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First work of a trilogy on the new forms of precarious work emerging in the era of digital capitalism and on their relationship with emotions.

A guy wants to make a short movie but he is too scared to get out of his home because he suffers from hypochondria.

The municipal cemetery of Parabita (Lecce, Italy), designed by Alessandro Anselmi, presents in its composition a prominent relationship with historical forms of architecture. In da DO a DA this relationship is extended to other important 20th-century constructions existing in the Salento area.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

An examination of the Olivetti store in Venice, Piazza San Marco -- a true icon of Italian architecture of the twentieth century restored in the 1950s by Carlo Scarpa.

Every expectant mother dreams of a bright future for the child she is carrying. As in anticipation, a shooting star falls from a night sky, tracing the dreams of mothers and fathers alike.

Intertwining stories of inmates and ex-inmates through the complex labyrinths of freedom. Wretched, desolate and doomed men, who try to expiate their sins and piece together the lives they used to lead.

The docufilm traces the artistic and human path of the great actor through the living voices of colleagues and experts nostalgic of the theater of Totò.

"The Immortality of the crab" is an experimental animated short film shot on super 8 film, made with in-camera editing and no post production. In this movie, the synaesthetic research between sound and image is accomplished by connecting the animations, made on 1125 cardboard frames, with an original soundtrack produced using only sounds sampled by handling pieces of cardboard. The title refers to the time spent between the birth of the embryonal idea and the production of the short. "The Immortality of the crab" is a south american expression, almost no longer used, which indicates the act of daydreaming. This film symbolizes the director's release from the spectre of procrastination, a condition he sistematically faced when daydreaming about possible ways to give shape to his idea.

Pietro, a young selfish male, is kicked out of home from his girlfriend Laura, tired of being put in second place to football and friends. After an exhausting search for a room to rent, Peter goes to live with Omero, a friendly man whose homosexuality goes unnoticed by Pietro.

We are in a film inside a film that develops from the rehearsal of the dialogues between Totò and Ninetto Davoli in Che cosa sono le nuvole by Pier Paolo Pasolini and fragments from La Vida es Sueño by Calderón de Barca. The rehearsals are repeated with clapperboards and become the starting point for tales of dreams, messages, songs and disputes about the human condition.

5 stories UNIQUE in the world about gender identity

During the intimate atmosphere of a dinner in living room two people tell their history: childhood in this retrace the events that marked their growth path of awareness and transition, until the decision suffered and release set of change sex. Experts identity 'gender, psychotherapists, anthropologists and philosophers contribute with their views to shine about the old mystery that always wraps the existence of man and his wish we change of metamorphosis.

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

A former manufacturer of landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a journey where he will have the opportunity to come to terms with himself and face the ghosts of his past.

Italy, 1959. A ten-year-old boy called Guido enters a Catholic seminary, fascinated by the idea of becoming a priest. He quickly understands that in order to be a good seminarian he has to submit to an ascetic and unnatural training, consisting in mortification of the flesh, obsession with sin and repression of one's sexual instincts and desires. Guido finds himself up against a deeply hierarchical system, where strict observance of rules and blind obedience to superiors are taught. A system in which thinking for oneself is forbidden.

An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's television output, with its bawdy game-shows earning much overseas derision, the small broadcaster showcased here evidently foregrounded and documented local grass-roots political shenanigans. With no commentary or captions, the film plunges us into a lively day-before-yesterday epoch when the authorities' battles with the Mafia produced an atmosphere akin to Civil War on the streets. Virtuouso editing knits together a dizzyingly wide range of sights and sounds that consistently fascinate and impress.

Three men have to meet at a house but while they are blocked there by a blizzard, a dead body is found.

Our dear Federico Alcini is planning his usual summer vacation, but this time on his own. His friends decide to surprise him by showing up there, but for some reason, Federico doesn’t seem happy about it at first. Later, he meets the girl of his dreams and will have to work hard to win her over before the end of the summer vacation.

A little girl looking for special attention walks on a thin line of reality.

This documentary recalls the history of a famed Italian motor race that hosted legendary champions and major car manufacturers.

A man, returning home, has a car accident.

In the suburb of Rome a musician is looking for something original to complete his musical production. A girl is trying to work as a second-hand dealer recovering old objects. One step at a time their passions will bring them together.

What drives the small community of Frascaro, near Norcia, to remain tied to a land that never ceases to tremble? What moves its inhabitants to dig with their bare hands in the rubble of a church? A crucifix to be reassembled for the patronal procession, a canvas partly buried under the stones that preserve collective memory and signs of atavistic traditions, become emblems of resilience, proud belonging, defence of a culture that wants to stay alive, challenge to isolation after the earthquake. Not far away, in Campi, a group of restorers work to recover fragments of an invaluable artistic heritage, crumbled by the effects of an implacable nature. At the same time, in total isolation at an altitude of one thousand metres, a monk lives in harmony with God in respect of the ora et labora rule, tirelessly reinforcing his hermitage, not at all frightened by a land he has learned to love.

Documentary about Andrea Chiesi included in the Ceilings 2 project, curated by Simona Caramia.

A man is immersed in himself.

Short film by Daniele Zanelli released as part of the '4 Nightmares' anthology.

The psychologist Giulio De Santis goes to Apulia to make a documentary, on tarantism, one of the most discussed myths of Italian folklore.