Italy | 2023 | 83 min Conceived as a visual research project, even before being a documentary Sting Like A Bee is a journey whose main goal is to give voice to the communities of teenagers that populate often unknown situations, such as small villages in Central and Southern Italy. The spotlight is on a […]
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NESSUN POSTO AL MONDO
Italy | 2023 | 83 min Transhumance was added to the UNESCO world heritage list in 2019. It has been practised on the Cilento mountain Cervati for millennia, and yet institutions seem to obstruct the work of shepherds who have been taking their livestock for the pastures since time immemorial. According to a new local […]
SOUVENIRS OF WAR
Italy | 2023 | 75 min A group of uniformed men are playing softair in a wood. The simulated war actions take place where war happened for real, a few decades earlier, on the hills surrounding Sarajevo. Over twenty-five years after the end of the conflict in Bosnia, some survivors put up tourist activities. Several […]
DALLA PARTE SBAGLIATA
Italy | 2023 | 80 min A group of former classmates reunite after 40 years. They survived a tragic motorway accident in April 1983, when a bus carrying two classes from the Naples middle school Nicolardi on a school trip to Lake Garda crashed against a truck driving in the opposite direction in a tunnel […]
AGÀPE
Italy | 2023 | 60 min “I believe love is the only form of resistance to which people cling to while they are still there, waiting to arrive.” These are the words pronounced by one of the interviewees in this dry but throbbing documentary, an intimate weaving of stories told by those who emigrate to […]
VISTA MARE
Austria, Italy | 2023 | 77 min Documentary observing and exploring the ‘engine room’ of mass tourism in the northern Adriatic, particularly between Lignano, Jesolo and Riccione. From the winter “season”, in which legions of hard-working workers stockpile the precious sandy resources to protect them from storm surges, to the summer with the swarming of […]
TOXICILY
France, Italy | 2023 | 75 min ‘Better to die of cancer than of hunger’. This is the tragic slogan that hovers to the north of Syracuse, among the chimneys of that petrochemical pole that in seventy years has devastated one of Sicily’s most beautiful coastlines, creating a real health and environmental emergency. Built around […]
BLOOD
O Sangue Portugal | 1990 | 99 min Two brothers, a father burdened by anger and sorrow who abandons them, and an unrecognizable space, almost forsaken by man. Above everything, a secret that the two brothers carry around and will mark their life. The narrative of Pedro Costa’s ravishing debut revolves around all this. The […]
IN VANDA’S ROOM
No quarto da Vanda Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Italy | 2000 | 170 min Vanda Duarte returns, after Ossos, in the images of Pedro Costa. The second episode of a trilogy set in the Fontainhas neighbourhood, in the outskirts of Lisbon, No quarto da Vanda follows the daily life of a young woman who is a […]
WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?
Onde Jaz o Teu Sorriso? Portugal, France | 2001 | 104 min Pedro Costa filming Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet at work on the editing of their film Sicily!. We watch them discussing, we share the practice of a painstaking work on the images, movement, duration of the shots. While the couple of directors is […]
