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 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...

Short film, fantasy, by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga, Italy, 2020.
A deaf homeless man manages to save a girl from the clutches of a rapist. Shocked and moved, the girl is very grateful to the man and she would like to repay. The homeless man wants nothing in return, until a pair of magn...

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...

Short film, comedy, by Sergei Eisenstein, 1923, Soviet Union.
The film consists of 3 parts. The opening scene begins with a shot of Eisenstein taking off his cap and bowing in front of the poster revealing the stage play, followed by a shot of Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov, in front of the same p...

Drama, by Maria Martinelli, Italy, 2023.
Hanna meets her lover in an isolated place, a refuge in the mountains. The present and the past intertwine in search of a possible redemption, while the choices to be made, such as that of a child on the way, can no longer wait. In that place, together and...

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...

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...

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...

Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o...

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...

Short film, by Massimiliano Buzzanca, Stefano Scaramuzzino, Italy, 2025.
In a timeless retirement home, two elderly men — one convinced he is Batman, the other sure he is the Joker — engage in a surreal confrontation that oscillates between lost memory, lucid madness, and heroic nostalgia. One we...

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...

Short film, by Ilaria Pezone, Italy, 2016.
The animations, conceived as visual representations of some basic points for understanding the universe as a complex system, based on fundamental differences that determine various adaptive modalities in organisms, are intended as a complement to the ori...

Experimental short film, by Maya Deren, United States, 1943.
Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the masterpieces of surrealistic cinema and American avant-garde and has become an iconic work in the world of experimental cinema. The film is characterized by a non-linear and dreamlike narrative that...

Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

Documentary, by Benjamin Christensen, Sweden, 1922.
Desecration of tombs, torture, demon-possessed nuns and witches' sabbath: Haxan, Witchcraft Through the Ages is an incredibly original and unconventional film that has become legendary over time. Between documentary and dramatic fiction, the fil...

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...

Horror, noir, by John Parker, United States, 1955.
It's night. A woman suddenly wakes up from a nightmare in a seedy hotel in the Los Angeles suburbs. She leaves the room and wanders the neighborhood. She meets a dwarf who sells newspapers with the title "Mysterious Stabbing". In a dark alley, a ...

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 ...

Short movie, thriller, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
"12 cm heels" is a medium-lenght thriller movie directed by Fabio Giovinazzo where a savage murder catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.

LANGUAGE: italian
SUBTITLES: english

Drama, by Stefano Odoardi, Italy, 2014.
An Angel, inspired by R.M.Rilke's Duino Elegies, wanders through the ruins of a contemporary Hell, in a silent and abandoned city, in which a group of the damned (20 inhabitants of L'Aquila) are imprisoned. Each of them will share their thoughts and despair...

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...