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Two old friends find themselves in their small hometown, setting out towards an unknown destination.

Experimental short film with some old video8 about the passage of time and how we perceive Memories

“From the Water's Edge Down” recounts the life of a fisherman who, through his memories, addresses the issues of the future of the lake and his ancient trade, both of which are linked to climate change and poised between survival and oblivion.

Simone is a fourth-year high school student who has been targeted for years because of a slight eye tic and an ever-growing problem with ataxophobia. His passion for bees has led him to discover that they are among the most important species for human survival itself, as well as for the protection of biodiversity. Although he is a brilliant boy, his initiative is stifled by the almost daily acts of bullying carried out by his classmate Vincenzo and his group.

An Italian short.

A documentary focused on Porta Portese, Rome’s historic flea market, and its fate in the digital transition era. Through the testimonies of key figures, it offers a passionate and critical look at a popular reality resisting market pressures, striving to innovate and renew itself.

These are difficult times for finding an apartment. The protagonists of this story find themselves lost in the voracious real estate market. On this occasion, the couple will meet Eduardo Bonacorso, a unique real estate agent capable of selling his mother to place this gem of an apartment.

In the midst of a torrid summer, in which climate change appears once again in all its unstoppable power, the protagonist, a young French woman, calls her mother, telling her in an agitated manner that she feels crushed by the city atmosphere and that she is about to leave for a trip.

On an ordinary night three young people tell each other about their respective work experiences: really, as Thatcher said, “there is no alternative” (T.I.N.A.) to the work model of liberal society?

Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.

During a robbery, two thieves are caught by the museum custodian who turns out to be a psychopathic artist.

Ali after being detained in a detention and repatriation center and forced into an apnea of torture, isolation and criminalization, tries to re-emerge from his nightmares.

A tragicomedy about sex, rednecks, and making the same mistakes over and over again despite knowing better.

What is involved in investigating and interpreting the meaning of light, seeking through symbols and mnemonic paths what light is when it is interior. The boundary between light and shadow becomes the boundary between past and present, and their boundary line is a possibility of encounter.

Experimental short. Homage to Ryuichi Sakamoto.

PROOF OF LOVE is a short film: Gigi prepares breakfast in the morning.

In 2016, the CNR and the La Sapienza University of Rome published a study on the discovery of a huge landfill in the depths of the underwater canyons of the Strait of Messina. This waste deposit, identified thanks to the use of a sophisticated ROV, a remotely operated wire-guided underwater vehicle, does not represent an isolated case, but rather the example of a phenomenon also found in several other marine depths in the world, from Gibraltar to Nice, from Korea to Africa. With the aid of the latest generation of sophisticated technical means, the film documents the underwater exploration conducted at the end of June 2023 by the director together with marine geologists from the CNR, marine biologists and robotics engineers, in the suggestive stretch of sea that connects the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Ionian Sea, over 600 meters deep.

Lying in total darkness, two young immortals discuss whether it is time to create the World once again. A cosmogonic screwball comedy.

Mainstream vs indie: during a screening, the projection of a pornographic product takes life.

A filmmaker searches for the eight winds of the Mediterranean on the island of Corsica.

Due to economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of the bleach street salesmen, along with their insistent chanting, is disappearing. The film explores modes of resistance against the relentless pace of capitalism.

A documentary film about the director's mother and her experience in the Lebanese Civil War and how she is now. The theme of the film is the lack of identity and belonging and what it feels like to leave your country for a better life when you never wanted to leave in the first place.

Impressio in-urbe explores the textures of urban space: the materiality of architecture, perspectives of a city that you will never see. A breakdown of the city’s covering from which the torn, apparently immobile matter emerges. It is the trace that everything and every gesture leaves behind: an identikit (or vivisection) of the space and time of the city. This film has been produced as part of the MADEprogram project (Siracusa)

Three teenagers flee to Mount Etna after stealing a suitcase. Only one of them, after reaching the summit of the mountain, will realize that they have transitioned into adulthood.

"a force rather than a technique, a nature rather than a technology" – Akira Mizuta Lippit, Atomic Light (Shadow Optics)

Zeno is a whipped teenager who never stood up for himself. All he needs is a friend by his side, and Matteo will be exactly that. In a surprising turn of events, they’ll take each other’s breath away.

Rita was my grandmother, a big snail who got around with a walker. She passed away in 2024, and this short film tells the story of our bond. It is about Rita, but it is also a way to confront the theme of death, to look it in the eye and overcome the fear it brings.

Between 1957 and 1996, thousands of families from southern Italy who emigrated to Germany had to leave their children at the A. De Gasperi Institute on Monte Bondone. This is the story of the boys and girls who spent their childhood in this Border Institute.