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Ziki is a Congolese boy living in a village with his mother. One day, while the two are playing, Ziki discovers a mysterious tunnel winding beneath the kitchen floor. Curious, he decides to venture in, but as he walks, he slips and falls to the bottom of the tunnel. As he travels through it, he discovers a world built on exploitation and war in his homeland.

Fifteen years after the premature separation from her mother by the hand of the inquisition, Agnes, the young Captain of the Pandora, is seeking for the legendary treasure of Cariddi's Graveyard with her wacky crew. This search will collide with the plans of the evil Duke of Monreale and the ones of the sly infamous pirate known as 'The Red Hook'.

A boy places a handful of roses on the ground. After that, he undertakes a lone journey into a desolate summer night.

In a weird pub, a lone man is sleeping. Suddenly, an ensemble of voices wakes him up. He opens his eyes and looks around, confused, as he neither knows who he is nor how he got there. In this pub, there is only the bartender. Staggering to the counter, he doesn't recognize where he is; he asks the bartender but receives only cryptic answers. The man doesn't understand. He then tries to leave, but he is unable to do so. However, he realizes that if he wants to get out of that pub, he must deal with his problem.

The short film is about a boy and the long-awaited night of a famous DJ. The consumption of 2CB will take him to the peak of the trip, and what we will experience will be his - far from lucid - point of view

It is a short film created to teach constitutional values ​​in an Italian middle school / 1st grade (11-14 years old). Singing the articles of the Constitution is a political, artistic and highly cultural action, which gives a poetic aspect to a legal text par excellence.

Francesco and Eloisa, through old photographs, reconstruct the story of Maša and Gianlorenzo, their grandparents. She, an exile from the Prague countryside, and he, a wealthy Roman intellectual working at the Italian Embassy in Prague. The two fell in love shortly before the Russians occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Thanks to Gianlorenzo's connections, Maša became the first Czech woman to obtain permission from the Communist Party to marry a foreigner and thus obtain Italian citizenship. The situation continued to worsen, and the rules became suffocating. They decided to leave Maša's family and move to Italy with their three children. There, Maša entered the world of the Roman upper middle class, conservative and often judgmental. Her fourth child was born. Something inside her broke. All her choices, from that moment on, were guided by an uncontrollable need for freedom. A freedom that a totalitarian government would strip from you and never give back.

Traveling through 15th century Italy, a young courtier faces the mystery of a girl with stigmata.

A journey to Sardinia that through a series of interviews with people differing in gender, age, profession, social, economic, and cultural status, recounts the relationship that binds individuals to their land in these times of increasing homogenization, bewilderment, and perennial need to belong.

Talking about the story of the Gaza genocide with other images and other words is possible. The discovery of some slides in a high school in Catania is the starting point for analyzing the origins of Israel's military occupation of Gaza by resorting to the etymology of the words used to describe what expressions like "terrorist" or "military occupation" mean, while the drawings of Amos, an Israeli child who portrays his imaginary friend Anya under the worried gaze of the babysitter May Golan, point out that most horror stories have deep roots in everyday life. Invention and black humor try to overcome the (denied) reality of an apartheid and a normalized genocide, exposed and simultaneously removed.

An artist is asked to write by a con artist agent and an improvised historian, a 'performance' to remember Giovanni Battista Casti three hundred years after his birth. A situation and homage that results in a satirical transposition of today.

The extraordinary story of eight friends who find themselves casually involved in one of the darkest moments in the history of the Mediterranean Sea. From the quiet evening on a boat to the sudden rescue of dozens of people at sea, the film explores the strength of friendship and human resilience in emergency situations.

Two estranged cousins get a letter from their grandmother to spend summer at her estate. They find out from the Caretaker that she died from a stroke a few weeks ago. They decide to stay at the house and uncover its mysteries and secrets.

Private eye Billy Cooper hopes to conclude his assignment by the end of the night, but he'll have to deal with unexpected consequences.

This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker. While contemporary cinema manipulates reality by hiding itself, this experiment manifests the opposite in an explicit and evident way. The film critic has been asked to travel to the city of Bergamo to participate in a 70-minute film experiment: savoring 2 kg of oysters and drinking 2 bottles of wine, while simultaneously answering 15 general knowledge questions and 15 solicitations of a private and personal nature. The outcome is a ruinous game in which the meaning of filming and the fragility of a human being merge into a melancholic testament.

Giacomo Fanelli is a loan shark who suffered rejection of a kidney transplant he had. Because his doctor doesn’t approve a second transplant, he decides to send money to Giulia and Emma, two girls who want to get married, to solve the problem.

Il lago incantato is based on a true story. Nestled in the mountains at the edge of Greater Turin, the small town of Balangero is known for hosting one of the largest asbestos quarries in the world: the Balangero asbestos open-pit mine, or so-called “monster.”

Sergio, unlike his wife Martina, does not want to enroll his daughter Giulia in ice skating. He only opens up to his skating friend Enrico, who tries to make him understand that everyone has the right to live their own life by pursuing their dreams. Sergio’s phone call to the former skater will change everything and convince him to enroll his daughter in ice skating.

Five friends discover the beauty of the island of Pantelleria on a vacation, but a dangerous stunt leaves them imprisoned inside a hangar.The film explores the dark side of human nature and the societal plagues it can cause.

Un chihuahua nervoso di nome Picasso viene infastidito. Meglio lasciarlo stare. A nervous chihuahua named Picasso gets annoyed. Better not to bother him.

The Gaza Building, a former PLO hospital, is a symbol of Palestinian survival in the refugee camp of Sabra (Beirut) North of Shatila camp.

On a winter night like any other, among the streets of a small provincial town, a group of boys consumes the hours of darkness between the euphoria of alcohol and the torpor of heroin. Among them is Giammaria, born into a loving family but raised in the violence of a daily life on the margins, wild and dark. During the night, an unanswered call from an unknown number leads the protagonist down a twisted and fragmented path.

Water flows, water goes down, a principle that has allowed the Cavour canal to flood the rice fields between Novara, Vercelli and Pavia for more than 150 years. Here, where more than 40% of European rice is produced, the man-made landscape bears witness to a delicate balance. In a flow of images, the distribution of water allows us to delve into the complex irrigation network together with its workers.

A lonely vampire is thirsty for girls.

An explosive love story is an animated short film about two hunters who fall in love. Despite their passion, they cannot bring themselves to accept their feelings.

Following the death of her mother and father, a printer, young Alice is forced to face serious financial problems. With the help of an artist friend and an old family friend, she embarks on a journey through time to process her grief, which takes shape in the creation of a performance/installation inside the family printing shop.

In a small town in southern Italy, a mother's vow saves her daughter from certain death. For this grace received, the child will be forced to wear the dress of the Saint who made her awaken.

The film results from the need to document states of altered perception of reality, reflecting its purely constructed quality. It translates junctures of personal experiences into sequences of images, presenting a vision of the real as a pure fabrication of the mind; a succession of visions and sound suggestions that cyclically intersect to then crumble and dissolve. The choice of super 8 introduces us to the dimension of the everyday life, where observations of reality and reinterpretations of it are intertwined with stop motion animations. The resulting images seem enveloped in an aura of timelessness, in continuous oscillation between the suspension and dilation of space.

A young man, disappointed in human relations, moves into a tower in the middle of nowhere. However over time the pleasant solitude gives in to dreams of intimacy, and the hermit attempts to satisfy them by calling an escort. The encounter won’t go as imagined, but will encourage him to question his solitary life.

A teenager disowns her parents while they are on vacation, but the reunion of her childhood shoes will lead her to meet her childhood self and see the world from a different perspective.

Halfway between reality and science fiction, the film concerns two documentary makers who die suddenly. However, one of their hidden cameras will continue to film life in the woods: will it alone be able to complete the objective that the two filmmakers had set themselves!?

Every year, an arboreal wedding is held in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy to celebrate spring renewal. Here humans and nature perform an ambiguous dance in order to reach heaven.