Immigrant workers in 1965: from contemporary witness reports emerges the narrative of an Italian woman who becomes an “outlaw working body” in Switzerland. Poetic fragment of a humiliation.
A family film about the search for one’s biological mother, for roots, one’s identity. The trail leads to the Dolomite Alps, Brazil and even the bottom of the ocean.
A pupil and a teacher, alone in a bare classroom. On the surface this is about the girl’s hairdo. But what exactly is it that unfolds around the long pigtail: a power game, a showdown, or just a fantasy?
An expedition to the Syrian border, encounters with refugees, deserted soldiers, Internet activists. Blood, beatings, torture, executions. A harrowing border experience.
The story of a legendary book that was going to change the world: “The Limits of Growth”, the Club of Rome, its founders and what became of them and their ideas.
Assisted by young Mahmoud, the director looks from the distant Italian city of Padua to Tripoli – in search of her grandparents’ story.
The long struggle of a group of Italian workers for their factory: occupation, strike, and back-breaking civil war manoeuvres. A complex investigation between hot agitation and cold analysis.
From snappishness to shared smiles – the helpdesk for social tenants in Naples as a stage of life and joint emotional frontline against the multicoloured beast of bureaucracy.
The filmmaker follows Pierino, a pensioner and cinephile, over one calendar year. They meet for a shooting date in the latter’s flat every Thursday at 10.30 a.m. on the dot.
A space that can be everything. Or nothing. A four-minute essayistic stream of consciousness about the American choreographer Joanna Kotze – and pollution in the Mediterranean.
Coney Island Beach, Brooklyn. The maestros of pleasurable idling play handball and perform their story/ies. The real “Smoke”, complete with ghetto blaster and dribbling.
A polluted river, a broken transmitter mast, the fight against the Mafia – Pino, chain-smoking patron of a Sicilian local radio station, takes care of everything. A turbulent plea for independent journalism.
Fiorella and Bruno share a long marital history of fights and domestic violence. Now their daughter returns to her parental home – bringing a camera whose relentlessness must be faced.
A winter landscape in Spain, hunters are crossing the field, bare shrubs stand out against the sky. In her atmospheric animation Isabel Herguera gathers a dreamy company of humans and animals around the table, set to the melancholy sound of a guitar.
