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Luigina is a nurse and a mother of three who lives in the outskirts of Rome. The effects of the pandemic weigh heavily on her, worrying the whole family. Only the warmth of her loved ones gives her the strength she needs to keep going.
On the night of November 12, 2019 Venice was hit by a series of floods that submerged the city for a week. Starting from the images of his home and his studio flooded the director tells firsthand what it means to live day by day with high water and how his city faces catastrophe.
A documentary about Giorgione.
The theme of subjugation in an experimental (and political) film by an artist who looks to Dziga Vertov and the historic avant-garde.
A tale of poverty in Salento during the 60s and 70s.
Nizar is a Tunisian boy whose application for political asylum is rejected. However, he meets Agostino, owner of a local gym and MMA coach, and Nizar discovers his talent for the sport and also finds a family.
Production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng discusses in great detail the particular sets and decors that were utilized during the shooting of The Stendhal Syndrome.
Special effects Sergio Stivaletti discusses the unique special effects that he created for Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome.
The struggles of an franelero in a little town in Southern Italy
Documentary about whistleblowers.
A look at contact with ET
Sex, love and erotism told by Italian people. A series of interviews collected in different social, cultural, geographical areas to convey Italians habits, opinions and costumes 40 years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's Comizi d'amore (Love meetings). The confessions, ideas and inhibitions of ordinary people and sex professionals reveal an unpredictable image of today's Italy.
Beatrice Vio has been fencing since she was five; she used to do it standing and now she does it sitting. When she was twelve, she had her four limbs amputated due to complications from meningitis, which didn't stop her pursuing the sport she loves and becoming a world champion at the age of nineteen. With the implacable support of her family, she has defied all limitations and expectations. This short documentary is a window into the extraordinary, that becomes ordinary, of Beatrice's life.
Yuri Ahronovitch was one of the most prestigious conductors in the former Soviet Union, head of Moscow’s Soviet State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. After he moved to Israel in 1972, he began musical performances worldwide, including in Italy, where he conducted major orchestras for nearly three decades. We went on the road to meet artists, musicians, critics, friends and acquaintances who were qualified to talk to us about Yuri.
The maker, born in 1977, made this montage film about his endlessly fascinating year of birth. In Italy the streets were full of groups protesting, there were deaths during riots in Rome, Milan and Bologna, while armed movements attacked politicians and journalists. At the same time, there was a creative boom on many fronts, punk broke through and Elvis died.
Akif left Germany to join up with the PKK guerrilla fighters. His diary records the doubts, dreams and political discussions that the fighters share as they march through the mountains, and in the meetings where the women criticize male prejudices.
A Italian documentary short.
Early color film documenting the inauguration of the San Marco Campanile.
A documentary on the city of Piacenza, Italy.
An old man with a package full of photos and letters sits every day on a bench in Wash. Sq. Park. To all those sitting next to him, he shares the love story he had with his loved wife for over 50 years. In this way, he keeps her alive.
A feature-length documentary about a girl’s love for a grandfather she never met and her search for his beloved oboes.
The docufilm traces the artistic and human path of the great actor through the living voices of colleagues and experts nostalgic of the theater of Totò.
Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave, alone or together with their families, they arrived in Switzerland, where they lived for a more or less lengthy period. Four different stories that speak of hopes, dreams, and solidarity. But they also tell of closure, xenophobia, clandestinity and exploitation.
Pseudo-Mondo style documentary about the sexual nights of European cities.
Lotte Schreiber undertook a journey through Greece in winter to film anonymous architectures, the frequently found concrete skeletons.
Through the memory of the marble quarrymen, the inhabitants of the mountains, collectors and family members, the short film explores the mystery of the life and works of the Tuscan artist Filippo Dobrilla.
Escape from home, from the neighborhood. Then a letter written to his mother to apologise, to alleviate the sense of guilt. This is how, through autofiction, the director's past is scanned before our eyes in clear, inflammatory images. A train journey that becomes an inner journey to rework memories, to choose what to take and what to let go.
The green and the stone. Straub-Huillet in Buti.
A documentary about motorcycle racer Tonino Benelli, the youngest of six children who went on to co-found the legendary motorcycle manufacturer in Pesaro in the early 1900s. The daring racer's private life, his races and many victories, as well as bitter disappointments, are all evoked by means of a skilful blend of photographs, stock footage, interviews, and fictional reconstructions.
Altrimenti Inventa is an archival documentary that addresses the lack of representation of North African populations who migrated to Italy before the 1990s. It attempts an experimental reinvention of the missing archive, starting with the director's family history and then moving towards a more collective dimension, questioning the themes of identity, memory, and their relationship with what we choose to preserve and why.
When a love ends, what's left? A kumquat. A boy's thoughts fill an empty house with tenderness and nostalgia.
Sisters explores the situation of abortion access in Italy, Poland, and Malta, highlighting the solidarity response provided by national and international collectives and organizations, working together to ensure the right to self-determination and reproductive health for those in need.