1940. Escaping from Italy, Maria and her boyfriend Olmo, a political activist, arrive to London where they hope to get asylum, but when Italy enters the war, Olmo gets arrested by the British authorities. Maria, alone, will be helped by Beatrice, who offers her protection and refugee on her boat.
Claudio, a vegan runs all by himself a traditional farm without the use of machines and lives his life richly without the gaudery of modern life, following a path of self-enlightening inspired by nature through daily examples. Farming is an hard work, but leaves Claudio's mind free to think about the meaning of his life and to reapproach his real being gaining awareness ...
Veronica is thirty-eight years old, she comes from Rumania and she has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trafficking in human beings, but she doesn't lose heart…
Abacuc is a man of nearly 200 kilos who spends his days in a sort of indifferent immobility, in the absence of any kind of emotion. He hangs out at graveyards, thematic "Italy in miniature" parks or near utopic architectures. He lives in a railroad inspector's house and he never speaks. The only voice we hear is a feminine voice-over. Abacuc, pulled out from hi...
Luciano, proletario anarchico e intellettuale di provincia, marcia su Milano con progetti dinamitardi per un grattacielo, ma si lascia risucchiare dalla società del benessere e diventa un "creativo" pubblicitario. Basato sul romanzo (1962) di Luciano Bianciardi, il film ne rispecchia il valore di ritratto profetico di una società votata al consumismo,...
Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
The emergency of living quarters, as told through the experiences of the inhabitants of Roma Residence, a residential complex located in Bravetta, not far from downtown Rome. This documentary is not an investigation, it shows the metamorphosis of a living experience that lasted over a year. It shows the faces, the dynamics between different communities, the residence buildin...
Doubts, uncertainty and images of a little girl living in 1977: unions, abortion, demonstration and… Grease!
The film, conceived as an academic research, aims at investigating the relationship between several religions and the ways in which the experience of faith influences daily life on the territory of Bergamo. The starting point of the research was the "shadowing" experience together with Benoit, a young student of theology, who decided to spend a period of meditation in Europe...
Rome. Since four years, a never open clinic and a former arts high school are hosting ninety families of different nationalities and social classes. We move through this place observing the dynamics of the main characters who are leading us, through their testimonies, towards the true meaning of home. Home is an instrument which helps us growing and developing our personali...
