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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.

Bodies in spaces and the search for emptiness.

On this journey, we arrive in Calabria, in San Luca, an iconic place known all over the world for the Duisburg massacre. The heart of the 'Ndrangheta. A docufilm of men and women who bravely oppose the mafia.

An audiovisual journey at the discovery of their own family roots, between clash and superimposition, in a twine of imaginary and real witness.

The film is about Franco Grillini, a somewhat late-blooming gay politician from Bologna, born in 1955 into a farming family, with a degree in education, who has always been active in the fight for the recognition of gay, lesbian, and transsexual civil rights.

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.

Let the Show Begin documents the preparation and staging of the first Baghdad International Short Film Festival, which took place in September of 2005. In spite of formidable obstacles, the event’s young organizers remain determined to create an event that is both creative and constructive during a time when daily violence keeps many people paralyzed.

A hot summer in a working-class neighborhood in Bologna: the rhythm and repetition of silences, of afternoon grasshoppers, and ancient sounds accompany the desolation and the courage of the people who live there.

March 25, 2017, Monza. The park has a stage ten times larger than the rock stars in San Siro. Hundreds of volunteers, civil protection, stalls. And then the people, a lot. All gathered waiting for Pope Francis. The relentless music, spread by the speakers, gives the impression of being in front of a déjà vu: the long wait for a concert, among the fans waiting for the arrival of the last pop star.

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

A weekend in the mountains.

A tribute to the nearby mountain; the one behind the house. That of Monte Rosa and its southern slope which overlooks wild over Alagna. A journey written over time. The same one that goes into stories and in the mountains of men; in their homes. The time that lives in traditions, in an ancient Walser costume worn, as well as in the deep cracks of the highest glaciers. A short story in honor of the people who live in the mountains, in the mountains. So that I can continue to do so. Remembering that we are all passing through, but there is something eternal.

Tiktok, Andrè Bazin, Subway Surfers, Minecraft parkour and Harmony Korine.

The innovator of Barolo reconstructs the extra-ordinary human and professional path of an authentic founding father, thanks to whom the italian wine stepped into future for good. “I came to the world of wine-making without a family tradition behind me. I believe that this opening admission is necessary: for being free of any ancestral ties or responsibilities, I was able to face Barolo with neither pride nor prejudice, but with unfettered freedom” (Renato Ratti) PRODUCED BY STUFFILM & STORIEDOC WRITTEN BY TIZIANO GAIA DIRECTED BY FABIO MANCARI WITH PIETRO RATTI, MASSIMO MARTINELLI, ANGELO GAJA, GIGI ROSSO, ARMANDO CORDERO, PIERCARLO GRIMALDI, GIOVANNI RATTI, BEATRICE SITIA RATTI, RENZO BALBO, FEDERICO OBERTO, EZIO RIVELLA

The documentary reveals the wonderful hidden world of fungi and molds, nature's true allies. From surprising reproductive strategies to alliances with trees, discover how these organisms keep the forest alive. An adventure through mysteries, dangers, and wonders, it invites us to respect and love our silent treasures.

Along the river, the landscape is uncertain. Light settles and unsettles.

Three stories of lives shattered at work: Raffaella, a truck driver from Fondi left paralyzed; Lucia, a widow with two children after the construction site where her husband Luca was working collapsed; and Sandro, a worker who died at a Tuscan paper mill. The documentary gives voice to the survivors, exploring the human impact of tragedies and restoring dignity to the victims, transforming them from numbers into people.

In the diaries of Giuseppina Ricci, a teacher in Fascist Italy, a captivating portrait of the nation at the dawn of World War II is depicted, revealing the details of the challenges faced by children during that historical period.

Lucy from Palermo is studying music in England and is very pregnant. Her mother and teenage sister visit to be with her for the birth of baby Futura. Afterward the three of them return to Sicily, where Kitim, the father of Futura, also lives.

A lumberjack by trade, Lorenzo has spent his entire life abroad, first in France and then in Switzerland. His body bent in two from years of hard work, Lorenzo carries his seventy-three years with ease atop forty-meter-tall fir trees. His work, in the endless expanse of beech and fir forests of Risoux, is both scientific and passionate. He lives alone, as his wife is in a clinic in Lausanne and a son was injured in the woods. Yet he hasn't lost his smile, he loves nature, and he approaches his relationships with other emigrants with irony and generosity. With them in the forest, Lorenzo prepares the charcoal kiln to transform beech branches into charcoal using the ancient ritual that unfolds over days and nights.

16mm dairy film by Pierre Parat

Elena, Italian by adoption but born in Romania, is about to turn 30 years old and feels the need to discover the missing piece of her story: her biological family. To do so, she decided to make a journey by car from Piacenza to Bucharest with an unusual and surprising travel companion: her newfound brother Gerard. Siblings and at the same time perfect strangers.

Two filmmaker friends reconnect through the stories of their abortions. They embark on a journey between Buenos Aires and northern Italy, driven by the need to overcome trauma. This trip brings them closer to other women, each with their own stories and experiences, but these stories encounter their own limitation: that of not being able to represent an experience. The adventure that began as a search for intimacy becomes a starting point for the imagination.

A motorist is driving from Turin to Sicilu and listening to the radio. The real journey that leads from Turin to Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome to Sicily is actually a journey through time (made entirely from italian public television's archive material).

During a lunch Donato D’Ambrosio, a former militant, talks about his memories, his delusions and his hopes.

The golden valley is the area where Palermo stands. The documentary shows us the best-known beauties filmed with a fixed camera, slow tracking shots and split screen inspired by the most picturesque picture postcards. The Pretoria fountain, the big theaters, the funicular railway and the cloister of Monreale abbey run on the screen. The beauty of Palermo is also in the life of its people who are shown while meeting and buying at the fish market or at work building Sicilian carts to sell as souvenirs. The film ends with the view of the harbor.

Mondo film about Italians, presumably.

Following the steps of the painter Antonio Ligabue, the documentary discovers the works of many naif painters from the Bassa Padania who live along the banks of the river Po.

Gianfranco is an innkeeper in Italy. After reading Pope Francis' call to reform society which encouraged reconnecting and respecting the environment, Gianfranco decides to embark on a journey to deliver a basket to the Pope.

Sixty percent of our body is made up of water and we also come from the water in the womb. An elderly woman dives into the sea and recovers her deepest 'I': herself as a child.