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The 'discovery' of a box full of firecrackers creates the chance of a showdown between Baby Girl and Cookie, two teenagers divided by a conflict that traces back to their parents’ dispute.

Seeing through the camera's lens when form disappears for the fleeting moment when something that was not there reveals itself. Color is visual sound. Composing for the eyes a dimension of color's subtle vibration. The subtle appearance of its' invisible frequency.

Ancestral retraces the salient stages of Massinissa Askeur's life and career through the protagonist's own words but also, and above all, through the testimonies of the people who knew him on a personal, professional and artistic level. Weaving together suggestions and echoes of different stories and cultures, starting from Africa to the heart of Europe, the documentary offers a multifaceted and eclectic picture of the growth path and goals achieved by Askeur in the field of visual arts and design.

"Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana" stands as the second act of the trilogy begun in 2019 with "Portrait de Rosa, à la française." The poetry of the first chapter is replaced by a melody that takes the viewer back among the waves of a journey, among rocks and shells. A song full of love and hope from the past, setting the end of youth and the beginning of maturity.

Divided into chapters like a memoir and punctuated by an alternation of natural stillness and special encounters, this film celebrates the subtle discoveries that define our identity. It highlights not the grand events of life, but the poetry found in simple moments, the everyday, and the shared intimacy of those we hold dear.

An American chronicle weaves together the threads of an aborted cinematic adventure.

Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler embarked on a journey into the engine room of Adriatic tourism. VISTA MARE will be a film about the people we spend our holidays with year after year without realising it – a look into the lives and work of those who work while we enjoy our holidays.

A docu-fiction focusing on writer Pier Vittorio Tondelli who died in 1991 at the age of 36, due to AIDS. Tondelli is known not only for being one of Europe’s greatest storytellers but also for being one of the sharpest voices of his time. He was the writer of Other Libertines, his first work and a cult novel among young people of the 80s, subject to seizure in L’Aquila for obscenity and outrage against the public morals of the time. Yet, Tondelli’s novel was not only a transgressive writing but also a literary project that allowed the linguistic mixing of registers, sectors and even dialectisms. The film sets out in search of the places where the writer had the opportunity to live, starting from Correggio, where he was born, up to Bologna, the aforementioned L’Aquila, and then Orvieto, on which his second novel focuses, to continue with Rome, Milan, and Berlin.

The idle moments in the kitchen become an opportunity to reflect on oneself, on who one is, and on that elusive sense of lack that separates us from happiness. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, with what shall it be salted? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.”

Two Italian partisans during World War II are confronted with a moral dilemma when they take a fascist soldier prisoner.

“Il Corridoio Rosso" is a tale of two corridors, one a copy of the other. One corridor is that of the installation curated by Giovanni Agosti and Jacopo Stoppa at the Triennale di Milano for the 23rd International Exhibition "Unknown Unknowns": the visitor crosses it to access four mysterious rooms inspired by natural elements. The other corridor is that of Agosti's own home, a place saturated with books, paintings and objects that contains - conceals - clues, traces and memories of a lifetime. Fiction and reality blur in a dual exploration that leaves unresolved the mystery of what is hidden at the end of the corridor.

AM remembers, maybe she dreams, and days and nights follow each other. The House in the Woods gets crowded with mysterious visitors while a Little Dragon moves tiny, unsteady steps out of the darkness of memory. The humanist vision of Anna Maria Ortese echoes through the collective dream of the guests of a drug rehabilitation center.

At first glance, Brett Allen Smith’s memory worlds seem slightly otherworldly but peaceful. There is a little pug – curious, bouncy and, most importantly, alive, a harmless explorer of lawns and living rooms. At the same time, the director is driven by an inner fracture, an irritation to be illuminated by means of phone conversations with family members: How real are the memories that had such a tremendous impact on him? Like the hill towering in front of Smith’s inner eye under which two dogs lie buried. And there are sunflowers, imposing plants that are impossible to pick for his five-year old’s hands because their roots have bored so deeply into the soil.

Dario (23) and Giovanni (25) have been engaged, in great secrecy, for about a year. Tired of this, they both confess their love affair to their respective mothers. One of them, however, does not react well at all.

A six hour journey through the night.

The video is about the decontextualisation of the landscape and how the image of it takes on different forms through human action. It follows the operations of a portuguese company that transports portions of the ocean home. The video also features the production of corals, images that help tell the story of how these natural landscapes, which are collapsing in nature due to climate change, are being reincarnated in our living rooms.

A journey to the land of Lake Bolsena with some people living on its shores, villagers or travelers who came all the way from Africa to this stretch of land between Rome and Siena.

In a small village in the heart of Sardinia, during a terrible invasion of locusts that are devouring everything, a farmer has to come to terms with the passing of the baton, from father to son, for the management of the sheepfold.

A former professor finds no more reason to be in the world, so he takes a train to Genoa and arrives on the shore of an icy winter sea. At the end of his journey, he winds up in an ancient abbey of Boschetto where the desperately homeless live. Waiting for the warden to take him in he walks around the cloisters thinking about his life. Is it everything in our lives already written in the stars or it’s all a coincidence? Then he gradually meets the guests of a limbo that welcomes and does not judge them. Each of them tells him their stories: between them there is a carabiniere, a countess, a railroader, a ship's deckhand; a whole humanity in its colorful diversity as in the backstage of the world. At the end of the film, he feels better than before, and he left this place to live his last years.

A villa on the hills, murky desires, the past that doesn't die. The visit begins.

The film focuses on the authenticity of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, symbol of the Abruzzo Region, found in Capestrano in 1934 and dated by archaeologists VI century B.C.

Skyscraper Film is a cameraless handmade film collage created from scraps of 16mm orphan films from the 1970s. Originally produced to promote tourism in North America, these films are remediated by the filmmaker to create an abstract collage via the emulsion lifting/ emulsion grafting technique. Using this method, the filmmaker lifts by hand the emulsion layer from the film base and subsequently places it on a different film base. This way a celluloid collage is created, then re-animated.

Two children playing Hangman.

Genius Loci is a short film on its own, but also a prelude to Anatomy Lessons. It takes place in northern Italy shortly before the end of the cholera epidemic of 1865 - 1867. In a state of restlessness and fatalism given by isolation and by the epidemic, a mysterious scholar wonders where the true seat of the soul is.

Three young filmmakers have a film project that revisits the history of the Resistance from a female perspective, looking beyond historical reconstruction to see what remains of it today. They will be filming in Bussoleno, in the Susa Valley, and while they work, they will in turn be filmed by another group of filmmakers, including Bruno Bigoni: this will not be the background to their film, but rather a film that will itself recount that creative process.

A small village dominates the Oglio river valley, once on the border between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan... its name is Barco and it is dominated by the castle of a branch of the powerful Martinengo family, for centuries masters of the "County in the fog". The documentary by Mario Bonetti and Giovanni Zanotti, sponsored by the Province of Brescia, offers a journey back in time, between the splendor of an ancient county and the end of peasant civilization. It tells the origins, history, art, present and future of a magical Italian village. From the voices of those who have lived in the country emerge unique and exciting stories that bring back old memories of a world that no longer exists.

The Gris Biblia Pauperum project was born out of a desire to highlight the unique and little-known historical-artistic heritage of the church of Sant’Andrea in Gris, in the Municipality of Bicinicco. The church of Sant’Andrea is in fact the only one in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region to have a fully-preserved cycle of medieval Biblia Pauperum frescoes: a bible for the poor, hence the illiterate. Inside the church, the lively paintings immerse us in a sophisticated multi-sensory media device: an ‘immersive environment’ from 500 years ago.

In an underground setting, a young man is about to commit disgraceful acts when his older friend and mentor tries to steer him back onto the right path.