, mercilessly describes those moments, symptomatic of a wound that will indelibly remain sealed in our collective consciousness—the coffins squeezed to capacity into military trucks in Bergamo. The whole area around the city of Bergamo was truly put to the test, there isn’t one family that wasn’t struck by the virus, the sound of ambulance sirens blared more than in any other city and the fear was so tangible that you could see it in the eyes of the inhabitants. However, this story is not about the hospital itself but about the people who promised, working day and night, that this miracle would come to pass. 7 days and, thanks to the Alpini, Bergamo can finally breathe again.

Documentary about the Aral sea. Part of a film series which explores new social conditions in regional-cities which are going through inescapable geopolitical changes.

In this short documentary from 1942, Francesco Pasinetti guides us through a little-known, unprecedented Venice: the Venice of small canals, narrow streets, bridges and simple people engaged in daily chores.

Produced by the Genoa Legal Forum Secretariat, the video presents a reconstruction of the events of Friday, July 20, 2001, based on documents acquired during the trial of 25 protesters accused of devastation and looting.

The personal travel diary of a naive dreamer in search of an ancient tale told by a scoundrel. A roaming through ancient India, as time passes, will bring the observer's eye to confuse the illusion of false truth with the awareness of a lie that is truer than truth. The discovery of a tribe of fairy-tale children, the Ananda, that appear and disappear along a road dense with magic and primitive superstition will lead to the search of a lost dream.

The eviction of a large blue papier-mâché horse, symbolizing the liberation of Italy’s psychiatric hospitals, calls into question the meaning of boundaries today.

Italo lives in Saviore dell'Adamello, in Valcamonica. His life changed after meeting some groups of Native Americans, whom he had the opportunity to host: coming from afar, along different but deeply connected paths, their gazes will come together in a new spiritual journey. The anticipation of this encounter makes the passing of time a journey in which Italo slowly experiences the changing seasons, savoring every moment of the cold winter, awaiting the arrival of summer and an Indian chief.

In a candid home interview preceded by a secretly recorded conversation, Alessandro reflects on the climate crisis as he always has, but for the first time in front of a camera. Captured for future memory, this moment carries a perhaps futile hope: that one day, we might say, “It turned out better than expected.” Additionally, Ecoterrorismo is the title of an ambient music podcast series Alessandro has curated since 2023, under the alias vivian bell, for fritto.fm.

Witness journalist Anna Politkovskaya's austere approach to covering stories such as the Chechen War and Beslan school hostage crisis. Politkovskaya's 2006 assassination earned her place no. 211 on the Russian Union of Journalists record of members killed in Russia since 1991, but her highly lauded work lives on in this documentary that features interviews with her children, spouse and newspaper colleagues.

There are people still searching for a place in the world, wayfarers marked by painful histories looking for a place to start over: a house. The Passengers tells their stories and that of "Housing first," a philosophy that puts social housing at its core. In their stories of often-conflicting cohabitation, and in the evocation of tortuous life paths, a sense of a possible way to seize an opportunity for redemption emerges.

It was one of the bloodiest and most mysterious battles of the Second World War in Italy. In Ortona, a small seaside town in the Abruzzo region, Germans and Canadians literally fought street by street, house by house, even room by room. Why did everyone want to conquer Ortona in December 1943? What was so important about it? Why was it forgotten so quickly afterwards? And what secret does Ortona hide until this day? Amazing library footage, never before heard eyewitness accounts, documents that have remained secret until now, recently found German photographs and moving re-enactments help us to relive not only the political and military climate of the time, but take us back to the narrow alleys of the time, standing side-by-side with the soldiers to discover the embarrassing truth that has remained hidden for over half a century.

Carpaccio is a 1948 short film directed by Umberto Barbaro and Roberto Longhi and based on the life of the Italian painter Caravaggio.

A family with no identity dreams of appropriating the memories of the other ... but who dreams who?

Pier is a rising star of kitesurfing. In ten years of filming, the documentary follows his childhood. This milestone will allow him to travel together with his father Massimo, who has always trained him and with whom he has a special bond. Between fears and courage, Fearless is Pier's training journey, to discover his own being and in search of his awareness.

We live again through a film documentary the story of Foggia in the 90’s , one of the most amazing football adventures in the history of Italian football. Telling the story are the protagonists, Casillo, president at that time and Zdenek Zeman, the bohemian trainer who transformed players from the minor divisions into great champions submitting them to exhausting training sessions and ingenious tactic studies, he took the provincial team to dominate the Italian league. When football was not yet a business, Zeman’s Foggia carried out a miraculous ascent from division C to Premier League, dominating the richest and the most titled clubs of the championship and brought to victory the sporting values of honesty and rigor.

Against the background of flocks of sheep at pasture, mules walking down unpaved roads, tractors in the fields, and isolated figures in a deserted village, a caption explains that Barbagia is a vast region in Sardinia; Orgosolo, Oliena and Mamoiada are villages of shepherds and the men spend most of the year far away, with their flocks. This is why the houses and the children are entrusted to the women, who cut the wood, work the fields and prepare bread, shepherds’ bread.

Documentary about Who Saw Her Die?

My pain, and my emotional dependence were hidden until I met her, my weak point...

This documentary tells the story of Rome's contemporary art scene, so far from the stereotypes that have represented it until now.

Moving from your homeland to another country is no less risky than an astronaut’s first step into outer space.

A day at the seaside, among fish, swimmers, trains and diving in search of something missing

Monica and Karim, the first couple of Italian wrestlers in the United States. Miss Monica, stage name of Monica Passeri, moved from Caprara, a small town in Abruzzo, to Missouri together with partner Karim Bartoli, who fights under the name of Karim Brigante. Once they left Italy, they attended the most important wrestling academy in Troy, Missouri - the Harley Race Wrestling Academy - which allowed them to build an international career: from World League Wrestling they managed to reach the flagship show of WWE and National Wrestling Alliance, the memorable federation owned by the rockstar Billy Corgan. Partners in life and in the ring, they travel alone to defend their titles in American indie circuits.

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

Industrialized food systems, increasing livestock production, deforestation, climate and biodiversity emergencies, health and food crises: "Everything is connected" according to this feature documentary about the loss of balance of our One and only Earth.

Torn apart and enraged by ethnic conflict, Mostar is more like two "ghettos" divided by a big boulevard, than the joyful Montmartre of the Balkans that it was before the war.

FATTO A MANO is a documentary short film that shows how a lot of essential food, from the region in Puglia, Italy, is handmade with a lot of energy, passion and knowledge and the people who produce it.