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...
A couple of lovers lives together an entire century of life while objects,...
This documentary film is a portrait of a film critic as seen by a filmmaker....
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’...
How long does a day last when you don't know how long you will have to wait? We are in a refugees camp near Thessaloniki. A place without time, where people with different pasts share the same suspended present. Killing Time is a film about the relationship human beings-time told through the experience of five refugees living in the camp for a period of a year an...
Bianca is a 39-year-old transsexual woman. She’s been living in Milan since 2009 and works as a prostitute. For twenty years, she has been involved with Natasha, a Japanese trans who is temporarily living in Brazil. Their bond is very strong and distance has not weakened it. The film is about their love story, made up of long phone calls and even longer waits. Becaus...
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...
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...
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...
Four musicians play Il fuoco by Giovanni Pastrone, a 1915 film that the director signs with the name of Piero Fosco. Four chapters that mark a painter’s passion for a fatal woman, a fire that burns until he is consumed. Four symbolic places of culture in Bergamo and the hope that they will soon be able to reopen. A unique audiovisual experience dedicate...
A man, inside his kitchen, is preparing his packed lunch. He has decided to visit The Brion Tomb, a monumental funeral complex, designed and built by the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, commissioned by Onorina Brion Tomasin, to honour the memory of the deceased and beloved relative Giuseppe Brion, founder and owner of the Brionvega company, located in the small cemetery of ...
Silvia Gribaudi is one of the most important Italian performers and choreographers. Her constant research on unusual and “invisible” bodies has led her to work over the last decade with women “over 60” from all over Italy, all without artistic experience, gently accompanying them to cross the boundaries imposed by society. With Rosaria she begins a re...