An ironic, anthropological and attentive look at The Sassi di Matera, a picturesque and empty nativity which serves as a perfect backstage for the lives of the people who live there.
A poetic travel diary about one of the most fascinating area in Italy: the Po delta. The traveller, day after day, lives and discovers this place and the people who work there. The past emerges through the stories told by the characters and the visual memories of an important Italian director, Florestano Vancini, who, 50 years ago, realized several documentaries in these pla...
Nell’atmosfera lunare di un’alba marina, tre pescatori seduti sul muretto scrutano immobili il mare, illuminati dalla luce artificiale dei lampioni. Cominciano così le quattro stagioni di Nicotera Marina, piccolissimo paese della costa calabrese. Un’unica voce ci accompagna in questo viaggio, una voce consapevole e partecipe, che illumina di umanit&a...
Formaggino is a fledgling young better, lucky and cocky like all the novices. Hanging out at horse races, he meets the Professor, who is twenty years older than him and knows everything about that world. In exchange of money, Formaggino and his Professor agree to be interviewed and filmed.
The camera moves around the villages of the high Caucasus, in the Northern Azerbaijan, where ancient tribes still live, like the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world, made of daily gestures, magic and mysteries. Houses toil up mountains and during the night the men tell stories, always different ones. Those people seem to belong both to the earth and the sky. The ti...
Flor da Baixa is an old pension with empty windows or an echo, a cross reference to an image, dreamt or seen by somebody else. Flor da Baixa is a woman who has been waiting and waited forever... is a border line, where everything has to be defined and can change.
The relationship between Livorno and Piero Ciampi, a forgotten and disregarded artist, poet and songwriter who was always angry because anarchist and communist. The "Livorness" of the artist is told by the ones who have memory of his peculiar disenchanted irony which is perfectly summed up in one of his sentence: "I am the greatest, because I can get up to 300...
During the fight for the Liberation, the city of Piacenza counted 860 deaths and went through brutal massacres, but thanks to the Resistance, it obtained freedom. For this reason, in 1996, the city has been honored with the Golden Medal for Military Merit in the Resistance. The documentary follows the stages of the Liberation process through the voice of the ones who fought ...
It happens, sometimes, that a place finds you, even when you are not even looking for it, and you find out that you can't live without it. This is what must have happened to Elisa, the day when she was found by Sadurano. She got lost and she was wandering around following the road which, from Castrocaro Terme, climbs up the hills like a serpent, almost crawling.
Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
