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 ...
Five young Japanese cyclists go to Burkina Faso to take part in the most important African competition, the Tour of Faso. The movie is about the contrast between two completely different worlds: the structured and monotone life of the members of the Japanese team and the African reality. On top of that, there is the difference between the rigid climate of Japan compared to t...
Autumn 1943. A kid follows his mom on the mountains where a group of partigians is hiding.
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...
Padre Nostro is a love story. A daily story which takes place between Salvatore, ninety years old, and Vannino, who is fifty. A spontaneous and true relationship between father and son, an unconventional connection which, sometimes, unsettles the usual beliefs. Salvatore and Vannino share everything, even the bed, half naked, to keep one another company. In spite of manhood...
Through the interviews of Revelli, Rigoni Stern and some friends of Carlo, accompanied by the images of the journey to Russia, the archive material from the Soviet Union and the music of Massimo Zamboni (a member of CCCP-Fedeli alla linea and CSI), the documentary tells the story of a son, who progressively comprehends his father's life: a path which goes from a complete lac...
The castle tells about one year inside Malpensa international airport, a place where burocracy and security controls put the freedom of passengers, animals and goods through the wringer. The airport is a strategic place where all kinds of Italian police are present. Here, the new security controls are tested: a permanent laboratory where experiments on security are carried o...
Mohammed and Abdallah are two young Palestinians from Gaza. Since a few years they have practiced Parkour, a discipline they discovered on YouTube. The passion for this art leads them to create a group of practitioners in the quarter where they live. One day, their biggest dream comes true: leaving the Gaza Strip to go to Italy to meet the Italian practitioners. During this ...
The film is a mathematical calculation and, to come true, needs the support of the pataphysics. Sixty scenes, shot on Super 8, have been retrieved from the archive of Cinescatti, a project of Laboratorio 80 and Bergamo Film Meeting. The scenes are parts of simple footages about travels, domestic life, public demostrations and there are also some of them which were not meant ...
An unusual athlete for an unusual challenge: the longest footrace ever run in Europe, a 1000 mile race around the abandoned track of an airport. Sixteen days of running, ten hours a day, short breaks to eat and sleep. All in the search for answers to questions that go beyond the olympic passion: how long can a man run without stopping? Is there a limit to the kind of challen...
