Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio...

Short film, mystery, by Federico Mattioni, Italy, 2016.
The nightmare of an unrecognizable town. A young man enters a dimension that belongs to him but of which he does not want to know anything and tries to get out of it, hindered by the presence of some spirits. Through a series of hallucinatio...

Short film, fantasy, by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga, Italy, 2020.
A deaf homeless man manages to save a girl from the clutches of a rapist. Shocked and moved, the girl is very grateful to the man and she would like to repay. The homeless man wants nothing in return, until a pair of magn...

Documentary, by Fabio Serpa, Italy, 2020.
Calabria, late 1980s and first half of the 1990s. Cracolice, a seaside village in the Tyrrhenian Sea, is sadly known in the news for an event that broke out in the early 90s, never denied or confirmed: following the landing of the famous "ships of poisons...

Short film, drama, by Flavio Nani, Italy, 2021.
In the near future, new technology makes us even more alienated and hyper-connected. Marco, crushed by a boring and monotonous life, seeks his place in the world. When he meets Nico at a bar counter, he thinks he has finally found him. But it will e...

Documentary, by Marcos Altuve, Spain, 2020.
The biodiversity crisis is one of the most serious problems on the planet. To stop the processes of extinction of the species, urgent diagnoses are needed. One such endangered species is the Moorish tortoise in Morocco. But quickly determining the prese...

Short film, drama, by Ernesto M. Censori, Italy, 2020.
Ninnaò tackles the theme of milk mothers in a direct and raw way, highlighting in an original way the relationships that are established between two women who will end up competing for the baby. You will win that you will be able to take adva...

Documentary, by Jean Vigo, France, 1930.
With an old used movie camera bought with the money loaned by his wife's father, Jean Vigo shoots a documentary about Nice. Meeting Boris Kaufman changes the French director's initial project, which will be influenced by Dziga Vertov's operator. The nature...

Documentary, by Jean Vigo, 1931, France.
Documentary on the French swimmer Jean Taris, specialized in freestyle, swimming champion in France in 1929. Commissioned to Jean Vigo by the sports editorial team of a French news bulletin of Gaumont, the director uses commissioned work to experiment with...

Comedy, by Jean Vigo, France, 1933.
The holidays are over and it's time for the kids to return to the terrible boarding school, run by obtuse and conformist tutors, unable to encourage the growth of any spirit of freedom and creativity. The only thing these austere professors are capable of is as...

Sci-fi, by Mahbub Islam Raftaar, Bangladesh, 2021.
Earth was destroyed due to famine, war, starvation and human devastation, but some people who remained in space survived and later formed a colony called "Emperian". Years later they have discovered a way to go back in time. Therefore, they decid...

Comedy, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1963
Simón, a long-bearded holy man, lives on a column in the middle of the desert, almost in total fasting. People worship him as a Messiah. He performs miracles, undergoes temptations from Satan, who torments him under the guise of a handsome woman. A series of g...

Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2011.
Freely adapted from "The Strange Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe: a man on his deathbed, is mesmerized (a kind of hypnosis), remaining suspended between life and death until ...

LANGUAGE: Italian
SUBTITLES: English

Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
In the near future, Europe and USA are united in a "Democratic Federation": the only way to become a member of this federation is to attend the TV show "Tao" and to fight against other competitors for the green card.

Food for thought
Tao means "the w...

Short film, mystery, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
Lumi is a ten year old child with no friends, who lives with her grandmother tele-dependent: since feeling lonely, she creates an imaginary friend in her shadow... Freely adapted from "Shadow" by Edgar Allan Poe.

LANGUAGE: English
SUBTITLES: Italian

Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
Apathy: Lockdown 2020. A quarantined writer is facing a creative block. And so the Muse is stuck in his mental fears. The fears come from the economic and social instability that lockdown had ran over his face. A tribute to all the artists in the world ...

Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
A quarantined writer (who can no longer write) seems to accept the government measures, even if they deprive him of his freedom, privacy, strenght, joy and, most of all, his job. So it happens that at some point he can't breathe anymore. Strange sensati...

Short film, comedy, by Alice Von Gwinner, Germany, 2017.
42nd Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt / 49th Nashville Film festival. The length of their dining table and the unreachable salad bowl in the center has become a symbol of their slowly freezing relationship. Today the time has finally come to c...

Short movie, thriller, by Fabio Giovinazzo, Italy, 2018.
"12 cm heels" is a medium-lenght thriller movie directed by Fabio Giovinazzo where a savage murder catered increasingly to the vogue for the fanciful and the bizarre.

LANGUAGE: italian
SUBTITLES: english

Short film, by M. Menegazzo, M. Pernisa, Italy, 2017.
Every year, the last week of October, between Saturday and Sunday, the transition from summer to solar time takes place, the antechamber of the winter season. Before moving the hands back one hour and feeling the approach of darkness, someone ...

Short movie, music, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2018.
“Todosentimento” as well as revealing a piece of music of the highest quality, contributes to the knowledge of one of the most felt artistic relations of Italian-Brazilian language, Maria Pia De Vito - Chico Buarque. The protagonist is a po...

Short movie, music, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2017.
It is the story of an undefined love, although also a story striving to exorcize its end, both playfully and ironically, where – finally – “the art of the encounter” prevails. It is an embracing of hands, like Angelo Cariello and Valentina ...

Short movie, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2016.
A path for music and images suspended between narration and experimentation, technology and tribalism. “Ballad of hypochondria (or Vibrio in love)” primarily focuses on symbolic work on the color scheme, materialize in the form of photographic mas...

Documentary, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy, 2011.
Video on paper is a voyage into the imagination of Perino & Vele in search of the creative impulses which spark the production of these two artists – more of a prelude to their work than a presentation. Three authors, artist-director Antonello Mat...