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The parking-square designed by Maurizio Sacripanti in Forlì has over time garnered quite a few problems with the population of this city in Romagna. This film brings the Roman architect's project back into a perspective open to the unexpected.
Shot in the juvenile prison of Nisida, in Naples, the short film is the result of a screenwriting workshop held with some inmates of the juvenile prison of Airola, in the province of Benevento, between February and December 2018 and which led to the collective writing of the script.
Every year, in Italy, thousands of foreign citizens are kept inside the identification and expulsion centers because they lack a regular residency permit. They may be kept there up to a year and a half without being guilty of a crime and without being convicted by a judge. Administrative detention in Europe is the extreme consequence of the operation of the borders inside the Schengen area. For the very first time in Italy, the Home office has authorized the access of a film crew to the Identification and Expulsion Centers. Finally, the wall of silence surrounding these centers and the people kept inside, has opened up, for our short visit, as an exception. But it was soon after closed in its daily indifference.
A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats the shadow of his admiration for Shakespeare. For this captivating and moving score, the Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra has called upon one of the great Verdi specialists, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, whose Traviata in 2011 demonstrated his intimate and precise knowledge of the Italian master’s style, and the German stage director Philipp Himmelmann, a regular at Unter den Linden in Berlin and the great European stages.
Michele Bernardi has created a portrait of the dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch (July 27, 1940-2015), inspired by various film and video clips of her in the incessant studio of movement. The animation is rotoscoped and it recapture the almost abstract quality of dance. The soundtrack by Luca D’Alberto enhances the succession of images and recomposes a unique cameo whom the legendary Pina she is.
The Vatican is recruiting astronauts to send on Mars for a mission; one of the candidates loses the competition and takes revenge on the winners to please his dead mom.
Impressed by the consequences of climate change and convinced that the solution lies in the hands of the new generations, Doris and Charles Michel sell their house in Zurich and buy a boat. Their idea is simple: to bring five young Swiss people to the Arctic Circle to observe the signs of global warming through direct experience and raise awareness among their peers as strongly as possible. The great adventure begins: for three weeks the crew of the San Gottardo ship will sail in hostile and spectacular landscapes at the same time. Armed with their cameras, the young explorers will document the health of the end of the world.
Set in Lanciano in 1984 , " The Diary " is a film that tells the true story of love between two lesbians girls: Vittoria and Elisa . The whole story revolves around a diary , that of Elisa , which is read randomly from her friend . It will be the diary to be blossoming romance between the two and to solidify the union of friendship, brotherhood and humanity that he will involve other people close to the two girls . Based on a true story , the film is also the story of past memories of a homosexual girl who , after the death of her partner , he decided to change his life and marry a boy , with whom will also have a beautiful child . A long journey between generations , epochs , traditions that has as its theme the love .
The violent action of a vehicle that, for ten interminable seconds, shakes an almond tree vigorously, causing its leaves to fall prematurely. Using a high-speed video camera shooting at 2000 frames per second, Rafa creates a glaring, melancholy metaphor that evokes a multiplicity of themes: from the unconditional exploitation of the environment by the human race, to the fragility of the equilibrium that we think we are establishing between nature and technology, all the way to the ineluctable transience of all forms of existence.
My grandfather tells me a story that he invented, and asks me to make a film out of it. Because of pollution, pesticides, and other toxic substances, a bee decides to leave her hive, looking for a more comfortable place for her to live in.
Can Evil achieve perfection? In a single, brutal night, the characters of this film will seek an answer beyond any human or divine boundary.
As a matter of Madness, is to move in circles. And you find yourself still wondering what it is. Declined with evil and with good: the madness of love and mad killing spree, act of madness and insane utopia. Madness is the limit beyond the Madman. Based on the Variations on Bass Madness, one of the most popular music themes of Baroque European musicians.
Short film by Daniele Zanelli released as part of the '4 Nightmares' anthology.
The residential unit designed by Aldo Rossi for the Gallaratese 2 neighborhood in Milan is part of a larger complex designed by Carlo Aymonino and built between the 1960s and 1970s. In A . R . G . wide camera movements take up an area between one of the main prospects of the Rossi intervention and the adjacent garden.
In the untamed Italian countryside, Pietro discovers sex. A long sequence of encounters and various seductions carry him from childhood through his youth. Pietro investigates his physical and spiritual craving of life through other people: a childhood friend, a girl, an older man, to the point when he finally has to face himself.
A young woman investigates an island’s geologic specificity, discovering hidden strata where history and memory meet barely submerged narratives of displacement and imaginaries of possible futures.
March 25, 2017, Monza. The park has a stage ten times larger than the rock stars in San Siro. Hundreds of volunteers, civil protection, stalls. And then the people, a lot. All gathered waiting for Pope Francis. The relentless music, spread by the speakers, gives the impression of being in front of a déjà vu: the long wait for a concert, among the fans waiting for the arrival of the last pop star.
Niccolo is coming back home for holidays. He is gay and afraid to tell to his parents; but Love and Tolerance are just behind the corner.
The award-winning documentary I Had a Dream by Claudia Tosi follows two female politicians, centre-leftist MP Manuela Ghizzoni of the Democratic Party and City Council member Daniela de Pietri, as they persistenly strive to change things.
Sono nata il ventitré is a play starring Teresa Mannino brought to the stage in 2015. Mannino tells the audience the story of her life, how it was, how she grew up and how the world changed around her. A journey through her childhood in the protective but also strong environment of her Sicily, painting a picture of the parent-child relationship of the 70s, between small and great traumas that may have actually been educational in the long run.
The Grim Reaper suffers from an existential crisis, leaving his scythe behind and thus preventing anyone from dying.
The video explores the issue of energy as a critical factor for the development of life conditions, at the same time energy is the reason for wars of power, environmental disasters, and economic monopolies. People suffer passively from this system and go on its path suffering the weight of political choices. Only renewable energy can save the earth and human being from collapse and become the new symbol of contemporary passion.
Early nineties. On television the Gulf War breaks out, while on the Italian political scene the PCI disappears and the Lega Nord appears. Inter Milan is struggling with his usual (dis) adventures, and in the meantime Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds everywhere.. Every affair of the world slips on, becomes marginal when we are teenagers and only one question seems to absorb everything that surrounds us: how to become oneself? A slow and tormented transition to maturity that coincides with the first falling in love, difficult, sometimes desperate, for those who understand that they do not conform to what society indicates as “norm”.
A journey through four consecutive seasons on the banks of a river flowing through a lawless land of alienation.
A feature-length documentary about one of the most dangerous highways in Southern Italy.
A man is confronted with flashbacks of his early life while playing a chess game with a mysterious entity.
Paolo Gioli's cinematic verification of Edwin H. Land's experiment in color perception.
Meat and powder are mixed in the life of a farmer who, in the carnal relationship with his environment, has to face the unpredictability of nature.
In the pocket conversation-books Italian-German and Italian-English there is something missing; this has happened for years and no one consciously face this ambiguity.
Green Gold was developed during a period of ten weeks, the title refers to the importance of forestry in the economic system of Finland.
This documentary explores the SAVEART movement, which began in 2003 with the goal of using art made of recycled materials to address the climate crisis.