An intrepid couple and a crew of young Swiss adventurers sails to the Arctic's melting frontiers on a mission to witnes…
In the timeless expanse of Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, a Swiss butcher from Olivone, Tiziano Vescovi, challenges hist…
An alpine guide, navigates the transforming landscapes of Karakorum, Zermatt, and Chepwa, revealing climate change's to…
In this captivating documentary, Peppino's life revolves around the rhythms of the land and its creatures. With minimal…
In this gripping short documentary, an elderly director's introspective journey before filming her latest documentary i…
This intimate documentary offers insights into the lives of Italian artisans, from family industries to luxury crafts, …
Fabiano faces the trials of his family's agricultural business in Southern Switzerland, juggling debt, dilapidation, an…
When a conversation begins in the basement of the house of a man isolated from society, his darkest secrets come to lig…
A young refugee's request to carry a black Jesus statue in a traditional procession challenges a European town to confr…
In Serravalle Langue's historic hide-and-seek game, Edo searches for 299 villagers to win the Golden Hazelnut, but amid…
This is an intimate film, that explores the Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly's life, revealing his unique approach to m…
Alternating between sensory and narrative moments, this short film immerses us in the life of an old woman who finds in…
When a European man lands on a tropical island in Tanzania, we hear his reflective voice through the letters he sends t…
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…
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 …
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 …
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
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…
Hundreds of meters under the ground and the European night, men and machines carve the tunnels that unite a modern cont…
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…
After learning of his mother's cancer, filmmaker Filippo Filliger sets out in search of answers on a lonely and unpredi…
How to depict the situation of being blind? This short film appeals to text and other cinematographic mechanisms to ill…
Welcome to a popular procession in Sardinia. A ritualistic - almost dreamy- observation of libertine demonstration that…
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…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
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 episode of UN In Action shows us the experience of Quid, a woman-led eco-fashion brand that addresses climate chan…
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 …
Daniela films her mother as she prepares to leave the family house. Inside, we feel the absence of the diceased father.…
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…
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. …
Back in southern Italy, the filmmaker revisits and reinterprets a bar that made a strong impression in his childhood.
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