A poetic travel diary about one of the most fascinating area in Italy: the Po delta. The traveller, day after day, lives and discovers this place and the people who work there. The past emerges through the stories told by the characters and the visual memories of an important Italian director, Florestano Vancini, who, 50 years ago, realized several documentaries in these pla...
AL CINEMA Film personale molto forte, girato in soggettiva dal regista, che si confronta con il fratello più giovane, tossico dipendente, durante un viaggio in treno verso Auschwitz, pretesto per raccontare le difficili relazioni fra i due, con l'obiettivo di ritrovare una relazione perduta. Il regista: «Mio fratello è un grande appassionato di sto...
The summer has just started and a family run circus travels adrift in the region of the Sertão. They don't have any means of transportation so every time they have to move, they hire a truck to transport all the things which were inside the tent. Their arrival to a new city is announced only by radio, the only mean of communication which is available in such isola...
In occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Italian Liberation Day, 18 of the best Italian rock bands were asked to record a CD. The title will be "Materiale Resistente 1945-1995" (Resistant Materials). The day the album was released, a concert was organized in Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia. It was the 25th April, 1995. This film was shot during th...
The Po valley as a place of the Absurd. Incestuous muddle of architectural stratification and construction failures. Palms, urban emptiness, urban fullness and palm-shaped neon lights. Swimming pools built in five days. Reconstructed neogothic villages. Terraced houses upon terraced houses. Loads of olive trees and decorational abuses. Countless claddings on materials people...
A journey into the heart of a modern working-class suburb, Ponte di Nona, a few kilometers away from Rome. Sara and Neda lead us through the dynamics of power which influence the daily life of the inhabitants: neighborhoods condemned to decay and neglect, constructed without any infrastructure, public transportation or areas to gather in. The result is a movie which tells ab...
A fine anni ’60 Emilio Sidoti, maestro elementare ad Albisola, decide di realizzare alcuni film insieme ai suoi alunni con l’idea di sviluppare il loro sguardo critico in un percorso espressivo libero e radicale. Prende vita così Cinema dei Ragazzi, la prima esperienza di ‘scuola con il cinema’ realizzata in Italia, che generer&a...
Through valuable archive material and the real voices of female partisan, this film tells the role of women in the Italian Resistance. According to many, this period marked the birth of feminism in Italy, where the struggle fo liberation is also seen as emancipation and pursuit of freedom and equality. What happened after the celebrations of April 25, 1945? What did women g...
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...
An ironic, anthropological and attentive look at The Sassi di Matera, a picturesque and empty nativity which serves as a perfect backstage for the lives of the people who live there.
