Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

Marcello is a young man who, beneath the clear-cut plans he has for his future and firm visions about the world, is still discovering himself. By his side there is his best friend Gioele, an unalloyed dreamer. For him, time seems to stop underneath the clouds of their childhood, while Marcello is ready to set off to the big city and start his adult life. During their last summer together, the two embark on an excursion to find the mythical "leap's waterfall", a journey that will prove revealing. Throughout the search for the waterfall, the two will discover themselves and each other truths.

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.

The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A boy leaves the house, his parents ignore him. After getting into bad circles, a friend betrays his trust. The whole city knows what he has done. He doesn't know if the next time he leaves the house he will come back.

Siblings Clara and Pietro aren't close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she's recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.

The story of a young nun who, one night on a deserted beach, meets an old fisherman who is desperate because of the poor catch. Suddenly, a miracle occurs, leading him to believe that she is the Virgin Mary, while she exploits the man's blind faith to leave her convent forever. It is a story that speaks first and foremost of faith in the broadest sense of the term, that is, believing in something at all costs, but also of the desire for revenge and emancipation.

Greta, a young adult, finds herself embarking on a special friendship with Caterina, her university colleague, until the obsession with her will lead to an inevitable breakup.

Monica and Domenico are a happy couple full of life: they laugh, travel, then get married. A premature birth stops everything. Fears, fragility, depression arise. But Ginevra, even if a wren, manages to grow. The camera guides us on her journey: she lives, and with her her parents. He grows, plays, creates. In his eyes, however, there is a secret, a widening fracture. No one sees her. In adolescence many questions, difficulties and pain. Only by retracing the past will the adult be able to give shape to the pain and find an answer.

A teenager disowns her parents while they are on vacation, but the reunion of her childhood shoes will lead her to meet her childhood self and see the world from a different perspective.

Short animation representing how death is processed in a small sardinian village.

What is perfection?

Mimmo Villari is 29 years old in 1975, lives in Calabria, has a dusty guitar in the attic and the sacred fire of music that once burned his stomach is now turning into embers. In that period the first experiences of pirate radio arose in Italy. Mimmo is thrilled by the rumors about it and wastes no time: he builds himself an FM transmitter and thus sets up Radio Perla del Tirreno, the first pirate radio station in Bagnara Calabra. The voices of the radio reflect on politics, philosophy, civic education, creating a discourse that is the portrait of a society and an era.

my first short film

Through the intertwined voices of three sex workers from Colombia, Chile, and Italy, this poetic and performative documentary unites their stories into a single poetic body, dissolving the boundaries of culture, history, and identity to reveal how the experiences of sex work are profoundly tied to the broader history of the female condition itself.

Two famous influencers, while visiting the location of their upcoming wedding, encounter a sinister priest who puts their relationship and their survival to the test.