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  • Shot the Voice of Freedom

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    Documentary, by Zainab Entezar, Afghanistan, 2025.
    This is a story about two sisters who have decided to fight against the unfortunate fate that has befallen them in Afghanistan. They protest against the loss of their basic rights, including the right to education, work, clothing, and even the ri...

  • Interpreting Erik

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    Documentary by Donald D’Haene, Canada, 2025.
    Selected by 169 festivals, ERIK—inspired by the director’s bestselling book No One Wants To Read That You’re Happy—blends laughter and tears within a truly unique family. The director tells the story of his brother Erik with emotion yet detachment, wit...

  • In Their Own Time

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    In Their Own Time is the journey of three women – Srija, Tuhnu and Jhumur – who reflect on love, loss, childhood, friendship and a sense of belonging over the course of three years; we never see their faces, as the evolution of their experiences unfolds through an intrinsically dynamic and increa...

  • Penosar

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    Documentary, by Hosein Fatahi, Iran, 2025.
    An elderly shepherd lives with his wife in the Alborz Mountains (northern Iran) during the summer. He takes care of his sheep and observes the surrounding nature. In his free time, he paints on rocks. His paintings are inspired by the natural environment...

  • CASTI quel che costi

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    Documentary by Michelangelo Gregori, Italy, 2025.
    An artist is asked by a fraudulent entertainment agent and a self-proclaimed historian to write a "performance" to commemorate Giovanni Battista Casti, three hundred years after his birth. A situation and a tribute that, just like the author in qu...

  • Old Wood Washed up by the Sea...

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    Documentary by Fedele Aula, Simona Molari, Italy, 1998.
    A rare archival film of an exhibition dedicated exclusively to objects washed up on beaches and transformed into works of art. The archaeology of moving images meets the archaeology of physical artifacts and their transformation into somethi...

  • Self Defence

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    Documentary, by Olaf de Fleur, Iceland, 2025.
    Self-Defence follows the story of Imma Helga, a self-defence instructor in Iceland who turned her teenage struggles with prejudice, homophobia, and depression into a mission of empowerment. Together with her brother Jón Viðar, she teaches a practical,...

  • Gaza: A Dance School Under The Bombs

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    Documentary, by Antoine Schirer, Palestine, 2025.
    This is the story of two gazan hip-hop dance teachers, who kept dancing all the way, until their dance school was bombed. We met Ahmed Alghariz as he just escaped Gaza.

    LANGUAGE: English
    SUBTITLES: Spanish, Frabch, German, Portuguese

  • Flying with Fins

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    Documentary, by Maria Averina, Bulgaria, 2025.
    Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a small Italian town, heated conversations about contemporary art, touching meetings with the closest people and places in Bulgaria after 50 years of s...

  • Brussel: Housing, Transport & People

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    Documentary, by Fedele Aula, 1997, Italy.
    A short observational documentary that takes us back to Brussels in the 1990s. The director films neighborhoods, houses, trams, daily activities, people, and cars that appear and disappear through crossfades like ghosts. A moment in time and a magnetic me...

  • Feast

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    Documentary, by Franco Piavoli, 2018, Italy.
    Franco Piavoli, author of the masterpiece "The Blue Planet", returns to the director to capture the "evening of the day of celebration", between Leopardi and Pascoli. A journey between the poetic and the anthropological. What is a "feast"? What does it...

  • Sudditalia

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    Documentary, by Adamo Mastrangelo, Italy, 2023.
    "Sudditalia" is a documentary directed by Adamo Mastrangelo that takes an in-depth look at the socio-economic conditions of Southern Italy. Through an immersive narrative, the film follows the daily lives of people living in the southern regions of ...

  • Every Work of Confession

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    Documentary, by Alberto Gemmi, Mirco Marmiroli, Italy, 2016.
    A man has decided to buy a penthouse in a controversial area of ​​the city. From the windows of this building you can see a huge area in disuse. It is an industrial complex with a glorious past, which lies waiting for a complex redevelo...

  • Days Blows by in a Moment

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    Documentary, by Cristiana Donghi, Italy, 2022.
    Ancilla is 86 years old. Two years ago, she moved in with her daughter Emanuela at the pandemic's beginning. Ancilla is slowly losing her memory. He does not remember what she had for lunch, she only remembers events from the past, perhaps only becau...

  • Cathnafola - A Paranormal Investigation

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    Documentary, horror, by Jason Figgis, USA, 2014.
    In "Cathnafola", everything begins when renowned paranormal investigator Chris Halton of Haunted Earth UK receives footage filmed by three teenagers at the ruins of Cathnafola House in Ireland. Determined to unearth the truth behind the location’s ...

  • Studio 2091

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    Documentary, by Naù Germoglio, Italy, 2020
    In a former warehouse on the ground floor of the civic number "2091", in the district of “Santa Croce” in Venice, two sculptors, a craftswoman and an alchemist-photographer work together. It is a 65 square meters space with two windows overlooking a smal...

  • Turcomannia

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    Documentary, by Leopoldo Bonessio, Italy, 2024.
    Leopoldo, the director, finds himself filming with little more than a tent and a GoPro in the most isolated, mysterious and authoritarian of the ex-Soviet countries, Turkmenistan. He has 5 days to find out what kind of strange people live in this de...

  • Investigation of Six Pieces of Noisy Life Dispersed in a Sultry Summer

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    Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
    A documentary shot as "proximity film", intimate filming with a "sensible structural" scheme. The confidential atmosphere originates from the closeness between the author and the characters: a closeness that is necessary to create a communicative intima...

  • The Choice to Stay

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    Documentary, by Mattia Mura, Italy, 2020.
    Damanhur is a community of spiritual seekers located in Valchiusella, Piedmont. The people of Damanhur, who live in the largest ecovillage in Italy, consider themselves to belong to a micronation, although it is not recognized by the Italian state. The co...

  • Ancestral

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    Documentary, by Lumar Brothers, Italy, 2023.
    “Ancestral: Life and Art of Massinissa Askeur” is a documentary that explores the life and art of Algerian painter Massinissa Askeur. The film follows Askeur on his creative journey, showing his artistic process and his commitment to the preservation o...

  • The Witches of Mount Sciliar

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    Docufiction, by Andrea Dalfino, 2022, Italy.
    The Witches of Scillar is a documentary that delves deeply into the trials that took place in Alto Adige, in Castel Presule and surrounding areas at the beginning of the 16th century, following which more than 10 were condemned to the stake on charges ...

  • The Passenger

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    Documentary, by Tommaso Valente, Christian Poli, Italy, 2022.
    The territory of Ravenna, suspended between its centuries-old history and recent industrial development, is a land of conflicts and rarefied landscapes. It is here that the action of "Housing First" develops, an association that focuse...

  • Lightning part 1

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    Documentary, by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
    A film divided into two parts, a legend intertwining with a documentary across four seasons. This portrait unfolds like a cinematic kaleidoscope, zigzagging like the branching of lightning bolts. The narrative is set in different countries around th...

  • Lightning part 2

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    Documentary, directed by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
    This fresco is a cinema of zig-zags, akin to the branching of lightning bolts. It unfolds its subject across different countries of the world and over the span of several centuries, concurrently presented in both documentary and legendary f...