CSC – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

A picturesque village on the Italian coast squeezed between the mountains, the sea and the expensive over-tourism, like every year is taken by storm by millions of tourists, but this summer everything will not go as planned…

Thanks to a new technology, a state center makes it possible to interact with a deceased person. Diego oversees the encounters betwen the dead and the living.

experimental documentary

Venice, 1563. Asher and Aaron are two inseparable Jewish teenagers, fleeing the massacres of Central Europe. Injured, they reach the House of the Catechumens, where “infidels” who wish to convert are cared for, fed, educated, and integrated into Christian society... but once inside, there is no turning back.

"U sugghiu" an amphibious and anthropomorphic creature that inhabits the marine and marshy waters around Catania, was last sighted in 2013. A monster, the offspring of a demon and an extinct creature, it is said to feed on human flesh. It is ancient, shapeless, constantly remodeling itself to elude the gaze. Mythology and science merge with an atmosphere of foreboding in the encounter between humanity and otherness.

An old man begging and a young man suffocated by boredom share a suspended time. When the film is invaded by scratches, the story is shattered. The images rebel, take control, and radically transform the narrative. The focus shifts from the human to the very material of the film.

When a love ends, what's left? A kumquat. A boy's thoughts fill an empty house with tenderness and nostalgia.

On holiday, the peaceful atmosphere of a Moroccan family is suddenly shattered by a shocking event: Hassan molests his 12-year-old cousin in secret. After the incident comes to light, the adults are faced with a difficult dilemma: preserve the family or confront the uncomfortable situation. Getting through unscathed does not seem to be an option.

An archive of personal photos and a voiceover tell the story of the dissipation of memory after the loss of sight.

A boy, alone in his room, watches archive videos and falls obsessively in love with the girl trapped in them, like an insect locked in a cage to be observed.

A colony of children seek liberation from the tyranny of the adult world's gaze.

What is an actor willing to go through in order to break out of the character that has been imposed on him?

It's summer and Silvia confides her intimate secrets to her diary. On the beach, under the hot sun, her body is exposed, vulnerable, and at the same time the object of a desire that is still unknown. Sweat, skin, and glances mingle in a game of curiosity and fear, where every little gesture seems to carry weight. Silvia feels she is completely abandoning her childhood and is afraid of growing up. How does one give their first kiss?