Since he was a child, Orpheus has imagined stories about an abandoned villa across the street from his house. A solitary and visionary pianist, during an evening at the Polypus — the club where he plays — he meets Eura’s gaze. An unconditional love blossoms between them, but she’s concealing a secret. Then she disappears. One evening, Orpheus sees her enter a small door on Via Saterna, in front of the villa. He follows her. Before the threshold, he encounters the Green Man, an enigmatic figure who seems to know the mysteries of that passageway. Once through the door, Orpheus enters a visionary afterlife...

Bouchra (35), a Moroccan filmmaker in New York, is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.

Set in early 1900s, young Lana Benton, pushed by the gelid Old Hat man, Mr. Kyn, must confront bizarre creatures in a mysterious dream gland as she follows the last traces of Carole, a girl who escaped from Bunny Hall, a 19th-century girls' orphanage infested with wild rabbits.

In times of conflict, a companion can be the final thread linking one to human connection. In Call of Duty: Warzone, communication is fractured, making it even harder to truly know those you play with. Dialogue is just a series of terse exchanges of orders and instructions; everything revolves around the game, everything is subsumed by war. Forming a meaningful connection with an anonymous player seems nearly impossible. In The Zone, the protagonists confront this challenge, pushing beyond the fleeting interactions dictated by random matchmaking. They seek to reclaim their humanity, engaging with pressing themes — religion, terrorism, and representation — subtly embedded in the game’s mechanics and geography.

Feeling different because of his appearance, Eglefino sets off to explore a new planet with his friend J-Hoo in search of a place where he can feel loved, understood and well-liked.

In a room (a mental prison): the only way out is to enter oneself. Normal Lithium is inspired by bipolar disorder, the loss of self and hope, and the inner search for salvation. Symbols accumulate in a journey to find balance, even as those same symbols wildly invade the image.

A geometric evolution from a little point to a circle and then to a point again.

A worm was born from the smallest molecules in the world; now it embarks on an endless journey in search of a distant galaxy.

In peaceful Taigasville, the Puffins enjoy carefree days filled with arctic games, and even lazy Otto Von Walrus loves his picnics. But when a surprise snowstorm strikes, the Puffins must rally together to save their world. Otto included.

In a world populated entirely by puppets who are unaware of their condition, a young couple finds themselves aimlessly wandering through an amusement park, yearning for excitement. He is a workaholic, consumed by his job, while she is on the brink of motherhood. Little do they know that their lives are about to be forever transformed. In a secluded corner of the park, they encounter a group of actors led by a peculiar plague doctor. Together, they embark on a mesmerizing musical journey through time and space. Along the way, their perception of reality is shattered, leaving them to question the very essence of their existence. This extraordinary odyssey not only changes the course of their lives but also sets a new destiny for their future child.

A boy loves to spend time at his computer. Maybe too much though...

In the heart of New York City, Mike, a curious young teenager, sets off on a seemingly simple mission: to buy a magazine. One quick errand - What could go wrong? And yet, as the journey unfolds, Mike’s quest spirals into chaos and becomes a coming-of-age moment. Who knew buying a magazine could become the most complicated adventure of his life? An ode to courage, independence and self discovery.

In Taigasville, the wicked walrus Otto steals an ancient spellbook from the local shaman. Little does he know, this mischief opens a whimsical portal to a dream-filled dimension. Now, Otto must face insane challenges to set things right.

Little Cupid has the key that allows him to travel in dreams. When night falls, he visits young Chloé, who wakes up with a shiver. Without a doubt, this strange visit causes her to lose control of her body, which only seeks to experiment on its own.

London, 1888. A portly-looking man is in a psychoanalyst's office. The hypnosis session begins: the man is lost in a distorted architecture inhabited by characters with monstrous deformities. The psychoanalyst tries to bring the patient out of his trance, but in the dream dimension he finds him crouching over a prostitute with knives and bloody hands.

In the 1990s, a child grows up surrounded by deep secrets. The men in his family, including his father, die too young, but he is not yet able to understand why. When he discovers that his last name is a well-known name in the city, he feels as if he is seeing his own life reflected in the gangster and horror films he loves, a mirror of the violence that has changed his life.

For decades, Transalpina Square in Gorizia marked the dividing line between two different Nations and cultures. Alongside this segment of the Italy-Slovenia border, tragic events took place, though dreams and hopes persevered. It is thanks to those hopes and dreams that the separating wall was eventually torn down and the border was finally crossed.

Something strange happens in the family pool when his parents aren't home. A thick rope, a kind of veiny snake, emerges from the drain and grabs him by the rear.

Colourfully patterned scarves have a long but now almost forgotten tradition in Southeast Europe. Playful animations depict the cultural change after the Yugoslavian war, but also the story of a small factory in Zagreb that brings this heritage back to life – and just like them, the film makes joyful use of an almost inexhaustible variety of patterns.

A short animated film combining artist illustrations with footage of real actors in the theater, treated in post-production with a watercolor effect, which tells the true story of Polish nurse Irena Sendler, who saved almost 3,000 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.

The film was created in relation to a musical improvisation project in which Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, and Massimo Carrano participated. The work is based on abstract animations made with various techniques directly on 35mm cinema film that are interspersed with live action sections that creatively document the stages of the jam session.

Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power.

Sher is a transgender superheroine, guardian of the trans* and queer community. Not all of Sher's missions consist in defeating supervillains; some are more mundane, at times ridiculous, but still with the support and help of her sisters in the times of need in mind.

An animated stream of consciousness, a selection of personal fears and intrusive thoughts in a cycle of life and death.

A personal story set against the backdrop of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, narrated by a father to his son. This event becomes a universal paradigm for exploring the story of those who were forced to leave their homes and migrate. People are intrinsically linked to places, and these places hold the memory of those who inhabited them.

The film explores the idea of self-healing. Within the video game The Sims 4, a Sim hovers lightly over its empty body, guided by an audio track of a guided meditation. Meanwhile, random videos interfere with the search for that moment of tranquility.

In a world where mankind almost completely destroyed the environment, a child discovers the value of nature thanks to an unexpected friendship with a jackdaw.

“Earthquake” is a child who struggles more than others to channel his exuberance and for this very reason he got this nickname. It was given to him by his teacher because, like an earthquake, sometimes his anger explodes uncontrolled and irrational, leaving obvious marks as it passes.

Created for the municipality of Pergola, the film offers insight into the city's identity and historical context. It covers events across much of the country, juxtaposing land and war. We also hear the voices of Simone Massi's children. The author dedicates this work "to his children and to these children."

A picturesque village on the Italian coast squeezed between the mountains, the sea and the expensive over-tourism, like every year is taken by storm by millions of tourists, but this summer everything will not go as planned…

A oneiric and unsettling journey comes to life in Mk 1, the ideal follow-up to the short film Sfondo Giallo (2024). Born from the collaboration with Stefano Tiranti, composer and producer, the video weaves animation and music into a sensory experience suspended between reality and nightmare, where the protagonist faces a mysterious shadow that fractures his everyday life. In a crescendo of tension, driven by pulsing basslines, dramatic violins, and distorted guitar, Mk 1 drags the audience into a voyage toward the unknown, leaving open questions that await answers in the next short film.

Rossi returns as the protagonist of a surreal and comical journey to discover the future, driven by the hope of finally finding happiness.

2025 in a cartoon created entirely by humans, for humans! ✏️ A deliberately exaggerated story that brings together politics, pop culture, current events, and entertainment! 👉 As always, this is a subjective take on the year: the events and characters included are those that made us smile, reflect, and swear the most, told through our satirical point of view.

An ancient terror rises from the Monster Manual: the Mind Flayer, a dark creature able to dominate minds and devour the dreams of every sentient being. Between epic atmospheres and playful pop incursions, an audacious bard and a band of unlikely heroes face its psionic horror in a whirlwind of battles, illusions, and surreal comedy. A journey between myth and parody that turns the multiverse’s most feared monster into the protagonist of a story as unsettling as it is irresistible.

In a small village on the edge of the woods, an arboreal ritual is being celebrated. Antonio's childlike game with his box of ants reveals a simple story of balance between humans, animals, and nature that challenges our belief in the existence of the divine.

After a computer crash, a girl struggles with the loss of her long-time virtual pet, Bubba.

Consumed by desire, a candle blurs the lines between love and obsession as it risks everything to possess someone it can never truly have, unaware that its own light could lead it into darkness.

Nico decides to follow Livio after the two boys stumble upon each other. Even though the path seems clear, the awareness of their free spirits will make them grow, making them abandon the last link with the material world where they no longer belong.

A collapsing cave on a caving expedition turns into a death trap for a group of girls and boys who are exploring it. Trapped in the bowels of the earth and shrouded in darkness, the group is forced to take a grisly count: some must be eaten in order for the others to survive.

A man, trapped in a white sheet, struggles on a bed as if drowning in a nightmare. In front of a similar sheet, in an empty movie theater, a mother breastfeeds her baby, immersed in deep silence. A silent film tells the story of a cow, marked with the number “432,” who wanders on a beach desperately searching for her missing calf. When the cow finds the dead calf, marked by the number “433,” the film dies with it: the sheet on which the film is projected falls onto the stage, enveloping the entire room in an even deeper silence. The number “433” evokes John Cage's famous silence, but here silence takes on a tragic meaning, representing the stillness of death. The same fate befalls the man on the bed, the embodiment of life within the film, whose movements cease simultaneously at the end of the film.

What does it mean to leave one's home and head for unknown destinations? What does it feel like to be swept away by an uncontrollable current? Every year, millions of people in Africa leave their homes in search of a better future. Often they settle in neighboring countries; all too often they reach Libyan shores and attempt the sea crossing. But at that point there is no return; there is only moving on.

The video, presented as a degree thesis project, was born from the need to enhance the Pirandello Mines, a place rich in history, in Aragona, Agrigento, linked to sulfur and the figure of Luigi Pirandello, of which the family was the owner. The video is therefore born from the poetics of Pirandello’s works, combined with the suggestions of the place. There is no linear narrative but it presents itself as a dreamlike journey, also conducted following the music of Lero Lero, a band from Palermo that takes up the popular songs of Sicily.

Renato, an eccentric Renaissance inventor, dares the impossible: capturing a lightning bolt in a jar! Fuelled by ambition and defying the skepticism of his peers, he races against time in a thrilling journey, where each storm offers an extraordinary glimpse into the mysteries of nature and the power of love.

In an ordinary pond lives a rather solitary toad, whose unusual behaviors baffle the other inhabitants. He seems to have no interest in the other frogs, isolating himself and, in turn, being isolated. However, an upcoming event will allow Toad to reveal his unexpected positive qualities, leading him to be appreciated… all while staying true to himself.

Animal sensuality discovered by stripping down and exploring.

Giona, a shy teen, does not enjoy himself at all on the crowded beach, much less than his friends do. But when he puts on a jockstrap he found laying among the rocks, he lets himself go to the sea of feelings and sensations that previously frightened him.

There's a secret place, hidden in the heart of Gardaland, where science and magic meet: the underground lab. here, a brilliant team of scientists have worked for decades to monitor the pieces of far away lands that, way back in 1975, a sudden magnetic disturbance dragged to this corner of our world, thus bringing Gardaland to life. But today, something went wrong: another magnetic disturbance has swept through the park, dragging our beloved Prezzemolo on a journey in reverse.

Elena rediscovers after a long time the notebook of her maternal grandmother, Laura. She flips through it for the first time and through those pages revises her life. Convinced of a confession that Laura had made to her, namely that if one has a great desire then it should be whispered and entrusted to the paper of a notebook for it to come true, as a child she had immediately started writing. Today, at the age of 25, Elena no longer remembers her past wish, but she has a new one: to remember Laura.

An introspective journey into troubled thoughts. A sleep always interrupted in search of a breath of peace, a whisper to life that has the eyes of death in front of a mirror. A struggle between anxiety, restlessness and calm, evoked by music composed by Claudia Ferretti and Piero Modena. The mix of animation techniques remains consistent with the idea of the uncertainty of dreams

Nio and Oub, characters from rival factions, mysteriously land inside an abandoned building. To stay alive, they are forced to face each other in a deadly confrontation. But will Nio be able to defeat Oub with the sole superpower that allows him to open doors? Maybe not, but anything is possible thanks to the power of dance.