Andrea da bambino aveva un eroe: “il Rino”. Rino è stato il mentore di Andrea. Partigiano, comunista: diverso da tutti. Da anni Andrea pensava a un film su Rino partigiano. Ma oggi Rino non può più raccontare: ha il morbo di Alzheimer. Andrea comincia a rivedere le decine di cassette con registrate le storie dell...
Resistenza artigiana è la storia di chi resiste e persiste nel proprio lavoro a dispetto della globalizzazione, delle grandi imprese, e della crisi economica che caratterizza la società attuale. Protagonista del documentario è Carmine Cervone, 37 anni, giovane artigiano del quartiere San Lorenzo, nel centro storico di Napoli. Custode dell’ant...
Resistencia is entirely based on material found in a private archive composed of roughly two thousand pictures that my great-uncle took between the 30's and the 60's. Through his private memories, I have tried to tell a collective story, the story of the city Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina), born as a colony of Italian immigrants.
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.
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...
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,...
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.
In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
Potlach Milano è allo stesso tempo documentario a regia collettiva, ricerca-azione sugli spazi urbani e sperimentazione visuale sulle “identità” che abitano una città globale. Tra esplorazioni, relazioni e interazioni il gruppo di videoricercatori si è avvicinato a Rebecca, Michele, Nazmul, Essia e Big Mike. Nel film le loro ...
Abraham and Shraga are Orthodox Jewish aging twins who live a secluded existence in their inherited Brooklyn home. Since the death of their parents, they have stopped throwing away anything, hosting stray cats and accumulating all sorts of stuff. Enraged by the situation, the upstairs tenant threatens to stop paying them rent unless they proceed with a radical cleaning of...
