Italy

by Alessandro Dordoni

Based on the memoirs of 20-year-old Italian partisan Lino Dordoni, Fischia il Vento (The Wind Whistles) traces the events that occurred during The Battle of Monticello, Northern Italy, on April 16th, 1945, when 450 SS soldiers executed a surprise attack at dawn against roughly 25 Partisan resistance fighters located inside the castle of Monticello. Stationed in an abandoned stable nearby and suddenly awoken by the echo of the battle raging at the castle, Lino and his squad set out on a journey to aid their comrades as fast as they can.

• Drama

by Massimo Montigiani

Those who escape war and poverty looking for a brighter future deserve to be welcomed with open arms.

• Musical
• Family
• Adventure

by Massimo Ottoni

During WWI a group of Austrian soldiers on the Italian front find a piano in a ruin. The instrument catalyse most human feelings but the meaningless barbarity they try to forget is always ready to burst.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental

by Silvia Bassoli, Maria Virginia Moratti, Giacomo D’Ancona

The friendship between two children raised together in the Po Valley countryside is lost when one has to move with his family. They will meet again as adults, thanks to the eel, a call from the dephts of the earth. The film is dedicated to the land and the people of the Emilia region, shaken by the earthquake in 2012.

• Drama
• Coming-of-Age
• Tragedy

by Dadomani Studio

The Box and Dox spend their entire lives sitting on the couch in front of the TV. Both are afflicted with a very powerful addiction to television. This addiction plays out in their behaviours and reactions, which are polar opposites of each other. The Box uses the TV to fall asleep, while Dox is a victim of his unstoppable instinct of channel surfing. They both need TV, albeit for different purposes.

• Horror
• Comedy
• Experimental

by Signe Baumane

It is about sex from a woman’s point of view. Explicit and educational.

• Comedy
• Experimental
• Abstract

by Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri

A boy looks for his cat along a river. He will not find it. He’s about to die, and has moved away from everything to find intimacy. The child arrives at the doors of time, where the dead disappear, and the living let them go. The child is afraid, he enters a forest of symbols and memories. He grows up. His illusions of children dissolve and mingle with the landscape.

Single: Make Luv.

• Music video

by Francesca Colombara

Two thieves are escaping. They ride a giant camel in a magical desert. Through a flashback, we see the two girls stealing a birdcage full of flying mushrooms. The two thieves experiment a psychedelic trip, and after that they stop in the middle of the desert and open the cage. The thieves free the mushrooms, who fly far away across the universe.

• Music Videos
• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Roberto Catani

Through a journey back in memory, a woman and a man retrace the more important moments of their love story.

• Drama
• Abstract
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Leo Černic

Pentola is a small middle-aged man who leaves his wife Titti for Batman.

• Comedy

by Gianluca Maruotti

A music video.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Music Videos
• Abstract
• Experimental

by Michele Bernardi

Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by members of the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp.

• Drama
• Tragedy
• Experimental
• Non-narrative

by Gianluigi Toccafondo

At the heart of the sea bed, between rocks and corals, primitive algae undulate, lulled by the muffled and roaring sound of the currents. Up there, on the surface of the water, something extraordinary has just appeared: a voice. So soft and seductive that it is unlike anything we have ever heard before.

by Daphna Awadish

Personal stories fuse together as man and bird in a cinematic commentary on immigration.

• Documentary
• Drama
• Family

by Massimo Ottoni, Linda Kelvink

A man fights against a regime where all traces of humanity have been lost, but his act of rebellion seems like it’s framed within the System. He can’t do anything other than play his role in the pointless power game.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Tragedy

by Simone Cirillo

The short film revisits the theme of the sorcerer’s apprentice: a curious and clumsy kid messes around with the botanical experiments of a lanky Master Cervo.

• Fantasy
• Comedy
• Adventure

by Sara Priorelli

Good Resolutions talks about some weaknesses of human beings.The main characters are the tenants of a building who are busy satisfying their desires, often ridiculous. The different stories are connected by the tragicomic nature of the characters themselves.

by Silvia Palermo, Irene Tedeschi, collective of authors

Film to think about borders and freedom. Children of Calini Primary School taking inspiration from a Piet Mondrian painting invented the story.

• Family
• Experimental

by Gianluca Maruotti

A short film.

• Drama
• Experimental
• Non-narrative