Marco Belelli, aka Divino Otelma, is a well-known Italian philosopher and...
Pierino Aceti is a man of fixed habits, a film lover, and is currently...
Un piccolo paese delle Alpi, al confine fra Italia e Svizzera, ospita un...
Roberto is an histrionic sixty year old man who thinks outside the box. He...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects,...
In 1955, the French director and ethnograph Jean Rouch shot in a single day the film Les maitres fous. The film shows the ritual practices of a religious sect worshipping the cult of Hauka whose followers are workers from the regions of the Niger. After arriving in Accra they meet for their big annual ceremony. The peculiarity of the cult of Hauka is that its pantheon contai...
An actress tells about the film in which she played the part of the protagonist while she cleans the porch of the rehabilitation center. "Are you gonna make a movie?" she asks to the two directors who are filming her. The film tells about the daily life in the drug rehabilitation center Gasparina, moving amongst glasses of methadone, the receipe for potato croquettes, Antone...
A diviner in the desert. An expert fish breeding craftsman. The carps: nothing less than a plague. The "mojarra desnuda", a small fish breeding only in Meseta springs. The hydraulic works on Rio Negro, watering McCain's potato fields, which supply McDonald's restaurants with French fries. A mechanic acting in a classical sainete called El conventillo de la Paloma. The direct...
Franco is sixty. He has spent most of his life in a house that once was his family's farm, in Cenate Sopra, a little village at the foot of Misma mountain. After his parents' death, Franco could have risked ending up in the dreariness of a hospice, but, luckily, he found out he was rich: he was the owner of a piece of land and an house waiting only to be renovated. At the e...
The celebrations for the centenary of the coronation of the statue of Our Lady of Cornabusa mark the passing of time and seasons. The festival of fire announces the beginning of the autumn. During the night, the valley lights up and the rain accompanies the migration of the last animals that move from Pallio coast to the lower contradas. The hunters prepare the hunting calls...
August 1978. Four experienced mountaineers from Colere, amongst whom the mountain guide Livio Piantoni, open a difficult route on the north side of Presolana, in the Scalve valley. They name it "Placido route". Stunning footage has recorded the ascent. Thirty years later, Yuri Parimbelli and Robi Piantoni, Livio's son and a mountain guide himself, repeat that route. In the m...
Between the 50's and the 60's, Canada has represented for many Italians a new chance at life. An immense, underpopulated territory, a growing economy, an enormous need of manpower. The country was taking shape, a new "American" dream became reality for many people. Many made their fortune, others found wellness and prosperity. With their work, their efforts and willpower, th...
"She says I was sick... you are sick, you are sick, I am sick... do you feel good? I don't think so". Francesca's words open the film. "La Carovana" ("The Caravan") is a self-help/mutual aid group of parents of children with intellectual disabilities. The group gives them the possibility of telling their stories, which are also their children's stories, without feeling extra...
The film tells about the recently instituted course for Kitchen Services Operator, an alternative to the Catering college. Financed by the European Economic Community, it also includes a training course for disabled teenagers. The production of Competenze spendibili originated from the idea of an "artistic" performance applied to visual antropology. The directors were to spe...
The educational camps in Zenica, near Sarajevo, Tuzla and Srebrenica have been important instruments for the reconstruction after the Balcanic wars. Hotel Bosnia tells about the restoration of the public school in Srebrenica, where a terrible massacre took place. A story of solidarity and condemnation, an invitation to think about the present and the future of a new European...
