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After a brief introduction on the unnerving daily life, through the usual night inspection in the most famous clubs in the world, the film presents to the public shows and attractions with which it is planned to escape from the rhythm of daily life.
Because of the health emergency, this year we cannot actively commemorate the anniversary of the Portella massacre. Let’s find out what witness Serafino Petta thinks.
The film traces the places where the Sardinian writer lived and where her main novels were set - albeit changing the names of the villages -. The Deleddian director and scholar Remo Branca tries to find the spirit of the environments and the romance characters through an exploration of the landscape, still visually linked to the remote times of the Deleddian geography, the streets and alleys of the villages, as well as the faces of the common people who live there. The rural sanctuaries are often displayed, constantly evoked by the writer as almost documentary moments on community life. The comment highlights, through references to individual novels, the alleged findings between Deleddian places and transfigurations. The setting of the film, calm and descriptive, adds a pictorial-figurative tone, also linked to the relationships that Deledda had with the Sardinian artists of the time, in particular Biasi. [Gianni Olla]
In Bologna, Italy, the resistance movement fights Nazi-fascism between 1943 and 1945.
Gesuino, 88 years old, former shepherd. Never married or had a family. The outside world has stayed away. But far from everything, Gesuino still keeps one last passion.
In the summer of 1932, Gabriele Boccalatte and Ninì Pietrasanta met. They met on the Monte Bianco, they climbed it together and fell in love. Their great alpine years go exactly from 1932 to 1936 – the year in which they got married. They, as a roped party, pioneered some of the toughest alpine routes. They used to keep journals and take pictures in order to keep a record of their achievements. Ninì, that was one of the very few female climbers of those years, would carry a 16mm film camera with her, during her climbs. In 1937, their son Lorenzo was born, and, in 1938, Gabriele died, falling from a mountain wall. Ninì, then, gave up extreme climbing and focused on her role as a mother. Some years after Ninì’s death, in 2000, her son Lorenzo found the reels his mother had been shooting, hidden in an old case.
An interview with legendary Italian director Umberto Lenzi regarding his cult film The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist.
Alpe Devero, December 1953: employees of the Edisonvolta electricity company gather to take part in skiing competitions held in the picturesque natural setting of this well-known Piedmontese resort.
A former manufacturer of landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a journey where he will have the opportunity to come to terms with himself and face the ghosts of his past.
A postman walks through the desert, his life flows slowly as does the desert sand. He is the only link between the secluded villagers, however, this is about to change due to a small technological device.
Fallujah, November 2004. While bombings and massacres with unconventional weapons follow one another in the city, an American soldier and an Iraqi woman meet in a strange room. The story told, based on episodes that really happened, is interspersed with repertoire material and interviews with Simona Torretta.
Short documentary film on the beauty contest of children held at Torino. Some sequences are used in Peter Delpeut's Lyrisch nitraat.
Antonello is a forty-year-old man from Irpinia who is deeply attached to his homeland despite the myriad daily problems he faces. Boredom, depression, the incivility around him and, above all, love convince him to pack his bags and leave in search of something new, a place where "people still look at the sky."
A silent amateur film with a runtime of 1 minute and 28 seconds (DCP from 9.5mm reversal, 16 fps), presented without intertitles. Preserved by Fondazione Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia, Bologna, the film documents a game of tug-of-war on the beach at Lavagna during the summer of 1925. A group of young participants, dressed in bathing suits, engage in the activity while a dog observes from the sidelines. The footage is notable for its stable tripod-based composition and the use of horizontal camera movement to follow the action. At age 16, Lavello demonstrates early technical proficiency and an interest in capturing spontaneous social interaction. As noted by Michele Manzolini in the 2025 Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue, the film contributes to a broader visual record of leisure and informal play within early amateur cinema.
The documentary gives as overview of the history of the Sahrawi people and their current situation in the refugee camps and in the liberated territories of Western Sahara. It describes how water, education, land etc. are managed.
Claudia and Eleonora, sisters of the same age, spent the first mile of their lives as allies. As they grew up, they became strangers in each other's eyes. The need to accept Claudia's faults, who had started using crack, and to atone for her own, moved Eleonora to take a new path together. The incipit of the documentary focuses on a childhood drawing by Claudia: "DEAR MOM AND DEAR DAD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I DON'T KNOW WHERE I AM ANYMORE HELP ME. FROM CLAUDIA', which triggered questions in Eleonora, addressed along a path together, in an attempt to find each other, on the Via Francigena of Sicily.
Documentary about italian actress Dorian Gray (Maria Luisa Mangini)
It’s a documentary about Sahrawi people, removing of geography and politics, making it simply a "human" story. Giving a voice to this people who are in an impossible situation, forced to live confined in a refugee camp.
Palermo is one of the most famous cities in the world and boasts an extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage. Palermo's story has already been told, its wonders revealed, its lacerating contradictions uncovered - always with the undercurrent of the Mafia. But now there is a new story to tell: the tale of the city's rebirth.the documentary takes us on a journey through the streets, palaces and faces of Palermo, the stars of the city's way of life, in its year as the "Italian Capital of Culture", providing an insight into how this city transformed from an open-air museum and memory trigger into a veritable laboratory of social and cultural ideas.
Vado verso dove vengo offers a complex meditation on emigration, immigration, and belonging. From New York City to Aliano, from London to Castelmezzano, the voices of emigrants and of their descendants narrate tales filled with emotions of leaving and of remaining, of desertions and returns to small towns on Italy’s fringes, where emigration and depopulation have left enduring scars and where economic and geographical health are emergencies desperately requiring attention. Governmental inattention is to blame, and it still runs rampant in Italy. Is it possible, after more than 100 years of emigration, to forge a new balance between local communities and global flows? Can small towns hold the key to innovative projects and sensibilities that will inform the future?
Documentary on the Messina earthquake
This "scène en plein air", produced in April 1914 by the Milanese Film, the Italian "corresponding" company of the Pathé Frères, presents a touristic excursion in Egypt, where the European visitors enjoy the cruise on the Nile river and visit the huge ruins and the temples in the desert.
Filmed inside Naples's Secondigliano penitentiary, this personality-driven documentary shadows 29-year-old inmate Raffaele Costagliola, a man with twin brothers who's been in prison for nearly half of his life for robbing a bank.
Bortolo Belotti (1877-1944) Bergamascan historian author of “The History of Bergamo and of Bergamascans” a work conceived with an innovative scientific spirit. Illuminated liberal, he refuses to succumb to the new conformism imposed by the Fascist regime: “I believe in ideas, in the moral values of a life lived austerely working and repugnant of vulgarity, of all vulgarity…” He was a victim of forced residence and far from his “green valley of Zogno”, died in exile in Lugano.
The use of new methodologies in the Lograto institute for handicapped children.
A very brief trip from Piombino to Portoferraio.
Photographer Giorgio Bergami captures Genoa in 1977. A poetry of images, voices, and music that intertwine in the Genoa of those years.
The Great Together examines the future of Europe’s modernist estates in a time of acute housing crisis. As demolition loses its appeal, cities are rethinking how to care for, adapt and eventually celebrate their modernist heritage. The film’s title is a free translation of the French Grand Ensemble, a term that once evoked collective ambitions and architectural utopias. Today, these estates stand at the crossroads. Through four case studies, in Rome, Toulouse, Belgrade and Vienna, introduced by a single local voice, the film charts four different ways to deal with modernist mass housing: transformation, demolition, privatisation, and long-term maintenance.
Rapallo is a 1913 silent travelogue produced by Cines and released internationally under the title Gulf of Togulio (a misspelling of “Tigullio”). The film is preserved in a 35mm stencil-coloured print (87.3 m, 4'20" at 18 fps) with Dutch intertitles, held by Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. As documented by Renato Venturelli and Giancarlo Giraud in the 44th Pordenone Silent Film Festival catalogue, the film opens with a map locating Rapallo on the Ligurian coast, followed by a sequence of views of the town and surrounding landmarks. These include the monument to Christopher Columbus—funded by emigrants from Rapallo—the bridge over the Boate near Villa Queirolo, the so-called “Hannibal’s Bridge,” San Michele di Pagana, and the Castello. The use of green and blue stencil tones contributes to a calm visual atmosphere, while wind and rough seas introduce a more dynamic element. The film’s content aligns with descriptions published in Moving Picture World in May 1913.
In some villages of the Val di Non and Val di Fiemme, close to the administrative and linguistic border between Trentino and Südtirol (North Italy), the alpine landscape presents characteristics that differentiate it from those of intensive monoculture or abandonment. This is due to the work of farmers who take care of the land, cut the meadows, manage the pastures and raise the livestock, delivering the milk to local dairies.
A travel documentary on Italy
Documentary about the trial in Rome, which began in October 2006 and sentenced several of the military personnel who served at the ESMA during the last Argentine military dictatorship to life imprisonment. The film records instances of the judicial process that took place in Italian courts and includes testimony from mothers, grandmothers, and daughters of the kidnapped and disappeared Italian citizens.
In the context of the Italian judicial process that judged the crimes committed within the Condor Plan, stories emerge from family members and friends of victims of South American dictatorships: Juan, Allende's guard; Juan, a Chilean photographer; Daniel, murdered in Buenos Aires; Horacio, disappeared in Rio de Janeiro; Mariana, Victoria, and Macarena, daughters stolen and reunited.
Stefano Gheller is the second person in Italy to obtain the right to assisted suicide on Italian soil, and the first in Veneto. Despite having made the decision to die for years, Stefano chose to avoid the journey to Switzerland, opting to fight in his home country.
