The story of the opening cycle of a summer swimming pool, a place that lives only three months a year and where memories, habits, hopes and illusions of those who occasionally attend, who feel it as a place of sociality and a chance of performing or simply to escape from reality. Chronicles of more or less casual encounters of summer in a suburban neighborhood, the right time to try to get away from problems and thoughts. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Léa Delbès, Federico Frefel, Greta Nani, Michele Silva Screenplay: Léa Delbès, Federico Frefel, Greta Nani, Michele Silva Production: Civica Scuola…

An experimental research documentary shot during the filmmakers’ stay in Bejing reflecting on the feelings, claims and rights of people living in a foreign country through a series of testimonies of young migrants who moved to China. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Production: Video al Chilo Editing: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Cinematography: Manuela Bockstaele, Erica Piccatto Running time: 31’ Country: Italy Year: 2016 Contacts: https://www.videoalchilo.com/ “After an initial amazement about the difference of the place, the narrative voice begins to wonder how to integrate a society so different from our own. Realizing that admitting a certain ignorance…

A video camera bursts into a migrant reception center  in Sardinia, an island in the center of the Mediterranean sea. Toni has arrived from Libya on a boat, where people  share friendships and destinies, and risk to  loose  life while searching for freedom.  In another scene you can see people walking in a wood, and stopping in a hut, an emotional fragment of a passage through the frontiers. But everyone’s fate is to continue to float "On the same boat", waiting to be recognized by the delivery of a document that grants the dignity of self-determination and  freedom to move…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the famous Belgian inventor and industrial chemist Ernest Solvay got interested in building one of his factory  in a seaside area of the Tuscan coast, near the city of Livorno. The local availability of the raw materials needed to make soda induced Solvay to build there a large factory. Based on the model of other European cities, Solvay decided to implement a large operation that was not only industrial but also urban and architectural. The result was an extraordinary company town, Rosignano Solvay, designed for the needs of the company, of the Solvay…

The trial of the highest Nazi leaders in Nuremberg at the end of the Second World War was not enough to annihilate totalitarian ideologies and their mechanisms of destruction, from Latin America to Cambodia, from the former Yugoslavia to Rwanda, where in  the last sixty years crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide have been committed. Against this murderous craziness, stand the international Right and Court of justices that fight against impunity and to prevent new tragedies. Among the international legal personalities interviewed in the documentary,  Baltasar Garzon, famous for having "revolutionized" the international justice by a ruling against Chilean…

The documentary narrates the personal stories of Alex, Aurelia and Mihai which after many years go on a journey into their past - linked with the refugee camp of Latina (a little city near Rome) - which housed about 80 thousands refugees escaping from East Europe since 1956 (invasion of Hungary) until 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall and closure of the camp). After a few months in the camp, they went to Canada, Australia and the United States. The Director, whose family hosted political refugees fled from Eastern Europe, starts doing research in the archives, finding many papers…

A delicate plot of simple stories and echoes through which nature is revealed: the Volturno. A tale of images across the river that relentlessly flows between Molise and Campania; among the forgotten provinces, fragile skeleton of difficult to penetrate and voiceless territories; among the few men and the many creatures that populate and still interact with the river that has always represented life itself. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Ylenia Azzurretti Production: Arci Movie,  Parallelo 41 produzioni with Bronx Film. Film sviluppato nell’Atelier di cinema del reale diretto da Leonardo Di Costanzo con il coordinamento di Antonella Di Nocera FILMAP –…

A documentary to tell the “Keep Clean and Run” initiative #pulisciecorri, a trip to the South of Italy between beauties and rubbish. It’s along 350km of breathtaking views from the Vesuvius to the Etna, that Roberto Cavallo, president of AICA, – International association for environmental communication, is running, along with numerous other nationally renowned sports testimonials, taking roads and paths, to carry out cleaning actions of abandoned waste along the path. His running wants to deliver a strong message to the local inhabitants and to the spectators  to take care of the beauty of the nature keeping it clean and…

Akampene is a tiny Ugandan island where girls who got pregnant, breaking the taboo of premarital sex, were abandoned and died because of starvation or drowning. The documentary is  guided by the voice of the island itself, that leads to the finding of Mauda, Jenerasi and Grace. Saved by poor men with no dowry for marriage, the three women will reveal the secret story of Akampene. SCHEDA TECNICA Directed by: Laura Cini Screenplay: Laura Cini Production: Ombre elettriche Producers: Sirio Zabberoni, Laura Cini Editing: Laura Cini Cinematography: Philine Von Düszeln e David Becheri With the support of: Mibact International sales:…

1964 is the year of the opening of the Gran San Bernardo tunnel, of the launch of the Fiat Seicento car,  of the first topless on the Italian beaches, but also of the triumph of Gigliola Cinquetti at the famous Sanremo Festival with the song "Non ho l’età" (I'm too young..) It is in this framework  that we tell four stories of Italian migration that took place in Switzerland during the years of the Italian economic boom, whose fil rouge are some letters written to Gigliola in which the migrants express their passion for Gigliola and for her song "Non…