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Short experimental animation by Donato Sansone and Enrico Ascoli

Venus gets out of the water and seduces a man. One of four Venus-themed short films directed by Eckhart Schmidt as bonus features for the Blu-ray release of his “Venus. Venuc.”-cycle.

Short film by Dario Imbrogno. OTTO is a video created with the intention to talk in a metaphorical and abstract way about the natural circle of events, which often switches the rules of the characters involved.

Short stop motion animation by Michela Donini and Katya Rinaldi

Giada is an autistic child; the meeting with a little donkey will give her the smile, the colour

"Andrò a ritroso della nostra corsa" is a backwards journey through the seasons and the units of the language. To change the prose of the world, its intact clock. There is always a place more thoroughly, lost images in minimum intervals.

Father? - Yes, son! Father Murphy are the crown princes of the Italian psychedelic scene. Luca Dipierro is an artist working in cutout animation. This is his vision of the crucifixion as mediated by the hypnotic eponymous composition from the band´s album Croce. Karlovy Vary IFF 2015

Five characters from the Renaissance have dinner and talk about the state of Europe.

Radio Ghetto Free Voices is a pirate radio station that gives a voice to the dwellers of the Gran Ghetto of Rignano (Apulia, Italy), a shantytown that, until recently, housed thousands of West African migrants. Heavily exploited in agricultural work, they are able to share their experiences through the radio.

At the foot of Vesuvius, the celebration of Our-Lady-of-the-Hens is still tinged with paganism. While Fonzino prepares a ritual altar, Biagio leads the femminielli, the transgender masters of a cult where dance and song have a cathartic energy.

Abacuc lives in a railway house, with a garden circumscribed by the train tracks. He doesn’t speak a word, but distant voices can be heard from the phone. He spends his days walking around the cemetery, the only comforting place that seems to shelter him from the city. The man wanders among the tombstones corroded by time, seeking long forgotten names that bring him back to a time forever gone. He’s “the last man,” maybe a survivor.

An old and tired Hamlet repeats his soliloquy over and over. Behind the closed curtain, he is anguished by his eternal dilemma: to preserve the purity of his own identity or to conceal it behind the deceitfulness of an obscure social media facade. The existential question must be solved before the curtain is opened and the show starts.

When Peppe heard that Francesco Totti was going to retire he went into a coma. When he awakens, his wife tries to do everything possible to make Peppe believe that Totti is still the captain of the A.S. Roma.

L'unione falla forse is a documentary film that intertwines the life of homogenitorial families with the bizarre theories of anti-LGBT exponents, in a single story. Two absolutely distant and distinct worlds that needed to be confronted directly, due to the exponential growth of proLife extremist Catholic movements and their political ascent, thanks to the exploit of the right-wing parties that welcomed them into their row (the Fontana family minister and Senator Pillon, both members of the Family Day, are a clear example). But also because of the growing need for legal recognition that homogenitorial families are clamoring for, to which sometimes only the magistracy grants approval, due to the gaps in the law on civil unions of 2016 caused by the cutting of the Stepchild Adoption and the obligation of loyalty among the partners. The result is a desecrating mix between the silent normality of these families and the bawling madness of their protesters.

A behind the scene of the book tour of Elisa Maino.

Documentary on Tommaso Palaia, Ilenia Pasqua, Giuseppe Ferrise and Tania Bellini, as part of the Ceilings 2 project, curated by Simona Caramia.

This documentary explores the tranquil history of Italian surfing along with the passion and dedication of the pioneers who shaped it.

Three friends traveling to a country house, in what would be presumed to be a cheerful outing ... they would never suspect that this very house is shrouded in fear and mystery and inhabited by a dangerous individual ...

Simonetta and George's journey through Italy to understand disability today, traveling from Rome to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, then on to the blue Ligurian Sea and the hills of northern Italy, on a journey through art and encounters with extraordinary people who have turned disability into an opportunity and a stimulus to live life even more intensely.

Fatma, a 25 year old Turkish woman, moves to Italy to study photography, where she falls in love with David. In her family, marriages are always arranged, so she decides to go back to Turkey and obtain her father's approval before marrying David.

A real gentleman is considerate. He treats his appearence in an impeccable way, he’s educated with everyone who deserves it, and he’s gentle with women despite his chances of win them. To be a real gentleman, you need to be mature, careful of your behaviour and polite.

In the middle of the forest, a bingo game takes place in a medieval baptistery between a priest, country folk and some strange creatures.

Filmmakers that were selected at Visions du Réel in the past twenty editions celebrate the Festival's anniversary by each making a short movie in which they expose their view of the future.

Photographic animation and digital painting. This work presents itself as a study of the possibilities for comparison between human machines, exploring the different solutions offered by different aptitudes or physical characteristics within the human landscape

A documentary about 1980 Irpinia earthquake 30 years later.

Filippo tries to help his friend Gianfranco, who wants to kill himself, using his powerful washing machine, but something goes spectacularly wrong.

‘The Invisible Player’ is the first documentary about homophobia in football in Italy and tells the story of the Florence-based gay-friendly Revolution Team. Through interviews with the Galatasaray and former Italy, Fiorentina and Roma manager Cesare Prandelli and the former Milan centre back Alessandro Costacurta the documentary promotes a debate around the topic and offers support for gay players.The film also looks at the relationships between players, clubs and fans and the impact of these in promoting a diverse and welcoming environment in football for gay players.

Life in the village of Mendrisio continues as usual: Palmira keeps an eye on everything that happens in the village; her husband Eugenio doesn't exert himself any more than necessary, except to drink an extra glass of wine; and her sister Miglieta, a sprightly 90-year-old with slight hearing loss, pursues her dream of being able to read the sacred scriptures in church. This pleasant routine is interrupted when Circus Beck and its hilarious director arrive in town, promising an unforgettable show... and so it will be, because soon the balance that holds Palmira's family together is broken, changing the destiny of each of them.

The history of cinema has already defined the prison film as its own genre with its own elements and particular qualities, in fiction as well as in documentary. The interesting thing about this essay, filmed in the maximum security prison of Spoleto, in Perugia, Italy, is that it uses none of those elements and qualities, and so defines itself more for what it is not, than for what it is.

Three old men live in a camper. Abused by the mayor and the municipal authorities, they try to live in their own way, until the day they decide to leave.

Two spirits meet in an alternative reality and discuss about life, death and desire.

Documentary about italian actress Dorian Gray (Maria Luisa Mangini)

What came out of the workshop "Del passeggiar filmando, e poi del maltrattar la povera pellicola - piccolo esercizio in Super8" at the Layers festival, 8 and 9 June 2019, in Dergano, Milan.

A Donatello award nominated documentary.

A man fights against a regime where all traces of humanity have been lost, but his act of rebellion seems like it’s framed within the System. He can’t do anything other than play his role in the pointless power game.

A video by Emanuele Centazzo

An hallucination after the storm. Shot in 8 mm, of the dark and disappearing roads scratched by lightning. The discovery that a village festivity is also possible in a puddle at night is both, terrible and sublime. Do the images drown and disappear in our memory, or are we drowning while the images observe us from an unreachable time?

Fresh Fruit is a trip into one woman's imagination. She creates a world of sensual fantasy that satisfies her desires in the sweetest of ways. Jean is a hostess for a large modern resort hotel in Sicily. The hotel is built within an ancient cave, even so, amongst all this beauty and endless sunshine, Jean is disenchanted by her work and would rather be somewhere else. Her tendency toward day-dreaming allows her to escape the hum-drum of her routine work. She is bored and wishes she could step out of her own life, take a risk and make everything change to live in the grand imagination of more pleasurable places.