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A world of silence and darkness. A world of things unspoken and unseen. It is the world in which deaf, blind and deafblind people spend their entire lives. But it is also a world full of fantasy, joy and an excited sensitivity towards outside stimuli, touches and vibration. The immense power of physical contact with and the closeness of caregivers is an energizing element in this humanist documentary exploration of the world of people with vision and hearing impairments. The filmmaker patiently observes the lives of patients living in the specific conditions of institutional existence and opens up her observations to a wide range of possible forms of communication and sharing, while also showing an understanding for the hard work and absolute exhaustion of the caregiving personnel.

A documentary on the Val d'Aosta Alpine Rescue Unit. But it is mainly a film about life and choices. We follow, for a year, three ordinary lives, ready each day for something extraordinary, three guardian angels that fly on board a helicopter, simply to offer assistance. Over the noise of the emergency, the film narrates a radical choice, that of Silvia, an emergency intensive care anaesthetist, involving in every instance the thread of life, of waiting, of solitude.

Observe the figure of the barman, and how he readies himself to prepare his cocktails, with the different types of ingredients, taking care of their taste, presentation and experimenting with new combinations. This documentary brings to know the background to this fascinating profession; from view to taste, the bartender must know how to capture and satisfy the customer.

A train passes through the wonderful landscapes of the Sorrento and Amalfi coasts.

‘The Invisible Player’ is the first documentary about homophobia in football in Italy and tells the story of the Florence-based gay-friendly Revolution Team. Through interviews with the Galatasaray and former Italy, Fiorentina and Roma manager Cesare Prandelli and the former Milan centre back Alessandro Costacurta the documentary promotes a debate around the topic and offers support for gay players.The film also looks at the relationships between players, clubs and fans and the impact of these in promoting a diverse and welcoming environment in football for gay players.

A documentary about the painter Degas.

A stream of archival footage reconstructs the dark face of humanity, revealing the chain of violence that binds our species to animals, to the Earth, and ultimately to itself. Abaddon is a visual requiem, an act of remembrance and denunciation where the specially composed sound guides the viewer through a deep and unsettling sensory experience.

The river from the Garda Lake to the Po. The Burgo papermill, the power station, the mill, the town fete. The marsh reed gatherer, the old fisherwoman, who doing the washing down at the river, recalls her secret love affairs on the boat.

The voices of young Sardinian kids emerge from a desert landscape; these voices explore the traces left on the land by former industries. Through the eyes of the new generation, abandoned places come back to life to reveal the legacy left by environmental exploitation on the land, the sea and its inhabitants.

What does it mean to leave one's home and head for unknown destinations? What does it feel like to be swept away by an uncontrollable current? Every year, millions of people in Africa leave their homes in search of a better future. Often they settle in neighboring countries; all too often they reach Libyan shores and attempt the sea crossing. But at that point there is no return; there is only moving on.

A portrait of avant-garde artist Aurelio Caminati (1922–2008), whose prophetic vision spanned six turbulent decades through a determined compulsion to create.  Set against the baroque intensity of Ireland's wild Atlantic coast and local heritage, the film fuses the raw power of nature with this resistance master's defiant, ever-evolving body of work.  Aurelio Caminati channels nature's fury – declaring nature as the ultimate power source. Rejecting artistic and ideological conformity, Caminati plunges the viewer into subconscious undercurrents arising when storm-force nature trumps conventional ideologies.

Yulia and Natalia are two actresses from Kyiv who have escaped the war. Since their arrival in Bologna, Italy, they have been struggling trying to rebuild their lives. News breaks: in Ukraine, theatres, closed due to the conflict, are reopening. This makes them decide to embark on a return journey to question their future.

A collective archive film, made with the contribution of unpublished images from some of the main archives of different territorial origins, between Lazio, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. A journey through time and space: through small cameras, partisans, soldiers, priests and "ordinary citizens" felt the need to document for future memory - and, in some cases, at their own risk - History "as it happens", but also the long waits and daily life that intersect with the events of the two-year period 1943-45. And then the Liberation: the arrival of the Allies, the joy, the dances and finally it's time to get married.

This subjective documentary tells the journey towards the home of Marie from Adana, an Armenian forcibly converted to Islam. It's a story of searching for roots and not finding them. From Adana's old Armenian memory sites to the diplomatic archives of Nantes (France) and to the disruptive searches of treasure hunters, Sweet Home Adana brings together the fragments related to different aspects of denial and forgetting.

A critical view on the history of the Dada movement and its critique of the degradation of social structures.

The short film that tells the city of Catanzaro through the eyes of a swallow, which travels through the riches of the city.

Collective project curated by Beatrice Mazzone "Projections #2 - Water? " refers us to a present ecological questioning of human development and the prospects for human survival in the face of the increasingly less available resource-water. An interpretation of water and its lack, in today's and tomorrow's world, realized through 36 international collaborations.

Very rare documentary images from the travel diary of Angelo Drovetti, embarked on the steamship Regina d’Italia, a majestic steam passenger ship, along the Lloyd Sabaudo line, from Genoa to Australia through Egypt, the Middle East and India. These are the unpublished and exclusive images that document the crossing of the first large group of 85 Italian emigrants to the Australian coasts in search of fortune. In this excerpt the vessel crosses the beautiful landscapes of Naples and Capri.

Giuseppe does not want to grow old, he spends his days immersed in rock with his headphones. Ursula has found love, but between illness and medication it’s not easy to take care of her. Bianca is a communist, she misses the world and feels caged. In the still time of a psychiatric community in Palermo, they all wait for something so as not to disappear.

After the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, Aziz, and his beloved disabled son, Erfan, were rescued by the Italian army and arrived in Italy. While the father is weeping at the loss of his homeland, the son looks forward to building a new life.

This movie is an innovative docufilm about history of Lombard with an interaction between cinema and historical disclosure. It is focused on the story of Alboin, the first Lombard king arrived in Italy with his population and the foundation of the village of Romans. This village was an important military garrison of the Duchy of Friul and also it is important for the archeological finds (one of the largest Italian Lombard necropolises). On 551 A.D. after a great victory against Gepids, the figure of Alboin as hero strongly emerged. Years of glory and deeds followed him until his fateful fate in Verona on 572 A.D., when he was killed after only few years of reigns, then his myth was born. In the midst of the events of this legendary king will be shown, innovative images and strong emotional impact, where you will see how the Lombard people lived in Romans, an important crossroad of the Friulian plain where men and women developed a village that still exists.

This city may be dominated by the global market, by people intoxicated by computers, and by winning images, but where is there a place for a person who does not know the rules of the game, for a person who keeps quiet, or for a person who has lost? An inexorable voice gives her answers.

Short documentary illustrating the buildings and monuments of Piazza San Marco in Venice.

‘Starving artists', fragile beings who clearly sensed they were of no use to society and tried to make it anyway. When things got going again in August 2020, after months of lockdown and seclusion, they were the only ones who couldn't go back to business as usual. Over a year and a half, in and out of lockdowns, Donpasta shares his daily life, entwined with that of a set designer out of work, a musician with no gigs, and a farmer turned poet. Survivors, in a word, who just needed a good idea to stop treading water, and this is how they became the Naviganti.

Maurizio Galimberti is one of the great authors of Italian photography. He works solely in Polaroid and is able to instantly connect with his subject, whether he is a Hollywood actor or an element of the urban landscape. In this film we follow Galimberti at work, as he talks about himself through his urban visions on the streets of New York and Milan, the mosaic portraits of actors and directors at the Venice Film Festival, the research on Dadaist manipulation and irreverence of its ready-mades.

This documentary, by director Marco Mensa, is about the life of fishermen on the Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia).

The real lives of four hikikomori guys are linked by an animated movie to the outside world.

A photogram is what remains of the dream experience: an image that goes beyond an image. From the submerged region we recover residues that we do not understand yet. Borges wrote: «I will be all or none. I will be the other I don't know I am, the one who contemplated that other dream, my wakefulness. He judges it, resigned and smiling.»

Starting with the memory of a song hummed in a rainy night, Chronicles of That Time investigates the shifting identity of the Mediterranean; from ‘the shared sea’, unifying the cultural diversity of Africa and Europe, to closed borders.

Short documentary by by Maria Luisa Forenza.

"From Mono to Stereo fully represents my transition from 'L' to 'R', without excluding either. The Mike Lennon that you have known so far is just one of the facets and personalities that make me up, now you will finally be able to fully appreciate me, in my total freedom of musical and visual expression."

An act of love for the American wild west. Lose yourself in these wild lands filmed on a 10-day trip from the south to the north of the United States across the West Coast.