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,...
The time flows with a special rhythm in the residential home Nausicaa. Domestic events pepper in a new way the long summer days. The story of a small and lively community is told to the ones who are able to lighten their spirits while watching the film.
Gardeners. Garbage collector. Assembler. Disparate stories meet at a social cooperative. The juxtaposition of events, which are only apparently not related, recreates gradually the complexity of a meeting place which is both physical and existential.
"I have attended so many courses here in prison... What's one more?" says one of the attendees at the audio-visual workshop that was held from February to June in the district prison of Bergamo. The question of the usefulness of training processes in prison is a burning one. Does it really help? And, if so, who does it really help? Lacking any kind of experience in this fiel...
A journey through the refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon with a Palestinian man who is going back to his fragmented and scattered fellow countrymen. A journey to give voice to the ones who have no rights, no documents, no land. A film to tell about the people's will to go back to their land and the possibility of a credible peace process in the Middle East. A reflection abo...
This documentary tells the story of a family. Everything revolves around the extraordinary Jewish woman Lisa Ghelfenbein, born in Odessa in 1887, who moved to Italy in the begin of the XX century to study medicine in Turin. She meets the man who will become her husband and moves to Bergamo, where she will raise a numerous family. During the period of the Italian Racial Laws,...
The documentary was shot on the 2nd and 3rd April, 2002, in the refugee camp of Deheishe, in Palestine, while waiting for the occupation of the Israelian tanks. The director is lead in the camp by Ghassan, a 15 years old Palestinian. We follow him when he meets his peers, he shows us the new Israelian establishments, he attends the wake and the funeral of a martyr. In the ca...
Sinfonia Ferrodolce: music and dance merge with the images, which include some taken from the works of the great director Walther Ruttmann. Awesomeness of the ancient chant - mechanic impulses coming from the sound of the Rhythm Division - evocative images - contemporary equilibrium.
The intarsia panels in the choir of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore were designed by Lorenzo Lotto and realized by Giovan Francesco Capoferri between 1524 and 1537. The enigmatic depictions can be understood with the help of alchemic metaphors. Starting from the "Magnum Chaos", the initial gaping void, the Man tries to reach the Light of the Truth and the Abso...
Angelo e Lucia are the last inhabitants of two ghost villages in Valcamonica. In spite of loneliness and all the demolitions, they resist along with their memories. In the historical centres, the abandoned stone houses are demolished, while, next to the ski slope, terraced houses and modern housing clusters host tourists and locals. The story being told concerns the threshol...
What is the collective imagination within which a legend should be resting so that it may continue to be told? This film is the result of two months research about the traces left by the intangible cultural heritage in the Camonica valley, a mountain area that have attracted the mankind since prehistoric times. The people involved in the film are the film itself, places of a...
