When a European man lands on a tropical island in Tanzania, we hear his reflective voice through the letters he sends t…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
In a remote rural village in southern Italy, a family prepares for the slaughter of a pig as part of a traditional ritu…
At 85 years old, Lucy tells us with passion and eloquence how as an transgender person she managed to navigate the most…
Born a woman, Marion decides to become Marian, a man. This documentary follows Marian over 10 years documenting her gen…
This multi-award-winning documentary premiered at the Venice Film Festival looks at four men in various parts of the wo…
This animated short film illustrates the adventure of Lino, an Italian partisan and his companions in their attempt to …
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
This short film is the endearing portrait of Roed Roza, a South American migrant in Milan, Italy. Stripped of his land …
Seen from afar, the Alps may look like a picturesque fantasy, but those who live beneath them know how menacing they ca…
If altruism had a face, it would be that of Mrs. Angelina. Whenever she can, this slender elderly Italian woman visits …
Two women in different times and spaces try to solve the trauma of the earthquake of Gibellina, occurred in '68. Are th…
Imagine an endangered species of which only the last pair is left to breed. This film documents the process of saving t…
In one of the countries most affected by the pandemic, a man faces a long quarantine in the solitude of his apartment. …
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
This documentary premiered at Locarno follows a series of female characters from Naples, all linked in some way to the …
In the aftermath of the health catastrophe created by the pandemic, a group of experts support the case of Dr. Domenico…
A narrator introduces us to the microcosm of Milan's troubled China Town. When an Italian guy proposes marriage to a lo…
On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning po…
A community is about to disappear. Faced with a government-imposed plan, the inhabitants of The Platz, a huge shanty to…
Everything around Asalif, an Ethiopian boy, is in constant change. The construction of a housing complex on his land af…
What makes two women sisters? Is it just the biological aspect or can it be a magical and invisible thread? In this doc…
Through the voice of one of its inhabitants, the reality of a shelter for homeless people comes to light from the shado…
Rejected by society, Dario and Maury decide to move to a gay nudist beach in Roma. Full of brushstrokes of pop, psyched…
This film documents the last days of work of men and women who work blocking and unblocking the chains of the pedestria…
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
The life of a man changes abruptly. After serving a prison sentence, he is no longer part of the privileged class and n…
After being notified that their jail sentence will begin in just a few days, three convicts wait and prepare for their …
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed over several years, this documentary is a portrait of an old brothel in a mining area of Australia and the las…
Shot over the course of a year, this documentary shows what life is like inside an open-air prison on the island of Cor…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
This documentary is the result of a series of visits the filmmaker makes over the course of a year to the house of Pier…
This film follows four people trying to do incredible things using only their voices.
Even though they don’t speak English, Illiterate women from towns around the world with no electricity try to learn how…
Shot as an austere Italian western, this short film follows an old cowboy that claims to have seen a mysterious panther…
Through interviews conducted in a video workshop, the inhabitants of a neighborhood in the margins of Rome talk about t…
This is the fascinating portrait of Corradino d’Ascanio, the inventor of the helicopter and the most famous scouter in …
In northern Uganda, Patricia dedicates her life to helping women to give birth in her small village. This beautiful pho…
In the midst of loneliness and far away from their loved ones, the elders of an old age in Iran try to follow their dai…
Alternating beautiful animations with the intimacy of customary moments, this film is a journey into the creative world…
Karine is a professional embalmer. As the one in charge of freezing life in an inert body, every day is a battle for pe…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
Inspired by a short story of the writer Fernando Pessoa, this short film plays with words and dream-like images to tell…
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he t…
One man and his family-run TV station have become a relentless voice against corruption and organised crime in Sicily. …
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