Short film, by Antonio Vladimir Marino, Italy, 2007.
Two friends after ten years meet by chance in the bathroom of a luxury hotel. They had broken up in an Academy of Dramatic Art, they wanted to limestone the scenes of Italian theaters and follow in the footsteps of Vittorio Gassmann, but life t...

Short film, comedy, by Sergei Eisenstein, 1923, Soviet Union.
The film consists of 3 parts. The opening scene begins with a shot of Eisenstein taking off his cap and bowing in front of the poster revealing the stage play, followed by a shot of Grigori Aleksandrov as Glumov, in front of the same p...

Comedy, by Michele Fratucello, Italy, 2020.
Diego and Federica, Roberto and Laura are two pairs of friends who face the period of the Covid lockdown in the opposite way. The former calmly accept the limitations of freedom they find themselves living in, Roberto and Laura suffer more from the cloi...

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
What do they share, apart from 'B', Beckett, Buster Keaton, Bene and Bergman? They all lead a wide-eyed actress to perceive their own view. The way they shift from physical to metaphysical appearance.

Short film, by Antonello Matarazzo, Italy.
Despite its multiculturalist nature, America is paradoxically the first country in the world of the modern era to highlight the distance between itself and the rest of the world and to manage its problems in an openly conflicting manner.

Short film, action, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2003.
Danilo Conti, named 'the kindest man in the world', receives as a reward a very powerful bomb that is attached to his wrist. He only has eight minutes to get to a point in the city and defuse the bomb before it goes off. Incredulous, he starts h...

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...