AAMOD - Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico

Altrimenti Inventa is an archival documentary that addresses the lack of representation of North African populations who migrated to Italy before the 1990s. It attempts an experimental reinvention of the missing archive, starting with the director's family history and then moving towards a more collective dimension, questioning the themes of identity, memory, and their relationship with what we choose to preserve and why.

Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism" attempts to reconstruct a particular profile of the actor Gian Maria Volonté, the one concerning his political commitment, an aspect that is often neglected and ignored. A life spent on acting, but at the same time on politics, with the fixed idea of always wanting to change things and have his say, denouncing the abuses of power - as in the case of the anarchist Pinelli - and social inequalities. A character that can be defined to all intents and purposes as a fighter, a 'revolutionary in an actor's uniform', who exposed himself without trying to mediate his positions, sometimes extreme and as a true outsider.

A collective archive film, made with the contribution of unpublished images from some of the main archives of different territorial origins, between Lazio, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna. A journey through time and space: through small cameras, partisans, soldiers, priests and "ordinary citizens" felt the need to document for future memory - and, in some cases, at their own risk - History "as it happens", but also the long waits and daily life that intersect with the events of the two-year period 1943-45. And then the Liberation: the arrival of the Allies, the joy, the dances and finally it's time to get married.

A stream of archival footage reconstructs the dark face of humanity, revealing the chain of violence that binds our species to animals, to the Earth, and ultimately to itself. Abaddon is a visual requiem, an act of remembrance and denunciation where the specially composed sound guides the viewer through a deep and unsettling sensory experience.

A documentary on Rome from the late 19th century to the early third millennium (made almost entirely from archival and found footage)

A young author investigates the event that changed his family forever: the sudden death of his grandfather Nino. Returning to his hometown in Campania with Luisa, his grandmother and imaginary companion, he is guided in his search for the causes of this untimely demise by the footage Nino himself shot before his death and the fragmented memories of the five children he left behind.

Italy, 1974: citizens are called upon to repeal or confirm the law on divorce.

Why and how do we look at animals? Is it possible to use archive materials as if they were the involuntary testimony of a gaze? Archiving is, in some ways, the act of collecting gestures. Through the editing of fragments of documentaries, newsreels, and promotional videos, the film aims to make visible the complexity and stratification of a relationship that the more we consider natural and given, the more it reveals itself to be the product of economic and political—and therefore cultural—processes analogous to the human world.

With irony and lightness, the pair of authors intertwines their story with that of the Roman neighborhood of Torpignattara, between intimacy and collective memory, with a meta-narrative approach that layers different narrative dimensions around the themes of the nursery.

N. undergoes Compulsory Medical Treatment that kills him: it is the epilogue of a violent encounter with psychiatry, which fails to provide him with support and pathologizes his pain until he becomes yet another victim of the system. To say goodbye to life and accept his death, N. embarks on a journey through his memories, accompanied by the voice in his mind.

The ringing of a telephone breaks through the night, connecting two distant cities. At the ends of the line, two lovers share dreams, confide their fragilities, reveal fears and secrets, crafting a tale of desire and passion that takes shape in a visual, lyrical, and hypnotic poem.

Through archival materials, the film tells the story of the bond between a man, Vittorio, and a boat, the Riccardo I. Their relationship develops against the backdrop of the profound changes that affected the Adriatic Sea and its coastlines in the twentieth century, marking the end of the ancient civilization of sailing. As a child, Vittorio was a cabin boy on his father's boat; in old age, he feels the need to preserve the world of his childhood. With stubborn determination, he decides to single-handedly restore the Riccardo I, the last vessel of its kind, dedicating himself to this endeavor until his death.

The "1968" movement in Italy and around the world represents an extremely complex and nuanced event. The curator attempts to unravel some of the main threads of an intricate web of events, figures, processes, and cultures. From the first signs of the new youth movement in 1966 to 1969, the narrative unfolds non-chronologically, exploring emotion as well as historical reconstruction.

After many years, the hitman has the opportunity to see Marco, his best friend, again. This time, however, he has orders to kill him. He hasn't seen him since the years of Italian liberation, but it seems as if they have always been together. They are two sides of the same nation, one looking to the future, the other to the past. But the past re-emerges from the shadows, determined to drag the future with it.

“Words are the only instruments I have”, says Aslı Erdoğan in this powerful audiovisual collage. The writer, physicist and human rights activist who lives in exile in Berlin writes against the disappearance and loss of her own language. As a former political prisoner in Turkey, she knows only too well what autocratic violence and oppression intend: to silence people.

May 15, 1948, is the date of the founding of the State of Israel on more than half of the territory of historic Palestine, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. But for Palestinians, that day means NAKBA - catastrophe: the forced expulsion, through the use of violence and weapons, of over 800,000 people, the destruction of 600 villages and homes in the cities of Haifa, Jaffa, and others. This film aims to commemorate this date and the ongoing Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories, which continues to this day. All this in disregard of the plan to partition Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, voted by the United Nations in 1947. A great injustice that has now lasted for 72 years.