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Brescia, March 2020. The Spedali Civili, the city's public hospital, suddenly finds itself inundated with patients. In the best tradition of direct cinema, Michele Aiello manages to document a moving slice of life, and to film, at the worst moments of this collective tragedy, the unprecedented reports that unite patients and health personnel in the face of the unknown.
Two sisters find themselves clashing on a chilling theme: understand what will become of the body of their dead mother. One would like to cremate her, the other would like to resort her to hibernation.
A widowed grandmother lives alone in her house, every day they repeat themselves with the same habits, when one day something unexpected happens. From the radio there is a rumor that something terrible is awakening from the cemeteries, the dead have returned to walk among us!
In a climate of oppressive waiting and uncertainty, two brothers facing a difficult past that does their existence in doubt.
The personal travel diary of a naive dreamer in search of an ancient tale told by a scoundrel. A roaming through ancient India, as time passes, will bring the observer's eye to confuse the illusion of false truth with the awareness of a lie that is truer than truth. The discovery of a tribe of fairy-tale children, the Ananda, that appear and disappear along a road dense with magic and primitive superstition will lead to the search of a lost dream.
In the beginning it felt like a holiday, then everything changed due to Covid19.
Caligari is a famous undertaker who’s been on the streets since death itself was banned in the city and supplanted by a practical method of resurrection to which no citizen can resist. For Gothic and Black Comedy Lovers, the main character is inspired by three famous film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu the Vampire and Der Golem.
1986. Following an accident during a mountain hike, Primo Levi is rescued by a man who is unaware of his history and does not even understand the meaning of the number tattooed on his arm. Faced with this situation, Levi feels the need, once again in his life, to recount his story and, with it, the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Adele is hospitalized in a psychiatric ward. A nurse attracted by Adele's body,will give vent to a violent raptus: it'll not be the only episode of abuse. With the help of a psychiatrist, Adele will be able to tell the truth.
Adam Farkas is a 40 years old photographer, obsessed with the idea of creating something new, an erotic experimental movie, that will shock the public opinion. When he finds out that a model was murdered, arises in him a primordial sexual instinct that attracts him to the murderer. He will be obsessed with finding the killer, until all the demons inside and outside him will show up. He later meets a charming model Evan, and very soon he realizes Evan is hiding a big secret.
The story of a man from Verona countryside who devoted his life to his communist ideals to the point he challenged NATO. Along with him thousands of other people who tried to radically change Italy and the world during the 70s.
With Spy, filmmaker Yuri Ancarani proposes an oneiric journey inside “Breath Ghosts Blind,” an exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan at Pirelli HangarBicocca, curated by Roberta Tenconi and Vicente Todolí, conceived as a reflection in three acts on the human existence and the cycle of life with all its contradictions and frailties. The narration, seen through the eyes of an unusual visitor—whose fugitive identity is revealed only towards the end of the video—unfolds as a nonlinear sequence, with a disorienting editing and mesmerizing juxtapositions of image frames of the three works of art on display.
What distinguishes a premium brand from a generalist one? In this documentary, Ducati reveals the path that led it to be a premium manufacturer and that has allowed the brand to create technologically advanced motorcycles, with a superior reliability, while maintaining the ability to bear witness to a passion and a tradition that has not equals in the world. A journey inside the Borgo Panigale factory, with interviews with the main managers who made this change possible.
A young girl is witness to her father's destiny.
Furio’s Furious Fragments & Friends - Furio Jesi (1941 Turin -1980 Genoa), enfant prodige moving between a plethora of disciplines – egyptology, history of religions, German philology, literary criticism - passed away prematurely, not without leaving bright fragments which throw light on mechanisms beneath many socio-cultural practices, for instance regarding cultural belonging, the functions of myth in modern society. He saw kind of “mythological machines” at work underneath our cultural production of meanings, historically determined, departing from a void, something that is still in culture but as residue, a missing link to an alleged authentic experience nowadays compromised up to the point to became just rhetoric, a byword, which is in no way neutral, but a tool, a macchina, for maintaining the status quo and serving the power apparatus. As in the case of holidays, celebrations and festivals.
Novel writer, widow for about a year, decides to finish her latest story. Unfortunately, the memory of her husband is so strong as to imprison her in her story. It will be the protagonist of her book to transport her within the memories of her that still bind her to her ex-partner.
Francesco MATTU, a main character in this documentary, lived in various regions of Italy following his father who was a shepherd in his childhood. This outgoing and cheerful man, Francesco, once worked at the construction site, but now he settles down in Friuli. He herds sheep and produces cheese.
During the late 1960s, Emilio Sidoti, an elementary school teacher in Albisola, decided to make some movies with his students in order to develop their critical gaze in a free and radical expressive pathway. This was the start of “Cinema dei ragazzi,” Italy's first experience of “school and cinema;” it generated over twenty movies, all shot in Super8, and most of them were entirely written, directed, and edited by the children. Starting with the material of the time, this unique experience is put into relation with the present time, as the children of back then - who today are adults - are asked to recount the impression it left on them.
The extraordinary journey of an ice cello that plays as if by magic. The instrument, created by sculptor Tim Linhart, travels across Italy to perform at the Teatro Politeama with the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of an original score for ice cello and string orchestra, composed by Giovanni Sollima.
A portrait of Jonas Friis Jespersen, a painter from Denmark with whom I traveled around Italy and talked about inspiration, people, buildings and love.
For several years now, Gianni Asdrubali's artistic research has been carrying on a discourse on the concept of emptiness, up to its development in an adimensional frontal surface. Zakkete is an attempt to translate part of his work into a filmic dimension, bearing in mind the gestural nature of Asdrubali's work.
A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the "s8" boom of the 1970s discuss their work and their first encounters with the medium.
It is 1804 and Italy is experiencing the coldest January ever recorded. Giacomo, a young aspiring painter, puts his art before everything and everyone, even his sweet, beautiful wife Clelia who, instead, loves him so much that she does anything to make him happy. Inspired by a woman's dream, Giacomo decides to make the painting that, according to him, will turn his career around. Clelia poses for her husband but, very soon, what was once a splendid dream turns into a disturbing nightmare...
A young witch tries to right the fatal wrong of killing her brother.
Colorful and lively short film about asking uncomfortable questions in a daft and funny way. It depicts a conversation between two boys, Merry and Happy, during which they explore the themes of freedom, prejudice and social scrutiny.
The lack of communication in the times of Lockdown in a drama that describes a family during quarantine: the wife desperately wants to be a mother. His brother, a mentally ill man, lives in an endless football dream and Franco seems to be the only one who still remains connected to reality. As the days pass, however, madness takes possession of the house: who will be the last to remain lucid? And for how much longer?
A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?
A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographies by Giovan Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dreamland will bring the audience to some of the most beautiful Italian UNESCO sites: Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the historic centre of Rome with the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’Angelo and much more. Passing through the depths of the Tiber, it will arrive also in the most peripheral areas of the city to find out still so much beauty and so many stories about the contemporaneity in a visual and musical journey so evocative as to reveal the Italian cultural identity.
An insight into the careers of Italian actress Erna Schürer and Italian filmmaker Marcello Avallone.
What is the English language plot outline for La brace sotto la cenere - San Filippo Benizi (2021)?
The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.
A cinematic journey to discover, through previously unpublished documents and manuscripts, the world of writer and ethnographer Grazia Deledda, the first Italian woman and writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. A revolutionary author, she transcended the confines of male-dominated culture and asserted her creative path as an artist and a woman.
Toni Servili presents three very short but sparkling stories about the improbable.
A blackbird takes care of all forgotten things. One 17′ long story in just one drawing. An animated film where the animation is imagined. An experimental film for all audiences.
first part of the documentary on the tenth anniversary of "Il ragazzo d'oro", by rapper Gué Pequeno.
