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…
If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
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…
Using only images filmed by drones in various parts of the world, this short film reflects on the innate human desire t…
This short educational documentary gives us an introduction to the biodiversity of our planet in an unorthodox way: the…
The color of everything we see is more than a concrete visual message. This educational documentary gives us clues abou…
Rain is an the atmospheric precipitation to which we are accustomed to, and it is also the result of a complex natural …
In this educational documentary, the theory of the four elements is put to the test. Fire, air, water and earth... Is e…
How can we live with an enemy that is almost invisible to our eyes? This short film explains how pollution in all its f…
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 a microscopic perspective, this didactic short documentary brings us closer to the incredible world of ants, on…
This short film tell us What would happen if we found efficient and environmental ways to handle the chaotic two billio…
With filmmaker Pietro Pellizzieri's pedagogical and entertaining style, this short film makes us understand with amazem…
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…
Set in the calm and beautiful countryside of Abruzzo, Italy, this short film makes a portrait of Giovanni Granati, a fa…
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…
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