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- Picnic is an on the road family drama. A story of love, devotion and compassion that narrates the journey of an adult woman and an eight year old girl towards a mysterious destination. Like all road movies it's not about where you are going, but how you get there. The plot rotates around the meaning of existence and the way single existences are relentlessly tied to one another.
- A film about a group of compassionate doctors who struggle to start and operate basic hospital facilities in wartorn Afghanistan.
- Follows the efforts of aid workers (from the human rights group Emergency) to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.
- "I was born traveling. My first memories are connected to the scent of new places. Luggage just opened, mothballs, shoe polish and the particular scent that permeated my mother's dresses." The life experiences, and travel memoirs of one of the most fascinating witnesses of the XX century: Dacia Maraini, one of Italy's most famous writers, arguably the most translated Italian author in the world. This film is an intimate diary, narrated through unseen photos and film clips, revisiting her memories of legendary journeys around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and her close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. "During our journeys Alberto used to write articles for magazines, I would jot down notes for my novels and Pier Paolo scouted for movie locations. A journey back through Dacia Maraini's past, as well as a gripping portrait of the XX century shown through the historical events she lived through first hand that would deeply influence her work and artistic path. "I travel a lot so as to surpass the temptation of settling into a routine. Routine shortens the time we have , travel enlarges it."
- September - December 2012. Matteo Renzi, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, rushes through all the 110 Italian provinces in a white camper, to give speeches with a touch of American-style campaigning while running in the primaries that will decide who will lead Italy's Democratic Party in national elections of 2013. "Primaries, Italian Style" is a cinema verité behind-the-scenes account of the candidate's campaign, shot with unprecedented access.
- Sanpeet Petnonnoi is a small, beautiful, unblemished, bronzed boy of seven years of age. As is not uncommon in the poor region of northeast Thailand - the 'Golden Triangle' - where he grows up, he makes a contribution to the housekeeping money. Sanpeet earns an income, and like him many other boys of his age, by kickboxing. The Thai government turns a blind eye to the matches in improvised boxing venues. Kickboxing was encouraged as a way of hardening young people against the temptations of opium and heroin, drugs that are produced and consumed in large quantities in this area. But the sport is pervaded by the odour of another addiction: gambling. The lower the weight of a boxer, the higher the stakes; this makes Sanpeet, with his sixteen kilos, an interesting opponent.
- On September 10th 2000 in Soverato, a seaside town in Calabria, a huge mass of water hit a camping that hosted a group of disabled people on holiday. The tsunami-like wave caught them during their sleep, causing thirteen victims. The short film reenacts those tragic events, alternating archive footage with testimonies of survivors and people who risked their lives in the rescue operations.
- A portrait of Italian actor Leopoldo Trieste, who's played in over a hundred-seventy movies, among others, by Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Elio Petri, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore.