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- The panorama of human affairs encounters the "man with a movie camera". But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
- Luigi Ghirri, an internationally renowned Italian photographer, wrote regularly throughout his life. His photography is reflected in his writing, which is at the same time a poetic affirmation, an existential argument, a diary that questions the present times. Starting from his writings, the documentary will retrace the crucial stages of the photographer's life. It will be a journey to the places of the province, a study of lands, water, hills, infinite horizons. It will be a research on his photographic work, conceived not in terms of a single image, but as an alphabet in which each image exists only thanks to the others. The companions of this journey will be the artists Franco Guerzoni and Davide Benati, the art historian Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, the printer Arrigo Ghi, the photographer Gianni Leone, the musician Massimo Zamboni and finally the family, which represented for Ghirri the feeling of belonging to an ordinary but united community. Stefano Accorsi will give voice to Ghirri's texts.
- This documentary film looks into femicides in Italy, where one woman is murdered every three days. By focusing on cases that rocked the country, the film tries to understand the reasons behind the phenomenon.
- The strength of Islam is not in bombs and terrorism, but in its ability to convert people. The numbers of converts are steadily rising and the message of the Quran has also come to Naples, a great sea port that has always been open and sensitive to the changes of history. This is a city where a mixture of culture and religion can produce unexpected situations of change and metamorphosis.
- An emotional and philosophical immersion in that precious period of one's life which is the end of life, through one year of meetings and conversations between the author and the protagonist, a man terminally ill with ALS. A journey into the human soul where present merges with past and future becoming a landscape background for a dialogue about love, pain and the need for freedom.
- A progressive teacher tries to help four working class Palermo teenagers, during their last year at middle school.
- How to survive the city of tomorrow? An Italian reporter in Beijing, Alessandro lives with his child and wife, alienated by the megalopolis. As he experiences the works of emerging local artists, Alessandro discovers unexpected views on the city, enhancing his own. Myjing is a storytelling in progress, a diary of this experience offering a unique in-depth perspective on today's China.
- Reduced to a physical wreck after an abuse by the police, Paolo, a bull breeder from Brescia (Italy), with a past history as an Ultras member, fights for his damaged body, refusing to give up his quest for justice. Created over more than twelve years, the film is a prolonged act of resistance spent constantly observing the protagonist's tribulations to create a new identity for himself. This is the story of Paolo, who reaches upwards, stretching his body between earth and the skies.
- Young girls, born in different countries but grown up in Italy, face the no-recognition of their citizenship.
- A Tunisian musician, his Italian wife, and their marriage crisis. A trip to his bilad, his home town, for the first time with his children instinctively in search of his homeland and of his identity. Life of Marzouk is an intimate portrait of an attempt at integration which finds in love its only possible solution.
- Cricket, one of the most followed sports in the world but still little-known in Italy, is a unique point of view to look at integration.
- These are stories of 'frontier' priests in Naples, from its ancient historic centre to its deepest outskirts, of a Church working among the people, putting into practice the words of Pope Francis. These are stories of priests who have entirely dedicated their lives to the less fortunate; stories of a Church waiting only to be told.
- For more than 30 years the 'Madonna Assunta' state primary school of Naples has been engaged in its educational mission, never ceasing to question and explore the role of the public school system. Inspired by Célestin Freinet's 'pedagogy for the people' while also experimenting with other teaching methods and approaches, 'Madonna Assunta' has built its very own approach based on the elements of creative work and of learning through the body. The school was in danger of being closed down a few years ago but was saved thanks to the activism of parents, teachers and of ex-pupils, the documentary's director among them.
- At the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, ancient statuary is carefully prepared and restored to express all of its classical power.
- Our man is an opera singer with an athletic physique, a faraway gaze and something of a nineteenth century romantic air. He is a larger than life character with a thousand masks. He constantly travels between different continents, without a fixed abode or bank account. Sometimes a gigolo, sometimes a father and a family man, he considers himself an artist above all else. In Tajikistan he is a great artist of the people, in Italy he is known as an aspiring opera singer with an exotic Persian charm, in China as Sergio, the Italian artist. The film tells the story of this man and his solitude, which is paradoxically crowded with a host of women, children, singing teachers and his creditors.
- Independent cinema exhibitors in Paris let us in on a profession unknown to most of us. We enter their cinemas, we watch them introducing the film at the Saturday night screenings, choosing the posters, or simply standing outside the cinema, perhaps to lure punters...? They tell the story of how they became exhibitors, how a film theatre works and what are the obstacles they have to overcome to survive in the era of the commercial multiplex. These conversations reveal family histories, broken friendships, childhood dreams, happy encounters, passionate commitment. They all gravitate around one beating heart: an abiding love of cinema.
- A journey to the extreme boundaries of human communication at the discovery of a community of deaf-blind and sensory impaired people: a multilingual microcosm where verbal language is one of the codes and the least used, the rest passing through touch, presence and getting to know the other.
- The books of Vittorio Giardino, master of the graphic novel, explore the history of the 1900s. Today, the artist is working on the final chapter of his Jonas Fink trilogy, so it is the perfect moment to look back over this great master's work.