Matterhorn Circus
After 150 million years of silence, the Matterhorn speaks. The mountain is concerned. The devotion to it has reached excessive proportions. Those who work hard around it are so agitated that they threaten not only their existence, but also its own. Manuel von Stürler, Swiss-French filmmaker, born 1968 in Lausanne. Winner of awards at international […]
Segnali di vita
In Lignan, a village of a few souls in the Saint-Barthelemy Valley in the Aosta Valley, an Astronomical Observatory scrutinises the skies every night. Like a bell tower or a lighthouse, the large telescope marks the time of the small mountain community. In the autumn, astrophysicist Paolo Calcidese moved into the facility as its sole […]
Fiore mio
Paolo Cognetti returns to his passion for documentary filmmaking to tell the story of Monte Rosa, exploring its connections with human and animal life. Fiore mio follows Paolo’s walks and his encounters with people of different ages and backgrounds such as Mia, Sete, Remigio, Marta, Arturo and Corinne, who are united by their love for […]
Courma et Courmayeur
Courma and Courmayeur. Two diametrically opposed places. Some people know only one and completely ignore the existence of the other. The calm of the town against the rhythms of the city. Their alternation and meeting. Elettra Gallone, director from Milan, graduated in Media Design and Multimedia Arts at NABA in Milan in 2016. She delved […]
Il bel sogno
For about a century, the Alps have been the scene of a staging of the modern dream. Architecture is the protagonist of the narrative as a direct expression of the relationship between man and land. Through the careful and silent observation of modern trades in the Alps, the story of the great changes and impressive […]
La méchanique des choses
It all starts with:A broken father and his daughter who dreams of ‘fixing’ him.A cat who falls from the 8th floor and becomes a paraplegic.A medical experiment involving 12 paralysed people in China.A car accident in Italy.This is how La Mécanique des Choses brought it all together in a crazy collective adventure to try to […]
Fronte interno
Milan, Aosta, Turin, Palermo: four cities, four chapters of a journey, in the company of a war correspondent, in search of the open fronts in their own country. The school, an institution that struggles to produce an idea of the future; the failure of a grandiose industrial project; islands of well-being that discover with amazement […]
Les îles de Brissogne
In a motorway area in northern Italy, Aurora, an 18-year-old girl prostitutes herself at night inside parked trucks. Her brother Angiolino acts as her lookout despite his slight mental handicap. Aurora hopes to earn enough money to run away with her brother and change her life. One night, however, Aurora cannot cope with Angiolino’s sex […]
Paolo Cognetti, sogni di grande nord
This is the journey of writer Paolo Cognetti and his friend Nicola as they travel by camper van to Alaska. Through the images shot during the journey and the fragments of dialogue between the two friends, the journey turns into the personal journey that Cognetti takes backwards to discover his roots as a writer and […]