Zelig – scuola di documentario, televisione e nuovi media

As winter takes over the European Arctic, it turns into an unrecognizable place, cold and dark. Throughout the polar night, the north feels removed from all human life, uninhabitable, just like the moon. And yet, it is home to people born in faraway lands. What has brought them here? What keeps them here, immersed in darkness?

Genova, Italy. Francesco, Luca and Raffaele are almost thirty years old and have a baggage of anxieties that they try to drown in alcohol and late-night outings.

Along an old country road, where an ancient legend of the sea, wolves, and men lingers, three generations of women come together to face a deep sadness. Something is changing: the time has come to remember buried dreams, mend broken ties, consult the tarot, free themselves from their fate and bring the old legend back to life.

What is home? What traces do we leave behind as human beings? In Bolzano, Stanze follows in the footsteps of a young man who once lived in two pillars beneath the highway. The mementos of a life and the bond between two people who never met, presented as a poetic essay.

Ali after being detained in a detention and repatriation center and forced into an apnea of torture, isolation and criminalization, tries to re-emerge from his nightmares.