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Aisha McAdams, a former competitive runner turned photographer, embarks on a journey to document the triumphs and struggles of famed ultra trailrunners, including Jim Walmsley and Eszter Csillag. Traveling to mythical races—the Western States Endurance Run in the mountains of eastern California, the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in the French Alps—the film marvels at athletes who maintain their intensity as they run 100 miles of mountain trails while climbing thousands of vertical feet.

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.

In contexts of conflict, such as Gaza, one often encounters feelings of fear and hatred, even in children. Interviews with educators, unions, NGO leaders, Palestinian citizens (mothers and fathers), and images of both educational and family life contexts.

"Kursaal" is a short 360-degree documentary dedicated to the CineKursaal in Rumelange, Luxembourg's oldest movie theater, which opened in 1911 and never closed since. The CineKursaal went through the Nazi occupation, survived the devastation of World War II, resisted the growing success of television in the 1970s, and renewed itself by automating the projection room in the late 1980s. Not even the advent of multiplexes, the temporary closure of theaters due to the pandemic, and the growing success of streaming platforms were able to interrupt the CineKursaal's glorious history. Through the personal recollections of its owner Raymond Massard, great-grandson of Conrad Massard who first managed the cinema in 1911, the short documentary tells the story of a cultural infrastructure rooted in Luxembourg's history. Archival materials and immersive video overlap in an intimate narrative that celebrates the cinema's past, reflects on its present, and looks to its future.

A small village dominates the Oglio river valley, once on the border between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan... its name is Barco and it is dominated by the castle of a branch of the powerful Martinengo family, for centuries masters of the "County in the fog". The documentary by Mario Bonetti and Giovanni Zanotti, sponsored by the Province of Brescia, offers a journey back in time, between the splendor of an ancient county and the end of peasant civilization. It tells the origins, history, art, present and future of a magical Italian village. From the voices of those who have lived in the country emerge unique and exciting stories that bring back old memories of a world that no longer exists.

Set against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the fascist dictatorship, a man of means, yet unknown to history, scrutinises the world through his small cine camera. Guiding him and teaching him is a manual; the buds of ideology are detectable beneath the seemingly impartial tone it uses to describe technique. But in his films, the ineffable signs of resistance still rise to the surface.

A concert by Ultimo.

Mara Blasetti became one of the first Italian women to take on the role of production supervisor. In 2012, almost by chance, evidence of her exceptional career begin to emerge.

The All Reds Rugby Rome, within the former occupied cinodrome, are a popular sports team based on self-management creates an inclusive political project. They were born in 2005 when they decided to reclaim the old abandoned dog track, making it a field where you can now practice sport, freely and free of charge.

Documentary about the making of Fabio Salerno's short film "Oltretomba (Beyond)".

In London, they lament it and welcome him, but everyone is inside their shell. And they obey indifferently. Society divided into classes. Indians run minimarkets. The British are superior beings. Progress within the rules set by business. Private property is sacred. The owner and his slaves keep watch. Every corporation, company, or luxury store has one or more employees who watch, control, and spy. In the British Library, I counted 50. You can't enter any reading room without a pass. Police officers and poachers firmly turn me away as soon as I try to film. Everything belongs to someone: only the owner can allow its use. A fortified city. Men in a vault. Getting rich. Marvelous designer skyscrapers draw the line between the select few and the indistinct masses. Empty, docile bodies.

A study on surveillance videos showing the last sighting of missing people. The film is structured as a long walk through the city in which the exit from the scene corresponds to the total disappearance of the person. Sometimes the subject is more evident, other times it mingles in the crowd or appears in a few pixels in the distance. The edges of the picture are also the limits of the image, which can be easily crossed but which, in the case of these videos, become openings to the unknown.

The Universal White Brotherhood is a community whose philosophy lies in opening their hearts to the light and to channelling a supreme cosmic rhythm through dance.

Water flows, water goes down, a principle that has allowed the Cavour canal to flood the rice fields between Novara, Vercelli and Pavia for more than 150 years. Here, where more than 40% of European rice is produced, the man-made landscape bears witness to a delicate balance. In a flow of images, the distribution of water allows us to delve into the complex irrigation network together with its workers.

Portraying the epic allure around espresso, from its ritual entrenched in Italian culture and in convivial experiences, to its rise as a global phenomenon, this explores the expansion and evolution of the coffee market through a collection of personal stories.

A documentary film conceived as a virtual dialogue and musical journey in four acts, which investigates the responsibility of architects in building the society of tomorrow.

A visual poem on the city of Rome.

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.

short film with RSI 16" archive material

A brief documentary about a theatrical project that involves an Italian jail's inmates.

Between 1957 and 1996, thousands of families from southern Italy who emigrated to Germany had to leave their children at the A. De Gasperi Institute on Monte Bondone. This is the story of the boys and girls who spent their childhood in this Border Institute.

A young Italian doctor thrust into a COVID-19 ICU ward grapples with isolation and uncertainty with no end in sight.

Ahmed lost a leg because of a landmine. Fatimetu works as a deminer. Mohamed tells the story of the wall that divides his country, Western Sahara. Kadija would like to come back to her occupied city, but she no longer hope it.

Home arose from the need to create a space, albeit an imaginary one, in which to relive my memories. The window and television set are the frame that denotes the passage from reality to dream.

Lucarelli was an Italian company working under the auspices of Pathé, who released the film in France as Palerme, Capitale de la Sicile. This film can be found on the web variously as Palermo 1908 and Palermo Illustrata (a different Italian film also of 1908) but the 1914 date is right (it was released in France in February 1915).

The documentary follows, the adventure of three renowned mountaineers, assisted by a young aspiring climber, on the south face of the Marmolada, the legendary "Regina della Dolomiti". Matteo della Bordella, Maurizio Giordani, Massimo Faletti, and Iris Bielli come together to open a new route, challenging their limits and the dangers of a mountain that has entered the debate on climate change.

Filmreflex on the protest of the young anarchists at the Carrara congress and of the international political-literary avant-garde at the 1968 Buchmesse in Frankfurt: in these reflections on anarchy a thread of protesting discourse led by Cohn-Bendit emerges from the discussions and declarations pronounced at the anti-congress and at the Gegenbuchmesse, where meetings were promoted for the foundation of the students and workers league and international counter-publishing, contesting the bureaucratic organization of the congress and the peace prize awarded by the Buchmesse to the imperialist president Senghor: a speech for the anarchy of culture.

A Donatello award nominated documentary.

January 13, 2012. The cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks after running aground off the island of Giglio. A few days after the tenth anniversary of the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, we retrace the tragedy through unreleased footage and the exclusive testimonies of survivors and rescuers.

The fourth volume of collection of the most exciting trailers in the history of cinema, from Blade Runner to Apocalypse Now, from The Deer Hunter to Barton Fink, from Alien to Paris, Texas and many others.