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A journey hallucinated into forced isolation in the days of COVID-19. 17 people and 4 cats shot for 5 weeks, exploring the decay of a completely disrupted society. Only cinema (maybe?) will save us.

This short documentary captures life in Filippa di Mesoraca, a little village in Calabria in southern Italy. Inspired by the migration of young people to the cities of the north, "Grigio. Terra bruciata" ("Burnt. Land of Fire") tells about what's left in the village and how the older people live the last years of their life. Just like elderly faces ravaged by time, the walls of the unfinished houses decay slowly, returning to nature. This film is about a place that transformed alongside the people who live there.

Devoured images.

Fabrizio is unable to explain his impotence (which occurs only with his girlfriend). One evening he stares in the mirror and, after some hesitation, shaves, sacrificing a thick and characteristic beard goatee, typical of those years. Here begins, with a simple gesture that we could define as 'unconventional', the transformation of Fabrizio. Immediately a vital impulse emerges in Fabrizio that leads him to 'want more' from a life enclosed in watertight compartments and protocol rules. The viewer is an accomplice and faithful travel companion in his process of metamorphosis, who is not asked for a judgment or an opinion, but a simple understanding and vision of history, as it is, without prejudice.

Salvo is turning 40. He lives on a hill with his parents and looks after his goldfinches. Through fragments of silence, the film composes the portrait of a solitude.

Returning from a party dedicated to alcohol and cocaine, two parallel events intertwine. On one side Lucio and Simone, inexperienced screenwriters struggling with the drafting of a crazy horror subject. On the other, Frank and Camilla, young lovers whose evening will take a terrifying turn. They will highlight the stupidity and insecurity of the characters, ending up having bizarre mutual influences.

Battlefield is a tribute to all second-wave feminist movements, an imaginary journey between different representations of femininity, in a process of subjective re-appropriation of the archive.

Investigates the valleys in search of the Greek musical tradition of Calabria by giving voice to who continue to lend their legs, ears and hands to this heritage.

Three men need to find the money that got stolen from them

Michele Ferretti is a small underworld boss in the Roman suburbs who must manage his uncle's Empire as long as it is segregated from the household. Michael is part of this malevolent world. He is a good, and pretends toughness and masculinity with little success. When his brother is beaten he must prove that he has an iron fist, but his hesitation begins to collapse the House of cards that he has created putting him in danger.

In a world populated by humans and gigantic creatures called Konoc, San has to lead Snoun, a girl with no past, to the Sorrowful Mountains. Will he accomplish his mission?

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.

Three years, between 2015 and 2018, tell the story of an Italy that, in a schizophrenic manner, opened and then closed its doors to migrants, leaving stories, dreams, plans and budding relationships out in the cold, all in the name of the (overly enthusiastic) call for integration.

Is the intimate sight into Giulio’s day while he is clumsily approaching his new sexuality, which has become stronger than what he thought since his sister has passed away, He will walk along this path side by side with people’s ignorance and discrimination, with his sister’s brand new shoes in the background and a one-sided love as a soundtrack.

Tortured found footage for a short piano piece of Galina Ustvolskaya.

A divertissement that brings to life the Bach family and their many musical talents, as a “struggling impresario” asks them to compose an opera. Music by Michele dall'Ongaro, libretto by Vincenzo De Vivo. Conducted by Federico Amendola. Directed by Cesare Scarton.

From the series Transient.

Raw materials such as wood and iron are brought back to life by the passage of air, thus generating sound, music: a magical combination of science and imagination, a physical fact that nevertheless conceals a mysterious aspect for the listener. The mechanical reproduction of this miraculous breath is ensured by skilled hands, which care for, build and restore the individual parts of the musical instrument, giving it a new lease of life. The centuries-old knowledge of the art of organ building, handed down from generation to generation, finds its home in a workshop in the district of Segariu, a small town in the Marmilla region, at the gateway to central Sardinia. Beyond the craftsmanship process there seems to be an invisible and unstoppable motion that survives the millennia: the pursuit of the breath of nature, the wind, which for the ancient Greeks (Πνεúµα) was also the spirit.

"Terre Emerse" is an investigation above the sea level. "Terre Emerse" is a road-trip in which Antonio Angelucci, architect and researcher, is looking for whom reside besides water and rivers in peripheral areas between Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Those areas, reclaimed first from the sea and then from the swamp at the beginning of XIX century, are today particularly subjected to river floods and sea storm.

An alien girl must conquer the multiverse.

Klod is a 13-year-old boy and his dream is to become a basketball player. On a day like any other, the roar of a car breaks into the silence of a country house where Klod lives with his family. Albania is no longer a safe place. This short film deals with the arrival in Italy of the Italian-Albanian basketball player Klaudio Ndoja.

Nizar is a Tunisian boy whose application for political asylum is rejected. However, he meets Agostino, owner of a local gym and MMA coach, and Nizar discovers his talent for the sport and also finds a family.

Marianna is 14 years old and she has just lost her love. Shattered by an endless sadness, the kid is roaming the streets of a grey and autumnal Palermo. Meanwhile, an elusive figure is walking through the same streets, someone who seems to be interested in everything that people ignore. Can an unexpected meeting, between dream and reality, help Marianna find some trust in life again?

Edoardo Ferrario's hilarious new stand-up comedy show. Filmed live in front of a packed audience at Rome's Teatro Brancaccio, "Diamoci un tono" is a compendium of travel stories, social commentary, pop culture, strange accents, badly dubbed films, and any other topic that can be laughed at without restraint.

A duck is lost in the woods but stumbles upon a rather creepy house.

"In such a delicate moment..."

In a haunted house, the ghost Gerald and his silent tenant, a self-propelled armor named Bob, they spend their quiet "nonlife", between chess games and ghost rants. One day their routine is interrupted by a thug who sneaks into their home by tagging the walls with his cans and destroying anything comes to range. Gerald then decides to scare the hooligan.

Hecate, Today is an investigation into visual anthropology and transformations of the imaginary, carried out by observing the urban landscape of Vimercate, a small town in Lombardy, Italy, and comparing the pervasive control of the territory by modern surveillance and satellite tracking systems with the function of ancient divinities responsible for protecting travellers, such as Hecate, who gives the work its title.

If your biggest fear suddenly materialized, what would it look like? Jennifer, Riccardo, Francesca and Luca are four brothers who meet again in their hometown after being separated for seven years. Returning to their old house will lead them to face their greatest fears.

An elderly widow lives alone. Reading an obituary breaks his routine. A love, which dates back to fifty years ago, re-emerges. The fact that it was unmentionable at the time did not make it any less alive. There is no more reason to fear, better to try

Fatou, a 23-year-old Italian girl of Senegalese origin, lives in a Roman suburb with her mother. Though her mother would like Fatou to be educated according to the strict rules of her own native culture, Fatou, on the other hand, is on a quest for her own identity—one that joins Italian culture with being a Muslim woman of color. The stigma and isolation of her immigrant background seem insurmountable. The only friends she can find are also children of immigrants. But her true passion and defense against the prejudice around her is her singing. Music is one thing that will never betray her.

A short film that addresses the social issue of the fight against gender stereotypes. How many times in your life have you found yourself being criticized for something you did or said. Only because it was considered an integral part of a genre different from yours?

A medley of ten tv networks. A lame, inconclusive zapping in which the characters, similar to zombies, appear trapped in an eternal loop.

A documentary about the painter Degas.

Made by Andrea Fomasi, in Lierna (LC).

Film tells the story of Lidia Maksymowicz, a two-year-old girl, who in 1942 was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where Dr. Mengele carried out his insane experiments on Jewish children. Her mother, forced to participate in a death march, swore to the child that one day she would return for her. Lidia, like all Auschwitz prisoners, was freed in January 1945 by Soviet soldiers and was given up for adoption to a Polish family. She lived out her youth thinking that her mother had died on a death march. But one day, in 1962, someone knocked at her door.