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An teenage orphan travels to Europe to find out more about his parents and their love story.

The dead souls enter into homes at midnight, passing around the laden tables, departing afterwards satiated only by the aroma of the food. If, instead no dish has been prepared the dead leave accompanied by heavy sighing... It is still alive in Sardinia the ancient habit of leaving served on the table, on the night between 1st and 2nd November, a supper for their own dead, consisting of a full meal characterized by sos macarrones de sos mortos (the macaroni of the dead). Filmed in Orune, in central Sardinia, this documentary - with an observational approach - describes the preparation of the banquet and some connected rituals.

A year of life across the entire Alpine region, from the spring thaw to the arrival of winter, seen through the eyes, gestures, and reflections of three characters: Virginie, Marcel, and Valentin. Far removed from the stereotype of the “mountain man,” these figures embody a contemporary, resilient, and at times innovative way of living and working in the Alps. For them, a return to a rural lifestyle is both a political and a spiritual choice.

Livorno, Italy, summer 1984. In the birthplace of Amedeo Modigliani, famous for the merciless irony of its inhabitants, the innocent joke of three young students turns into the hoax of the century, destined to provoke an earthquake in the entire art world. In a single night, the teenagers carve a “Modigliani style” head with an electric drill. The next day, the find of the sculpture is incredibly recognized by critics and art historians as a fantastic discovery that “sheds a new light on the work of the Master”. The news reverberates everywhere, attracting visitors, journalists and tv crews from around the world…

A Donatello award nominated short comedy feature.

Detoxify oneself from accumulate images, being able to see again as after an electroshock. ἐκπύρωσις, ekpýrosis, “out of the fire”, in Greek philosophy is the universal conflagration or “great fire and end of the world”.

A long journey through the mountains brings a stranger to a Protestant family. During his stay, he lives an armonious life, but soon the chaos of that own life prevails. Based on Georg Büchner's short novel of the same name.

A journey to three remote observatories in three different continents (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. In nearby villages, astonishing humans share the same vulnerability and longing for life.

A mockumentary portrait of a rambling teenager who enlists a cameraman to document his life in an attempt to soothe his loneliness and despair.

An immersive exploration of the incarceration spaces, inside the Turin prison. The film also captures the reactions of few inmates, while they watch scenes from life outside of prison, through VR headsets.

Diagnosed with total sterility by her doctor and friend, Greta, Ester’s desire to get pregnant becomes a growing obsession that leads her through a number of one-night stands, until Greta brings her face-to-face with a hidden world of horror.

After his village is attacked, a cowboy steals a black sphere. The mysterious object changes hands and it finally arrives to a bandit camp. The Indian girl who is carrying the sphere is captured and tied to a big cross. The cowboy confronts the bandits, in the attempt to have the sphere back, but they are all distracted by the arrive of the obscure owner of the craved object. The fight is ruthless, dramatic. Only the girl tries to escape, but she will have to meet her fate.

After disobeying God and having visited the site of 'forbidden fruits', Adam and Eve are trying to regain the lost Eden.

A document showing the creation of ST( )MA from a musical standpoint, depicting Cristiano Calcagnile's ingenuity in sound design through the misuse of (self-made) instruments.

Leo and Bianca are a thirty-year-old couple who wants to build a future together. They set out to start their project buying a dog in order to test their family skills. But something in Leo changes. He’s always more absent and distant. Everything for no apparent reason.

Paolo and Andrea meet after long time, but their night of fun goes horribly wrong. In order to get rid of a corpse, the two friends will fight evil creatures from the woods and demons of the mind.

The reflections we see in the mirrors are not us but of the actors who interpret us. What would happen if one of them got tired of not being himself?

Our whole life is characterized by uncertainty. We are always looking for an identity that can represent us, all looking for an answer to the question "Who am I?". As soon as we leave the house we wear masks to experience at least for a few moments the illusion of being someone, "I am the mask", until unfortunately, once back in front of our comfortable mirror at home, we no longer know how to find ourselves and we still feel lost. We need to have a new look at ourselves, discover who we are, find a new mirror to confront ourselves with, so as to truly discover who we really are. Why not go in search of ourselves?

Against the backdrop of a roman sunset, a flock of birds becomes the protagonist of a veritable dance in the sky...

The understanding of the world is also expressed through the body which keeps himself in the karmic process information. The choreography by Simona Lisi made for this video are intended to investigate, through a process of identification, the countless possibilities of biological metamorphosis taking a cue from the first experiments chronophotographic realized by Muybridge and Marey making use of a wide variety of wildlife species.

This documentary follows the daily life of a family of artisans who work with soapstone, or steatite, in the mountains of Valtellina, Italy.

A child's daydream during a school lesson is abruptly interrupted by the teacher. The instructor threatens to cut off the young pupil's ear to encourage concentration and prevent further escapes into the realms of imagination.

Actor, clown, archeologist and university researcher Alberto Musacchio took his own life in 2001. His death hurt many people who had been touched by his vitality. One of these was Stefano who, fourteen years later, goes on a journey looking for the emotional traces left by Alberto’s life and work. He visits Rome – Mostar, where together they had run theater workshops for children and youths traumatized by war – and Canada, where Alberto spent the last years of his life studying and teaching. And where he had also left a written request that his ashes should remain.

Bobby McFerrin is one of the world's best-known vocal innovators and improvisers, a world-renowned conductor. He has worked with celebrities such as Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Bobby McFerrin will absolutely hold a spectacular new program "SpiritYouAll" accompanied by the instrumental band and singers. Before the concert in Lviv the program will be presented only in a few European cities.

A woman living in Mauritania is ordered to eat excessively so that she becomes more desirable and finds a husband.

The protagonist is a girl here, like Alice in the Pays des Merveilles, intrigued by the particularity of the story, coming from the garden of PaRDeS, search for research, connaissance, inspiration.

Sister Margherita is a young Benedictine nun living in the 19th century in an Italian monastery. She had the opportunity to see and touch Jesus Christ and she is in love with him, but for some reason he decided to disappear living her in a mood of anguish and despair. This love for God and the desperate attempt to have him back leads her to a self-destructing behavior: she lays in dirty places surrounded by rats, she whips her back and scream and so on. Her friend, sister Chiara, suggests her to stop behaving like that, to calm down and try to look for God in the harmony of Nature. Sister Margherita accepts her advice and she spent some time in the woods: after a nap she starts hearing scary voices, then she reach a lake and she understand that God himself is calling her.

Daniel Berquiny the founder of the "Parco Zoo delle Star" takes care of trains and puts animals to rest. Nevertheless one would have the sensation that he is the one who risks disappearing. Daniel Berquiny was born in an old Romanian circus family that moved to Italy because they considered it to be the artist’s country. Daniel’s life is intertwined with the show and animals: he began working in the circus and ended up in the movies. A global relationship, made of sweat, labour and dedicated time. And owing to the fact that the contemporary frantic society is not keen on cultivating any relationship with nature, Daniel is forced to resist. And he does so with his fierce look, his strong arms, the tigers and the camels living in the zoo-like refuge he has built. At the age of sixty-three he teaches little Greta, his daughter of eight, to dance on horse. And as he watches her, he smiles with melancholy.

India’s dream was our (Europeans and Americans) dream in late sixties, in Europe and USA. What is it now, 2016? All the world has changed, and not in better, as then we dreamt. India too. A travel through time and life.

The protagonists of Ciro Scuotto's latest film are representatives of a large community, who together demand adequate legislation, the right to express their sexual orientation, and the desire for a private life in the open. "Napoli in Trans" focuses on the city that hosts a large transgender community, which wants to feel free of its personal and sexual identity. The work, co-produced by Spaccanapoli Online and Dropper Lab, with executive production by the VisionArea collective, stands out for its great ambition: it is provocative, but in a sincere and delicate way, chosen by the young Neapolitan director to approach a topic that is painfully subject to discrimination and ridicule from the public.