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A look at reality as it appears today in the streets and cities as an image of the crisis and decline of western society in the era of globalization. Between wealth and poverty, between homologation and loss of identity, between reality and illusion, nothing more than a great fairy tale, a deception, a collective lie of which the representation of daily life becomes its disturbing metaphor. As disturbing as the smile of Alice's Cat in Wonderland, who, at the girl's request for help to find the way that leads her out of the woods, replies with her characteristic grin: "It all depends on where you want to go". The narrative voice is by Marco Paolini.

An important poet is found apparently suicidal dead and the people who were close to him reconstruct the history, the vices, the strengths and the immense qualities. What will be the truth about his death?

Italy, early 1900s. Giulia seems to be going through a depression of unknown origin. Her mother is convinced that something unnatural could be the reason for her state of mind.

Claudia and Silvia are spending a peaceful weekend away in the mountains. Everything seems to be fine until the arrival of Claudia's ex-boyfriend, Michele, who unleashes a sadistic game with an unpredictable ending.

In a near future humanity has been forced to flee the Earth, a planet now uninhabitable due to wars and climatic turmoils. On the space station Explorer 7, Karen is now ready to deploy on the planet to complete an important mission: to restore mankind’s hope.

A terrible misunderstanding between a mouse and a frog provokes an escalation of reprisals and revenge that will culminate in the war between the people of Mice and the people of Frogs who both live on the edge of a field. But a real threat to this small world at war comes from somewhere else. Inspired by Batrachomyomachia (Battle of Frogs and Mice) a comic epic attributed to Homer.

Mara Blasetti became one of the first Italian women to take on the role of production supervisor. In 2012, almost by chance, evidence of her exceptional career begin to emerge.

One day in the rugged countryside of Calabria encloses all that is important for Antonio, a rite that represents a crucial moment of his existence: the harvest of figs. That place, filled with memories, brings within the eco of laughter and the melancholy of past moments. Also this year, along with his eldest brother, he has to harvest the fruit, but when the day is over, he will discover that this time was not like any other.

Two men are connected by a television, strange calls, creative struggle and weird dreams (Made during the COVID-19 pandemic).

Italo lives in Saviore dell'Adamello, in Valcamonica. His life changed after meeting some groups of Native Americans, whom he had the opportunity to host: coming from afar, along different but deeply connected paths, their gazes will come together in a new spiritual journey. The anticipation of this encounter makes the passing of time a journey in which Italo slowly experiences the changing seasons, savoring every moment of the cold winter, awaiting the arrival of summer and an Indian chief.

At first calm, even dreamy, the film takes the viewer into the quiet of the seaside and undersea landscape somewhere in Italy. They are soon shaken awake from these blissful images by footage of traces of today's global industrial world, as an increasing part of the sea is polluted by wastewater from factories, destroying the natural beauty.

This short film is a multispecies ethnographic collaboration between humans and donkeys, in the permacultural site of Centre Thar dö Ling, in the Valley of Sagana (Sicily, Italy), where the land is being regenerated, and regenerative, through more-than-human ecological interactions. Land is shaped as land shapes.

Above a noisy city, in the sky, hidden among the clouds, the wind keeper is playing his instrument. His quiet life is interrupted by flying elements: a bag, a kite, a balloon, a plane. The guardian gets angry, takes up his air tool and blows everything away. Suddenly, from behind a cloud, a flock of birds comes out. A little bird breaks away from the flock and flies towards the instrument...

Just A few kilometers away from her Venetian beach apartment, Franci has to make a complicated decision: what does "far l'amore" really mean?

Technological advances and cultural development have disrupted the balance between humankind and other animals. Instead of looking at similarities, we focus on differences. Coexistence has been replaced by dominance. We have forgotten that we live in a house that does not belong only to us. However, the ties between humans and other inhabitants of the animal kingdom have not been irreversibly broken. In his visual essay, which is both intimate and philosophical, Alessandro Cattaneo focuses specifically on those things that connect us. The statements of thinkers and idyllic shots of interspecies interactions indicate that if we change the way in which we think about animals, it will be beneficial for the entire ecosystem.

Learn about the exciting game of chess in this fun and adventurous story.

Marco, a young artist, falls in love with his last sculpture depicting a beautiful woman in a seated position: he firmly believes that she is a real person rather than a block of clay. As the sculpture seems to ignore him, Marco starts losing his mind in a crescendo of jealousy and anger.

In an imaginary space, a woman lets go of herself and overcomes fearing her own greatness. She discovers her body, she embraces her emotions and learns to own all the parts that make her HER.

The frescoes of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Ragazzoni in Sacile provide the backdrop for the Cantatas of Francesco Barsanti, recently rediscovered by musicologist Michael Talbot. Francesca Biliotti and the Cenacolo Musicale offer us the world premiere of this Italian composer who emigrated to Scotland in the mid-eighteenth century.

"Il Tempo si Distingue tra le tue Mani" is a letter-film about distance. A reflection on the mechanisms of memory, on the impossibility of recalling memories in their entirety. The director's hands intertwine with those of her grandmother, creating a bond in which time flows. We go from silent images to words written on scraps of film.

Between coming and going time feels leaden – a half-life in the light and dark contrasts of a linocut. The narrating voice’s mother cares for seniors in their homes for five euros an hour. At their bedsides the ticking clock counts down the working day, caught between the frightening sounds of the heavy breathing that comes with impending death and the roar of promises made by television. The dying are mother’s livelihood.

A friendship in four chapters.

A chain reaction as a new Olympic sport.

A group of young teens may or may not have been involved in the death of the town drunk.

Between Jesus' childhood and the beginning of his mission, almost twenty years seem to have been lost to history. This work attempts to take a journey through the 'silent years' of Jesus, suspended between history and legend, between ancient texts written in Sanskrit, legends, and stories that recount his possible travels to the East.

On a bright morning, a man sends a letter to his son as a legacy and walkes away towards the future he has chosen.

Giuditta Rissone was on the stage since she was a child. The history of ‘Italian-style’ theatre is characterised by families that, across the generations, brought to life characters and situations from the folk tradition and beyond.

A couple is making out on the seashore, a monster observes them from the water, a man kills two other monsters and the movie begins: a list of names, a list of friends, a list of monsters - Theend, the suicide of the underground culture.

Idrissa Koné, aka Birco Clinton, lives in an asbestos container on the eastern outskirts of Naples and has a dream: to become the king of the coupé décalé music genre. In order to succeed, he has created l'armée rouge, a band of young people from the Ivory Coast who support him and help him organise his big Christmas party.

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.

Enza, in her early twenties, is a singer and seeker studying the rhythms of life in Salento. She breathes music, collects old folksongs and thus connects the people, the present and the past. Rooted in Tarantism and in the tradition of the healers she uses singing as a means to fight alienation. Her portrait is a cinematic legacy vibrating with intensity. It reveals the thin line walked by those who refuse to be satisfied with relative freedom.

Four boys involved in ‘Ndrangheta Mafia activities are taken away from their extremely powerful and violent families in an attempt to re-educate them.In the most violent region of Italy, a brave judge fights against the prevailing ‘Ndrangheta Mafia by removing young boys from their extremely powerful and violent families. Director Sophia Luvarà, who grew up in Calabria herself, had unlimited access to the work of the judge and the life of the boys during the controversial re-education program he set up. Through him and his team we meet some of the sons of the most dangerous men in Italy. Can their destiny be altered?

An italian crew interviews some old people living in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl's nuclear power plant.

A travel through imagination, finding a place called home.

A father in an empty house telephones his sick son, far away in a hospital bed.

Jin Thai girl returns to her homeland after 12 years living in Italy. In this journey and we will discover its origins, in a rural territory of northern Thailand, up to the borders with Myanmar and Laos.