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Luigina is a nurse and a mother of three who lives in the outskirts of Rome. The effects of the pandemic weigh heavily on her, worrying the whole family. Only the warmth of her loved ones gives her the strength she needs to keep going.
During the lockdown caused by covid, four mafiosi are invited to a secret meeting to find a solution to the problems caused by the imposed closures.
The Italian Association for Music Day presents the national event featuring a concert by Edoardo Bennato, the ambassador for Music Day 2021. With an expanded line-up for the occasion, Bennato will blend the various facets of the show, performing pieces that combine symphonic counterpoints with rock – his best-known musical style.
Federico and Fiona's exciting vacation continues, with challenges caused by distance and new encounters.
Seven people are conjoined inside a black box of love and hate as they become destined by their emotions to get dragged into their darkest depths.
Vito has been undergoing therapy for mental disorders for some time but he continually hears a voice and has visual hallucinations. Realizing the uselessness of drugs, Vito acquires a new self-awareness: he understands what appears crazy to others is nothing more than an integral part of his life or at least of his past.
A world of silence and darkness. A world of things unspoken and unseen. It is the world in which deaf, blind and deafblind people spend their entire lives. But it is also a world full of fantasy, joy and an excited sensitivity towards outside stimuli, touches and vibration. The immense power of physical contact with and the closeness of caregivers is an energizing element in this humanist documentary exploration of the world of people with vision and hearing impairments. The filmmaker patiently observes the lives of patients living in the specific conditions of institutional existence and opens up her observations to a wide range of possible forms of communication and sharing, while also showing an understanding for the hard work and absolute exhaustion of the caregiving personnel.
A portrait in the past and in the present of Turin which in 1961 was the scene of the international labor exhibition. In that period, an entire neighborhood was built to celebrate the progress and well-being of Italy during the economic boom. '61 was also the year in which immigration from the south to northern Italy reached its peak. Today with the poet Mohamed Amin Bour, we cross these places like aliens coming from a future that already appears old, to reflect on what is left of that promise of progress.
The video was born within the Berlin postporno scene through a collaboration with trans feminist filmmaker and activist Emy Fem. The artist worked on the shoot on the set of Fem's latest film and from this experience produced the work The Pornographer in which an abstract tangle of bodies with fluid and undefined sexuality becomes an invitation to confront our limitations by embracing the value of diversity.
The story of the life of one of the greatest exponents of Futurism, protagonist of the avant-garde art scene in Rome before, during and after Fascism.
In a golden, reassuring and muffled clearing, a young child explores the wonders of the landscape with his teddy bear until a frightening storm arrives, which threatens their serenity.
The work has been created for the IAR international video art exhibition at palazzo Fondi in Napoli, and it was filmed and produced at Via Farini - Vir artist in residency in Milano. The film wishes to investigate a potential contemporary condition of suspension in which western-society has fallen into. The artist by assembling a unique optical device has explored the microscopic dimension of billboard paper and projected it back onto its given urban environments. The result is an atmospheric work in which the micro confronts the macro in a sequence of urban projections where by means of juxtaposition of perspectives reality results as partially suspended.
An actress on the sunset of stardom welcomes the help of a filmmaker to gain funds needed for shady happenings.
In the mineral landscape, the figures seem to belong to a re-imagined archaic age. Huge masks, hieratic postures condense each character into an archetype. Suddenly they reappear in a shadow theater whose stretched sheet echoes the cinema screen. A spectator falls asleep and reappears with an animal mask, simultaneously red riding hood and wolf. Gaia Formenti and Marco Piccareda continue on the path of Creatura dove vai? (FID 2019) with this tale which, its formal fertility becoming sexual, culminates in a hymn of the mucous membrane and bodily fluids. (Nathan Letoré)
Dark Ages: two abandoned little sisters live miserably inside a semi-destroyed granary. On a bad day the surrounding fields become the battleground between two imperial armies. The sisters, pretending to have good contacts with the Almighty, cleverly manipulate the two bigoted emperors and finally celebrate the victory of cunning over the dullness of power.
Are the glorious days of the Eternal City over? Can Rome's mythical beauty coexist with its social problems? This documentary describes "Rome" as a complex organism in its contrast between beauty and decadence.
Short film by Massimo and Flavio Bulgarelli.
Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.
In a world ravaged by an epidemic, a remote country enclosed in the mountains seems to be the last flash of humanity.
Grieving pet owners embark on a pilgrimage to Padua in search of a second life for their beloved animal, at the hands of an unlikely messiah. Alberto is Padua's only taxidermist, and perhaps the only one in Italy to specialize in pet taxidermy. His typical client grieves for a cat, a dog, a bird, from which they will not be separated, even by death. Acting as an animal undertaker, skilled technician, and part-time therapist, Alberto tangibly gives his clients the essence of what they lost. But now his craft is not enough, he is at an existential crossroads as he channels his love of the macabre into sculptures made of animal remains.
In an avant-garde Naples, increasingly detached from the melodic tradition and in search of new sound worlds, was born the group of Osanna: five boys who grew up between Vomero and the Academy of Fine Arts, like much of the Neapolitan counterculture between the sixties and seventies. Through the alternation of past and present, Lino Vairetti, singer of the band and its re-founder, retraces the traces of an era.
During February of 2020, a tragedy began that struck, as the first Western nation, Italy, and then went on to devastate the rest of world—the Covid-19 pandemic. So many images come to mind at the mere mention of this terrible virus, but one, above all, mercilessly describes those moments, symptomatic of a wound that will indelibly remain sealed in our collective consciousness—the coffins squeezed to capacity into military trucks in Bergamo. The whole area around the city of Bergamo was truly put to the test, there isn’t one family that wasn’t struck by the virus, the sound of ambulance sirens blared more than in any other city and the fear was so tangible that you could see it in the eyes of the inhabitants. However, this story is not about the hospital itself but about the people who promised, working day and night, that this miracle would come to pass. 7 days and, thanks to the Alpini, Bergamo can finally breathe again.
Year 2020, the year of the pandemic and lockdowns. The unexpected story a grandmother tells her niece and a dreamlike journey through the atrocious memory of the Holocaust and deportation. A "two-step" that will bridge the distance in some way.
A dystopian fairy tale that tells, from the 40s to the present day, about the tenderness of a stillborn human being and the stubbornness dictated by the love of a grandmother. Sweetness and love reverse the succession of events, postponing the obvious consequences of the pathology that holds Antonio prisoner, and creating an unexpected life, told by the subjective eyes of a little puppet of Pinocchio, Antonio’s faithful friend since childhood. That is how a tale of Pinocchio develops, but backwards: a child who turns into a puppet as the disease progresses.
A documentary about motorcycle racer Tonino Benelli, the youngest of six children who went on to co-found the legendary motorcycle manufacturer in Pesaro in the early 1900s. The daring racer's private life, his races and many victories, as well as bitter disappointments, are all evoked by means of a skilful blend of photographs, stock footage, interviews, and fictional reconstructions.
Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.
On a foggy night, the sailor Edward is in search of a ghost ship that legends tell is home to an immense treasure protected by a dark curse...
A voice leads us through a man's cloud of memories. The images mix, trying to give the past a shape. Childhood and adulthood moments and the memory of a love he felt towards another man come to the surface as the archeology of a deconstructed and fragmented memory. A personal and collective elegy at the same time.
This documentary features a succession of testimonies and historical insights on 17th-century France (especially Paris and Amiens), and on the Order of the Minims and Francesco da Paola, without forgetting the European context of the Thirty Years War and Louis XIV. The historical scenes are a mix of live action and animation, contributing to a very contemporary and fresh aesthetic result and therefore also suitable for the vision of the youngest.
Animation short by Francesca Fantoni.
Inspired by Italian folk music, noise, ancient choral acoustic compositions, rituals and their functions, the album focuses on conveying a sense similar to those felt in ancient gatherings and ceremonies where the collective physical experience meant heightened stimulation at both the individual level and collective level.
The story of Victor, a young homosexual, dynamic and sunny boy whose greatest passion is theater. A love for art that leads him to face his life with his best friend, David, a bond profound that unites them in a society hostile to their sexual and gender identity.