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A flurry of knuckle punches links Vanni and Cosimo, two inseparable brothers passionated about Muay Thai. The day of the fight is close, but that night something goes wrong. Cosimo has a new girlfriend, and Vanni cannot handle it.

Filmmaker Festival Walking Cinema Project.

Documentary about whistleblowers.

Languidly lying under the sun, “Incompiuta” is a timeless witness to life happening around it. Its open walls symphonize the feminine voice of the earth, echo the daily chatter about fruit and figs and of the collective consciousness, soul of the world, condensing the vertigo that comes from connecting to the archaic time of our childhood. Simply observing ordinary places and people, an intense and symbolic reading emerges of our fall from paradise reflecting upon the human condition, precarious and painful, on its unbridgeable loneliness, and on its destiny of death.

From the hell of the city, we pass into another dimension: that of the silence of nature. Among caves, waterfalls and woods, the path rises higher and higher, towards the memory and the mountains. The sun sets and night looms. But the dawn of a new day appears on the horizon and the world before us lights up. In the distance, you can hear the echoes of the city, and a boy, at the top of the mountain, listens to the wind, losing himself in the infinite.

A slow, reflective account of what is outside physical and mental boundaries. A confrontation between one's own being and the world.

Audiovisual exploration of an experiential period in the territory of Lessinia, in the month of August. Long and terse days in the mountains can change quickly due to sudden disturbances. Often the conformation of the territory leaves the possibility to trace the path of the clouds even just following their shadows.

Detective Conad awakens from a terrible dream, but will soon discover the mysterious artist known as "The Rapture" is much more than a fruit of his imagination!

Detective Conad is investigating suspicious events regarding an Art Gallery and the paintings of the mysterious artist "The Rapture".

The film richly illustrates the history of one of the most famous and lavish Italian pleasure villas, located in the town of Lainate in Lombardy, not far from Milan. Using onsite documentation, costumed reenactments, interviews with prominent curators and historians, architectural models, and computer graphics, Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta portrays centuries of Italian art and architectural history in terms of stylistic expression. The film also explores the social, familial, and political milieux—not least of which is the chronicle of Pirro I Visconti Borromeo, count of Brebbia, the creator of this place of art and delights, a romantic, a patron, and a sophisticated man of culture in Milan during the late sixteenth century. The villa’s wonders are many—its famous Nymphaeum, greenhouses, palaces, sculptures, frescoes, fountains, and water features among them.

Childfree, not childless. That is how Linda, a young filmmaker, sees herself and her future. For her it has been clear since her early teens that she won’t become a mother, but it is first now that she “comes out from the closet”, travels back to Finland and explains this to her friends and family. But why is it still such a tabu, especially for a woman, to not dream of a family with kids?

A short documentary that tells, through everyday life paintings, the CARA Mineo: the largest center for asylum seekers in Europe, stuck between the warm and clay valleys of Sicilian Calatino. Near the camp fence we meet Mohammad, who wants to run away; Aqib and Malik who dream of reaching Milan and joining its LGBTQI scene; Ibrahim, the hypnotic musician waiting for his documents; Dieudonne “le prophète” who harshly denounces the poor condition of the asylum seekers.

At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.

“Domani Chissà Forse" is a reflection on time and what survives it in a circumscribed space in which past, present and future seem to merge.

The film tells the story of Bouchra, an eight-year-old girl who lives a nomadic life with her parents in the desert of southeastern Morocco, where temperatures reach extremely high levels and the land is completely dry and arid. The young protagonist is one example of the many children who live in the same conditions and share the same lifestyle, deprived of their fundamental rights: from education to the right to play, from health to the right to a home.

Gianni Reinetti is a quiet 81-year-old man, living in Turin. After a joyful life, his dream finally comes true on 6th August 2016: after spending 52 years together, Gianni finally marries Franco Perrello. They are the first gay couple to be officially married at the Turin City Hall. Franco and Gianni become a family also in the eyes of the Italian state and a symbol of hope for the younger generations.

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.

What is happening in Nuria’s head? While doctors carefully examine her brain, thoroughly scrutinised by an MRI, Anna Hungerbühler endeavours to show us the day-to-day of her intriguing protagonist, with her little boy Numa and her husband Francesco. A family happiness we sense to be hard-won by a woman with an exuberant personality. This is where the mystery of the film lies: what happened that could shape in this way such a particular relationship, simultaneously intense and melancholic, with the world?

A documentary that tells the story of how the Italian hockey team HCB (Hockey Club Bolzano) won the 2017-2018 season of the Austrian EBEL championship.

A photo-romance about a trans woman who is forced to take off her clothes during a police interrogation

1994. A band of faceless artists make a fool of national newspapers... and they all go by the name Luther. In the shadows of the city of Bologna in the 90s, emerges the fake persona of Luther Blissett, sharing his name with the AC Milan striker, but it's a pseudonym. Most of all, Luther Blissett is a space that welcomes experimentations, spreading freedom in a wide network of artists and saboteurs, it is performance, demonstrations, publications, radio shows and, most of all, what today we refer to as "fake news". This irresistible documentary tells the story of the collective from which the contemporary Wu Ming was born: a visionary cultural movement who's aim was to unveil the media's hypocrisy. And that managed to do it.

Young Samantha is targeted by Kate and Ivan, who want to get to her father's safe.

The maker writes of Non c'è nessuna Dark Side: "I could never say it's a film of mine (maybe not even a film); it's a space of chaos torn from the duration, from our being here to our fear of oblivion." Erik Negro's project started in 2007 as a kind of machine to stop time. What the machine has produced are unstable fragments as the interim phase of a historical and personal process of solidification. Out of the chaos of existence, this UFO has emerged, twelve years later. During this period, cinema and music offered some footholds for a boy from the Italian provinces who had just finished secondary school and was open to life (which among other things regularly brought him to the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals). The footage was shot (and edited) a long time ago now, back when the film still had a form fixed in advance – over the years, this has been lost.

A_Mors tells the story of a man, Chris, a millionaire, son of an unscrupulous successful entrepreneur. The disastrous relationship with his father will be one of the reasons that lead Chris to attempt suicide. In the film several stories of very different people are intertwined, but at the same time united by a single destiny.