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An archipelago, 120 people, 10 days of collective exploration. The documentary narrates a territorial research laboratory in La Maddalena, coordinated by the group of architects Eterotopia. The military outposts, the case of the failed G8, the NATO occupation, the wealth of natural beauty are some of the stories that have been investigated during ten days of experimentation, by means of tales and architectures, maps and invisible patterns, round tables and visionary images. Against the backdrop there is the heterotopia, a terrain for diversity and new connections between the disciplines, between near and far places, between territorial theory and practice.

The passion for old photos and some coincidences lead the young protagonist to discover the photographic archive and the research of the Friulian linguist Ugo Pellis. After 80 years, the curiosity to know the children in those photos leads him to embark on a journey to the places explored by Pellis in the 1930s. Lorenzo moves between Friuli, the place where Pellis began his investigations, and Sardinia, where he took most of the photographs.

On what seemed like a typical day in a turbulent time for Hong Kong, Vivian will slowly lose everyone around her.

Marcello always stares at Andrea, a young girl who loves wearing lipstick and craves for his attention during biochemistry classes. Despite the initial wrong impression, Andrea is not what Marcello is staring at: there is something more behind the surface. ‘Marcello’ is a coming-of-age story of transgender self-expression.

How can a person change the world around them? Art is one of the most important tools that human beings have at their disposal to change thought, to move what seems to be sedimented and fixed. In IO|OI, with a play of exchanges and reflections, a person and their creation dance together. The work of art and its creator guide each other step by step, exchanging parts and leaving behind more questions than answers, one above all: are we the creation or the creator?

A collective journal written by film school students during the CoViD-19 pandemic.

In the countryside, rubble is emerging, perhaps ghosts. At dusk the crickets sing a prayer. Someone got lost.

The film follows the day of the final assembly for Bernardi Marmi Srl and the Bernardi family where, after the founder and grandfather of our protagonist, Argante, fell ill with Alzheimer’s, the antagonist, Davide, the new husband of Livia, Argante’s mother, tries to sell 50% of the company to a foreign entity without being faithful to the company’s values. Argante will be the only one who can really change the cards on the table, however, to succeed, he will have to be honest with himself and with others about who he is and who he wants to be.

You think a bit of wire can't entertain you? Think again.

Three characters: a man who gets home, tired after a long shift in a factory, a pregnant young woman and a man who is hunting in the woods. Two cars and a rifle. Certain choices will prove to be crucial for the slice of life of these people, headed towards the same road crossing.

A girl asks herself many questions, confronts some of her monsters, anger makes her transform into a wasp, she intertwines with her king, cries excessively, turns red all over, and in the end grows into a giant.

A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit the Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa. It was commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin to honour the memory of her deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company and is located in the small cemetery of San Vito in the hamlet of Altivole in the province of Treviso.

A film based on a script by the Sakhalin ethnographer Alexander Chelnokov. The events of the last months of World War II in the seas of the Far East are associated with modern life on Sakhalin. The heroes of the film are young people who are interested in history and participants in the naval battles of 1945.

Mr. Emmer is a jaded Film Director, Catarina the assistant of an absent Producer. Together they embark on a journey in search of Hölderlin's places, for a never forgotten project on the German poet. But during the journey their aspirations will prove to be an obstacle for the realisation of any work. A love song for a suffering Nature.

- Study•ies (n.) From c. 1300 as "a state of deep thought or contemplation, of the not-yet-so-opaque, mental perplexity or anxious thought, amazement, wonder or reverie" - Lunar (adj.) from Latin lunaris "of the moon," Luna "moon" from the greek word "Lùnca" same root of Lux and leuk, a proto-Indo-European root meaning "light, brightness."

‘Starving artists', fragile beings who clearly sensed they were of no use to society and tried to make it anyway. When things got going again in August 2020, after months of lockdown and seclusion, they were the only ones who couldn't go back to business as usual. Over a year and a half, in and out of lockdowns, Donpasta shares his daily life, entwined with that of a set designer out of work, a musician with no gigs, and a farmer turned poet. Survivors, in a word, who just needed a good idea to stop treading water, and this is how they became the Naviganti.

A photogram is what remains of the dream experience: an image that goes beyond an image. From the submerged region we recover residues that we do not understand yet. Borges wrote: «I will be all or none. I will be the other I don't know I am, the one who contemplated that other dream, my wakefulness. He judges it, resigned and smiling.»

Starting with the memory of a song hummed in a rainy night, Chronicles of That Time investigates the shifting identity of the Mediterranean; from ‘the shared sea’, unifying the cultural diversity of Africa and Europe, to closed borders.

The first BL (Boys Love) ever made in Italy and outside Asia about two boys who discover if a love can blossom in the shadow of a simple Pink Milk.

A pair of unlikely scientists looking for success try to fish out a dark creature from the waters of a toxic lake. Not exactly a great idea.

The migratory routes of Italians to Africa in past centuries are little known to the public and even less comprehensively covered in history books. A fascinating but also painful historical chronicle that still involves many people born in Tunisia to Italian-Tunisian parents.

The story of a journey to meet the latest republican voluntary fighters veterans of the Spanish Civil War.

a man alone in his own home struggles with his own anxiety and depression, set before him allegorically as his own double, a dark part of himself.

Onofrio died in Berlin in 1978 at the age 23, leaving behind some love letters, the last of which is from Maria, who believed him alive for 40 years. Made with the intention of giving a voice to the silence created by his family around this loss.

A documentary about Atomica Film, an avant-garde porn production company founded by Luigi "Atomic" Zancuso.

Short film by Giulia Casali.

An installation designed to be exhibited on the windows of the Museo del Novecento in Milan and consists of the reassembly of fragments from Fuori Orario, the famous program conceived by enrico ghezzi. Over the course of 60 minutes, film sequences, montages, theme songs and nocturnal presentations alternate between the early nineties and the end of the 2000s. Fuori Orario is seen fragmentarily, it is thought first of all by separating image and sound: only inside the museum can it be heard and only outside can it be seen. In both cases, the work is made up of superimpositions, forms and words that escape and chase each other. Entering the endless night, the impossibility of an absolute gaze is increasingly revealed. In the construction of the sequences, the previous thought is not forgotten, but it is recontextualized within the same frame, it is put back into the discourse, conscious but uncontrolled reactivation.

A trip along the beach of the Venice Lido.

Bodies in spaces and the search for emptiness.

An exploration between the dreamlike and the real of the Umbrian landscape, defined as the "green heart of Italy", but like other Italian landscapes it hides contradictions, low-altitude flights and shaded areas. We are in Umbria, in the center of the Italian peninsula. A child runs through the green landscape, with a strip of sky on his head. Its run becomes a bird's eye view and we have the opportunity to visit the landscape from above until a dip makes us plunge into the gray of the urban, in the abandoned factories, the steel mill stands behind the vegetation and the now grown child will always seek to return to the green, becoming a landscape himself.

The brutality, the cowardly love and the dramatic intertwining of destiny are the elements of a story with a disconcerting ending.