Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects,...
This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker....
In produzione Dal recupero di frammenti della statua del Buddha sulla cima di una montagna parte la riflessione sul paesaggio culturale montano.
Bissi farmstead, Romano di Lombardia, Italy. Maurizio and Ivan live next to Ornella and Maria Rosa. With some small cameras they tell us about their daily life, about their meals, their free time, the relationships in between them and with the social assistants who help them to organize time and housework. These fragments of independent lives tells us about another possible ...
Valleys of Bergamo, Nembro, Trevasco Quarry, 24th December 2010. A huge piece of rock falls down at the entrance of one of the historical climbing sites in the province of Bergamo. The production of Keep Training! twists and turns around the ignited debate of whether or not access to the Quarry would remain open. The directors gather interviews, anecdotes, opinions and fac...
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 ...
Daniela and Donato, together with some actors of Araucaìma Teater, visit the places of experiences that scarred them. From the dialog, some fragments of their complicated lives come to light. The landscape is a silent witness.
"When I get old, I will finally have time to read my books in the garden", said Enrico Cattaneo, alias "Ketto", on the day of his 90th birthday. It sounds like a joke, but it is instead a sign of the wit and vitality that still today characterize him. Born in 1917 in a well-to-do family, he has gone through the XX century in an adventurous and original way. A passionate film...
Above the ground: in the 60's, Mario moved to France and built his house in Landres, Lorraine region. Under the ground: while building his house, Mario has worked in a iron mine for 20 years. Today the mines are closed, the floods made the soil unstable. Hundreds of buildings crumbled down and some other are precarious. Mario lives a kafkaesque situation: for years, he has b...
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,...
