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Cy Twombly was a truly amazing artist: painter, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer. This documentary is a tribute to the prolific American creator, a contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns who inspired Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.
Against the backdrop of Italy in the years of the Fascist dictatorship, a man of wealth but unknown to history scrutinises the world with his little film camera. He is guided and instructed in the process by a handbook in which the germs of the ideology are concealed beneath the apparent objectivity of technique. But ineffable signs of resistance still surface in the images.
An art history professor, who identifies with Leonardo Da Vinci, is irremediably subjected to the machinations of the femme fatale he loves, who will ultimately also fall victim to the same obsessions and passions.
The two young teenage friends Hamama and Caluna have left everything behind to flee their home country and ended up stranded in a camp in northern Italy. One day, they decide to cross the closed border into Switzerland under cover of darkness by going over the Alps.
At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.
The documentary talks about Karine, a french embalmer, during her private and working life.
The Messina brothers are Yesmoke, a little tobacco company based in modern day Turin, Italy. Originally, Yesmoke was an online store for cigarettes selling its products all over the world. Every day millions of people would buy cheap packets of Marlboro, Camels and Lucky Strikes online. When sales reached over one hundred million, "Big Tobacco" started to fight the "Little Guys" and sued them for 550 Million dollars, obligating them to shut their website down.
Short Italian travelogue film about Rhodes. Idyllic shots of a couple in love in the woods and by the sea are followed by images of Italian naval ships that "cross the waters around their new occupation". Finally, there is a staged shot of a cannon firing a shot, with the Italian tricolor and the coat of arms of the company Savoia appearing over the statue. The island of Rhodes, which had been part of the Ottoman Empire since 1522, was conquered by the Italians in 1912.
If you beat someone until you massacre him, if you possess a body until you break through, if you get high until you blast, if you eat until you explode, if you laugh until you choke, if you suffer until you wheeze, all this means: Sbundo.
The favelas game - a story of resistance, a life story that represents thousands of others, a story about the Favela that tells itself
A team of donkeys travels across Europe in search of the answer to the most important question.
A representation of the change of evil through the superstructures of power. The walls of the former concentration camp of Trieste, the Risiera di San Sabba, give the words of knowledge a sense of physical trail, thanks to the prophetic text by Jean Baudrillard, “The transparency of evil”, which however is not accompanied by the images, but chooses a path that is autonomous and at the same time parallel to them.
Halfway between reality and science fiction, the film concerns two documentary makers who die suddenly. However, one of their hidden cameras will continue to film life in the woods: will it alone be able to complete the objective that the two filmmakers had set themselves!?
Divided into chapters like a memoir and punctuated by an alternation of natural stillness and special encounters, this film celebrates the subtle discoveries that define our identity. It highlights not the grand events of life, but the poetry found in simple moments, the everyday, and the shared intimacy of those we hold dear.
Film portrait on Sergio Citti, through his impassioned monologues counterpointed by the recollections of Bernardo Bertolucci, Antonio Rezza and Gionata Zarantonello.
When a solar eclipse covers the valley of Pra 'd Mill, the Cistercian monks, shepherds and hermits that live there assist to miraculous events.
From the war-torn Ukraine to Milan's catwalks. This is a story of beauty and struggle. This is the story of young girls longing for a better life. A story of hope, fail, success. And of a man who can determine it.
Investigates the valleys in search of the Greek musical tradition of Calabria by giving voice to who continue to lend their legs, ears and hands to this heritage.
Federico Fanti, paleontologist and explorer, coordinates an international mission composed of 15 experts. The group will try and face the phenomenon of fossil smuggling in a concrete way.
In an avant-garde Naples, increasingly detached from the melodic tradition and in search of new sound worlds, was born the group of Osanna: five boys who grew up between Vomero and the Academy of Fine Arts, like much of the Neapolitan counterculture between the sixties and seventies. Through the alternation of past and present, Lino Vairetti, singer of the band and its re-founder, retraces the traces of an era.
Battlefield is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements, an imaginary journey between different representations of femininity, in a process of subjective re-appropriation of the archive.
Four boys involved in ‘Ndrangheta Mafia activities are taken away from their extremely powerful and violent families in an attempt to re-educate them.In the most violent region of Italy, a brave judge fights against the prevailing ‘Ndrangheta Mafia by removing young boys from their extremely powerful and violent families. Director Sophia Luvarà, who grew up in Calabria herself, had unlimited access to the work of the judge and the life of the boys during the controversial re-education program he set up. Through him and his team we meet some of the sons of the most dangerous men in Italy. Can their destiny be altered?
Using movement, colors and light – in a story that develops from dawn to dusk – the director confronts the splendor of the city and forces all the rules and technologies available to him to give us back not so much reality as impressions of pure beauty that only Venice can give.
An Italian 57 minute documentary on the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan of 1969.
The guardian of the great dam reflects on the history and beauty of the valley, which was revitalized by the Edison power plant, and expresses his deep love for the disappearing traditions and society there. The filmmaker approaches his work by focusing on a theme, finding authentic places and people, and allowing them to become comfortable with the camera before beginning the filming process.
An interview of Umberto Lenzi discussing the making of his film Almost Human.
The salt deserts of the Argentine Andes are being disrupted by profound changes that impact the environment, entire communities, and individual lives. As corporations extract lithium from the soil, two young political leaders, activist Vanesa and miner Elbio, run for president in their respective indigenous communities. In Buenos Aires, teenager Milagros protests outside the parliament as it holds uncertain national elections.
Francesco Maselli takes us by the hand through the events, and his own involvement with them, that have marked the culture and arts of the past century.
The film is a reflection on the medieval folk tradition of "benandanti" ("good walkers"), who believed they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are the "benandanti" of today and who are the witches and ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put into question? The film analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the relations between individuals and the respect that every statement of the human race deserves.