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A journey to discover Roberto Laneri's ways of sound, a geographical map made of sound and energy waves. Classical and contemporary avant-garde music, jazz, Indian music, Australian Aboriginal instruments, and Central Asian overtone singing.
Valerio is abruptly left by his girlfriend without a clear explanation. Before disappearing, she leaves behind a cryptic note with an enigmatic message. Desperate for answers, Valerio turns to his friend Lorenzo, as the two of them attempt to unravel the mystery behind her sudden departure.
Elena, Italian by adoption but born in Romania, is about to turn 30 years old and feels the need to discover the missing piece of her story: her biological family. To do so, she decided to make a journey by car from Piacenza to Bucharest with an unusual and surprising travel companion: her newfound brother Gerard. Siblings and at the same time perfect strangers.
A girl begins to choke and is assisted by her friend. Soon, the situation takes a surreal turn.
Painterly technique and colour, the film is the result of improvisation with software. grain cloud atmosphere explores the perception of time through the eye and through the ear.
Giovanni Sollima premieres a suite by Como-based cellist and composer Umberto Pedraglio, which involves the use of special sculptural cellos: cellos made of aluminum, silk, cardboard, plastic, hay, and an invisible cello.
An alternation of archival images and original footage attempts to reconstruct the emotions and sensations evoked by silence and isolation.
Esther is a shy, introverted teenager who lives with her bad-tempered father in a smallvillage surrounded by forests. She is adored and idolized by the local community of believers because of the wounds she bears on her body (the wounds of Christ) and the frequent appearances of the Virgin Mary who seems to communicate through her.
A forensic medicin student with a trouble relationship with her chaotic roommate tries to concentrate for an upcoming test.
Created and designed exclusively using A.I. Original music recorded live this summer at a party in the town of Prilep, in the Balkans (Macedonia) and performed by a gipsy orchestra.
Experimental short. A glance inside a film projector, focusing on digital error and noise to amplify the analogue features.
In an increasingly liquid and stimulus-saturated reality, Ilaria finds herself on an emotional psychophysical journey while dancing her favorite child dance: Giro Tondo. In constant motion, body and mind manage to integrate without hindering each other, towards transformation.
Two friends find a puppet hanging in the woods. Why did it do that?
"Volti" uses archival i footage to explore the theme of police brutality and the dehumanization of victims. Through a process of visual transformation, the human faces shown undergo a sort of symbolic castration due to the abuse, losing their humanity and breaking down into expressions of pain. Each face becomes a tragic mask, symbolizing the loss of identity and dignity inflicted by a system that no longer recognizes people, but only objects to control and repress. The film ends with an eerie silence, accompanied by a sequence of images showing faces now dead and devoid of meaning. These faces, stripped of any distinguishing features, merge into a disturbing gallery that represents the final stage of dehumanization: the complete erasure of individuality.
Two friends are discussing a shocking revelation that another friend of theirs has just made.
A nightmare about a panicked search for a lost friend that turns into a poem about acceptance.
After the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, Aziz, and his beloved disabled son, Erfan, were rescued by the Italian army and arrived in Italy. While the father is weeping at the loss of his homeland, the son looks forward to building a new life.
Maciste, the first, the one who appeared in Pastrone's film, Cabiria (1916), leaves the screen, evoked by the critic and film historian Steve Della Casa. He wants to know who he is and what he did. Della Casa will help him find his other self, that Bartolomeo Pagano, a camallo (unloader) from the port of Genoa who saw his life transformed by the meeting with the director Pastrone.
The Pavilion on the Water is a cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also the place where he eventually died in 1978, at the height of his career, while retracing the steps of wandering poet Matsuo Bashō. Through the words of his son, some of his collaborators and a Japanese philosopher, the documentary unfolds and quests after the sense of beauty. A nostalgic feeling permeates the whole film for that rare event which is the birth of an artist. Although he passed away, he left behind a work that, still to this day, delights and amuses.
Based on the real-life experiences of a friend, Antonio Vasaturo’s striking 15-minute film follows a young man rebuilding his body after illness. As his obsession with his physique intensifies, he embarks on a new journey of discovery as an attraction to similar bodies arises. Told through a series of vignettes centred around its protagonist, also the heart is a muscle, is an experimental portrait of a complex, but relatable character.
The mundane quotidian experience of a man who fled Libya and awaits permission to remain in Italy, a period of limbo plagued with indignities.
In a dystopian future, a robot is tasked with studying and analyzing the linguistic artifacts of human civilization.
This piece is Marcello Filotei’s meditation on Haydn’s "Septem verba Christi in cruce". It is both a transcription of the Austrian composer’s famous work and an original reinterpretation of the final moments of Jesus’ life, which the composer chose to set for an unusual ensemble.
“A timeless hero: Robin Hood” is a musical commissioned by the Petruzzelli Theater in Bari and staged in 2023. Designed for a wide audience, including children and young people, it combines elements of musical theater and opera, recounting the adventures of Robin Hood with music by Michele dall'Ongaro and libretto by Vincenzo De Vico.
Carlo leads an empty life without questioning anything anymore. He begins to encounter a mysterious man around the city, who fishes in a cup. This man is San Pey, and he holds the key to reconnecting with Carlo’s inner child, which he has long suppressed.
"An abstract nostalgia it pervades the thoughts of an abandoned mind, paying no attention to the impervious waves of growing brightness that crash into the emptiness of the self. Flows of emotions that migrate from one hemisphere to the other staggering due to the absence of measures. The rush of surreal waiting emerges in the single individual, leaving him lost in the darkness of reflection. Slowly a dim light ascends from oblivion, provoking the awakening of the hints of a neglected intellect, bringing to one's self a feeling of presence in itself And solitary". -"Abismo", Martina Bigoni
Two friends mourn the loss of a loved one, but the investigation reveals a shocking detail.
An autoportrait from João Victor Montuori in a short-film format made for the 10th IFA Film Directing Masterclass with Ruben Östlund. Each student selected made their own video based on five questions with one and a half minutes limit. João used a mix between footage from his previous films and footage made especially for the autoportrait.
In the midst of a personal and work crisis, I begin to film everything obsessively: my parents, grandparents, children, friends and lovers, but also myself and psychotherapy. Some footage is consensual, some is “stolen.” This way my personal-intimate becomes narrative: the recent separation, the pain of my children’s being apart, my parents’ separation, my inadequacy as a mother. But in this autobiographical process of “coming out” I inevitably clash with the privacy of those close to me. The result is a kind of intimate diary that, in becoming public, is perhaps shameless and obscene. But where are the boundaries between what should remain private, offstage, and what can be made public and shared?
Designing artificial relationships between found or stolen elements is a technique that seeks to discuss found footage. Credere a tutto tells about houses and living beings and has developed by intertwining ancient photos, a text, a film sequence and original video footage. Materials that take on time, space and new meanings within the expanded vision of the so-called “spectators”. A techno music session while séances and panoramic views of derelict houses question us about what we see and what we cannot see.
A short film.
Two former lovers, at the end of their romantic relationship, decide to write letters retracing the key points of their stories. From falling in love, to affectionate moments, smiles and lightheartedness; up to the gradual decline and mutual hatred that dragged them to the inevitable breakup.
A low budget independent tribute to spy movies, action thrillers and italian 70s films.