FILM

Il cinema è “un’invenzione senza futuro”. Così disse Antoine Lumière, padre dei famosi fratelli Louis e August, all’indomani delle prime proiezioni pubbliche nel 1895. Oggi sappiamo che si sbagliava. Oggi sappiamo che la settima arte è un mezzo narrativo unico in grado di raccontare, commuovere e far riflettere. Quando la luce si spegne il viaggio inizia, questa è e sarà sempre la magia del cinema.

Il nostro sangue sparso

by Paolo Santamaria

Italy

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2026

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90′

In the Lucanian hinterland, threatened by depopulation, Aurora and Dinos wedding becomes the final act of cultural resistance against the disappearance of their Arbresh roots.

I fiori del mare

by Paolo Santamaria

Italia

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2026

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A researcher and a fisherman’s son discover the body of an unidentified migrant at sea. Between scientific research, loss, and human responsibility, their journey becomes a profound confrontation with what is still worth saving.

Davide, where are you?

by Marco Pinnavaia

• Cecilia Rizzuto

Italy

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2025

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17′ 33″

Two documentary filmmakers climb Mount Velino to retrace the lives lost on its slopes, turning the ascent into a shared act of mourning and a search for the sublime that drives humans to risk everything for the heights.

Naturae

by Alessio Salvini

Italy

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2026

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14′

A wordless audiovisual journey through Italian landscapes reveals how humanity’s progress, carved into stone, wood, and water, has slowly transformed nature from a life-giving ally into a wounded witness of irreversible change.

Stolen Moments

by Stefano Landini

Italia

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2024

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1h 28′

Stolen Moments tells the story of Sabino, a young man from Puglia who opens a jazz club in an abandoned warehouse in Turin. With the help of friends, he transforms the space into a cultural center, giving the community a renewed sense of belonging.

Dyspnea

by Luigi Cuomo

Italia

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2024

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22’43”

Dyspnea is a documentary built with underwater archive materials that tells the story of the bond between the director and his father. The images intertwine in an intimate, blurry, sweet and ferocious story. The lack of oxygen and attachment to life make him candidly human.

Summer Within

by Summer Minerva

• Adam Golub

USA, Italy

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2024

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71’09”

A gender fluid artist from Staten Island struggles to belong in her Italian American family. She journeys to Southern Italy and encounters an ancient transgender tradition.

Quando l'universo avrà fine

by Enzo Piglionica

Italia

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2021

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15’34”

A small allegorical film that aims to be a reflection on a society increasingly distant from a collective vision.

Lampi

by Paolo Santamaria

Italy

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2022

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15′

A woman suffering from an electrical disturbance must survive a day when, after losing her job, she causes a blackout at her sister’s bachelorette party.

S.A.D. - The Movie

by Guilherme Gehr

• music and story universe by Dardust

Italy, Brazil

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2020

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9’10”

A kid creates space adventures with his toys. As summer break arrives, he travels with his parents to the Scottish highlands, but a storm puts his imagination to the test, and his fate will depend on it.

The first shot

by Yan Cheng

• Federico Francioni

Italy, China

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2015

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76′

A story about China and young generations.

Spettri

by Paolo Santamaria

Italy

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2022

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15′

Giulia and her musical talent, a love-hate relationship unable to give her serenity. Beethoven’s Ghost Trio to weigh down her mixed feelings.

Da capo

by Paolo Santamaria

Italy

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2022

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15’00”

The hardest fight is with our ego, beating under the skin. The largest organ of our body which connects and separates us at the same time from the world, defining us as individuals.

A hundred years

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2017

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8′

When Girolamo asks his grandpa about his fortune, he’ll discover that the past still hangs over them.

We cannot live under that flag

by Lucio Laugelli

Italy

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2022

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41′

What does it mean to live in Afghanistan today? A group of Afghan refugees, welcomed in Italy, tells of the disorientation and the difficulty of having to flee their country by abandoning their land and their loved ones.

Zac, i fiori del MALE

by Massimo Denaro

Italy

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2016

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65′

Pino Zac. A guiding light, a talent scout who inaugurates a new season of Italian satire that resisted until the present day.

Costellazioni

by Luigi Cuomo

Italy

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2015

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46′

What goes on behind the closed curtains of a travelling circus? The ordinary and extraordinary life of three circus performers.

Dormo poco e sogno molto

by Paolo Santamaria

Italy

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2020

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3’37”

A travel through imagination, finding a place called home. A real soul journey where the pleasure of discovery and love alternate in a constant creative drive.

L'albero dai mille colori

by Greta Rossi

Italy

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2019

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23′

The story of a class of children , all with foreign origins, the new generation of the San Siro district, the western suburbs of Milan city.

Roma non è un gioco

by Valerio Burli

• Jacopo Brucculeri

Italy

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2019

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11’20”

A lazy nerd is forced by his mother to leave his bedroom and face Rome city’s chaos. He fights the city as if he was still playing videogames.

Exhibit Human

by Marco Camilli

• Arianna Vergari

• Valentina Traini

Italy

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2015

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40′

Anna signed an agreement with which she willingly chooses, after her death, to donate her body to a german institute to assume the traits of a sculpture.

Moj Brate

by Nazareno Nicoletti

Italy

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2015

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78′

A journey in searching for a friend who took his own life.

Caravaggio 107

by Antonio Turco

Italy

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2020

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26′

Daily life, battles and fears of nearly 400 occupants during the waiting days preceding the evacuation.

La terra

by Daniele Suraci

Italy

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2012

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11′

A romantic fresco of peasant life, which takes place in a small farm in the Valdorcia, in Tuscany.

Il passo della lumaca

by Daniele Suraci

Italy

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2013

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7′

While playing with a snail that slowly moves along a hat shop’s window display, seven-year-old Jaime sees eight-year-old Matilda on the street outside, and devises a series of silly antics to make her smile.

Lao

by Gabriele Nardis

Italy

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2013

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17’30”

An elderly, forced to live far away from his destroyed and abandoned village, tries to come back to it to search for an old harmonica under his house’s rubbles.

L'idea

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2020

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15′

Three aspiring filmmakers, are searching for the right idea to enter a short film competition notice themed “Young people and work”.

2912MT

by Luca Antonetti

Italy

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2015

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63′

Matteo’s initiation to the mountains is a way to get close to his father who he hasn’t seen or heard from in a long time.

Dakota Dynamite

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2019

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8’20”

1992. A little girl on holiday in Sardinia is kidnapped. She will hope for his western comic strip heroine to come and save her.

Exit

by Davide Pellino

Italy

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2015

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9′

Are we really free to decide our future? Or our actions are just part of a scenario in which every possibilities is already planned and set?

Freddo dentro

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2017

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8′

Outside, the frost. Inside instead, a cleaning lady is tidying up a hotel room. Will her daily routine ever be broken by something?

Brexitaly

by Carmine De Ieso

• Martina Galiè

• Greta Rossi

Italy

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2020

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40′

London 2019, Brexit is almost like Godot: you wait for it but it never comes. While waiting, some young Italians emigrated to England tell their stories.

Sponde

by Paolo Sideri

Italy

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2020

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40′

Paolo is 22-year old boy and he feels a constant inadequacy and ineptitude feeling caused by the complicated relationship with his mother, who doesn’t know about his homosexuality.

Amo mi cuerpo

by Daniele Oliveri

Italy

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2020

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47′

A young couple, Davide and Cecilia, are slowly returning to normality and beyond, after an illness that changed their lives.

Contatto

by Anna Chiara Sabatino

Italy

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2015

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56′

Martina, an Italian student dealing every day with her job and small family problems, hides herself in an online role playing game.

Tecchiaioli

by Alessio Salvini

Italy

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2019

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11’31”

The work of Tecchiaiolo is an ancient and dangerous job in the territory of Apuan Alps that consists in making safe the rocks before the marble is extracted.

Lupen, romanzo di un ladro reale

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2015

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61′

The incredible life of Renato Rinino, a gentleman who, unbeknownst to himself, robbed His Majesty Charles, Prince of Wales and England.

Eko

by Eleonora Gasparotto

Italy

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2016

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9′

A daughter’s journey searching for her father who left Italy for a faraway land, Africa.

Ogni giorno

by Martina Galiè

Italy

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2019

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16′

The story of one of the guests at the domestic violence shelter house.

Il Francesco di Palermo

by Antonio Turco

Italy

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2019

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20′

Biagio gives up his wealthy life to dedicate himself to people in need.

Burning tape

by Valerio Burli

Italy

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2016

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10′

The love story between David Bowie and Ambra Mattioli and how the White Duke saved the life of a teenager who had not found her place in the world yet.

Vita di quota

by Daniele Oliveri

Italy

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2017

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6′

A day at the Duca degli Abruzzi, the refuge that for more than twenty years has towered over Campo Imperatore plain, one of the most evocative Abruzzo landscapes.

Cosa faccio nella vita?

by Manuel De Pandis

• Fabio Fusillo

• Giovanni Sfarra

Italy

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2016

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26′

Three guys from Lecce’s suburbs dream about a money, excesses and fame life.

2020 quarantena a vent'anni

by Adriano Baldi

• Camilla Deidda

• Luca Draoli

• Gabriele Iannoli

• Marlon Sartore

• Chiara Stravato

Italy

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2020

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32′

In quarantine at twenty: home isolation for months during one of the most “exuberant” period in a person’s existence. What do you think? How do you spend your time?

In cammino

by Giovanni Soria

Italy

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2016

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34′

A documentary based on the story of how the presbyterial vocation is born and how it evolves.

Tamburo di cuore

by Jacopo Brucculeri

Italy

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2015

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84′

This reportage-film tells Mauro D’Alessandro’s story, a drummer and a music teacher, who has been involved in social works for several years.

La casa delle mamme

by Eva Bearzatti

• Giorgio Santise

Italy

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2016

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43′

Six strong women with a troubled past willing to change their way of living for their own children.

Mold on your sauce

by Fabio Fusillo

Italy

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2015

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14′

Mold On Your Sauce is a band from L’Aquila that plays to make people think and not dance. Its members are young but closely linked to their territory, in which they can still dream.

The place where we belong

by Daniele Oliveri

Italy

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2018

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19′

Communities of young people who live in remote areas, far from the cities, in deep contact with nature.

Terre alte

by Alessio Salvini

Italy

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2020

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22′

Living the mountain means joining an environment whose essence will take root in you as to never leave again.

Due terre in una

by Flaminio Muccio

• Chiara Napoli

Italy

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2016

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40′

A story about an ever changing Italy, made by other women and other men, people who come from different parts of the world.

Io ascolto

by Paolo Santamaria

• Valerio Burli

Italy

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2015

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38’12”

Gaetano De Luca is an experimental physicist who is interested of the subsoil, studying its history and monitoring its evolution. Years earlier, in L’Aquila city’s subsoil precisely, he noticed a particular anomaly.

Moderato Cantabile

by Paolo Santamaria

• Tobia Little

Italy

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2014

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25’40”

Conservatory is a magical place, where passions and dreams intertwine, where the sacred exchange between a teacher and a student livens gray and lifeless rooms up, in a constant emotional tension.

FILM

by Marco Pinnavaia

• music and story universe by Dardust

• Tobia Little

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