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“There are different forms of resistance. For Um Ayman, resistance is to stay in her home and take care of it. This woman and her family’s life has been turned into a hell, full of fear and terror, as settlers have ferociously attacked her land, home and orchards. Her overwhelming concern is to protect her home, “If they take my house they would take the whole mountain because it is the last house remaining on the mountain.”

A documentary showcasing the various ways gondolas are used in Venice.

A unique group of fishermen living along the Adriatic coast come to terms with being the last generation.

In its first 80 years of activity, the Autonomous Institute for Social Housing (IACP) created in Rome a veritable "city within the city", to face what has always represented, and still represents, "the most serious problem facing Rome: the housing problem." What is this "city within the city" made of? Who is not included in their raw concrete? And how was this social architecture judged by the underprivileged men and women of the Roman people, active in the daily struggle for a house still to be expected, or too expensive to pay? First of all they teach those who are still in search of a house how to fight against and while waiting, but they also teach us that the fight for the right to housing is an unfinished struggle and therefore still recent, which is articulated and exhibited through the archives of the past and the archives of the present.

During August 2019, 8 students and workers between 19 and 21 years old participated in a missionary experience in Tanzania. They discovered that the journey is not only physical but above all emotional and mental.

In a small car full of things, where he eats, sleeps and dreams, Massimiliano is immersed in a book. Collections of photographs weave together his everyday life living on the street with his inner one.

In 1962 Ernesto De Martino travelled to the South of Italy for his ethnographic research and shot "La Taranta". A study around women who were poisoned by a Trantula bite while harvesting in the fields. The remedy against the deadly poison was a folk dance called Taranta. The women danced the poison out of their bodies with the help of local musicians and priests. Studies around this phenomenon have highlighted that, in the majority of cases, these women were suffering severe mental illness and hysteria due to sexual abuse and poverty. In present-day Italy a similar dynamic has resurfaced, uncovering the stories of groups of immigrant women (mostly from Romania) who were victims of agricultural and sexual exploitation in Ragusa, Sicly. I reapprorpiated the 1962 archival footage to propose a different angle of the story surrounding these women. Not from the point of view of a man who has undertaken to observe them, but from the point of view of a woman from the South of Italy. (FF)

The Riva family, Piedmontese cowboy of an ancient tradition farmer, lives isolated in the high mountains above the village of Ribordone, in the depending on their typical cheese production activity. In August 27 the family participate to the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the apparition of the Madonna di Prascondù, an event that brings the family back to contact with the outside world to meet friends and relatives. Director, living isolated with his family, he takes pictures with a camera and a microphone moments of family life for three weeks.

The All Reds Rugby Rome, within the former occupied cinodrome, are a popular sports team based on self-management creates an inclusive political project. They were born in 2005 when they decided to reclaim the old abandoned dog track, making it a field where you can now practice sport, freely and free of charge.

Clay pits were operative near Cefalù in the 1910s. This brief documentary shows us the different stages of the manufacturing process: from the hard job of extracting and transporting it to the artisan craftsmanship of the vase-makers and the artists decorating and painting the objects produced.

A documentary - the first of its kind in Italy - that deals with the theme of homosexuality in adolescence. Filmed with students from three different high schools in Milan (a technical institute, a classical high school, and a scientific high school) who come together to talk about homosexuality and compare themselves with their gay and lesbian peers. Confusion about their sexual orientation, homophobia in society, isolation in the family and at school, and the desire for visibility: are the themes that the group addresses, in a common effort to understand and get to know each other. As the director emphasizes in the presentation of the documentary: "The kids listen to each other and compare themselves on an emotional level, each discovering that they are different from the other, but for this very reason all the same in wanting to grow up by affirming their specificity.

It is said that a wolf roams in the Park of La Favorita in Palermo. No one has ever really seen it. Yet people swear they heard it howling at night. Is it a fantasy? Is it an expression of superstitions and tales? Many stray dogs live in the park. Two sisters take care of them every day. Among the thick branches and crowns, certain people hand secrets out, kids play hide-and-seek, runners pass by and some prostitutes wait for sporadic clients in the sunlight. At night the scenery changes: the tones become more confidential and in the dark, intimacy, life stories, obsessions and memories of those seeking refuge in the park, resound among the branches.

Recordings of the Pescara river in Italy, from the mountains to the sea.

Domenico is a young shepherd. He walks around with his flock and secretly harbors the dream of obtaining his driver’s license. But he lives far away from the first village. His daily chores test his ability to focus. But his sheer determination helps him through the difficulties of studying. A poignantly nuanced coming-of-age film.

Dario and Maury, two actors refused from any theatre, academy, and cinema have decided to move to the gay Roman nudist beach of Capocotta. Here, they have set their stage, in a place where people come to feel free and unconstrained by the rules of society. Persevering with their philosophy of ‘failure as a new form of victory’ they have become the Principe (the Prince) and the Contessa (the Countess) of the beach. In 20 years, they have gathered their own loyal audience, staging scenes and creating a long repertoire of amateur little movies where they confess the bitter reality of missing the stage, the one “only the so-called ‘gentlemen’ are allowed to deal with.” With irreverent tones of Pop, Dance and Folk music, this film celebrates failure as a parody, making anybody willing to watch, a Prince or a Countess of the non-victories.​

The family of Sergio Leone remember the figure and the art of the father and

The Disobbedienti emerged from the Tute Bianche during the demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa in July 2001. The “Tute Bianche” were the white-clad Italian activists who used their bodies – protected by foam rubber, tires, helmets, gas masks, and homemade shields – in direct acts and demonstrations as weapons of civil disobedience. The Tute Bianche first appeared in Italy in 1994 in the midst of a social setting in which the “mass laborer,” who had played a central role in the 1970s in production and in labor struggles, was gradually replaced in the transition to precarious post-Fordist means of production. “Disobbedienti” thematizes the Disobbedienti’s origins, political bases, and forms of direct action on the basis of conversations with seven members of the movement.

Episode of a naturalistic film series shot at the aquarium in Naples. Under the waves, there is an unknown and wonderful world; the intense life of thousands of creatures, so fascinating to study, is in full swing. Here, among the seaweeds, hundreds of shellfish with elegant shells, strange crustaceans, shoals of small silver fish dart and slither in all directions; a little further, a myriad of small crabs or annelids with pretty shapes hide in the sand; colonies of corals form a delicate embroidery among the rocks. And all these creatures live, love and die.