An  urgent  portrait  of  the  people  of  the  Zanskar  valley  and  their  struggle  to  survive  extreme  living  conditions aggravated by climate change.

The Ice Builders

A bronze foundry in Milan. Hands that shape, knead, model, mix, repair, sand and polish. Work carried out on matter and fire, out of which the bronze figure of a dog by artist Velasco Vitali will ultimately emerge. The Fonderia Artistica Battaglia was founded in 1913 and is one of the oldest and most important artistic foundries in Italy. It produces bronze sculptures using lost-wax casting, a founding technique that dates back to the 4th century BC and is still done in much the same way today. The film draws on a purely observational mode. It is the hands and their gestures that link us to the world and create a connecting line from the past to the present.

Hand Gestures

A portrait/self-portrait of Gillo Dorfles as seen through his favourite objects: in an intimate, gentle narrative, hanging inside a home, his home – a space both real and symbolic, mental and physical. GilloDorfles talks about the things he holds most dear, a mix of historical and artistic culture and everyday objects, family mementoes and original sculptures, memories and insights. It is an attempt to give shape, image and sound to the monumental intangibility of Gillo Dorfles’ thoughts, memories and desires.

Gillo Dorfles. Objects/Characters

A short documentary, inspired by Eduardo Galeano: a short trip in rhythms, sounds and atmospheres in a cuban cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.

Memoria del fuego

documentary portrait of a 88years old artist in his studio

Giancarlo Vitali/TIME OUT

La Paz del Futuro is a personal, political and artistic journey, which follows the figure of Janet Pavone, an Italian-American muralist who joined the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Almost 25 years after its completion, Janet is invited to return to Nicaragua and together with Dan Hopewell to restore their most monumental work: the mural "La Paz del futuro" in Quiabù, in the military base of Estelì. Through extensive use of archival materials and new footage, the film paints a portrait in motion (in space and time) of a woman who observes what remains of a series of murals and a revolution, proposing a reflection on public art, politics and the passage of time: a look from the future to the past, and vice versa.

La Paz del futuro

La vocazione di perdersi

In an unspecified future, in unspecified woods, some solar-powered camera devices, left by documentary filmmakers, are activated with motion sensors. The documentary filmmakers are dead, almost all humans on the planet are dead, and the animals are alive. A man, now facing the end of his species, sends a voicemail to his best friend for the first time. The camera devices keep rolling.