Shpresa is a native of Kosovo. She’s 26 years old and has 5 children. This is the first time she’s ever been outside her country. Shpetim, her youngest son, has a serious heart problem. His only hope lies in a hospital in Milano, Italy. While his mother awaits his release from the hospital by herself, her husband from Kosovo demands she return home.
Facebook's "Adorno changed my Life" is a documentary about our hyper-connected isolation in social networks, about self-portrayal in the midst of contradictions: Where names are tags, words are links and none of the interfaces are innocent.
Brindisi, Italy. A focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what’s left of the past and what lies in store for the future. Four characters from four different generations give their versions of life in this Mediterranean metropolis. Nanda, Rino, Salvatore and, Andrea unveil love, prison, the past and hope in Marlboro City.
A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water, but hundreds of thousands of birds. For a period of ten years, only two guards may live on Guañape Sur. In the eleventh year though, hundreds of workers arrive for the harvest of the birds' excrement.
Welcome to Forte Prenestino, an occupied Centro Sociale in Rome. Behold the thick stone walls. And the hallways, courtyards, trees, sculptures, garbage, people, dogs, children, toys, generators, posters, paint cans, plates of pasta. The sky is portioned off in squares or infinity 8s. Rome lies beyond, but cannot be heard, except for the swallows. Spring has come.
"Kids need a father just as much as they need a mother." Two fathers recount the frustration of their new roles as "ATM / weekend dads". A documentary film about love, loss and solitude.
A film documenting a year of life of a couple living in the mountains leading a particular life, surrounded by nature and governed by its cycles Hube and Irene prepare for the long winter, always with the hope of the spring returning.
Architecture of the unfinished: A journey through Italy's modern-day ruins. A foray into the symbols of an age uncertain about its future and the people who re-invented these paradoxical products of political corruption.