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A group of extraordinary children, a school lost in the Tanzanian mountains and many legends. How are they intertwined and what might their stories have in common? But above all, where does the courage to blossom in the dark lie?
The film unfolds above the murmuring waves of the central Mediterranean, where the drama of survival plays out on the stage of the sea and sky: immigrant vessels, specks in the deep, moving under the gaze of mechanical hawks. The aerial specters weave a tapestry of surveillance along the maritime border, pioneering the imagination, outlining the vision of sovereignty and order. The detached rhythm of surveillance drones hums in the silent air, casting long shadows on the blue surface of the water in this liminal zone where hope and despair dance together; this indifferent violence casts a deep shadow on the blue surface, its silence more piercing than the primal cries for survival aboard migrant vessels. Yet, these cries are frozen and isolated in front of distant screens, transformed into silent images, silencing the despairing will to live. Are the red dots at sea life jackets or flames?
Sam is a girl who is now a prisoner of her world, from which there seems to be no escape. Presences will come to her aid, who will do everything to free her, and to encourage her to go on...
The outskirts of Turin. Celeste, Giorgia and Letizia are three young women as different as they come, but all are linked by a common element: as cisgender women, they are guests in the ballroom scene. A subculture originally born within the African American and Latine LGBTQ community of New York, it is now quite present in Italy as well. It is precisely here that the three women have found a safe space where they can be masters of their own bodies without judgement, prejudices, or provocation. They are about to embark on a journey that will make them grow up and reflect on choices they must make for themselves: while Giorgia is increasingly rooted to her city, Celeste and Letizia are preparing to leave. A year-long coming-of-age story that uncovers dreams, desires, doubts, and the will to fight and to keep on living.
On January 27, 2023, a concert was held at the Auditorium del Parco in L'Aquila to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day. Songs and words to tell the story and express the hope that a time will come when we no longer need to live in fear. Events have occurred that are hard to believe could ever happen. But fortunately, there is a powerful weapon: memory.
Mirella Tenderini is a writer, translator, discoverer of literary treasures from around the world, and a mountain woman. In the 1960s, she managed several refuges in Switzerland and Italy with her husband, the renowned mountaineer Luciano Tenderini. Mirella is immense, and this documentary dedicated to her retraces her intense life. A life perhaps a little uncomfortable, made up of many chapters and many turning points. A life in which each of us can perhaps find a little piece of our own history.
Ginevra (Chiara Genna) and Filippo (Samuele Mancini), two people with their own lives. Two lives tormented by their own lives. Thus begins the film, interpreting the essence of the characters’ lives. Ginevra, following her dismissal from the hairdressing shop where she worked, set in motion a long path of dissatisfaction, disappointment and frustration, a driving force that immobilizes her motivational energies. Filippo, a boy, mistreated by society only to have as his fault, being closed, solitary, asocial. Filippo, on the other hand, is full of emotions that he is unable to express to others because he is blocked by the premature death of his two parents.
A submissive boy, after being beaten for the umpteenth time by his boyfriend, prepares a dinner with special ingredients to take revenge.
A Documentary on searching of Italian Ghosts.
Peppe, a Neapolitan nurse, must help his girlfriend move to the place where she will work as a teacher. On a warm September afternoon the two will try to understand what will become of their young love story.
An "anticipation film" made during performative actions in Paris, Madrid and Rome. Iván Argote deposes monuments, portraying them as symbols of vertical power marked by images of domination. The effigies descend from their pedestals to travel through the city, highlighting the fluidity of historical narratives and sparking surprise and perplexity among passers-by.
A short film.
Moving from your homeland to another country is no less risky than an astronaut’s first step into outer space.
A boy is struggling with love, but how many fears really belong to him and how many are the daughters of the homologating and conformist society?
Architecture photographer Gabriele Basilico captures the post-industrial transition of Italian cities. Basilico’s lens turns everyday objects such as chimneys, electricity cables and a telephone pole into aesthetic objects. His work lends aesthetic qualities to places and objects that would not otherwise possess them. A view that was far ahead of its time. Today, industrial heritage is automatically understood to possess value. A group of photography students study and dissect the work of this Italian photographer.
Two people try to reconcile in spite of the difficulties of a deteriorated relationship. A film resembling Nouvelle-Vague cinema, by Francesco M. P. Maccarone. With Camille Bilange and Martin Golob.
Federico Marretta's dream, 26000 km from Italy to Mongolia riding his motorcycle, where stories of different people, cultures and religions merged along the Silk Road. To discover himself, open his heart to other cultures and help people through volleyball.
The Trail of Toni - Toni Gobbi from Citizen to Mountain Guide is a documentary on Antonio, known as Toni, Gobbi (1914-1970), a renowned Italian mountaineer and mountain guide. It is a universal story of a man who followed his passion for the mountains with vision and determination, making it his life and leaving a legacy that, over 50 years later, withstands the test of time.
A journey into the world of artificial intelligence, to understand its operating logic and current and future applications. The TV program explains what AI is, its history, its current and future applications. It also illustrates the figure of Pepper, a humanoid robot that is the subject of important research at the University of Palermo. The TV program also talks about future developments of AI, the opportunities and possible social risks that it could entail: an aspect to focus on, both for the need to arrive at a correct algorithm, and to achieve an indispensable regulation of the sector.
Today, sexual freedom and gender self-determination are punishable by arrest or death in several countries. This short film tells the story of Nelson and his escape to Italy after a violent assault. He was born 25 years ago in Benin City, one of the most unstable areas of Nigeria. In 2018, the territorial commission that examined his case found his testimony insufficiently credible and rejected his application for international protection. In 2021, Nelson appealed to the Venice Tribunal. While awaiting his verdict, which may take months, Nelson spends his days working, hanging out with friends and making music, hoping to one day become a great singer.
A voice from a distant future tells of a vanished city that was once among the most famous in the world, Venice. Amidst legends, rituals and hearsay, the narrator describes its daily life made of boats and its profound relationship with the lagoon surrounding it. Did that city ever exist? Was it ever inhabited, or was it a tourist park? Did it survive the floods and the plagues? Have its inhabitants managed to find a new way of living together?
A boy has a dream of traveling to the world, especially to Paris where his uncle lives, but a wall built on his land divides his country and does not allow him to travel or cross to the other side of his land.
Eid al-Adha is the "feast of sacrifice", it commemorates the end of Haji, an annual muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Muslims all over the world celebrate the feast by sacrificing an animal, usually a goat. In the Maldives, the celebration and the sacrifice is related to a Big Fish, the "BoduMas", and takes place through various cultural, sporting and religious moments, that unite the island communities.
I LOVE YOU is an award winning experimental short film about a toxic relationship and the inner conflict of a woman which decision she's gonna take.
Molise is one of the smallest Italian regions. People say that it doesn’t exist. In effect, it does exist in space, not in time. Not in 2023. An uncontaminated, rural land that has quietly hidden itself from the eye of the modern world’s storm.
Michele and his best friend Giacomo, two marginalized high school students, find themselves to a high school house party. Here, Michele gives in to his desire to finally get out of his shell, relying on the most popular boy of the school, Riccardo, to help him. Riccardo will present Michele with several challenges, first to drug the entire party, then to betray his friend, exposing his homosexuality. All this to prove his worth and gain a mysterious "prize", which will mark the final step in his descent into oblivion.
With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.
A touching, unexpected friendship anchors this stark, first-person window into psychosis – blurring the lines between reality and hallucination, fantasy and terror.
Nino Vetri is a palermitan writer and musician, he goes around dressed like a cowboy. On his way he will meet weird and wonderful characters; he will face trials looking for a inner quietude, obsessively chased by a Director and his own camera.
A story that plays with times, references, space and places; making everything at once familiar and uncanny. Obsessions and contradictions are at the heart of the film, a journey midway between dreams and visions by a series of enigmatic characters interacting in different scenarios.
A woman is dancing in a nightclub, but her man is in love with another woman. Time passes, and liquid love disappears.
A company promises a surefire system for becoming an influencer with millions of followers, but fame comes at a price.
A small project created without a production budget and with zero funds, but made with a lot of love for cinema.
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the world's most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends Alan Solomon, an ambitious curator making waves with trailblazing art, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize.
A look at the era of kidnappings in Northern Italy by organized crime in the 1980s and is freely inspired by the longest kidnapping in the history of the country, that of Carlo Celadon.
An almost eighty -year -old man works in his workshop where he made ceramic dishes manually and especially whistles in the shape of birds. The "song" of the background of the birds and the images of the isolated village of Castelli, in the Teramo, will bring the viewer in a remote place away from modernity. Man, craftsman, nature, silence.
A film about light, shadows and the creatures around them.