Vito Martinelli

Born at the turn of the century in a village's butcher shop, Jeanne Lavaur dreams of becoming a countess. Inspired by the fearless Céleste and guided by her love for Guillaume de Barante, Jeanne’s journey carries her from the vibrant Paris of the Golden Twenties through the turmoil of two world wars. As her life intertwines with the great upheavals of the 20th century, she rises as a fiercely free woman, determined to never let anyone else define who she is meant to be.

A picturesque village on the Italian coast squeezed between the mountains, the sea and the expensive over-tourism, like every year is taken by storm by millions of tourists, but this summer everything will not go as planned…

Art documentary about the Accademia Carrara gallery, which reopened in 2015 after seven years of extensive restoration.

A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).

A journey into the pre-adolescent world to recount the year of Covid. A portrait of Italy seen through the eyes of boys and girls aged between 10 and 14. The virus, quarantine, home schooling, distant friends, suspended activities, the new normal. The dreams, fears, and fantasies of young people during the pandemic...

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.

A journey to three remote observatories in three different continents (Chile, Canary Islands, South Africa) in search for our place in the cosmos. In nearby villages, astonishing humans share the same vulnerability and longing for life.

An immersive exploration of the incarceration spaces, inside the Turin prison. The film also captures the reactions of few inmates, while they watch scenes from life outside of prison, through VR headsets.

Georgia, Lorena, Elena, and Jessica are four different women who all faced marginalization and didn't turn away. They stayed where they felt they belonged.

Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his true intentions as she and Francesca become embroiled in a dangerous game of moral and sexual discovery.

Stop-motion short by Massimo Ottoni. Follows the story of some soldiers during the Great War in an Austrian trench on the Italian front.

"One evening, without any particular expectations, I went to the Lavanderia a Vapore theatre in Collegno, headquarters of the Balletto Teatro di Torino, directed by Loredana Furno, and I saw Sexxx, the ballet by Matteo Levaggi. I’m not a fan of modern dance, but I think this is why my fascination that evening was sincere and convinced. Above all, I was struck by the way the choreographer was able to take the explicit gestures and movements of sexual communication and transform them into the language of dance. And since body language is one of the topics I have been interested in filming since that ‘scandalous’ Guardami, I was already sufficiently motivated to transform the ballet into a movie." - Davide Ferrario

What was it like, before the birth of the universe? Does reality exists just because we are able to perceive it ? A girl tries to answer the big questions.

An Italian documentary about No Tav movement.

The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, truth and artifice, and between documentary and drama, Gaglianone has created a film within a film. You see the apparent artifice of Gaglianone’s crew using professionals, including the noted film actor Valerio Mastandrea as the teacher, interlinked with ‘real’ immigrant protagonists, studying the language to improve their chances of employment and of gaining a permanent residence permit. Thus in the course of the lessons there is simultaneously the painful and upsetting relation of the students’ personal stories but also humour, as they interact and share their humanity, bridging cultural differences, united in their striving to make a better life for themselves. (Source: LFF programme)

A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.