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SELCE LIVE PERFORMANCE 2 16mm projectors, synth and voice, 30′, 2021.

It’s daytime. At the Ambasciatori, one of the last standing porn-theater in Rome, from the darkness of the screening room, sunbeams filter through the corridors and the toilets. On the screen, porn scenes are being shown, while only a few spectators are interested in watching, forming a real community, claiming their right to exist.

The story about a theater company and a cosmopolitan and migrant art forge.

The latest exhibition, successfully held at the Center of Modern and Contemporary Art in La Spezia, of the famous British mime, dancer, choreographer and director Lindsay Kemp and designed together with Claudio Barontini, one of the most important portraitist in contemporary photography .

Inside a motel room a young woman records a voice message directed to her lover, while she retraces some moments of their story.

I see you shiver with antici... pation.

Halfway between a documentary and an artistic installation, Heimat, starting from the creative fragmentation of the Last Letters from Stalingrad, a collection of letters written in December 1942 by German soldiers besieged in the Stalingrad sack, is a sensorial and universal investigation of that very mysterious object that is the memory of Home: a mysterious, elusive object, always on the verge of fading. In Heimat, the paste of old family films, brushstrokes of color and chemical residues of decomposing film coexist. A reality that becomes oneiric, almost hallucinatory.

Italy, late 1960s. Two strangers arrive at a village in the south of the country. The first one has a movie camera, the second one has a gun. Crossing that wasteland, the two will have an unexpected opportunity to change the course of history.

Stefano tries to fit into a new environment that he does not know well, apart from his old friendship with Silvana. The life of Stefano and his new friends is made difficult by a small group of bullies who torment the most fragile pupils in the school, especially Dino, who is a young gay man very close to Silvana. The group of friends understands that only their union can bring them strength, but is this bond enough to prevent things spiraling into tragedy?

“The Jungle” is an unconventional take on many problems that refugees in present-day Europe have to contend with. It raises issues like social exclusion, building community above divisions, and searching for a new home. The director immerses us in an unusual place called the Jungle, an immigrants’ camp in the forest bordering the Italian town of Gorizia. The forest is a refuge where they can talk, cook and pray freely. We get to know them thanks to Elisa Menon, an engaged theatre director who decides to stage a performance for the local community with the young migrants. The project becomes an opportunity for them to look deep inside themselves, venture out of their comfort zone, and break down the barrier of mistrust between the two groups. Running against the media’s common images of hostility towards refugees, the film shows that mutual understanding and acceptance are attainable against all odds.

Over a span of 8 years, Stefano talks about his choice to undertake sex reassignment from female to male. The first steps, the interviews with a still female face and voice, i problems that arise with hormone treatment. Many challenges and many objectives, not all of which are successful. “Ste” obtains consent for interventions to change a body in which he is not she recognizes. It soon reaches great visibility. But at the end of the parable in the media he is disappointed by the LGBT world, by the fake activism, and from the attacks received on the new image he projected of himself. Finally mature, Stefano confronts his past. Across the reflection of his true identity, he has now achieved his purpose: a "normal" life.

Voice splinters recovered from different archives recall, with images entirely shot in 16mm and super8, dark and further scenarios, blots difficult to erase.

Claudia, a young film director is working on a movie about her grandma,Rosa, a woman who's been marginalised because of her sexual orientation. Forced in a marriage that she didn't want, Rosa entertained a secret relationship with Carmela, until their husbands found out and Rosa has been condemned to a life of shame. Claudia, fond of her grandma and her story, makes this film to celebrate her story and her courage, but most of all to show it to Rosa, who is now very old and affected by senile dementia, and unfortunately can't understand what the film is about when Claudia shows it to her.

Time travel in Carini.

A Short Film focusing on the urge to escape from the rabbit hole of depression

A documentary on the people leading the fight in Cameroon to save from extinction the world's most trafficked mammal: the pangolin.

A family gathers around the dinner table to share a meal of polenta, a traditional peasant dish made of coarsely-ground cornmeal whose secrets are passed down with pride through family lines. Today, the serving of polenta continues to provide a space for communal gathering and intergenerational connection. POLENTA is the culmination of three months of experimentation by Adrian Di Salle, during which time five cameras were set up around the director’s family table to record every dinner served.

Short film by Licio Esposito.

Who's afraid of the clitoris? Not these teenagers who take us on a journey into female pleasure beyond taboos. A geography of bodies, first times, discoveries and stumbles, fluids and emotions, judgment and pleasure.

An exploration of the human body in the age of the internet through hundreds of Youtube clips.

Short by Elena Bellantoni.

Mario Mieli was one of the most surprising figures of the great season of the 70s: intellectual, writer, performer, provocateur, but above all an activist for the rights of homosexuals and author of a cornerstone of gender and queer studies such as Elements of homosexual criticism. This documentary film in the form of a collection of materials and "notes" in five chapters (Poetry, Movement, Theatre, Alchemy, Death) shows the numerous and incredible facets of a unique personality in the Italian panorama, through the stories of ten friends and witnesses and a large number of audio and video materials, partly unpublished and shown here for the first time.

A man sentenced to death is found innocent and released after 22 years in prison, 19 of them on death row. Now he has to face a new challenge: to survive freedom. Curtis was only 22 when he was sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit and spent 22 years in prison, 19 of them in death row, buried alive below ground in a concrete room with no windows, waiting to be executed, in Oklahoma State Penitentiary. “A Declaration Of Love” by Director Marco Speroni, aims to give voice to a man who is being cruelly persecuted by a perverse legal system, digging into his deepest and most hidden emotions. The film is a visual journey through Curtis’s glance and his sense of displacement towards a world where he doesn’t belong anymore. “A Declaration Of Love” is a singular way of addressing the barbarity of the death penalty and also a chance to explore a crucial question: what does “freedom” mean in a society that refuses a person like Curtis despite all he went through?

A moment of transition in the life of Luigi, a child from fourteenth-century Florence. A weaver’s precious embroidered blanket brings to life the adventures of young Tristan, which inspires Luigi to take on the skills and code of knighthood.

Composition for twenty photographs, sound effects and narrating voice. Twenty pictures taken between spring and summer 1934. A moving love story lost in the past. Mountains as a place of the soul, between Trentino and Südtirol. The photographs come from the director’s family archive, kept by his father Carlo, a retired professor. The female protagonist of the story is the director’s grandmother, Alessandra Buffatto, who was 21 at the time of the pictures. The short film is dedicated to her memory.

Covid-19 was a catastrophe for the whole of humanity. Millions of people have died unnecessarily. And millions of people face equally dire mental consequences. Everything around has become superfluous and useless. Even wearing makeup.

Alice is training in the pool. She doesn't know that something terrifying and unexpected will soon drag her into her worst nightmare.

The film is about Franco Grillini, a somewhat late-blooming gay politician from Bologna, born in 1955 into a farming family, with a degree in education, who has always been active in the fight for the recognition of gay, lesbian, and transsexual civil rights.

A tribute to the legendary text “The Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau. But unlike the other versions with Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren or Tilda Swinton, the person at the receiving end of the last phone call is not a married man, but another woman.

Anna and Lucia, two women in their twenties, one Italian and one of Nigerian origin, take turns caring for Maria, a bedridden old lady living in a large, antiquated and silent house. Anna looks after Maria during the day, while Lucia has the night shift: the change of shift is the only moment at which the two young women meet, but in that short span of time the differences between them flare up every day, in a conflict in which each asserts—one at the expense of the other—her own position in the world.

Sometimes our memory evaporates, sometimes it is mesmerizing, and sometimes it is like a granular souvenir.

A unique group of fishermen living along the Adriatic coast come to terms with being the last generation.

Immersed in half darkness, the audience is exposed to sounds that are equally fascinating and repulsive: growls, whines, and barks assault the viewer relentlessly. On the screen, multiform and elusive images alternate, wavering between reality and representation, narrative of the present and atemporal evolutions, and imagination and perception. A disquieting presence progressively emerges out of a blurred dimension, while in the background a sound like rain can be heard. The unusual feral beast might be Cerberus, tormenting «the people that are there submerged» like a dog, while the «rain» is the endless dripping, torturing the depraved people relegated in etèrnum, forever, to Dante’s third circle: that of the gluttons, such as Ciacco himself.

Between 1946 and 1951, "The Sardinian Project" upsets the history of Sardinia: the definitive disappearance of malaria, an endemic disease in many areas of the island. However, the disinfestation of the island represents only the first station of a stratified journey, a path between different eras, registers and points of view: the propaganda images and war-like symbols intersect with the gaze of the film-amateurs.