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This subjective documentary tells the journey towards the home of Marie from Adana, an Armenian forcibly converted to Islam. It's a story of searching for roots and not finding them. From Adana's old Armenian memory sites to the diplomatic archives of Nantes (France) and to the disruptive searches of treasure hunters, Sweet Home Adana brings together the fragments related to different aspects of denial and forgetting.

The movie investigates the life of the last experts of one of the most ancient fishing practices: the trebuchet. The Trebuchet takes the form of a microcosm where everything happens and the characters reflect on the surviving of this practice.

A short horror film.

A dark night is lit up with the fluorescent colours and metallic sounds of an illegal party. Andrea, the organiser and DJ, confesses his joys and turmoils through a series of increasingly delirious voice messages addressed to someone far away. It is Andrea’s solitary cry for help: as we uncover his relationship with the listening ghost, he narrates his human experiences at the clandestine rave. In a reality where policing and punishment go hand in hand, a party suspended in space and time inflames the city, setting free the bodies we inhabit. In this new day and age can we still find ways to connect with each other or are we alone even when we are together?

Delving into the relationship between Venice as a place and the people who move through it, J’adore Venise focuses on the phenomenon of disappearing bodies that result from both anthropogenic environmental degradation and the pervasive influence of surveillance capitalism.

Experimental film.

Set in a fictional society, Life Chronicles of Dorothea Ïesj S.P.U. is an audio-diary that follows the adventures of researcher Dorothea as she extracts (and resells) sounds from the past. The film consists of a single voice narration over a sequence of dark backgrounds with Italian and English subtitles. Backgrounds and titles are entirely shot from movable type prints. No other image is present in the film. The screenplay is written in a language that mixes old and contemporary Italian, and integrates excerpts from literature, poetry and essays.

After World War I, Trieste struggles with its identity between Austrian and Italian influences. Trieste – The Years of Psychoanalysis explores its cultural unconscious.

In some villages of the Val di Non and Val di Fiemme, close to the administrative and linguistic border between Trentino and Südtirol (North Italy), the alpine landscape presents characteristics that differentiate it from those of intensive monoculture or abandonment. This is due to the work of farmers who take care of the land, cut the meadows, manage the pastures and raise the livestock, delivering the milk to local dairies.

Two friends spend the last day before the end of the summer.

In May, all Gypsy communities gather in Camargue to worship Saint Sara Kali. Following Esméralda and her family – a group of French Manouche – we will immerse ourselves in the pilgrimage in search of the true spirit of the Gens du Voyage, the travelling people.

The video juxtaposes the glamour of classic cinema with the raw urban landscapes of Milan’s suburbs, blending nostalgia with contemporary decay.

A documentary that traces the life and passions of Gino Buscaglia, a well-known film critic.

A man in a long door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place inside his mind. It's time for him to come to terms with a past that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.

This animated short film tells the story of a single mother of an autistic child, abandoned by her husband, who embarks on a quest to find a good father for her son. Along the way, she faces rejection and disappointment until a chance encounter at a café renews her hope.

As Christmas Day approaches, Federico decides to reach out to Ochaco Uraraka, the girl he has a crush on but hasn’t seen for a while due to an unfortunate incident between them. The two clear things up and start seeing each other again, but not everything is as it seems.

A narrative short film.

An experimental short film.

Apatheia is a project born this year, a work that combines the passion for cinema with that of other arts: music, painting, photography. It is an experimental work that is very close to our hearts, despite its simplicity, inexperience and the minimal equipment used. What we wanted to show is one of the many problems that afflict young people that can lead to extreme actions, which are talked about less and less. We didn't want to amaze or demonstrate, we wanted to show -quoting Fellini-. We wish you a good viewing, hoping you appreciate it! Happy viewing! The Apatheia crew.

A man has an irrepressible passion for money that drives him to count bills and seek obscure pleasures.

A group of friends plan a birthday trip into an old mine. According to a legend, that place is haunted by a long-lost and bloodlusted miner. Is it true? They'll find out for themselves.

a short horror film.

A reporter (Monica Iodice) interviews an infamous vegan chef (Luigia Piccirillo), but she has no idea that all those dishes hide terrifying secrets.

In a grey society which, owing to an excessive consumerism, is losing its moral and spiritual principles, and in which a Church that struggles to renew itself no longer has a role of reference, what can we do to bring about a positive change? “Dreamers” addresses a topic that is as current as it is thorny, using an allegorical and at the same time genuine language. Matteo, a homosexual boy with an autism spectrum disorder, and Lorenzo, the guide who accompanies us on this journey, offer us their point of view and their constructive testimony. Maybe there still remains a small seed of hope.

An essay in an alternative format on the frustration and difficulties of being trans in Italy.

Led by theater-therapist Stefania Grossi, inmate-actors from Pavia's 'Torre del Gallo' prison house are working on an original work based on the tales of Polybius.

'There is nothing out there' repeated Gastel every day from his photographic studio. Those who have been there tell of a world where time stood still and the urge to leave vanished. And today, what remains? Through the testimonies of some of his closest friends and relatives we try to piece together what is left out here.

Valentina is an established theater director. An unexpected gift from her son leads her to reflect on her pregnancy at a young age and the fundamental choices she had to make.

The genuine beauty of an archaic, rural world comes alive in the memory and gestures of an old farmer and the last donkey in the village.

The story of a summer.

A series of slides alternating with short animations evokes the digital aesthetics of the early 2000s. The messages, blending audiovisual and literary language, playfully mock the romantic communication forms of the blog era while maintaining an underlying sincerity and truth. The author aims to communicate in a style that mixes nostalgia and the grotesque, playing with contrasts between a light tone and the authenticity of the emotions expressed, offering a reflection on how the expression of feelings has evolved in the digital age.

An alternation of archival footage and original shots depicts the existential anguish of a lonely person.

Collective project curated by Beatrice Mazzone "Projections #2 - Water? " refers us to a present ecological questioning of human development and the prospects for human survival in the face of the increasingly less available resource-water. An interpretation of water and its lack, in today's and tomorrow's world, realized through 36 international collaborations.

Sometimes the Past is a boulder that is difficult to carry around, and that when we think we can abandon it, comes back to leave its mark.

Super8, b&w, 2024