Ciro is a young boxer. He lives in the old quartier of Ventaglieri, in the historical centre of Naples. He is a quiet boy who practices a gory sport and faces difficulties with tenderness and silent tenaciousness as a real champion. The film tells about silences, breaths, bodies, boxing rings, the fans' screams, Ciro's tenderness contrasting the crudity of the boxing, the re...
A journey into the heart of a modern working-class suburb, Ponte di Nona, a few kilometers away from Rome. Sara and Neda lead us through the dynamics of power which influence the daily life of the inhabitants: neighborhoods condemned to decay and neglect, constructed without any infrastructure, public transportation or areas to gather in. The result is a movie which tells ab...
After three years long relationship, Daniela e Marica decide they want a child. The movie tells about the seven months before their journey to Denmark, where they can realize their dream, the reactions of friends, parents and colleagues, the arrival at the clinic in Copenaghen and the suffered wait to become parents. Conflicts, delusions and hopes of an Italian lesbian coupl...
The streets of Bergamo turn into simple songs made of a few chords and a lean voice that sings, and sometimes, shouts the daily life. The buildings, the squares and the tracks we followed remain visible. The noises are hidden in the deep rut of an LP and maybe in the thoughts of the person that put it on and let it play.
In Macas, in the Eastern part of Ecuador, Fundación Chankuap works as an important mediator between the international members of the foundation and the indigenous communities that live in the forests on the border with Perù. The relationships between the inside and the outside of the forest are regulated with a great precision: every intervention must be carefu...
A professional training center. Regarded by someone as a clashing ground, it turns instead into a place of collaboration and meeting. A Senegalese teacher struggling with lively and smart students. A 11 years old kid from Morocco left his country and family to move to Italy. It's not war, it's not peace. The camera follows the main characters telling about their daily life,...
In 1955, the French director and ethnograph Jean Rouch shot in a single day the film Les maitres fous. The film shows the ritual practices of a religious sect worshipping the cult of Hauka whose followers are workers from the regions of the Niger. After arriving in Accra they meet for their big annual ceremony. The peculiarity of the cult of Hauka is that its pantheon contai...
An actress tells about the film in which she played the part of the protagonist while she cleans the porch of the rehabilitation center. "Are you gonna make a movie?" she asks to the two directors who are filming her. The film tells about the daily life in the drug rehabilitation center Gasparina, moving amongst glasses of methadone, the receipe for potato croquettes, Antone...
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...
David, a wooden masks sculptor, and Adélia, an ancient songs singer, are the main characters of this film set in Trás-os-Montes, a region in north-east Portugal. They witness the condition of abandon of this region, a land that still perserves the traces of a very ancient ocean. The stones, the fields, the vegetation devouring the abandoned houses, taking back what it once o...
