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This new instalment of Angela's Diaries concludes the trilogy dedicated to the late Angela Ricci Lucchi, with whom Yervant Gianikian made all his films, which recount man's violence against nature, animals and humanity itself. Lucrezia Lerro sensitively reads Angela's diary about her illness, giving voice to her intimate writing and to the dense poetics of the painful passages that seem to be paced at the rate of her heartbeats, word after word, as she desperately tries to overcome her illness. Themes include the war, Angela's political work and the promise made to her to continue working.

In Emilia, amid the wounds of the earthquake, the Rulli Frulli Band was born. Boys and girls of all colors and abilities play instruments made from trash and light up stages across Italy. Not just a band, but also a model of inclusion studied by the Università Cattolica. An adventure made of music and rebirth.

Facing one of humanity’s biggest questions, ‘what is left of us after our death?’, this haunting documentary covers the author’s thought process on the idea of what might remains of us after we die, supported by the vision of an artist who decided to come back in Italy after spending forty-seven years in New York and turn his little apartment into a mausoleom where his death-filled artworks will lay along with his ashes. Raising questions like ‘are the things we create in our lifetime the mark of our existance?’ and ‘can the artist escape death trough the art objects?’ the documentary touches a vast variety of themes and ideas as well as paying a visit to one of the oldest mausoleums in ancient mythology, the Acheron River.

The resolution of a crossword is the costant of a young girl. Totally alienated from what she has around her, she'll have to face the search for the last word in order to complete the crossword and then face its end.

Alberto is a quiet, solitary eighteen-year-old who prefers to lose himself in the pirate escapades of Captain Morgan and Admiral Coen rather than face a reality where socializing feels difficult. At school, bullies harass and provoke him, making keeping to himself the safest way to avoid trouble. But there is also Sofia, a classmate who, by taking a step forward and reaching out to him, helps Alberto overcome his fears and opens the door to a new perspective.

A representation of the change of evil through the superstructures of power. The walls of the former concentration camp of Trieste, the Risiera di San Sabba, give the words of knowledge a sense of physical trail, thanks to the prophetic text by Jean Baudrillard, “The transparency of evil”, which however is not accompanied by the images, but chooses a path that is autonomous and at the same time parallel to them.

A reality show offers a residence permit as a prize. Three young Sinti turn their lives into a game in front of the cameras.

The conversation between a patient and his therapist takes an unexpected turn. Reflecting on the meaning of life and free will, the session leads both of them to an incredible revelation.

Two girls become friends while waiting for the bus.

Everything is perfect: the table, the good manners, the polite smiles. Antonio doesn't want to be there, but he has to. The evening, however, is destined to derail into a grotesque spiral.

8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection... What is a film without a camera? This question was explored through cameraless filmmaking techniques such as photogramming 8.75 archival prints onto 16mm. Here, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation as a medium through which other forms of narrative appear...

This production from Regensburg observes stone sculptures as they are created and in turn creates a sound sculpture from these images.

There are places that never stop speaking to us, even when we think we've forgotten them.

Mireille Delmas-Marty, a visionary French lawyer, and Antonio Benincà, a passionate Italian artist, join forces and create a compass of possibilities to guide us through the chaos of the world. A deep friendship develops between them, nourished by their shared love of freedom.

Leo is a lonely young man who works as a night cleaner, dragging his life in a monotonous routine between deserted streets and bags of waste. One night he discovers a flyer that leads him into a mysterious instructional game. An anonymous envelope, an enigmatic device and an address push him to take to the streets at dawn. Once he reaches his destination he finds a strange bare room where the voice of an AI welcomes him, ready to put him before a choice capable of turning his life upside down.

In a hidden and silent world, in which the last breaths wander, the human being is confronted with the transience of his life, as his senses and body parts gradually blur, under the silent gaze of an angel who watches over this human existence and the passage to death. The latter is represented as an artist who gradually shapes parts of the body into a work of art, leading to total body fading.

The documentary chronicles Bubi Dennerlein’s extraordinary journey from athlete to coach. He is considered the godfather of Italian swimming, having served as head coach of the Italian national swimming team for 24 years. He led the team to seven Olympic Games and mentored numerous world champions, including Novella Caligaris. As an innovator, he introduced interval training and modern biomechanics to Italian swimming. He was not only a technical coach but also a father figure to many of his athletes.

A hybrid exploration of language, trauma, and the porous boundaries between human, animal, and environment. Set within the Farneto cave in Bologna, the work follows A., a speleologist whose childhood trauma, being bitten on the face and neck by a dog, left him with a stutter. As A. descends into the cave, he sings extracts from articles detailing his accident (February 1999). In song, his voice flows smoothly, his stutter momentarily dissolved through a technique that allows fluency. The cave, once an image of fear and wounding, becomes a site of reclamation, where the feral mouth that bit him is transformed into a cavern to explore.

A short film exploring the quiet loneliness and abandonment of the elderly.

Manifesto of post neorealism

A homeless man lives day by day on the same street corner, trying to make it feel like home. Haunted by the loss of his only daughter, what hurts the most is being invisible to the people who walk past him every day. Only a little girl is able to look him straight in the eyes, renewing in him beautiful memories faded by pain, which bring him back to a rediscovered humanity.

Alessandro Santin

The relationship between the city and its people seen through CCTV cameras, which scan the urban landscapes to the sound of an MRI machine. A depiction of the state of surveillance in its public and private aspects.

In this bold and personal short, filmmaker Lorenz Zenleser reflects on his complicated relationship with the Victory Monument in Bolzano, an imposing fascist structure built in 1928 to mark Italy’s victory over Austria, which is still politically charged and actively appropriated by the far-right. As he sets out to film the monument’s troubled legacy, the camera itself seems to resist: double 8 mm footage begins to glitch and tremble. This formal revolt provides the opportunity to transform a personal inquiry into a haunting meditation on the endurance of fascist symbols in public space, and the difficulty of capturing them without reinforcing their presence.

Samuel returns to his hometown to find his father significantly changed. He doesn't know what to say, his dad remains distant, the old tension increases. They start cooking lunch, until his little brother intercedes.