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A subsequent fulfilment of a pre-historic wish is a Film about an female artist who died in a dubious accident. Connected in time trought the layers of rituals, nature, death and fragments of remembrance, a narrator searchs for her and a lost artwork and finds nothing more then pieces of a broken memory. The film revolves around Ana Mendieta, deals with the question of body, spirtuality, fleeing and belonging and relates to political realities. A connected track, a time loop, between the death of an artist and the question of death and losing within the historical and present politics. A Film in search for the traces of baffling death.

An Italian 57 minute documentary on the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan of 1969.

A moist fresco of the act and the viewing of masturbation. Master where are you. Not shouted research, but instead a telluric implosion, the observation of a disappearance, a useless SOS hurled among paper notebooks, protective nature, cars whose motors are turned off, and forgotten nests.

A short film about sexual identity... about friendship... about the courage to be yourself.

J. hates how he looks so he spends his time on social networks, projecting his desires and sexual impulses in a world where nobody makes fun of him. However, the border between digital and real become thinner and thinner, dragging J. in a distorted digital reality that soon will become a nightmare.

The Guardian is a free interpretation of the parable "Before the Law" from Kafka's book "The Trial". A peasant after traveling the world arrives in front of a gate, controlled by a fearsome Guardian. The peasant tries to pass through but the Guardian denies him entrance. Peasant and Guardian are the same character, the peasant, like each one of us, in front of his own fear; the guardian, something shapeless, that surround and control him. the Door/Gate the possibilities we encounter during our life.

Italian documentary from director Marco Santarelli.

A short documentary about Homar Leuci, a great Italian free-diver attempting to set a new world record, a quest that reveals who he is as a man and as an athlete.

Award-winning filmmakers Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer make a bold and cheeky return to Hot Docs with another timely and autobiographical look at contemporary Italian society. Following their festival and theatrical hit films Suddenly Last Winter (about the travails of a modern gay couple in Italy) and Italy: Love It, or Leave It (about the challenges of living and working under the controversial Silvio Berlusconi) their latest doc takes a decidedly, well, left turn. After the Second World War, Italy was home to the largest Communist (later socialist) party in the West. The party's efforts to enhance social and economic conditions for all Italians earned them remarkable electoral success and influence. Seeking a more equal and progressive Italy, the filmmakers set out to discover why their country has now become so persistently conservative, and what happened to its once proud and vital left-wing sensibilities.

Thieves take refuge in the same abandoned-looking house from the first movie.

Madness, a demon on his first day of job at Beyond Inc, a souls-gathering company, is instructed by the Infernal Chairman to collect the soul of an old woman and let her pass away.

Documentary about Michele Giangrande included in the Ceilings 2 project, curated by Simona Caramia.

What would you do if your night dreams really came true? What if what you dream about isn't what you really want? Your life could become hell. Marco decides to escape from those nightmares that are tearing up his daily life when Giulia, his best friend, introduces him to someone who could save him. But he finds himself trapped in the center of an intrigue from which he can't get rid of except... returning to reality.

On this journey, we arrive in Calabria, in San Luca, an iconic place known all over the world for the Duisburg massacre. The heart of the 'Ndrangheta. A docufilm of men and women who bravely oppose the mafia.

A man spends his days at home, immersed in his habits, staring at flies and napping. His dreams of revolution are long lost. Time melts his body, but not his memories. The only way to spend his days seems to be writing little poems and thinking about his past.

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.

Access to health is not the same for everyone: the conditions of life affect the possibility a person has to be cured and healed. In the outskirts of Trieste, an innovative health model rethinks the ‘cure’ out of institutional standards by bringing attention to people’s lives, without seeing them only through the lens of the disease.

Beatrice Vio has been fencing since she was five; she used to do it standing and now she does it sitting. When she was twelve, she had her four limbs amputated due to complications from meningitis, which didn't stop her pursuing the sport she loves and becoming a world champion at the age of nineteen. With the implacable support of her family, she has defied all limitations and expectations. This short documentary is a window into the extraordinary, that becomes ordinary, of Beatrice's life.

Carmaux and Wan Stiller, Mimmo and Sussò fishermen from the Old City, are looking for the Lady of Ventimiglia, here Carmela. An elderly and visionary Morgan sent them among childhood memories, fears of new imprisonments and adverse destinies, chatter in an arcane and mysterious language. The (free) life of today's pirates in the beautiful city of Taranto. Inspired by Jolanda, the daughter of the Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari.

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.

Short movie by Ra di Martino.

A boy wakes up in the middle of the night and from that moment on he has strange encounters.

The dogma who escapes the freakshow will find out that the world can be an even worst scenary, while a lone cowboy searching for his lost love will fight his demons...

The movie is divided in 4 sections. The 1st one is about the 70s, when Italian society discovered the "sex, drugs and rock'n roll" culture. Many witnesses are interviewed about their own experiences as drug addicts or sex consumers: mainly the incoming "gay liberation" politics are focused. The 2nd part is about the 80s: HIV comes to Italy from the USA and it becomes a tragic disease. Through the stories told by the witnesses we can get the atmosphere of fear and panic around the first victims, and also the first attempts of the medical researchers to stop the infection. The 3rd part is about the 90s. Now the witnesses speak about the new "life style" of the Hiv-positive people: they don't die anymore, but can live thanks to new medicines, and so the problems are wider and more complex. The 4th part is about the first decade of the new century, when new items come out in this field: the most important items are the non-awareness among younger people and the spreading of "barebacking".

On December 10, 2009, the second memory-sharing campaign from the series Cross-border memory-gathering campaigns: Ordinacija spomina / Corsia dei ricordi was organized in the house of the former border crossing between Nova Gorica and Gorizia. Citizens of both cities were invited to select a few photos taken in this border area from their home albums and share their memories of a frozen moment.

In the middle of an ordinary day begins the extinction of the human race. While going to a job interview, a girl hears a voice that tenderly warns her it's over.

An inspirational Short Film about the power of passion and dedication for something you love. How sport can be the engine of our daily living.

Humanity indulges at the lavish banquet of Mother Nature, where every gesture becomes a metaphor for the relentless struggle and insatiable greed that bleed our planet dry.

In this grotesque and surreal short film, a sex addicted boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his talking penis, which persuade him to seek a fleeting fling.

Third film of the Great Power trilogy

Short Italian horror film