Some years ago, due to the "mad cow" alarm, it seemed that a new animal could become part of the Italian diet: the ostrich. What happened after? Some ostrich farmers show us how this animal could blend into the life of a farm in Bergamo.
They who think that Bergamo is a provincial city, where people are inexorably hemmed in cages, day after day, lifelong, should meet the main characters of Stop and start traffic. Commuting, be it a chosen or imposed lifestyle, is not only the main subject of the modern sociologic debate, but, first of all, it is the private matter of many individual stories.
The subject of the film is the daily life in a Youth Center. Kids and educators are tied up with the rehearsals for a concert, the preparations of a group dinner and the organization of a party. The precise eye of the camera shows the delicate dynamics that connect the main characters in relationships which are not always so easy to understand.
Ext. Valley. A worker leaves his house to go to work. A farmer picks the hay in a field. A camera burst into Valcamonica. On one side the directors, on the other the characters. In the middle, the cold technological means that eventually stop biting and create connections, unveiling the intimacy and creating unexpected feelings.
The time flows with a special rhythm in the residential home Nausicaa. Domestic events pepper in a new way the long summer days. The story of a small and lively community is told to the ones who are able to lighten their spirits while watching the film.
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.
"I have attended so many courses here in prison... What's one more?" says one of the attendees at the audio-visual workshop that was held from February to June in the district prison of Bergamo. The question of the usefulness of training processes in prison is a burning one. Does it really help? And, if so, who does it really help? Lacking any kind of experience in this fiel...
A journey through the refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon with a Palestinian man who is going back to his fragmented and scattered fellow countrymen. A journey to give voice to the ones who have no rights, no documents, no land. A film to tell about the people's will to go back to their land and the possibility of a credible peace process in the Middle East. A reflection abo...
This documentary tells the story of a family. Everything revolves around the extraordinary Jewish woman Lisa Ghelfenbein, born in Odessa in 1887, who moved to Italy in the begin of the XX century to study medicine in Turin. She meets the man who will become her husband and moves to Bergamo, where she will raise a numerous family. During the period of the Italian Racial Laws,...
The documentary was shot on the 2nd and 3rd April, 2002, in the refugee camp of Deheishe, in Palestine, while waiting for the occupation of the Israelian tanks. The director is lead in the camp by Ghassan, a 15 years old Palestinian. We follow him when he meets his peers, he shows us the new Israelian establishments, he attends the wake and the funeral of a martyr. In the ca...
