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Short film screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2020

Short found footage + super8 film by Danilo Torre.

A party, a girl and her uneasiness. However, there are no spirals ("spirali") that cannot be torn apart by glimmers ("spiragli")...

The film is uncommonly poetic and refined. The pictures come from a book by Federica Pagnucco and Linda Wolfsgruber, realized with printed characters in wood and lead. An old printing tecnique, well blended with wood-printed shapes, which gives a special aura of magic to the book, and subsequently to its animated version, thanks to the participation of Thomas Renoldner and the evocative soundtrack by Peter Rosmanith. It is a precious film owing to the rare suspension of the atmosphere and time, actually fixed and focusing on small things, habits, interstices, in the end, worlds...

The film tells a turbulent year, 1997 in Albania, through the stories of a group of friends. On the thread of memories, real images and archival images and staging will alternate to draw a portrait of a generation, before, during and after the events that have marked their lives. The film goes beyond the news and allows the viewer to approach in a more intimate and profound way the experience of the protagonists, reviving their past on the screen. A coming of age film with semi-documentary tones, which help to bring the facts narrated back into the reality of our days.

This is the tale of Enea, a young boy trying to know himself better and to accept who he really is.

A study of the landscape and of the traces left by time and man in the mountainous areas of northern Tuscany, between the Apennines and the Apuan Alps, following the rhythm of the seasons, the movements of light and stages of transformation of matter.

Would you transform your body for love? Andrea and Serena are in a tired phase, their relationship seems to be at a standstill. At a party, Lilly gives the coup-de-grace to the couple. When Serena decides to abandon him, Andrea is at a crossroads and takes note of the renewal the relationship needs to be recovered. There needs to be a complete, total reversal.

The struggles of an franelero in a little town in Southern Italy

In a hypothetical intergalactic journey we could not recognize any constellation, the mapping of the celestial sphere is nothing but a vice of the gaze. The proximity close to any star we would identify others, visible only from this new perspective: the sighting. To the keen eye, pixels are stars and everything is possessed.

A teenager spends his days with his friends, but not everything is as it seems and soon he will have to face reality ...

Fango Rosso (red mud), is the toxic waste of the mining extraction. It covers up the hills of Sulcis, land where the astonishing beauty of the landscape collides with a history betrayed promises, progress as a mirage, politic as deceit.

The nocturnal city is the hallucinated battlefield of an exhausted Napoleon whose spirit might not be entirely broken yet. As he wanders through the night, his steps slowly reveal the genesis of a defeat that starts as a personal one only to become universal.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

An act of love for the American wild west. Lose yourself in these wild lands filmed on a 10-day trip from the south to the north of the United States across the West Coast.

Claudia travels to a small town in Sicily to get back together with her ex-girlfriend, Anna. She is not interested anymore and abandons Claudia in a town she doesn't know. Wandering around town, Claudia meets Sandro, who questions all her believes.

Gesuino, 88 years old, former shepherd. Never married or had a family. The outside world has stayed away. But far from everything, Gesuino still keeps one last passion.

A short film about domestic violence dynamics in a love relationship.

It's the story of Barbara and Marzia. Two women indissolubly linked by a strong feeling. Their desire for a dream holiday will be broken by an unacceptable and horrible destiny.

A look at the Amicizia ufo case

A journey through abandoned cinemas of Sardinia interspersed with memories of three senior projectionists, a profession now suppressed by technology.

The first documentary dedicated to Antonio Tabucchi. Interviews with friends, colleagues and life partners accompany a real journey through the places that welcomed and hosted him.

Erto, a small village perched on the side of a valley in the Italian Alps. In the late 1950's the Vajont Dam - at the time the tallest in the world - was built into this steep valley. Just a few years later in 1963, a massive landslide spilled into the dam's artificial lake, causing the dam's reservoir to overflow. The massive wave that followed left nearly 2,000 people dead. The inhabitants of Erto have re-enacted the Passion of the Christ year after year since time immemorial, continuing their tradition even after the tragedy. Once a year on the night of Good Friday, a Christ from Erto is betrayed, condemned and crucified as History marches forward with its constructions and destructions, its victims and survivors, and its Calvaries - both real and imagined.

A reflection on the material, on the filmic support. Strips of figures wander, fluxuate in the whirling kinetic rhythms imposed on them. These faces, these dispersed shattered bodies result from contacts (this is where they "touch") made by old photographic plates and anonymous fragments of film; everything is set onto and into a spiral.

This is the story of three very special women. Their names are Julia, Ivona and Sonia, but only when they are not wearing moustaches. When they are wearing them, they are called Julius Kaiser, Ivan the Terrible and Jurij Zontan Kurgan.

On the Other Side of the Mirror is a documentary film that tells the story of gender performance, or else known as drag, through the experience and the look of the roman organization “Eyes Wild Drag” who, for years, has been putting on workshops about drag kings.

A story of horse traders, of butchers. A story of prejudices and discrimination, integration and revenges. Accepting diversity strengthens one's cultural heritage and personal history.