
Burning Ghost
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day...
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day...
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...
On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes...
A unique 1960s documentary on the traditional dirge sung by women in Griko, an ancient dialect of Salento, so old that it originates from the ancient...
A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give...
Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that...
Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra,...
A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a...
"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people...
The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the...
This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological....
Roman township of San Basilio: Fabio, 7 years old, in Italian a "character", is assigned to a differential class. How the family reacts, what the...
An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini...
The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these young men spontaneously express their vitality,...
"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in...
Initial panorama of Brindisi, a city with a peasant tradition. The petrochemical, city within a city. Children in poor neighborhoods, workers'...
The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright...
Vietnam will be free is a chamber film that tells of a war, of memory that fades, of a challenge against the passing of time. Two shoeboxes full of...
The story of Cecilia Mangini, documentary maker, photographer and intellectual who told thirty years of Italy's history with her films.
An astonished crowd turns its face to the boldness of a young photographer in 1956, at the Puglia village festival.