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Browse 15 movies from Giungla Collective
In a future without imagination, storytelling means recycling the past. A vintage tutorial, narrated by an AI, guides creators in combining fragments of old narratives, revealing that creation is construction, not invention.
May 2025
During a cognitive interview, a professor recalls an old AI he designed and finds himself lost in fragments of memory, narrative threads, and thoughts he can no longer tell apart from the machine’s.
Oct 2025
The Talafì is a fishing boat that cannot fish. A place crushed by the unstoppable noise of its engine, of its work. On board, three sailors seek space for their desires. But on the Talafì, humanity does not exist, there are only those who abuse and those who are abused.
Oct 2022
Dec 2022
A random apparition leads to the aquatic ape theory, an unproven evolutionary hypothesis that imagines an amphibious origin of humans. The idea of a certain origin is called into question, and if we cannot verify the past, on what do we base the future?
May 2026
Apr 2024
Francesco and Maurizio, two young gardeners with no ambitions and an uncertain future, are the only witnesses to an apparently unmotivated murder that disrupts the social dynamics of an otherwise respectable City.
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Feb 2019
On the way to the supermarket, a family discusses the history of the old zoo in Poznan, Poland, and Darwin’s absurd fear of peacocks.
The frog and the snake, after a long journey, had finally reached the Fountain of Youth.
Oct 2024
The 100-year history of the Sambenedettese Club - a football team from a small town on the Adriatic Sea that, in the 1970s, came close to reaching Serie A. The sports narrative intertwines with the political one, telling, from the unique perspective of the Italian province.
May 2024
Feb 2023
Sep 2022
Apr 2020