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Inside Italian ironworks and steelworks.

From a psychiatric hospital, the true story that changed the way of being of theater and care.

Images of fountains in Rome

The video quadro (italian for square, picture, frame) is a cinematic portrait of a monumental low-cost housing complex built in the 1960s in the port city of Trieste. Like a hilltop fortress, this imposing square complex towers over the city. The social utopias of the time were expressed in this structuralist building, resulting in a bold concrete construction that was out of scale.

In contexts of conflict, such as Gaza, one often encounters feelings of fear and hatred, even in children. Interviews with educators, unions, NGO leaders, Palestinian citizens (mothers and fathers), and images of both educational and family life contexts.

A Golden Bear winning short documentary feature.

A group of volunteers sets out to return the possessions of those who died of covid in the early stages of the pandemic to their loved ones.

The destinies of a young girl and her teacher meet, transforming the portrait of an odd community into a troubled journey to the North Pole.

A documentary on the people leading the fight in Cameroon to save from extinction the world's most trafficked mammal: the pangolin.

The story of Pepe, a young Chilean gay man in his 30s, living in Italy, who returns to his homeland and discovers that his biological father - a man he had never met - is none other than Colonel Rodrigo Retamal, the former head of Chilean police intelligence. Retamal, we discover, was convicted of human rights violations, including the killing of six communist activists in 1973, during the early days of Pinochet’s coup. He was punished 20 years later with a night in jail. After a moment of deep confusion, Pepe makes the stunning decision to meet his father and confront him.

A documentary about sound art sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia.

Fai is a 28-year-old girl from Turin, born from an Italian mother and a Thai father. Their parents are now divorced, and her father, now a successful engineer, has come back to Thailand. She returns to Bangkok, her hometown, to write an article on the work of Italian architects in Thailand commissioned by a design magazine to her because of her dual identity. Fai begins to visit places sometimes with a childhood friend, other times with experts on architectural and historical matter. She lets herself go to the evocative atmosphere of these places finding a way to connect better different elements of her multi-cultural identity.

During the third edition of the Sicilia Queer Filmfest, held in 2013, one morning of the festival was dedicated to a discussion between some of the guests. Paul Vecchiali, president of the jury for that edition, Vincent Dieutre, Arnold Pasquier, and Cosimo Terlizzi gathered around a table with Éric Biagi and Andrea Inzerillo, who invited them to discuss a simple question: what is independence in cinema? The conversation, filmed by Valentina Pellitteri and Jean Elia, was then published in two parts in issues 640 and 641-2 of the magazine Filmcritica, edited by Edoardo Bruno, between December 2013 and January 2014.

“Words are the only instruments I have”, says Aslı Erdoğan in this powerful audiovisual collage. The writer, physicist and human rights activist who lives in exile in Berlin writes against the disappearance and loss of her own language. As a former political prisoner in Turkey, she knows only too well what autocratic violence and oppression intend: to silence people.

Places belong to those who live there or take care of them and consider them an essential part of their identity. This has nothing to do with ownership or possession: it means constructing, defending and watching over them. True custodians can be recognised due to their deep understanding of the areas in which they live and work, acquired first of all from their parents’ lessons and then from careful observation, dedication and effort. It is an awareness of places carved into their faces and hands, etched into their memories and souls.

Shapes is a suggestive and hypnotic multicolored path. The sounds reveal the true essence of the forms giving rise to particular sensations through a game of concentration on several levels. The extradiegetic ambient music emphasizes the atmospheric mood.

The third volume of an inimitable and popular series, the ideal gift for cinema lovers: the most exciting Italian and non-Italian trailers in the history of cinema gathered in a phantasmagoric sarabande of immortal images, from "Amarcord" to "Ossessione", from "The Leopard" to "2001: A Space Odyssey", from "Night Effect" to "The Phantom of Liberty". The most beautiful films ever seen from the peephole of the trailers (those that in Italy were called 'coming soon') with unforgettable images of Fellini, De Sica, Kubrick, Bunuel, Visconti, Bergman, Leone and many others...

A collection of trailers, Italian and foreign, to retrace the history of cinema in a new way.

Se Mi Fermo Forse Sono Io is a conversation between two elements: the face and fire. The face communicates the will to stand out among a thousand others, the fire allows it to speak by activating a flow of inner voices.

Between 1946 and 1951, "The Sardinian Project" upsets the history of Sardinia: the definitive disappearance of malaria, an endemic disease in many areas of the island. However, the disinfestation of the island represents only the first station of a stratified journey, a path between different eras, registers and points of view: the propaganda images and war-like symbols intersect with the gaze of the film-amateurs.

Documentary film shot in October-November 1974 on the occasion of the "Freedom in Chile" event promoted by the Venice Biennale.

A family gathers around the dinner table to share a meal of polenta, a traditional peasant dish made of coarsely-ground cornmeal whose secrets are passed down with pride through family lines. Today, the serving of polenta continues to provide a space for communal gathering and intergenerational connection. POLENTA is the culmination of three months of experimentation by Adrian Di Salle, during which time five cameras were set up around the director’s family table to record every dinner served.

Tucked away in the nooks and crannies of a rocky, snowy landscape, young soldiers appear to be getting ready for an invisible war. The barracks, wind, card games, chatter and above all, the waiting. Through the lens of his still camera, a young medical officer observes this small, faraway village and his castaway companions, collecting hundreds of pictures as others would fill the pages of a diary. The Sail Unfurled is a private account of a common experience, where sharing, friendship, life given to nature are not enough to keep the thoughts of war away.

The stories of nine people whose wars, poverty, unemployment, the Hamas regime and the Israeli siege have failed to take away their smiles and dreams of a better life. An image that frees the Strip from the prejudices and clichés that surround it.

Italian mondo film

Grodek: such is the name of one of the first mass slaughters to have occurred in the First World War, precisely in September 1914, between the Russian and Austro- Hungarian armies

Driving and walking through the wonders of central Italy.

Inspired by «The Conference of the Birds» by Farid al-Din 'Attar, an 18th century Persian poem, the film tells of a flock of birds that travel following a hoopoe, towards the Mountain of Kafh, home of King Simourgh, from whom they expect to receive the answers to all their questions. Between dream and reality, the birds will cross the 7 valleys.

A man sentenced to death is found innocent and released after 22 years in prison, 19 of them on death row. Now he has to face a new challenge: to survive freedom. Curtis was only 22 when he was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit and spent 22 years in prison, 19 of them in death row, buried alive below ground in a concrete room with no windows, waiting to be executed, in Oklahoma State Penitentiary. “A Declaration Of Love” by Director Marco Speroni, aims to give voice to a man who is being cruelly persecuted by a perverse legal system, digging into his deepest and most hidden emotions. The film is a visual journey through Curtis’s glance and his sense of displacement towards a world where he doesn’t belong anymore. “A Declaration Of Love” is a singular way of addressing the barbarity of the death penalty and also a chance to explore a crucial question: what does “freedom” mean in a society that refuses a person like Curtis despite all he went through?

The great sick nowadays, the traffic, is always under observation. Methods and studies to attempt to decrease harmful discharges. But if planes and trains are constantly under control, the same goes for cars and pedestrians, where an infringement can often cause collateral damage to other drivers and / or pedestrians as well. Examples of how in some cases reckless driving can cause serious damage. Safer driving, on the other hand, can avoid further aggravating the problems of the very sick person. Preserved and digitized by the National Cinema Impresa - CSC

A FrameFactory documentary. Kristin Esseth spent her childhood skiing and hiking with her dog. Growing up, she realized she wanted more. In 1995, with her husband Christer, she moved in the middle of the Swedish forests, far from everything. This is the story of Kristin and her 70 malamute huskies. Now on international distribution.

A group of women following the worker-union-sponsored “150 hours” course to complete their secondary school education are mentored by feminist, activist, and writer Lea Melandri. Adriana Monti follows the women as they reconsider their role as housewives and the effects of this type of political education on their self-narration.

The voices of the harbor are those of thousands of people that have worked there, and of those who still work there today. Like for all cities on the sea, Trieste's history is deeply interrelated with the history of its harbor. The human milieus of the harbor environment are at the foundation of the city, of how the community grew. To understand who we are today, and who we will be tomorrow, we need to reconstruct the memories that tell the story of the last century of the Trieste Harbor. The Harbor will always be there, and the transport of goods is still its main activity, but the ways in which the goods are transported have changed significantly, along with drastic cuts to the harbor's personnel.