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Thomas believes that only the knowledge of our identity can defeat death and give immortality to those who own it. This is the great gift of love that he has planned for Teresa, the girl he has always secretly loved. Everything is ready in the big abandoned hotel. He is waiting for her, smiling, illuminated by the light of the sunset. But for Teresa the knowledge and discovery of her identity will be frightening, distressing, painful.
Documentary about italian actress Dorian Gray (Maria Luisa Mangini)
A boy wakes up in the middle of the night and from that moment on he has strange encounters.
August 10, 1980. The day that changes the history of Rome. The day that Paulo Roberto Falcão disembarks in Rome. The Italian cups, the title, the championship final. It all starts with him, who changes the mentality of the club, who starts to think big. This is the story of the eighth King of Rome, a trip from Italy to Brazil that explains “Who was Falcão”.
The 30th of October 2016 an earthquake hits Central Italy. It is the strongest earthquake registered in Italy in the last 40 years: a magnitude 6,5 with epicentre in between Perugia (Umbria) and Macerata (Marche) devastates the whole area of the Sibillini mountains, where the director was born and grew up. Starting from his own demolished house and from his own pain, Baldoni takes a journey "from inside" the experience of the earthquake to tell the deep fears, the trauma, the anxiety, the rage and the hope of the people whom's life has been changed by these events.
A public and private portrait of Marcelo Burlon, one of the most fascinating and influential personalities on the current fashion scene, a figure who is both loved and hated at the same time.
"The one hundred tables of "Il Fatto" are part of a project for animated cinema conceived and designed by Tullio Ghiandoni in 1970. The film was born from Tullio's desire to see his drawings 'animated', the reason for this gift he gave me in 2002 and promise finally fulfilled…"
Luigi Montefiori, a.k.a. George Eastman, talks about the making of the delirious gore drenched Antropophagus.
BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZA is a travel diary, a road movie into Burlesque world made by Grace Hall, during her tournée between Europe and USA .The movie shows an undraped backstage and the real "behind the scene" of creating an act.This project also focuses on the stereotypes about women and on the modern world vision of women and sexuality. Burlesque is a real therapy who increases confidence and helps you to love yourself.
A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.
A gangster offers Pazzo and Bella the possibility of getting a huge sum of money to kill a man. Pazzo is on a wheelchair, Bella is an alcoholic and gambling addicted. They have never done anything like this in their lives. But Bella is a dangerous woman and wants to change her life no matter the cost. Pazzo doesn't need anything but Bella in his life. He loves her. And that is a problem.
He was the best. He was everybody's favorite. He was the European champion. He was Italian. But Leone Jacovacci wound up being none of the above. Because he was a black Italian. An unsung yet extraordinary tale about a fight in the ring postponed for 90 years: a fight against racism.
Short movie by Ra di Martino.
A young wanderer with few ambitions he returns to his childhood places, the hills of Perugia, to sell a house left to him by his parents. The only goal: to raise the money needed to continue enjoying life. Stuck in this wonderful place he shares his stay with the elderly veterans of the hippy community to which his family belonged. Among these there is Shanghai with whom he establishes a relationship of great affection, and which will help him get out of a big trouble.
The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past and our recent reality. Mr Rotpeter's interest is strongly connected to human nature, society, politics, inner behaviours and emotions. Antonietta De Lillo's short movie will drag us into a very unique atmosphere, causing us a sense of disorientation and commotion.
Anna is coming: finally, a night together, a night awaited for so long, but the anticipation now makes her uneasy and scares her. Something is troubling her. The fear of breaking a taboo? Feelings of inadequacy? Her conscience? An undefined sense of guilt? All things that can kill. Literally.
A visual poem on the city of Rome.
Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.
The reflections we see in the mirrors are not us but of the actors who interpret us. What would happen if one of them got tired of not being himself?
While controversy rages in Italy about so-called 'gender ideology', considered to be the source of all evils, on the Romagnola Riviera the Di Nuzzo's hold a totally different view. A day at the beach and a breakdance competition: the portrait of a family trying to understand and support the natural inclinations of their children, regardless of the general opinion defending the dominance of biological gender and established socio-cultural roles.
MURMURATIONS (ROME) is a video that comments on history's ghostly spectre in the everyday. The video employs footage shot at two sites in Rome, Italy: MURMURATIONS (ROME) documents the act of walking through these historical sites as a means of critically reanimating their political and ideological significance today. Additionally, documentation of the intricately morphing formation of starlings in flight—called murmurations— that descend upon Rome in the evening, is presented along with excerpts from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini, 'Le Cenere di Gramsci' (1954). Commissioned by CIRCUIT - Artist Film & Video Aotearoa New Zealand with the assistance of Creative New Zealand for the Thick Cinema project curated by Mercedes Vicente
Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.
The comparison of two realities: Lent of Capuchin Friars and Queeresima Association Arc. On one side the Christian rites followed by a large audience and devout; on the other side young and old people passionately trying to carry on an idea of civilization. On the same floor there are men and women of modern Italy, who, through a concrete commitment, are trying to change things for the better.
Between emotional and psychological conflicts the lives of some young people will be turned upside down and intertwined by the cruelties that fate will reserve for them during their growth.
In Italian cinema, the figure of the homosexual has always been presented as a stereotype and in a deliberately offensive way, as if the only way to treat a subject that was to all intents and purposes a taboo was through parody or mockery. But it was in the cinema of the 70s, in all its various film types, from sexy comedies to detective stories, that we find gay characters constantly present in films, almost obsessively. Unfortunately, they were the butt of coarse, trivialising humour, which reflected the backward social attitudes and homophobia of the time. To understand the causes of this phenomenon, Andrea Meroni, a young director from Milan, met the leading actors and directors of that time (e.g. Lino Banfi, Enrico Vanzina and Leo Gullotta), as well as experts, critics and activists of the LGBTQI movement. The result? A surprisingly ironic documentary that talks about the way we were when we were 'froci' (fags).
Ali, Mahmoud and Mohamed are three Egyptian men who lived in Italy without documents for almost ten years. Suddenly thanks to an amnesty they finally manage to legalise their status and their future is re-inhabited by possibilities. As part of their need to rediscover their dreams and hopes they decide to take the journey back to the first places of arrival, when they disembarked from the boats that had brought them as teenagers to Italy after crossing the Mediterranean.
A film made for LIVE, a workshop held by Bianco-Valente. Curated by Giusy Caroppo as a part of the InContemporanea exhibition.
Planting the Seeds, growing the future. Technology pervades every aspect of our lives: the way we move... the way we work... the way we meet and communicate… how we make love and what we eat... Crops all over the world are grown using increasingly technological methods. It is now possible to grow plants at night and in hostile environments, increasing yields and saving water. Most of these methods are based on... Hydroponics. Since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World, technology has allowed man to grow great amounts of food. Abundance of food allows man to explore new frontiers... In January 2016 the first flower has blossomed aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Yet, in pursuing his quest, man also generates huge amounts of increasingly technological waste... Space Waste is already an issue of cosmic concern...
After the passing of her mother, Lorena finds the diary that she kept all her life. The entries allow her to discover a different woman. Having grown up in the worship of her father who fought as a partisan during the war, Lorena realises that she must start digging in the secret story of her mother if she wants to understand aspects of her own life. The pages of the diary feel like a book from another time. Working as a nurse, her mother was covertly working for the partisans passing them intelligence that she astutely acquired from wounded German soldiers by administering more morphine than usually required to ease the pain.
March 25, 2017, Monza. The park has a stage ten times larger than the rock stars in San Siro. Hundreds of volunteers, civil protection, stalls. And then the people, a lot. All gathered waiting for Pope Francis. The relentless music, spread by the speakers, gives the impression of being in front of a déjà vu: the long wait for a concert, among the fans waiting for the arrival of the last pop star.
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.
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.
Short movie by Daniele Puppi.
