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Although Marinetti wrote the Manifesto of Futurist Cinema, Velocità is seen by some as the only futuristic film in its own right. Beside a dense intertextual network and a mechanic dance of the screen titles and objects dancing to stop-motion beats, the movie features a unique showcase of air painting on film and a few swinging frames from the streets of Turin.

Over a span of 8 years, Stefano talks about his choice to undertake sex reassignment from female to male. The first steps, the interviews with a still female face and voice, i problems that arise with hormone treatment. Many challenges and many objectives, not all of which are successful. “Ste” obtains consent for interventions to change a body in which he is not she recognizes. It soon reaches great visibility. But at the end of the parable in the media he is disappointed by the LGBT world, by the fake activism, and from the attacks received on the new image he projected of himself. Finally mature, Stefano confronts his past. Across the reflection of his true identity, he has now achieved his purpose: a "normal" life.

The strict quarantine in the spring of 2020 reduced the living space of hundreds of millions of people down to just a few square meters. The horizon was limited to the view from the window, boredom permeated the days, and an endless stream of catastrophic rumors emanated from the radio and television. Against the backdrop of his own mental and physical discomfort, the director begins to shoot a video diary. The similarly non-existent static camera records existential monologues as well as activities serving basic bodily needs. This philosophical essay is woven from reflections on the coming transformation of the world and the images that try to capture it.

Ancient bird hunting techniques, still practiced in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, are illustrated.

A collective journal written by film school students during the CoViD-19 pandemic.

Documentary about the evolution of airplanes.

Behind the scenes of "Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino.

Made to celebrate the centenary of the Galleria, the film traces its history from Giuseppe Mengoni's design, with its architectural and lighting wonders (gas flames), to its destruction during the war and its reconstruction in the post-war period. Olmi focuses mainly on the Galleria at the time the film was made, the crowds that inhabit it, the passers-by, the loiterers, the groups of anonymous gesticulating figures, the customers of bars and clubs, the nighttime crowd that appears there at dusk, the garbage collectors, the workers and immigrants looking for work who cross it at dawn.

Documentary on Tommaso Palaia, Ilenia Pasqua, Giuseppe Ferrise and Tania Bellini, as part of the Ceilings 2 project, curated by Simona Caramia.

The life and works of Maria Montessori have seen a renewed interest in recent years. This explores how the Montessori method, conceived almost a hundred years ago, continues to be crucial for an education that aims for the self-sufficiency of children.

In "What's your name?" handwriting, drawings, personal and family archives merge into an intimate work about the importance of remembering and recording. The short film unfolds through the pages of various diaries, spanning from childhood to early adulthood. As thoughts evolve and the style of writing shifts, the film weaves in family archive footage captured by the director's father: recently rediscovered video cassettes that, magically, come to life in a new form.

In 1993, youngster Loris Riccardi is the art director of a night club destined to become the most transgressive in Italy: Cocoricò. He conceives the concept of night-club-theatre transforming the dance floor into a place of provocation.

The occupants of an old abandoned factory - renamed Metropoliz - decide to leave the barricades and to escape once and for all from the city that puts them on the margins of society, denying home, work, health and legality. Their plan is simple: build a rocket to go live on the moon.

A voice from a distant future tells of a vanished city that was once among the most famous in the world, Venice. Amidst legends, rituals and hearsay, the narrator describes its daily life made of boats and its profound relationship with the lagoon surrounding it. Did that city ever exist? Was it ever inhabited, or was it a tourist park? Did it survive the floods and the plagues? Have its inhabitants managed to find a new way of living together?

‘The Invisible Player’ is the first documentary about homophobia in football in Italy and tells the story of the Florence-based gay-friendly Revolution Team. Through interviews with the Galatasaray and former Italy, Fiorentina and Roma manager Cesare Prandelli and the former Milan centre back Alessandro Costacurta the documentary promotes a debate around the topic and offers support for gay players.The film also looks at the relationships between players, clubs and fans and the impact of these in promoting a diverse and welcoming environment in football for gay players.

Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed are three Egyptian men who lived in Italy without documents for almost ten years. Suddenly thanks to an amnesty they finally manage to legalise their status and their future is re-inhabited by possibilities. As part of their need to rediscover their dreams and hopes they decide to take the journey back to the first places of arrival, when they disembarked from the boats that had brought them as teenagers to Italy after crossing the Mediterranean.

Armed with a GoPro digital micro camera, a Canon 5D, and an iPhone, Gipi recounts his first ten days as a smoker who decided to quit. Filming himself throughout the day, he records first the amusing delirium of the beginning, then the side effects of withdrawal, and finally his reflections on the decision to poison himself, during a trip with some friends in search of the places where the desire for that first cigarette was born.

The program featured Annalisa performing songs from her discography. During the show, the singer-songwriter also duetted on songs by five musical guests: “Eppure sentire (un senso di te)” with Elisa, “La genesi del tuo colore” with Irama, “Superclassico” with Ernia, ‘Tango’ with Tananai, and “Come saprei” with Giorgia.

With this documentary, you'll find the answer to the question you've always wondered: do cannibals really exist? On a journey between the past and present in unknown lands, we'll visit tribes that have never before encountered civilization as we know it. We'll witness the most brutal tribal rituals, see the most horrific customs of these peoples, and all this to give you the long-awaited answer: "Cannibals do exist."

The story of the Stura River, bent by human ingenuity. The disorderly course of the river and the dam, resembling a 200-meter-long concave hand, are the tools necessary for energy production.

The Trail of Toni - Toni Gobbi from Citizen to Mountain Guide is a documentary on Antonio, known as Toni, Gobbi (1914-1970), a renowned Italian mountaineer and mountain guide. It is a universal story of a man who followed his passion for the mountains with vision and determination, making it his life and leaving a legacy that, over 50 years later, withstands the test of time.

Rossana Rossanda was born on April 23, 1924 in Pula, Istria, Italy. The documentary shows her politic career in the Italian Comunist Party and her ideas.

Livorno, Italy, summer 1984. In the birthplace of Amedeo Modigliani, famous for the merciless irony of its inhabitants, the innocent joke of three young students turns into the hoax of the century, destined to provoke an earthquake in the entire art world. In a single night, the teenagers carve a “Modigliani style” head with an electric drill. The next day, the find of the sculpture is incredibly recognized by critics and art historians as a fantastic discovery that “sheds a new light on the work of the Master”. The news reverberates everywhere, attracting visitors, journalists and tv crews from around the world…

Painted, skinned, caged, abandoned among rubbish, animals are victims of exploitation and unnatural conditions imposed by humans.

The mundane quotidian experience of a man who fled Libya and awaits permission to remain in Italy, a period of limbo plagued with indignities.

Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis have been sending to Europe their children for decades, to show the world the injustice they suffer. A 2700 km long mined wall across the desert, and there's no mention of it even in UN resolutions on Western Sahara. This former spanish colony, just in front of Canary Islands, is occupied by Morocco since 1975. In 2011 I spent 5 weeks in the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, outer south-west of Algeria. This is where the Sahrawi's escape from their war-devastated land stopped, though none of them imagined they would stay there so long. When I met Salka, her foster italian mother Carmen and her mother Aisha, I had finally found what I had been looking for: state of rest began to take shape. Neither Salka nor I were born when it all began. Western Sahara has been occupied by Morocco and plundered by many others for over 40 years

“La Valanga Azzurra” traces the unparalleled journey of the Italian national alpine skiing team of the 1970s, led by the legendary coach Mario Cotelli and spearheaded by champions like Gustav Thöni and Piero Gros. Through victories that rewrote the history of Italian sports, such as the conquest of five World Cups and numerous medals across the Olympics and World Championships, the documentary celebrates internal rivalries, contrasting personalities, and the sacrifices that made this team invincible. The previously unseen testimonies of the protagonists, intertwined with the narration of Giovanni Veronesi, who, in this context, reveals his past as an aspiring champion, bring to life the unique saga of a sporting cyclone, from its glorious beginnings to its inevitable decline.

Ekhlas Alhlwani was forced to flee Syria with her three children and now lives in Zaatari, a refugee camp in the Jordanian desert. Rizzi spent seven weeks observing her and other women's daily life, which is devoid of any prospects. He shows how Alhlwani makes every effort to establish some kind of normality for her family despite the difficult camp conditions. The film vividlyconveys the cruelty of war, and especially the state o funcertainty and rootlessness to which refugees are exposed. The film is the first part of a trilogy that focuses on the emergence of a new civil consciousness in Malaysia, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Syria, as well as the social implications of the end of post-colonialism in these countries.

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered.

As autumn arrives, Sardinia’s coastlines empty out: the rough sea washes away the traces of mass tourism, while volunteers clean up what’s left.

Mireille Delmas-Marty, a visionary French lawyer, and Antonio Benincà, a passionate Italian artist, join forces and create a compass of possibilities to guide us through the chaos of the world. A deep friendship develops between them, nourished by their shared love of freedom.

9 January 2022, Olympic Stadium of Rome. Within the first thirty minutes of the game, Federico Chiesa collapsed on the ground, screaming in pain: he had ruptured the cruciate ligament in his left knee. It was the beginning of a ten-month ordeal, during which Federico had to rediscover himself, both professionally and personally. On his side will be his family, teammates and the Juventus staff.

A tour of the "ethno-geographical" and "zoological gardens" in Hamburg, Germany, which weaved the global ideas of the end of the century 19th century World's Fair.

We are in a film inside a film that develops from the rehearsal of the dialogues between Totò and Ninetto Davoli in Che cosa sono le nuvole by Pier Paolo Pasolini and fragments from La Vida es Sueño by Calderón de Barca. The rehearsals are repeated with clapperboards and become the starting point for tales of dreams, messages, songs and disputes about the human condition.

The laboratory tests and complex work involved in constructing the dam in the Lei Valley are described in detail to give an idea of the complexity of building the Lei Rhine dam. Among double-curved arch dams, this one has the widest crest in the world. The construction of the dam is punctuated by the long speeches and anecdotes of an elderly master builder.

The movie revolves around the factory worker figure evolution from post-WWII in Italy, with the emigration from southern to northern regions, the years of economic boom, the strikes, the riots and the infamous march of the 40000 in Turin in 1980.

In an ancient valley devastated by a hurricane caused by climate change, a scientist listens carefully to the 'genius loci' of the wounded forest, in search of a close encounter between humans and trees. Will intelligence of plants change our future?

An "anticipation film" made during performative actions in Paris, Madrid and Rome. Iván Argote deposes monuments, portraying them as symbols of vertical power marked by images of domination. The effigies descend from their pedestals to travel through the city, highlighting the fluidity of historical narratives and sparking surprise and perplexity among passers-by.

The story of the Japanese woman who with a sense of pagan fatalism has been able to sacrifice herself to mechanize her spirit in a sort of absurd voluntary human planning: of the woman who knows how to pose the folds of her kimono in the precious depictions of traditional dances and who knows turn on the eyes of the spectators with morbid attention in the studied movements of a strip-tease: of the woman who burns all her perceptive powers in the factories of the microscopic transistors in two years, of the "loves" who, with a centuries-old technique, dive for fishing corals and pearls; of the Japanese woman, essential actress of a drama of transformation taking place in a country of very ancient civilization that only for a century has opened the doors of her fantastic world in the eyes of the foreigner.