A year of life in the Alps, from the thaw to the winter, through the eyes, the gestures and the reflections of three characters: Virginie, Valentine and Marcel. Far from the stereotype of the "mountain man", the characters we will follow are an expression of a contemporary, resistant and sometimes innovative way to live and work in the Alpine area. A &quo...
Middle-aged man in his living room is watching the creation of the cosmos through a gallery of encyclopedic images where the human being is never present, except for some of his works, ruins or activities. He falls asleep, lulled by the vision of an advertisement that features a woman, and finds himself in an awful nightmare where he witnesses the hunting of some polar bears...
Johannes “Hans” Liebschner filmed his life from 1963 to 2012. Born in 1927, he came to Italy due to the war and stayed after falling in love with Iole, a young I talian girl from Bergamo, with whom he had five boys. In fifty years of amateur filming, Hans creates the intimate story of a united and happy family, although in 2013, the year of his death, his films e...
The brilliant director Andrey Tarkovsky, whose works are considered masterpieces of world cinema, left us with eight films and an ever growing interest in and desire to understand his work. The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destin...
A journey to three astronomical observatories situated in three remote corners of the planet (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. Exploring the night sky with astronomers operating those giant telescopes in order to uncover their personal revelations and to realize that we all share a dot in the cosmic ocean. Nearby the observatories,...
The finding of an autobiographical manuscript written by Giovanni Pastrone, the most relevant figure of Italian Silent film, prompts a researcher to reopen the historically closed case on the director. After having dominated the early phases of Cinema, Giovanni Pastrone abandons his creature to become a self-taught healer, devoting the rest of his life to Man’s anta...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently retired after a white-collar life. For one year, for exactly fifty two Thursdays, the director went to visit Mr- Aceti’s at his house from 10.30 to 11.30 am. Every meeting revolved around one question: “what did you do this week?”. The rigorous organisational schedule of Pierino’...
Potlach Milano è allo stesso tempo documentario a regia collettiva, ricerca-azione sugli spazi urbani e sperimentazione visuale sulle “identità” che abitano una città globale. Tra esplorazioni, relazioni e interazioni il gruppo di videoricercatori si è avvicinato a Rebecca, Michele, Nazmul, Essia e Big Mike. Nel film le loro ...
Cotacachi, Ecuador. A small colony of elderly American expats retires here to escape the effects of the global economic crisis. The tale of their lives and relationships provides the portrait of an exiled micro-community, a community hurt and traumatized, by the betrayal of the American Dream. They're looking for security, prosperity, well-being and - above all...
A small village situated in the Alps between Italy and Switzerland hosts an international gathering focusing on the web and digital culture: the world convention of Wikimania’s volunteers. The film follows the preparations in the months preceding the event, the involvement of the locals and the quiet indifference of daily life in the mountains. A choral tale ...
