Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation...

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his...

Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making...

Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.

The director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.

The feast of St. Peter in a country village. The priest admonishes his parishioners to confess and be free of avarice, but after mass he invites...

Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death.

Eternal and cyclical movement. A young woman crosses the seasons. With his 8mm Paillard, Piavoli starts his poetic journey with a drawn-out gaze on...

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its...

Young peasants come together to dance in the evening. The girls arrive by bike; the boys get ready for them by doing their hair. The less shy...

The short registers a sports spectacle of great importance (probably of soccer). We never see the spectacle itself but the people watching and...

A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life.

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.

Emigrants from Calabria arrive at Milan station with their luggage, to make their home there or set off for other destinations. A man falls asleep...

A forerunner of Al Primo Soffio Di Vento. Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a...

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This...

Throughout the seasons, the work of a farmer in his vegetable garden, from the seed to its fruit.