Antonia always want to please the other. She accepts the cumbersome presence of her mother, who, despite her age, has found a younger boyfriend. She stands her former husband, who is constantly pouring on her all his problems. She is persecuted by Caterina, who attends one of her courses for depressed housewives. The only moments when she feels at her easy are at the psychia...
Cotacachi, Ecuador. A small colony of elderly American expats retires here to escape the effects of the global economic crisis. The tale of their lives and relationships provides the portrait of an exiled micro-community, a community hurt and traumatized, by the betrayal of the American Dream. They're looking for security, prosperity, well-being and - above all...
What does an ordinary day in Gaza look like? Striplife starts nonetheless with an extraordinary event: dozens of manta rays have washed up on Gaza City beach. A miraculous catch that livens up the city where Antar is preparing to record a song, Noor is getting ready for his working day as a Watania TV reporter, teenagers in the Khan Younis camp are limbering up for...
A Ring a ring-o' Roses of love stories, waiting times and impossible departures which takes place in a square. The most awarded short-film at Nanni Moretti's Sacher Festival.
Polystyrene is the material used to realize mannequins. The film documents the production process of these ambiguous thermo-blown humanoids, conceived from a granular substance and finishing in window exhibits.
The movie is composed by cinematographic material of the First World War, gathered in the archives of the great empires that faced each other. The gathered footages show the life of the war prisoners, orphans, refugees (women and children) and the victims of the war, of both parties.
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.
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...
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.
The camera moves around the villages of the high Caucasus, in the Northern Azerbaijan, where ancient tribes still live, like the mountain Jews. Monika Bulaj enters this world, made of daily gestures, magic and mysteries. Houses toil up mountains and during the night the men tell stories, always different ones. Those people seem to belong both to the earth and the sky. The ti...
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.
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 intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
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.
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...
Angelo e Lucia are the last inhabitants of two ghost villages in Valcamonica. In spite of loneliness and all the demolitions, they resist along with their memories. In the historical centres, the abandoned stone houses are demolished, while, next to the ski slope, terraced houses and modern housing clusters host tourists and locals. The story being told concerns the threshol...
The Camonica valley. While at Cedegolo, a village down the valley, an employee of the electricity supplier society carries out his daily duties, high up in the mountains, at the "Arno" lake dam his work-pals, keepers of the dam, wait to be relieved by the next shift coming in by chopper. The time dictating the narration of the film is a time that flows slowly, beaten by dai...
What is the collective imagination within which a legend should be resting so that it may continue to be told? This film is the result of two months research about the traces left by the intangible cultural heritage in the Camonica valley, a mountain area that have attracted the mankind since prehistoric times. The people involved in the film are the film itself, places of a...
Il ventiduenne Lorenzo ha ottenuto una supplenza annuale in una scuola media di un paesino ai confini del Veneto con il Friuli. Compare nella sua vita Cecilia. Il primo impatto con lei è solo fisico: la ragazza non vuole essere coinvolta dai sentimenti. Con Duilio invece, uno dei suoi alunni, nasce una profonda relazione.
L’azione si svolge nella zona del delta del Po. Dopo dieci anni d’assenza, il padre di Clara torna a casa e, ripresa con sé la figlia che viveva presso una zia, si stabilisce a Scano Boa, un povero borgo di pescatori. Dopo essere stata violentata da un pescatore, Clara rimane incinta. Tratto da un romanzo di Cibotto, Scano Boa descrive con grande real...
