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The Eritrean/Ethiopian community has been present in Italy for at least half a century and it has been actively integrated into the social and cultural life of the city. Starting from the collective memories of the community, on the ground of photo documents, the film gathers together the legacy of personal stories, exploring the different shades of identity, migration and the aspirations of the people.
"Storie di Genova" is a documentary that combines historical research with innovative technology through advanced techniques of digital restoration, animation, and the colorization of archival photographs. Its aim is to offer viewers a fresh perspective on the past and create a dialogue between history and the present.
First-person story of Maria, fifty, wife, mother and worker, who through the encounter with today's feminist practices of the "Non Una Di Meno" movement in Milan, takes stock of being a woman today. Intrigued by the "global women's strike", proclaimed on March 8, 2017 by Non Una Di Meno, Maria participates in the Milanese demonstration. Here for the first time she hears about the "Feminist Plan Against Male Violence Against Women and Gender Violence" that the movement is writing. The plan describes the directions of a necessary change in several fields where a stereotypical and sexist perspective of genders and the power relations between them is replicated that is the basis of the violence that is intended to be overcome.
A medical documentary for students.
On 12 October 2023, in a performative journey through the urban planning and fascist architecture of EUR and its colonial spectres, the present, the past and a utopian future led the public through a discovery of Via Cristoforo Colombo. EUR is the result of a fascist urban planning system which was meant to inscribe into the city’s road pattern straight trajectories of expansion toward the Mediterranean Sea, as a symbolic representation of the regime’s colonial project. On October 12th, a day celebrated in many countries as Columbus Day, such references were poetically and irreverently subverted by Feel Good Cooperative, as a collective and desiring body of more than one hundred people was guided on a performative journey to re-signify those sites of exploitation and power through a polyphony of voices.
“Novanta Giorni” to make a life-changing choice. Two opposing worlds brought into dialogue in this documentary by Women from all walks of life turn to the “Cervello” Hospital in Palermo, Sicily, to terminate their pregnancies while the pro-life center ostracizes this practice and those who instead understand and help in this journey...
In the beginning it felt like a holiday, then everything changed due to Covid19.
A female director explores the connection between the life and work of Federico Fellini and Jungian analytical psychology. Through Fellini's The Book of Dreams and other autobiographical texts, she weaves together the fragments of a dialogue between Fellini's feminine interior voice, the Anima, and the shadow of his unconscious, documenting Fellini's inner quest through the dark parts of his psyche.
The film focuses on the authenticity of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, symbol of the Abruzzo Region, found in Capestrano in 1934 and dated by archaeologists VI century B.C.
Amidst the educational and material poverty consequent to the government’s negligence, the united community of Scampia, a district of the northern area of Naples, works daily to promote cultural growth and give the youth of the area the means and the freedom to be authors of their future.
Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.
This film reveals the Israeli attack on the 2010 Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of humanitarian ships which tried to highlight the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, and break its blockade. Shot from aboard the Freedom Flotilla, directed and narrated by one of its survivors and following up on subsequent media coverage, the film shows how the dead activists & their comrades who defended their vessels were portrayed. The film reveals what really happened and how it was spun in traditional and online media outlets.
The summer adventures of a group of kids from Chioggia, their dreams and their expectations.
Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.
Armed with a camcorder, Valeria flees to the mountains in search of a new life, but memories and desires intertwine with the present. An intimate diary that reflects on identity and belonging.
In most parts of the world, school is a crucial developmental environment in which to grow, train and find self-actualization. Then there are some places where school saves your life. The mission of the nonprofit organization Still I Rise is to solve the global school crisis by empowering the most discriminated against, poor and vulnerable children through a cutting-edge educational model that aims to provide excellent, free education to all children in the world.
An intimate project with Elif Bayindir, set between Turkey and Italy, exploring bureaucracy, salvation, and an imaginary poetic residence permit.
“From the Water's Edge Down” recounts the life of a fisherman who, through his memories, addresses the issues of the future of the lake and his ancient trade, both of which are linked to climate change and poised between survival and oblivion.
A brief amateur silent film (1'54", DCP from 9.5mm reversal, 16 fps) without intertitles, sourced from Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna. It forms part of a larger group of 27 amateur 9.5mm films attributed to Nena Lavello, who was 16 years old at the time of filming. Shot during the spring and summer of 1925, the collection documents a range of domestic and travel scenes, including visits to Sicily, Campania, and northern Italy. This particular film captures moments of leisure and companionship on the beach at Lavagna, reflecting the filmmaker’s early engagement with light, composition, and movement. As noted by Michele Manzolin in the 2025 Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue, the footage serves as a visual record of youthful play and friendship, offering insight into the personal and expressive potential of early amateur filmmaking.
An Italian short movie.
An autoportrait from João Victor Montuori in a short-film format made for the 10th IFA Film Directing Masterclass with Ruben Östlund. Each student selected made their own video based on five questions with one and a half minutes limit. João used a mix between footage from his previous films and footage made especially for the autoportrait.
A fascinating and expansive survey of the corporate and cultural history of Italian industrial design innovator, Olivetti
For Antonio Negri, renowned political philosopher and author of the international bestseller "Empire" (co-authored with Michael Hardt, 2000), a 17 year long chapter of repressive Italian politics of detention, exile, and imprionment recently ended. The question for Negri is how one can preserve the freedom of spirit within a penal structure that focuses more on the interior than exterior life of the prisoner. For Antonio Negri, the cell of resistance from which he wrote became an enclosure of peace.
"Terre Emerse" is an investigation above the sea level. "Terre Emerse" is a road-trip in which Antonio Angelucci, architect and researcher, is looking for whom reside besides water and rivers in peripheral areas between Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Those areas, reclaimed first from the sea and then from the swamp at the beginning of XIX century, are today particularly subjected to river floods and sea storm.
Documentary belonging to "Bellezze Italiche", a series edited by the Unione Cinematografica Italiana. The video shows the "spur of Italy", namely the Gargano.
Not only a video story of the quarantine, but also an open love letter to the city of Milan, its inhabitants and its wonderful views, even of the suburbs.
Alberto Burri at work. The exceptional privilege of being able to see the artist at work, among glues, wooden strips and plastic panels, blowtorch and metal plates. The film version comes from a 35mm copy, a very damaged film especially with regards to sound.
A trip between the most renown mountain localities on the italian northwestern alps.
Mario Lorenzini was a working class man, a hiker, a hunter, and a member of the Italian Walser community. In the 70s, he bought a super8 camera and started shooting home-movies with it. Through his lens we experience the seasons passing by in Priami, a small village on the Swiss-Italian border. With his cinematic eye, he explores the people around him, while a second point of view emerges, giving an interpretation of his world, his life and his sense of cinema. His relationship with masculinity and the missed relationship with the "other sex" is often highlighted, enhancing the conflict between the expectations of his community and the reality of not fitting in.
A stunning and intimate documentary about Barbara, who lays bare her heart, mind and body as she lives her life fully as a disabled woman.
Access to health is not the same for everyone: the conditions of life affect the possibility a person has to be cured and healed. In the outskirts of Trieste, an innovative health model rethinks the ‘cure’ out of institutional standards by bringing attention to people’s lives, without seeing them only through the lens of the disease.
An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's television output, with its bawdy game-shows earning much overseas derision, the small broadcaster showcased here evidently foregrounded and documented local grass-roots political shenanigans. With no commentary or captions, the film plunges us into a lively day-before-yesterday epoch when the authorities' battles with the Mafia produced an atmosphere akin to Civil War on the streets. Virtuouso editing knits together a dizzyingly wide range of sights and sounds that consistently fascinate and impress.
