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Monsters made of stone, a mysterious picture, the voluptuous dance of a donkey, a band of celestial bums, a Prince in a cave. Not necessarily in that order.

In memory of Nonno Pierino.

The staging of the eternal fight between man and the time. Man desires immortality, but his earthly body is destined to die, so he watches unarmed, just as a spectator, to the flow of his life events while the time is running out. Finally he will understand that only through the memory and the sign he can cherish a desire for immortality. The Time will end for everybody, but only those who will be able to leave a sign, will live forever.

In the summer of 1932, Gabriele Boccalatte and Ninì Pietrasanta met. They met on the Monte Bianco, they climbed it together and fell in love. Their great alpine years go exactly from 1932 to 1936 – the year in which they got married. They, as a roped party, pioneered some of the toughest alpine routes. They used to keep journals and take pictures in order to keep a record of their achievements. Ninì, that was one of the very few female climbers of those years, would carry a 16mm film camera with her, during her climbs. In 1937, their son Lorenzo was born, and, in 1938, Gabriele died, falling from a mountain wall. Ninì, then, gave up extreme climbing and focused on her role as a mother. Some years after Ninì’s death, in 2000, her son Lorenzo found the reels his mother had been shooting, hidden in an old case.

In the Spanish Quarter, right in the heart of the oldtown of Naples, there is still the phenomenon called the „Femminielli“. Men biologically, but similar to Drag-Queens embody a certain type of „Hermaphrodite-Cult“, with its rituals firmly in the tradition of the ancient past, which totally disappeared in the rest of Europe. They fulfill several functions of society ranging from the profane to the sacrosanct. As fetish oriented harbingers of fortune they satisfy the heathencultural desire for expression of the subaltern proletarian. By means of their androgyny, they represent, in the eyes of their own environment, a traditional connection to the supernatural. This experimental film documents the four Femminielli-protagonists by describing their personal circumstances. This is done by short intensive film cuts which depict many details of this cult and its social-cultural relevance.

These are the very last Atrax Morgue recordings, representing a sharp, cold and uncompromising analogue testament.

Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave, alone or together with their families, they arrived in Switzerland, where they lived for a more or less lengthy period. Four different stories that speak of hopes, dreams, and solidarity. But they also tell of closure, xenophobia, clandestinity and exploitation.

FATTO A MANO is a documentary short film that shows how a lot of essential food, from the region in Puglia, Italy, is handmade with a lot of energy, passion and knowledge and the people who produce it.

Based on a true story. 'TOXICOSIS', set in 1948 in Corleone, Sicily, follows young shepherd Giuseppe Letizia as he witnesses the murder of Italian politician Placido Rizzotto. What follows is atrocious.

Lunàdigas is an exploration of the worlds of women who have chosen not to have children. This is a complex and little known dimension, containing surprising pulsations and motivations which vary deeply from one woman to another.

Inspired by a citizenship class exercise originally developed in the United Kingdom, 35 volunteer students from Rome’s Manara High School were asked to think through relationships of dominance in contemporary Italy. The students were divided into five categories: journalists, politicians, workers, activists and bankers. The journalists were responsible for an hourly report on the advancement of the “society,” while the different categories responded to the scenarios by assigning each other “power-points.” The simulation was interrupted by planned moments of abstraction from the game, debates about the social conditions being created through the choices the different categories were making and the meaning and workings of power. Agency—Giochi di Potere was conducted in April 2014 at MAXXI Museum in Rome.

Documentary about a neighborhood of squatters in a city in southeast Italy.

A project of the Special Superintendency of Archaeological Heritage of Rome in collaboration with Mondadori Electa.

J. S. Bach's Passio secundum Joannem performed by the Tölzer Knabenchor on 2 April 2012, during their Italy tour.

The film is a reflection on the medieval folk tradition of "benandanti" ("good walkers"), who believed they had special powers to fight witches, ogres and demons threatening harvests and children. Who are the "benandanti" of today and who are the witches and ogres of our times? Can these assigned roles be put into question? The film analyses three stories, trying to recover the sense of truth and the truth of the sense, starting from the relations between individuals and the respect that every statement of the human race deserves.

A slow, reflective account of what is outside physical and mental boundaries. A confrontation between one's own being and the world.

Experimental animation by Igor Imhoff

The work of Senzeni Marasela addresses the experiences of Black South African women, particularly during Apartheid. In Women's Waiting, Women's Searching, Marasela is filmed in Venice, wearing one of these dresses and carrying suitcases. Alone among residents and tourists, she asserts her history through her mere presence.

One evening Mr. Richmond, an old retired hedgehog, decides to go to the cinema. Richmond really loves the cinema and he goes there often. But the film he is about to watch is not like the others. This film will change his life ... and not just his!

Obscure Italian crime film from presumably the 2000s.

A photo-romance about a trans woman who is forced to take off her clothes during a police interrogation