A dive into the origin of LGBTQ activist Luki Massa, into her childhood in imaginative Baia’s surroundings, near Naples. A free spirit, a life in which a true boundary between the mundane and the extraordinary never existed.
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A dive into the origin of LGBTQ activist Luki Massa, into her childhood in imaginative Baia’s surroundings, near Naples. A free spirit, a life in which a true boundary between the mundane and the extraordinary never existed.
It's not so easy to be a hero. But you, Pentola, you are my superhero.
The island of Giudecca, south of the historic center of Venice, is the home of the Convent of the Convertite, which for about 200 years has been a women’s jail for the imprisonment and rehabilitation of condemned prisoners. Even before that, the building was a convent where prostitutes and women considered immoral were locked up against their will. Nevertheless, behind those walls, and in particular in the parlor, there is another story, and according to this story women performed for high society offering shows of transvestism, sometimes even blasphemous.
“GUAZZABUGLIO” talks about the anxiety caused by media, fake news, sexual desire, interconnections and the deep meditation state.
After the death of his friend Begbie, Palomar decides to go to the City, a bizarre and intimidating metropolis, whose citizens have abolished sleeping and the law of gravity. To get there, the man waits for a bus that never comes, falling into a restless and suffocating wait.
A sad young man, faced with the death of a loved one, is faced with a ghostly being that leads him on an unexpected journey.
One summer’s evening in 1933, the writer Raymond Roussel closes the door of his hotel room in Palermo. He swallows pills, drags the mattress to the centre of the room and lies down on it. The next morning his companion finds his corpse. But is he really dead?
History flows, the darkness wets our clothes. Inspired by the poem “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà” by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, the film condenses iconic images of Italy’s political history into a narrative about this life and the hereafter.
A kid who lives in an African village receives via mail a snowflake - a magical object which comes from a distant and unknown place. This message will transform the kid’s world, changing the scorching African landscape into something new.
A dog meets a special balloon.
A series of Moving Images against the war in Ukraine. Make Art Not War. Peace for the People. Freedom!
Animated film inspired by the true story of little Enaiatollah Akbari, which tells the story of a child fleeing from the Taliban.
It’s feels like a vision of a pilgrimage gone south. Desperately looking for the gate in the forgotten lands where only military planes dare to fy. By using gouache painting and their digital processing, animation artist Francesco Rosso imagines two monks rehearsing, fnding perfect pitch which fows through walls and fences, despite their layers. The impulse for this animation comes from an existing musical composition by Karl Saks who recorded Buddhist monks chanting while on a trip to China.
For the aesthetic elegance of digital animation with which he infuses plasticity and three-dimensionality to Pasolini's faces, glimpses and shots accompanied by the imaginative lyricism of the virtuosic cinema of his poetic texts and his prose.
This is a video collage created using mash-up and split-screen techniques. It is linked to the idea of dance that allows the body to change shape and content in a grunge and punk surrealistic manner.
A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.
Scenes of wars, from World War II to the refugee camps of the 6-Day War, from the attack on the Mostar bridge to the cars set on fire in the war in Syria.
Riccardo Calimani, writer and historian, during a walk in the Venice ghetto, encounters two teenagers to whom he recounts the story of his parents in a journey through time across the years of Fascism and the Shoah. The two young people on a trip to the lagoon listen today to the experiences of two very young people who, many years earlier, were forced to flee their city like leaves in the wind in order to save their lives.
In a video game that simulates factory exploitation, a girl tries to save the employees
Dopo aver trovato una scatola musicale, un ragazzino gira la manovella per scoprire la sorpresa. After finding a music box, a young boy turns the crank to discover the surprise.
The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness.
A short film that tells the tale of the inextricable tie between three generations: father/grandfather, daughter/mother, grandson/son. A bond so strong as to transcend the boundaries between Life and Death, the Earthly World, and the Afterlife, in an atmosphere of compelling magical realism.
A conversation between a director and his character.
The viewer is immersed in the daily life of mothers and kids living in prisons and custody institutions for inmates with their children.
Gone. A poisoned word. It creeps frozen under the skin. I see your smile again, your peonies. How can this be true?
The tooth-mouse moves quietly in the darkness of people’s homes. The nature of his works compels him to hide from humans. But all this secrecy unleashes in him an existential thought: “how can something exist if no one ever sees it?”
Young Hephaestus, in an attempt to undo his exile from Olympus, forges a gift for his mother Hera, but is forced to make a pact with Hermes so that the latter brings the gift to the goddess on his behalf.
My old friend Walter has been living in a truck with his Native dog for ten years. In this interview, he opens the doors of his four-wheeled house and tells stories from the life of a modern wanderer.
A stop-motion project
Does a creaking rocking chair make you feel uneasy or totally relaxed? In this crafty parable by animator Luca Dipierro it’s probably the former. His is a world of informed buffoonery, resourceful infantility and playfulness – the only adversary here is death, and you don’t want to trifle with that. The film’s uncomfortably seductive soundtrack is the work of the Father Murphy duo.
A man hungry for sausages buys a microwave oven that will drag him into the wild.