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An almost eighty -year -old man works in his workshop where he made ceramic dishes manually and especially whistles in the shape of birds. The "song" of the background of the birds and the images of the isolated village of Castelli, in the Teramo, will bring the viewer in a remote place away from modernity. Man, craftsman, nature, silence.

Bianca celebrates her 22nd birthday in a small flat in a brutalist neighbourhood on the outskirts of Moscow. To the digital world, Bianca is Electa, known on social media for her touching dance performances and her obsession with the colour white. She was born in Norilsk, Siberia, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and is part of the international group of young people who gravitate to Radio Esperanza Libre, a podcast channel founded by Anita Lopez, a young environmentalist speaker based in Argentina. Anita and Electa met by chance on the internet because, in addition to their shared interest in environmental issues, they share a curious date of birth: 29 February. Electa’s network of virtual connections becomes the only possible escape route for Bianca, at a time when climate change is unfortunately not the only urgency around her. The podcast of Monday 28 February 2022 is an opportunity for Electa to raise a cry for help.

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

Two young siblings, Omar and Mara, have a dream: to start a farming business near the river where they spent their childhood, the Sile. Their story is intertwined with other stories that describe the dramatic change in the landscape and the resulting environmental damage, painting a picture of a polluted waterway, abandoned to neglect and reduced to a mere backdrop for daily activities and tourism.

A documentary that recounts the personal and professional life of Mara Blasetti, who built her career behind the scenes in cinema with determination. Despite the marginalization she suffered in the male-dominated Italian film industry, Mara's story is emblematic of the tenacious emancipation of women in 20th-century cinema.

VOCE is an impulse, the need to give a voice to those who have not been able to use their own. Andrea La Puca and Azzurra Nappi, collecting hundreds of reports of experiences of violence through an anonymous form, give life to a female monologue that includes all the voices that have never been able to be heard.

Imola, April 29, 1994: Ayrton Senna is at zero points in the Drivers' World Championship. In his team Team, Williams, someone is already beginning to be perplexed. Perhaps, believing that it is no longer the Ayrton Senna that everyone knows. The Brazilian had understood these sensations, presenting himself at Imola with the utmost determination of his career. The Documentary traces the three days that changed the future of Formula 1 forever, having the Senna Judge and the mechanic who dismantled Ayrton's crashed car speak for the first time, inside a hangar at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack.

At first calm, even dreamy, the film takes the viewer into the quiet of the seaside and undersea landscape somewhere in Italy. They are soon shaken awake from these blissful images by footage of traces of today's global industrial world, as an increasing part of the sea is polluted by wastewater from factories, destroying the natural beauty.

Documentary about futurist painter Gerardo Dottori.

A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.

1°. Nel porto di Genova, Veliero ("1. In the Port of Genoa, Sailing Ship") is a 1928 silent amateur film by Guglielmo Baldassini, preserved as a 2K DCP from a 9.5mm reversal print without intertitles. Held by Fondazione Home Movies in Bologna, the film shows a sailing ship entering Genoa’s port, likely shot from a small boat. Baldassini, a Milanese painter and etcher, used the Pathé Baby format to capture landscapes and seascapes, often as references for his artwork. His archive includes 95 reels filmed between 1926 and the early 1930s, focusing on family, Milan, coastal scenes, and mountains. He developed his films at home, experimenting with tinting, toning, and exposure correction. Many reels show emulsion decay due to aging and chemical treatments. Notes by Michele Manzolini and Mirco Santi appear in the 44th Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue.

Five of the most important and prestigious names in Italian cuisine gather to discuss their choices, their sense of time, and the future, free from prejudice and convention. One by one, they begin to speak, leading us on a journey through the different latitudes, flavors, and histories of our country. All under the banner, however, of one great shared spirit: love for the life to come. The fifth season that unites us all.

Italian documentary on submarines.

Two days in the life of the director and his two friends -filled of art, nature, boredom and joviality- in their birthplace: Sicily.

The unconventional life of Guido Panza, an independent pataphysical publisher, a traveling film print vendor, an organic winemaker, a CBD grower, and much more. Originally from Campania, but living in Bologna for thirty years, he escapes the chaos of the hills of Ozzano.

An essay film based on archive footage, in which the future, care and collective dialogue redefine the present and open up new possibilities.

Experimental short

This new instalment of Angela's Diaries concludes the trilogy dedicated to the late Angela Ricci Lucchi, with whom Yervant Gianikian made all his films, which recount man's violence against nature, animals and humanity itself. Lucrezia Lerro sensitively reads Angela's diary about her illness, giving voice to her intimate writing and to the dense poetics of the painful passages that seem to be paced at the rate of her heartbeats, word after word, as she desperately tries to overcome her illness. Themes include the war, Angela's political work and the promise made to her to continue working.

The term devagan refers to a group of Newar men who embody goddess Durgā in the 500-year-old Nava Durgā ritual in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Through the stories of three devagans within a single family, the film explores the transmission of myth, ritual knowledge, and devotion across generations. In addition to the ritual performance, the film also focuses on the devagans’ daily lives, revealing their hard work backstage and the challenges they face.

A feature-length documentary about one of the most dangerous highways in Southern Italy.

To be born and to grow up on an island like Sardinia, it almost feels like to live inside of a Diorama: a small, picturesque surrounding that can only give you an impression of reality. Seen through the eyes of a person who left and told by the voices of the young people that are still there, Diorama is an analysis on belonging to a place that feels abandoned and hostile towards the people that inhabit an island that has so much to offer, but at the same time nothing to give.

The Matterhorn is among the highest mountains in the Alps. It overlooks Breuil-Cervinia village in Italy and Zermatt in Switzerland, two well-known tourist destinations. The cities, divided by the mountains, have always been connected by winter sports enthusiasts and professionals. In 2020, the Covid19 pandemic broke the balance. In Switzerland, the new rules of access to the facilities have not prevented people from experiencing the mountains. In Italy, the total closure has annulled tourism. A new paradoxical normalcy, symbolizing a human condition of inner conflict, which in times of difficulty shows itself more clearly. In the Swiss part, tourists adapt to new behaviors with daily habits. In the Italian part, instead, deprived of the human element, the pylons, the Christmas lights, and the ski lifts become natural objects; snowcats, iron giants lost in time, working for months for no one, with a wandering melancholy.

A documentary about Tintoretto.

Humorous observations on the Italian Beat world featuring poet Gianni Milano, Majid Andrea Valcarenghi, and other Italian beatnik.

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

"Daybreak in Rome, expressed in nature shots (mountains, the Tiber, the sea) and street scenes (street lights going out, city coming alive), hour by hour. Images from St. Peter's Square and St. Peter's Church, Castel Sant'Angelo, Forum, Colosseum and more. Lasso act, acrobatics and fire eater in the Alhambra theater. Moreover, it also contains images of Washington, D.C." -EYE.

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity.

The breath of Market Square in Brescia, with its human and social aspects.

A short documentary exploring the quiet tension between identity and belonging. Through fragments of everyday life, street interviews, and a personal voice, the film follows a single memory, reflecting on the unspoken rules that shape how people present themselves and what remains hidden beneath the surface.

At a crossroads of borders in the Balkans, Sabina Talović, a feminist activist, faces the violence of a patriarchal system with unwavering resolve. From the Yugoslav wars to the racism of new nationalisms, her voice bears witness to how acts of solidarity are always completely different while remaining fundamentally unchanged. A humbly caring and sharp debut film by Marianna Giorgia Marchesini.

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.

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.

An installation designed to be exhibited on the windows of the Museo del Novecento in Milan and consists of the reassembly of fragments from Fuori Orario, the famous program conceived by enrico ghezzi. Over the course of 60 minutes, film sequences, montages, theme songs and nocturnal presentations alternate between the early nineties and the end of the 2000s. Fuori Orario is seen fragmentarily, it is thought first of all by separating image and sound: only inside the museum can it be heard and only outside can it be seen. In both cases, the work is made up of superimpositions, forms and words that escape and chase each other. Entering the endless night, the impossibility of an absolute gaze is increasingly revealed. In the construction of the sequences, the previous thought is not forgotten, but it is recontextualized within the same frame, it is put back into the discourse, conscious but uncontrolled reactivation.

The Demands of Ordinary Devotion is a meditation on care and love, a beautiful riddle of shapes and gestures where creation and labour are playfully celebrated. Shot in majestic 16mm and featuring creators of different kinds – a ceramist, a mother-to-be, a carpenter, a film director – Eva Giolo’s new opus is a much-needed gem of beauty and freshness.

The story of young girls and boys that have dealt and deal with drug addiction.

"Il Tempo si Distingue tra le tue Mani" is a letter-film about distance. A reflection on the mechanisms of memory, on the impossibility of recalling memories in their entirety. The director's hands intertwine with those of her grandmother, creating a bond in which time flows. We go from silent images to words written on scraps of film.

A young woman investigates an island’s geologic specificity, discovering hidden strata where history and memory meet barely submerged narratives of displacement and imaginaries of possible futures.

The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement. —Zoe D'Amaro

For a long time, psychoanalysis failed to make inroads into Italy. Idealism, Catholicism and fascism each regarded it as a pseudo-science, while Marxism saw it as a bourgeois ideology. It was only after 1968 that the situation gradually began to change: numerous groups were founded who took their bearings from Lacan, such as the Milan collective Semiotica e psicoanalisi, who organized an international conference on the subject of madness in 1976.

The impressive and fascinating story of Giuliano Calore, 77 year-old italian cyclist who descended the Stelvio at night with no bars or brakes.