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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Documentary, by Emiliano Dante, Italy, 2014.
Habitat follows the story of three men who lived in the same tent and stayed in L'Aquila. One, Alessio, first becomes a squatter, then a real estate agent; Paolo, who made a living renting his properties in the very center of the town, becomes a pain...

By Isabel Russinova, Rodolfo Martinelli, documentary, Italy, 2020.
Istria of exodus and sinkholes through the testimonies of those who suffered the atrocities of the Second World War, losing everything: their identity, their home and very often their life. A journey towards memory through the tes...

Documentary, by Tom Sands and Ramsay S. James, UK, 2018.
Teacher and musician Ed Wade-Martins embarks on an England-sponsored bike ride in West African Mali. In addition to raising money for the Fresh Start Foundation, which supports orphans and other vulnerable children in The Gambia, he is on a...

Documentary, by Cristiana Lucia Grilli, Italy, 2019.
Adriatic - United sea of Europe is a fascinating journey between Italy and the Balkans to discover the Slavic and Albanian communities that settled in central Italy, in the Molise region, as early as the 15th century, following the Ottoman inva...

Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

Documentary, by Fabio Serpa, Italy, 2020.
Calabria, late 1980s and first half of the 1990s. Cracolice, a seaside village in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is sadly known in the news for an event that broke out in the early 90s, never denied or confirmed: following the landing of the famous "ships of poisons...

Documentary, by Marcos Altuve, Spain, 2020.
The biodiversity crisis is one of the most serious problems on the planet. To stop the processes of extinction of the species, urgent diagnoses are needed. One such endangered species is the Moorish tortoise in Morocco. But quickly determining the prese...

Documentary, by Walter Ruttmann, Germany, 1928.
One of the most important avant-garde films of the "city symphony" genre, inspired by Dziga Vertov's "The Man with the Camera" and Soviet editing theories. The film marks the passage of the artist Walter Ruttmann from abstract cinema to reality cine...

Documentary, by Jean Vigo, France, 1930.
With an old used movie camera bought with the money loaned by his wife's father, Jean Vigo shoots a documentary about Nice. Meeting Boris Kaufman changes the French director's initial project, which will be influenced by Dziga Vertov's operator. The nature...

Documentary, by Jean Vigo, 1931, France.
Documentary on the French swimmer Jean Taris, specialized in freestyle, swimming champion in France in 1929. Commissioned to Jean Vigo by the sports editorial team of a French news bulletin of Gaumont, the director uses commissioned work to experiment with...

Experimental, by Morgan Menegazzo, Mariachiara Pernisa, Italy, 2019.
The doors of perception is the personal attempt to evoke a metaphysics of images and light, arbitrarily recalling the dividing structure interposed between the presbyterial area and that reserved for the faithful in the Orthodox...

Documentary, by Emiliano Dante, Italy, 2017.
Appennino is a cinematographic diary that begins with the slow reconstruction of L 'Aquila, the director's city, in Italy, and continues with the earthquakes in the central Apennines of 2016-17, up to the very long and exhausting asylum of the new eart...

Documentary, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
"L'anima nel ventre" is an art film about Claudio Pozzani, a rustling entity of poetic vivacity that sings while narrating. The cinematic work shakes imaginative formulas in which happiness and melancholy coexist, the scenic actions meet with daily p...

Documentary, by Ilaria Pezone, 2017, Italy.
Avid cinephile, filmmaker, film essayist, teacher. Who is really Francesco Ballo? Maybe it's all these things together, and more: an Inter fan, a wine expert, a careful jazz lover ... A truly independent filmmaker out of any commercial logic, Francesco ...

Documentary, by Giovanni Soletta, Italy, 2018.
An exciting documentary on the mysterious relationship between art and nature. The peasant artist Bruno Petretto has created Molineddu, the place where he lives and which for years has hosted visual artists from all over Sardinia, in annual events, w...

Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1934.
The most famous film while the director Dziga Vertov was alive, a great success of socialist documentary cinema. An experimental documentary celebrating Lenin with the use of sound and folk songs. The liberation of Muslim women in Uzbekistan, footage of...

Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929.
After a few years spent making propaganda documentaries, Dziga Vertov realizes his masterpiece, inspired by the theories on reality cinema and Kinoglaz. An experimental visual symphony with futurist roots. An ordinary day of a cinematographer wandering ...

Documentary, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2011.
Video on paper is a voyage into the imagination of Perino & Vele in search of the creative impulses which spark the production of these two artists – more of a prelude to their work than a presentation. Three authors, artist-director Antonello Mat...

Documentary, by Federico Spinetti, Italy, 2016.
How stereotyped is, how alive is the word "partisan"? Massimo Zamboni, guitarist and co-founder of CSI, fifteen years after the dissolution of the historic Italian post-punk band would like to reunite the members around a new project on the partisan...