After a robbery goes wrong, Frank and Vince break into a home when two kids mistake them for their babysitters. Hoping to make them fall asleep so they can make their getaway, Frank reads stories from a magic book that he stole during the robbery, taking them to the enchanted world of Arctic Friends. The two thieves have to endure the kid’s hijinks as they make various absurd attempts to escape.

After the Trento bombing in Italy 1943, the CG animated short film is the story is of a little girl named Mila. It focuses on the collateral damage affecting the civilian population, and especially the children.

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.

When his sister Ella decides to modernize the Christmas Factory against Santa Claus's wishes, Mike, who works as an assistant to the old Santa Claus, will have to decide which side he is on. The animated characters from the world of Arctic Friends will help him in his choice and thus in his maturation as an individual, leading the story in an unexpected direction.

Maurizio Sacripanti’s prefab school, designed in 1969 for the town of Molfetta, turns into a deafening film. An animated interpretation of a section of the building: holes, panels and layers of the project transform into a mechanical rhythm, but the sound of a bell alters the logic of the system.

Immersed in the jungle, among relics of a "forgotten future", two kids, Yaya and Lennie, meander. The two live freely in their Eden until armed men, who carry with them an "ancient" concept of civilization, force them to leave their territory. It is the beginning of a journey in search of their place in a world that no longer belongs to man.

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.

A widowed grandmother lives alone in her house, every day they repeat themselves with the same habits, when one day something unexpected happens. From the radio there is a rumor that something terrible is awakening from the cemeteries, the dead have returned to walk among us!

A fairy tale about two brothers and their little sister with Down syndrome, reminding us that there is no such thing as "different."

Furio’s Furious Fragments & Friends - Furio Jesi (1941 Turin -1980 Genoa), enfant prodige moving between a plethora of disciplines – egyptology, history of religions, German philology, literary criticism - passed away prematurely, not without leaving bright fragments which throw light on mechanisms beneath many socio-cultural practices, for instance regarding cultural belonging, the functions of myth in modern society. He saw kind of “mythological machines” at work underneath our cultural production of meanings, historically determined, departing from a void, something that is still in culture but as residue, a missing link to an alleged authentic experience nowadays compromised up to the point to became just rhetoric, a byword, which is in no way neutral, but a tool, a macchina, for maintaining the status quo and serving the power apparatus. As in the case of holidays, celebrations and festivals.

A blackbird takes care of all forgotten things. One 17′ long story in just one drawing. An animated film where the animation is imagined. An experimental film for all audiences.

A short and tender story about little girl who sees off her sailor father in a far away journey. Her childhood imagination will brighten up the long wait.

In an undefined place and time, the young Fadi flees from a country at war, taking with him a violin case that he never parts with. Accompanied by a group of other migrants, Fadi crosses deserts and seas on a journey fraught with obstacles. Along the way, he meets the mysterious Naila and a group of other young people who do not make his life easy. At the end of their journey, upon arriving at the long-awaited land of Spes, the travelers find themselves facing an insurmountable wall.

In Lorenzo's world nothing is as it really appears: Lorenzo's world, in fact, is the bubble of his autism. However, through a mirror, the child finds the courage to look inside himself.

In a golden, reassuring and muffled clearing, a young child explores the wonders of the landscape with his teddy bear until a frightening storm arrives, which threatens their serenity.

Caligari is a famous undertaker who’s been on the streets since death itself was banned in the city and supplanted by a practical method of resurrection to which no citizen can resist. For Gothic and Black Comedy Lovers, the main character is inspired by three famous film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Nosferatu the Vampire and Der Golem.

An exploration between the dreamlike and the real of the Umbrian landscape, defined as the "green heart of Italy", but like other Italian landscapes it hides contradictions, low-altitude flights and shaded areas. We are in Umbria, in the center of the Italian peninsula. A child runs through the green landscape, with a strip of sky on his head. Its run becomes a bird's eye view and we have the opportunity to visit the landscape from above until a dip makes us plunge into the gray of the urban, in the abandoned factories, the steel mill stands behind the vegetation and the now grown child will always seek to return to the green, becoming a landscape himself.

For several years now, Gianni Asdrubali's artistic research has been carrying on a discourse on the concept of emptiness, up to its development in an adimensional frontal surface. Zakkete is an attempt to translate part of his work into a filmic dimension, bearing in mind the gestural nature of Asdrubali's work.

A meaningful journey into the Italian cultural heritage throughout musical quotes from Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, lithographies by Giovan Battista Piranesi and lines by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dreamland will bring the audience to some of the most beautiful Italian UNESCO sites: Villa d’Este and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, the historic centre of Rome with the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, Piazza Navona, Castel Sant’Angelo and much more. Passing through the depths of the Tiber, it will arrive also in the most peripheral areas of the city to find out still so much beauty and so many stories about the contemporaneity in a visual and musical journey so evocative as to reveal the Italian cultural identity.

Underground Lovers is a story about love and obsession, with a dramatic end. Inspired by science fiction cinema and Japanese erotic culture, it has the structure of a real feature film condensed in just over 4 minutes. A man and a woman go through a night of excess until they lose control, among food, drugs, sex and the neon lights of Tokyo

An entangled exploration of Sendai City (Marco Bolognesi's long life creation and obsession), as it is presented and as it really is. Or maybe not?

Images like notes on a diary.

Sometimes our memory evaporates, sometimes it is mesmerizing, and sometimes it is like a granular souvenir.

On a romantic sunny afternoon, a loving couple decides to spend time in the peaceful city park to create a painting together.

He knows us all. But how much do we know him? As much as we know ourselves. Anna and Las are both experiencing a busy night full of nightmares. Each of them fights with their ammuntadore, or rather, with their own perception of it. The ammuntadore, in Sardinian culture, represents the demon of the night. He assaults us while we sleep and shows us the origin of our greatest fears.

You think a bit of wire can't entertain you? Think again.

A girl asks herself many questions, confronts some of her monsters, anger makes her transform into a wasp, she intertwines with her king, cries excessively, turns red all over, and in the end grows into a giant.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

Every day legions of people risk their lives in the Mediterranean Sea to reach the southern coasts of Europe, the new Promised Land. But the sea, that once parted to allow Moses' passage, now closes with indifference over the stories and lives of countless victims.

Dark Ages: two abandoned little sisters live miserably inside a semi-destroyed granary. On a bad day the surrounding fields become the battleground between two imperial armies. The sisters, pretending to have good contacts with the Almighty, cleverly manipulate the two bigoted emperors and finally celebrate the victory of cunning over the dullness of power.

A body is a shape, and every shape is different from others, even though all have a common destiny. With a kind of poetry, a voice will tell what a body is, while images will show what a body could be.

A moment of transition in the life of Luigi, a child from fourteenth-century Florence. A weaver’s precious embroidered blanket brings to life the adventures of young Tristan, which inspires Luigi to take on the skills and code of knighthood.

Halfway between a documentary and an artistic installation, Heimat, starting from the creative fragmentation of the Last Letters from Stalingrad, a collection of letters written in December 1942 by German soldiers besieged in the Stalingrad sack, is a sensorial and universal investigation of that very mysterious object that is the memory of Home: a mysterious, elusive object, always on the verge of fading. In Heimat, the paste of old family films, brushstrokes of color and chemical residues of decomposing film coexist. A reality that becomes oneiric, almost hallucinatory.

On a foggy night, the sailor Edward is in search of a ghost ship that legends tell is home to an immense treasure protected by a dark curse...

What it is like to be a girl in a boys world. Six girls share their own experiences playing woman’s football in a male dominated sport. Their stories are translated by different animation techniques to explore various narrative possibilities.