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A group of students from Milan, Italy decide to rebel against their principal, a strict and rigid man.

Compilation of tourist images of Italy (such as Isola Bella, Lake Como, Messina) and presumably Switzerland and Austria.

A silent amateur 9.5mm reversal film presented without intertitles. Preserved by Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna, the film documents a short cruise aboard the ocean liner Rex, departing Genoa on 17 April 1934 and arriving in Naples the following morning. Organised by Genoa’s Company Recreation Club, the voyage served as a preparatory run before the Rex’s transatlantic crossings. The footage includes scenes of the ship and its passengers, with Ludovico Maria Chierici and his son Enrico alternating use of the 9.5mm camera. As Paolo Simoni notes in the 2025 Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue, the Rex—a symbol of Fascist Italy and maritime ambition—was later immortalised in Fellini’s Amarcord, despite never having sailed the Adriatic.

A math professor teaches through distance learning. Worried about the growth of his students, he finds a way to break out of loneliness.

The twilight scenery of the desolate Calabrian countryside leads into the meanders of a lost time in which every search is in vain: this frustration is paradoxically the lifeblood that manages to transform Gaetano Crivaro's film into a ruthless interrogation of ourselves.

A document of the Bulgarian Orthodox Monastery of St. John/Ivan of Rila

A documentary about a Danish-Nigerian family torn apart by geography, who are today trying to both comprehend and explain the choices they made that have led them to this point. When the filmmaker Jide, for the first time in five years, visits his father’s poultry farm, we see through his camera the unfolding of a story about family, love, and legacy. It is a quiet and stunning portrait of a broken family trying to heal, one in which the drama occurs in their mutual understanding, and never takes up more space than the impressions that meet Jide’s camera.

Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti recount the birth and development of Bestiari, erbari, lapidari, their latest film, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024.

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.

The filmmaker revisits Michele Soavi’s film “Della Morte Dellamore".

Moving away from the conventions of traditional documentary filmmaking, Gitani presents itself as a vibrant "emotional vision" of Romani life. Rather than a rigid factual account, the film immerses the audience in an atmosphere of pure euphoria and shared joy. Music serves as the essential thread that weaves the entire work together, while the visual narrative mirrors the fluidity of dance—constantly assembling and dissolving to the beat of the performers' movements. It is a rhythmic and sensory experience that prioritizes feeling and atmosphere, capturing the spirit of a culture through the harmony of sound and motion.

A documentary about the industrial, urbanistic and social aspects of the Società Anonima Lavorazione Pelli (S.A.L.P) factory located in Rivarolo Canavese, thirty kilometers north of Turin.

Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.

Scenes of devastation following the war in San Martino Del Carso between the Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire that started in 1915.

The documentary tells the history of the oldest ghetto in Europe and of the Venetian Jewish community. 2016 will be its Quincentennial.The eyes of a Jewish teenager, of Venetian origin, but born and raised in New York, will lead us in this journey. Lorenzo is guided by his Aunt and two young Venetian cousins who offer him the stimulus to enter more and more into a world unknown to him.The Ghetto's atmosphere, places and history are recreated by interviews to scholars, docu-fiction and a modern animation. The history of the Venice ghetto offers us an opportunity to reflect on the story of an immigration and of a slow integration, an example of the enormous wealth that the exchange of diverse cultures can give us.

On the slopes of the Lepini mountains, in the Lazio Apennines, extend the plain of the Pontine countryside and the marshes, before the reclamation in the Fascist era. On the edges, the inhabited centres of Terracina and Sonnino are the theatre of scenes of peasant life. Then we see the monuments and natural beauties of the place, such as the Abbey of Fossanova, the park of Lake Fogliano, and the park with the ruins of the vanished city of Ninfa, founded in Roman times in honour of the deities of spring waters and destroyed in 1382 by the troops of the antipope during the Great Schism.

From the observation point of a commercial centre in the heart of Paris; silhouettes are looking at the sky waiting for something to happen. At the same time, on the borders of Europe, others are preparing their shopping lists.

Italian soldiers ski and jump from a trampoline. The concluding scenes show some of the riskiest feats.

A mondo documentary directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.

The film documents the ‘UFO: oggetti volanti’ happening, which took place in 1968 on Monte Olimpino. The event was organised by Bruno Munari and Daniela Palazzoli (then editor of the magazine BIT), who appear in the film. The theme of the event was flying art objects.

A colony of children seek liberation from the tyranny of the adult world's gaze.

Five young video-makers, with their brand new MiniDv cams and their digital minds meets the analogical work of five young painters.

Documentary footage shot around Naples. Coastline around Lake Fusaro (Pozzuoli). Wheat threshing. Fishermen. Hunting lodge used for oyster farming. People bathing.

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.

Patrizia and Marie left everything behind and embarked on a five-month, 20,000 km off-road journey from France to Guinea-Bissau—with nothing but an old car, four surfboards, and a mission: to capture the stories of inspiring women redefining their place in society across Northwest Africa. What happened on that long and dusty road was pure magic. From the first female mountain guide of Morocco to the women’s rights activist in Nouakchott, or the young surf collective in Dakar, they all showed that when women dare to break free from conventions and listen to their own voice, a revolution begins—not just for them, but for their communities, their countries, and the world.

In a world teetering on the edge of collapse, a mother recounts a tale to her child about the destructive power of human greed. Sweet End of the World. invites us on a journey that blurs the line between myth and reality, uncovering the harbingers of an impending catastrophe. Through virtual reality, humanity confronts its fate, reimagining the apocalypse as a legacy to be preserved and passed on.

Documentary about the connection between the three Giallo-esque Spaghetti Western films "KIller Caliber .32", "Killer Adios" and "The Price of Death".

The picturesque exuberance of the thundering Terni Falls, in the Marmore Mountains. Nature's perseverance combines with human engineering, building dams and creating public-use diversions in the mountains.

The film about the history of S. E. F. Torres 1903 and the extraordinary deeds of some of its most representative athletes.

After twenty years of international competitions, the three times Ice Climbing World Champion Angelika Rainer is at a crossroad in her career. 'My upside down world', the first biopic documentary about the Italian climber's personal and professional life, will follow Angelika's path to self-discovery, as the first woman of her family to be fully in charge of her freedom and destiny.

A painter, a comedian, a poet, a hip-hop artist and a sole singer have figured out ways to solidify their belonging to Palestine - the very place that is being deprived of its own right to exist. Colors of Resistance is a personal journey that questions the concept of belonging to a place that is struggling to survive, inside and outside its own borders. Filmmaker Areeb Zuaiter tries to understand how her kids will relate to a hometown in which they may never live.

The low-grade variety show in Rome, in the old Altieri cinema-theater.

"I wanted to understand if it still made sense to have Italian soldiers in Kosovo," explains the director Andrea Bettinetti, who placed the NATO mission KFOR, which began on 1999 with the entry into the country of the Italian contingent, at the center of his documentary.

The city of Tallinn, capital of Estonia, offers the rare possibility of observing freely, without tricks of the eye nor violence. People welcome the watching eye naturally, they do not feel offended nor do they withdraw, they participate willingly, discreetly. In every place: in bars, on streetcars, along the street. And they never cease to convey messages, even when their voice goes off and they start to stare into space with embarrassment. All the images of "Gentle Tallinn" belong to reality as do its sounds. Caught in a relationship of tenderness with every living being and thing, in common fate. With eyes wide open and the sweetness of temporary enchantments.

Partisans, couriers, and survivors tell personal stories as fragments of a collective history. The sites of the Gothic Line become the real and emotional space of this journey toward freedom.

A short documentary by Flavio Sciolé: in Potenza, Italy, Dan Fante (writer/novelist/poet and son of legendary author John Fante) is interviewed by Flavio Sciolé (with Anna Battista as an interpreter).

This short film is a multispecies ethnographic collaboration between humans and donkeys, in the permacultural site of Centre Thar dö Ling, in the Valley of Sagana (Sicily, Italy), where the land is being regenerated, and regenerative, through more-than-human ecological interactions. Land is shaped as land shapes.

Marlena Cooper is the first black Democratic candidate in the Republican fiefdom of Gregg County, East Texas. Democracy in America tells the story of the electoral campaign of Marlena and her Republican opponent Jay Dean, attempting to paint a picture of two communities that seem to live in parallel realities. In the first electoral campaign in 30 years that sees a Democratic candidate against the Republican Party, the characters and their stories will explore the themes of white superiority, abortion, firearms and, reconnecting to Toqueville's Democracy in America, the fundamental role played by religion in the young American democracy to emerge. A journey into the bowels of Texas, into the true heart of America, in search of the reasons, to discover the roots of the present and future of the United States.

This documentary is designed to present the lives and activities of Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS - the super police created by Hitler as the main tool of oppression - until 1928) and Adolf Eichmann (head of the Department of Jewish Affairs of the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and head of operations in the deportation of 3 million Jews to extermination camps.

The documentary displays the celebrations of the fallen in the Battle of Monte Nero (which took place on the 16th June 1915). In 1922 a memorial plaque was unveiled in the presence of veterans of the Battle and of Lieutenant General Etna who led the attack against the Austrian troupes on the summit of Monte Nero.