In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
Resistencia is entirely based on material found in a private archive composed of roughly two thousand pictures that my great-uncle took between the 30's and the 60's. Through his private memories, I have tried to tell a collective story, the story of the city Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina), born as a colony of Italian immigrants.
Sergio is a fisherman and, some years ago, together with his father and his brother, he built a fishing hut on the island of Giudecca, Italy. Sergio has a passion for Japan, where he once has been, when he was a younger sailor. That's why his hut is wallpapered with photos, prints and Japanese objects which make the place look surreal. The door is always open and all the qu...
The emergency of living quarters, as told through the experiences of the inhabitants of Roma Residence, a residential complex located in Bravetta, not far from downtown Rome. This documentary is not an investigation, it shows the metamorphosis of a living experience that lasted over a year. It shows the faces, the dynamics between different communities, the residence buildin...
Translating tells about the journey of words from a language to another. The luggage is carried by the translator, who is leading us. During the journey, language becomes a musical instrument and the translator turns into a baker, who bring fresh bread on the table, every day. Every language is a sound, a sound that fascinates and pushes you towards the meaning.
Urgon, a jellyfish with an horrible head, snake-like hairs and the power to petrify. Urgon is the ancient name that Greek sailors gave to the tiny island in the Northern Mediterranean which is now known as Gorgonia. Since 1869, the island hosts a prison and its inhabitants are only the prisoners, policemen, one inhabitant and two nuns. The prisoners are involved in many of t...
Anna Politkovskaja, killed the 7th October 2006 in front of the lift of her house, is the 211th journalist who has been killed in Russia since the end of the USSR. The film tells the story of Anna and Aleksandr, wife and husband, both journalists. He was a TV star in the second half of the 80s' and a symbol of the perestrojka while she was a brave and passionate witness of t...
In Milan there is an historical monument which is unique in the world: Casa Verdi. It is a retirement house for musicians and was founded by Giuseppe Verdi in 1899 with the mission of "welcome and offer hospitality to Italian men or women who deal with music and find themselves in a state of poverty". In the frescoed building live today 60 people: musicians, opera ...
Di madre in figlia racconta una scheggia di storia patria. Il Coro delle Mondine di Novi, un gruppo di venti donne, molte delle quali ottantenni, ancora si esibisce in sagre e feste. Le loro canzoni di protesta, d’amore, di malinconia, sono le stesse che cantavano lavorando in risaia molti decenni fa. GUARDALO SUBITO
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality. The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with the institutions, the mayors and the press,...
