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The Wash – The Laundry
The Wash is a documentary containing an allegation, narrated with an original contemplative look; twenty intense minutes, which immerse the viewer in the territory and in its history, suggesting the allegation and not riding it. Water and silence, life and destruction. After the Second World War, NATO created a large-scale military exercise zone at Capo Teulada. It is possible that the members of the family who own the laundry of the town have fallen ill because of the toxic substances present in the military uniforms that they washed and handled every day, for years. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Tomaso Mannoni…
Per saperne di più »Sa Femina Accabadora – La dama della buona morte
Femina accabadora is a woman who practiced an ancient form of euthanasia, a piteous act towards the dying man, with a dry hammer blow. Considered by many a legendary figure of the Sardinian tradition, She actually acted until the 1960s, as our protagonists who have witnessed the deeds of the ladies of the good death, tell us. Together with them we cross the sunny landscapes of Sardinia and immerse ourselves in the gray areas of a millenary culture still today alive, which brings us back to the eternal and present questions about death. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Fabrizio Galatea Production:…
Per saperne di più »The cicadas
The Aesopus fairytale tells that, when summer ends, the provident ant will pass a good winter, the cicada that has squandered everything instead will die for cold. But what happens if the wheat beans put aside by the ant are no longer sufficient to face the winter? The cicadas is an intimate journey in the life of those who, already retired or ready to retire, find themselves still struggling to survive, because the welfare state is no longer enough to guarantee a serene "age of rest". TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Emiliano Mancuso, Federico Romano Screenplay: Emiliano Mancuso, Federico Romano Production:…
Per saperne di più »Two of two
Albert, fourteen years old, is already a very well known chess player, numerous times winner and French champion for his category, he is monitored and supported in every victory by his couch Pierluigi Piscopo. Pierluigi, an Italian, moved to Corsica to train Albert. Regardless of the different origins and stage of life, the passion for chess unites them, turning them into an exhilarating pair that goes well beyond the study of chess. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Noemi Salonia Production: Atelier Varan Editing: Gilles Volta Cinematography: Noemi Salonia Running time: 29’ Country: France/Italy Year: 2017 Contacts: Noemi Salonia | Atelier Varan…
Per saperne di più »Ogni cosa rosa
Slopping is the technical term to explain the reaction between oxygen and carbon monoxide during the steel production phase. It is an oversight of the production cycle and takes the shape of a reddish smoke. In Taranto this phenomenon happens hundreds of times since over 50 years, pink powders carried by the wind create a new level of perception of the landscape. Through a group of teenagers and a naturalist researcher Ogni cosa rosa tells about Taranto on a June’s day. Thanks to this submerged humanity, the film identifies a process of re-modulation of the environment and of the people…
Per saperne di più »Wall
David Hare, whom The Washington Post referred to as “the premiere political dramatist writing in English”, writes and stars in this innovative animated feature that explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine as no film has before. Animated and directed by Cam Christiansen, WALL is the first animated feature documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Directed by: Cam Christiansen With: David Hare, David Grossman Animated by: Cam Christiansen Screenplay: David Hare Production: National Film Board of Canada Producers: David Christensen, Bonnie Thompson Editing: Cam Christiansen Cinematography: Michal Lavi With the support of: The Banff…
Per saperne di più »Blindly Dancing
A blind professional dancer has founded the Blindly Dancing Association in 2013 to teach ‘the dance in the dark’ to everybody. Today, it comprehends about 100.000 people in Italy, Swiss and Holland. Thanks to her passion and work more and more people can try the sensorial experience of dancing without seeing. Imperfection is Beauty. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Fabio Palmieri Production: P.P.P. - NOTWORKINGFILMS Editing: Fabio Palmieri Cinematography: Fabio Palmieri Running time: 8’30’’ Country: Italy Year: 2017 Contacts: Paola Pontelli | NOTWORKINGFILMS | notworkingfilms@gmail.com “Elena and her story represent a sample of strenght and courage, which develops an intimate investigation…
Per saperne di più »Call of Ocean
An old fisheman lives and works alone, on a faraway isthmus. An opera singer has just washed up onto his shore, like a siren. They talk and spend some time together. A meal, a boat ride, a song… slowly, slowly the solitude feeling they share, will make the two different characters come closer. Told in a fable-like style, this film is a story that borders between reality and imagination, documentary and fiction. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Claudia Neubern Production: Les autres films Producer: Boris Vassalo Editing: Éve Le Cordonnel, Catherine Catella Cinematography: Antoine Heberlé Running time: 45’ Country: France/Italy Year:…
Per saperne di più »Trembling Crystals
From Cuba the author establishes, by text messages, a communication with his mother suffering from cancer. During his stay on the island, the author conducts a survey for a possible documentary. Because of a series of meetings and situations, he will have to deal with the transformation of himself. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Alessandro Focareta Screenplay: Alessandro Focareta Production: EICTV (Escuela internacional de cine y televisión de San Antonio de los Baños - Cuba) - Apolide Film (Italia) Editing: Alessandro Focareta Cinematography: Alessandro Focareta, Jaime Guerra, Angelo Onofrio, Carlo Focareta, Emil Rodriguez Running time: 72’ Country: Italy/Cuba Year: 2017 Contacts:…
Per saperne di più »A glorious delegation to Pyongyang
On 25th April 2018 four friends leave to North Korea with the aim of filming, beyond prejudices, the life of the most enigmatic and most denigrated country in the world. A film crew follows them, the only one allowed to shoot a film in Korea, which in these days is the stage of the historic meeting of the two presidents of North and South for United Korea. The film tells the journey of these four friends, who join Davide in his trip: Davide is a writer, a journalist, a teacher, and a member of the Communist Party (Switzerland), who Has…
Per saperne di più »La Spartenza
The documentary is inspired by the autobiography of Tommaso Bordonaro "La Spartenza", which won the Pieve 1990 award for the best unpublished diary. “Spartenza” means separation and departure. Bordonaro emigrated in the USA in 1948 and the documentary is located between Bolognetta and New Jersey. His story is a fragment of the overall story of migrations, touching and unique because it is narrated in first person by a migrant. We are interested in the uniqueness and particularity of its history: the witness of a single individual among millions of migrants, told through the book and about four hours of private…
Per saperne di più »My home, in Libya
Questioning the memory of her grandparents, Martina identifies a map of places belonging to their past. They lived in Tripoli from when Libya was an Italian colony in the ‘30s to the end of the ‘60s. With the help of a young Libyan contacted on social media she collects images of her grandparents ‘home’ town today. As they exchange pictures and chats their relation grows, overcoming the physical and cultural boundaries that separate them. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Martina Melilli Production: Stefilm with ZDF In collaboration with Arte and Rai Cinema Supported by MIBACT and Piemonte Doc Film Fund Producers:…
Per saperne di più »INCONTRI: UN NUOVO SGUARDO FEMMINILE SUL CINEMA DEL REALE
UN NUOVO SGUARDO FEMMINILE SUL CINEMA DEL REALE Incontro con quattro registe esordienti: Maria Tilli (La gente resta, 2015, premio al Torino Film Festival), Martina Di Tommaso (Via della felicità, 2017, Festival dei Popoli), Silvia Bellotti (Aperti al pubblico, 2017 Premio del pubblico al Festival dei Popoli), Martina Melilli (My Home, in Libya, 2018, Festival di Locarno)
Per saperne di più »Strange Fish
How does it feel to see a dead body floating in the sea like a strange fish? Through the voices of the anonymous heroes of Zarzis, a fishermen village in southern Tunisia, on the border of war-torn Libya, we discover how this tragedy has affected a town and the fishermen community. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Giulia Bertoluzzi Production: Small Boss Production Producer: Matteo Pecorara Editing: Ariadna Ribas With the support of: CIHAEM Bari, through the NEMO project, financed by AICS, Migration Media Award by European Commission Running time: 55’ Country: Italy Year: 2018 Contacts: Matteo Pecorara | Small Boss Production…
Per saperne di più »Mauro from Budelli
Mauro Morandi has been the only inhabitant of Budelli island for almost thirty years. Charming figure and solitude paradigm, his mission is to keep safe the Pink Beach from the tourists’ invasion and to tell the island’s visitors his life philosophy in contact with nature. However, the balance he has reached with his life is in danger and Mauro decided to fight for it. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Marco Tagliabue Production: RSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Producer: Michael Beltrami Editing: Bettina Tognola Cinematography: Francesco Cocco e Claudio Rizzotti Running time: 50’50’’ Country: Italy/Switzerland Year: 2018 Contacts: Michael Beltrami | RSI | Michael.Beltrami@rsi.ch…
Per saperne di più »Pick of the Litter
Pick of the Litter follows a litter of puppies from the moment they’re born and begin their quest to become guide dogs for the blind. The stakes are high and not every dog can make the cut. Pick of the Litter is a wonderful reminder of the extraordinary relationships we have with our dogs, especially those that we work beside each day. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Screenplay: Dana Nachman Production: KTF Films Producers: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Editing: Don Hardy, Dana Nachman, Jacob Stein Cinematography: Don Hardy International sales: Submarine |Josh Braun | josh@submarine.com Italian distribution: Wanted Cinema…
Per saperne di più »Scripta Manent
Often while driving on roads , or walking in the city, our attention is caught by street art’s works, which is, by its very nature, public and free and that is changing the urban landscape. However, what’s behind those painted walls? Who are the artists? Hence this film born from the idea of discovering and telling the Street Art through the life and works of one of its protagonists, Manu Invisible. The aim is to capture all the hidden and secret scenes of this very popular art, criticised by some, appreciated by others, and making it ‘available’ to everybody. TECHNICAL…
Per saperne di più »The School In The Cloud
What is the future of education in a networked world? Indian professor Sugata Mitra sets up an internet kiosk in a remote Bengali village and in a school in north east England, to enable children to self-organise their learning to pioneer the “School in the Cloud”. The film follows the children as they encounter the internet for the first time. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Jerry Rothwell Production: Met Film Production Producers: Al Morrow, Dan Demissie Editing: James Scott Cinematography: Jerry Rothwell, Ranu Gosh International sales: Met Film Sales | Vesna Cudic | vesna@metfilm.co.uk With the support of: Sundance Institute Documentary…
Per saperne di più »The Guardians
In a vitally important and overlooked subject, THE GUARDIANS exposes allegations of corruption within the Nevada Guardianship and Family Court System’s involvement in the legal kidnapping of elderly people. The film shines a light on a lucrative industry and criminal enterprise that trades the elderly as commodities. What the documentary exposes in this revealing investigation is how many people are involved in a systemic conspiracy against the most vulnerable members of our society. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Regia: Billie Mintz Sceneggiatura: Billie Mintz Produzione: No equal Entertainment Production, in association with INNOV8R and documentary Channel Produttori: J.B. Sugar, Billie Mintz Montaggio: Michele…
Per saperne di più »A breath of water
Mauro is a diver with a peculiar job: he works at great depths under the oil rigs in the middle of the sea, and lives in a small hyperbaric chamber for most of the year. In his free time, he likes to teach his little friend Milo how to dive, communicating him his passion for the sea and its legends. We follow Mauro, while working underwater in a Libyan sea oil rig, and when he realizes to be sick and tired of such life, and that he wants to dedicate his future to recover the sunken ships: his childhood dream.…
Per saperne di più »Transformer
In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt “Kroc” Kroczaleski was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, banned from competing, and she changed her name to “Janae”. She now finds herself living one day as an alpha male and the next day as a delicate girl. Will society accept a 250 lbs muscular woman? Is her path personal redemption or physical and psychological disaster? TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Michael Del Monte Screenplay: Michael Del Monte Production: Storystream Creative Producer: Tad Munning Editing: Graham…
Per saperne di più »Seven Women
As my second project, Seven Women I wanted to film several different kinds of women from, journalists, to costume designers, to actresses to Rosita Missoni the founder, with her husband Ottavio, of Missoni brand, to Rula Jebreal, CNN journalist from Palestine to Patricia Field the costume designer of "Sex and the City" and "The Devil wears Prada" to Bethann Hardison, the first black runway model and African activist; to Susanne Bartsch and Alba Clemente, New York artists, to Fran Dresher the creator of "The Nanny" and activist. It is a series of stories, that could be difficult sometimes to achieve…
Per saperne di più »Holding my breath
Stella, a student of Pharmacy at the University, is part of a research group to prepare her thesis. However, by attending chemistry labs, the girl quickly realizes how unhealthy the environment is. When someone starts to get sick, the teachers hide behind mere coincidences. Although Anna tries to convince her not to spend all her days in the laboratory, Stella continues to pursue her dream. Until his story is intertwined with the diary of a young graduate student ... TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Costanza Quatriglio With: Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino Screenplay: Costanza Quatriglio Production: Jolefilm e Costanza Quatriglio Editing: Luca Gasparini, Letizia Caudullo…
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Spaceship Earth
The idea that Earth is an isolated spaceship was born in the 1960s, championed by futurist Buckminster Fuller and proven by the famous “Earth rise” photo taken by Apollo astronauts. “Spaceship Earth” is both a reality and a metaphor that changed humanity’s perspective, spawning the movement to “save the Earth”. But what does that really mean? For 50 years scientists have been working to understand humanity’s daily influence on our planet’s life forces. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Kevin McMahon Screenplay: Kevin McMahon Production: Primitive Entertainment Producers: Kristina McLaughlin, Kevin McMahon, Michael McMahon Editing: Jay Cheel, Carole Larsen Cinematography: John Minh…
Per saperne di più »Via Gallica: sulle orme dei Romani fra storia e archeologia
It was called via Gallica. But it was more than one way. It was a network of roads that connected ancient villages inhabited by the people of the Po. Villages that, after the conquest of the Romans, changed profoundly from an urban, social and cultural point of view. A set of routes that linked Brescia, Bergamo, Como and Milan. Efficient communication ways that reached the great lakes where the Romans loved to build luxury mansions of idleness. A territory where in three centuries clashes were consumed but also meetings of civilization. A place where between peace and war came the…
Per saperne di più »La vita è un dono
Five women, a journey into their life stories, in their different and kaleidoscopic way of being a woman, overcoming the disease, a breast cancer. When the life project is twisted by the disease, a process of struggle and transformation begins. Five women who find a new force in the race. They run together, until they reach the final goal of the marathon. The biggest and most difficult goal there could be: life. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: ISRAEL CESARE MOSCATI Director collaborator: RAPHAEL TOBIA VOGEL Screenplay: ISRAEL CESARE MOSCATI Production: CLIPPER MEDIA CON RAI CINEMA with: MARINA DE BONIS ANGELA RESTELLI…
Per saperne di più »Exit
In Exit, the director Karen Winther goes sourcing for answers to the question: What was the ‘wake-up call’ – that made her and a group of previous violent extremists, neo-Nazis and more, leave violence and extremism behind? Through intimate conversations with former violent extremists from Germany, France, Denmark, and the US and Throughout this journey, Karen moves closer to remember her own wake-up call. Reflections on her extremist past and way she managed to go out of extremism will form an emotional and psychological counterpoint with the stories of the people she meets in her travels. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by:…
Per saperne di più »Crime+Punishment
Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, Crime + Punishment intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years of unprecedented access, the film cinematically exposes the United States' most powerful police department through the brave efforts of a group of active duty officers and one unforgettable private investigator who risk their careers and safety to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York…
Per saperne di più »How to Build a Time Machine
If you could travel through time, where or when would you go? Would you revisit a fond memory from your childhood? Catch a glimpse of the future? How to Build a Time Machine follows two men, both of whom have set out on a quest to build their own time machines. Rob Niosi is a stop motion animator who has spent the last eleven years constructing a full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the1960 film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ novella, The Time Machine. Ron Mallett is a physicist from the University of Connecticut who was also inspired by…
Per saperne di più »Karl Marx City
Twenty-five years after the fall of the German Democratic Republic, the director Petra Epperlein returns to Karl Marx city, the city where she grew up, to discover the truth behind her father's suicide and to investigate about the rumours of his belonging to the Stasi. TECHNICAL INFORMATIONS Directed by: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker Screenplay: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker Producers: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker Editing: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker Cinematography: Michael Tucker Italian Distribution: Wanted Cinema Running time: 89’ Country: USA/Germania Year: 2016 Contacts: Wanted Cinema; info@justwanted.it "It was an emotionally difficult project to work on. While we were looking to discover the secrets of my father's life and the reason…
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