August 1978. Four experienced mountaineers from Colere, amongst whom the mountain guide Livio Piantoni, open a difficult route on the north side of Presolana, in the Scalve valley. They name it "Placido route". Stunning footage has recorded the ascent. Thirty years later, Yuri Parimbelli and Robi Piantoni, Livio's son and a mountain guide himself, repeat that route. In the m...
Between the 50's and the 60's, Canada has represented for many Italians a new chance at life. An immense, underpopulated territory, a growing economy, an enormous need of manpower. The country was taking shape, a new "American" dream became reality for many people. Many made their fortune, others found wellness and prosperity. With their work, their efforts and willpower, th...
"She says I was sick... you are sick, you are sick, I am sick... do you feel good? I don't think so". Francesca's words open the film. "La Carovana" ("The Caravan") is a self-help/mutual aid group of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The group gives them the possibility of telling their stories, which are also their children's stories, without feeling extra...
The film tells about the recently instituted course for Kitchen Services Operator, an alternative to the Catering college. Financed by the European Economic Community, it also includes a training course for disabled teenagers. The production of Competenze spendibili originated from the idea of an "artistic" performance applied to visual antropology. The directors were to spe...
The educational camps in Zenica, near Sarajevo, Tuzla and Srebrenica have been important instruments for the reconstruction after the Balcanic wars. Hotel Bosnia tells about the restoration of the public school in Srebrenica, where a terrible massacre took place. A story of solidarity and condemnation, an invitation to think about the present and the future of a new European...
Schizophrenia and games. Refined culture and Raffaella Carrà. Ostentation and shyness. Do the ones hiding under excessive make-up want to unveil themselves in front of the cameras? It's like a puzzle: the world of the Drag Queens told with intelligence and attention.
There is much to be told about the cattle farmers' world, the farms and the lonely hermit farmers. Near Pizzo Formico, in the Seriana valley, there is a mountain pasture. The cows will spend the summer there. Teresa Amara's journey is a bittersweet, poetic and fast, real-surreal film.
The movie was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
Antonia always want to please the other. She accepts the cumbersome presence of her mother, who, despite her age, has found a younger boyfriend. She stands her former husband, who is constantly pouring on her all his problems. She is persecuted by Caterina, who attends one of her courses for depressed housewives. The only moments when she feels at her easy are at the psychia...
