Time of the wolf
2024, Milan. On a cold winter day, I drive aimlessly through the streets of the city, until the unexpected vision of the Grigna captures me, forcing me to return to four years ago, when in the forests my life changed forever. The time of the wolves begins with the archives filmed in March 2020 in […]
Alta quota
Sandrine single-handedly challenges the extreme mountain, the only place in the world where she feels truly happy. Armando, an alpine guide now manager at high altitude, manages a babel of people storming Europe’s most important glacier, trying to prevent anyone from getting seriously hurt. Venturino does what he can to keep his refuge open, with […]
Landscapes of ending
At the border between life and death, along the borderland that separates and unites them, the landscapes of the end stretch out. Men and women cross them, with their hopes and fears, in search of a meaning that, in the contemporary world, is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Francesco Mattuzzi is a director and documentary […]
API
The summer in an apecar of a group of teenagers from Valle d’Aosta: afternoons and evenings spent between trap music and drifting, fear of the police and parties with friends. School is about to start again and the mountains are high all around. Luca Ciriello, born in Naples in 1988, is an Italian documentary filmmaker, […]
Au revoir, Melograno
Beatrice cannot cope with the mourning of her fiancé. She thus convinces herself that he is still alive in the guise of a pomegranate tree. Giacomo Pedrotti graduated as an actor in 2018 from the Carlo Goldoni Theatre Academy. In 2019, he founded Aries Film with Enrica Cortese and Alice Manzati. He starred in Made […]
Lola
At dawn on 16 October 1944, relay girl Aurora Vuillerminaz bid farewell to her beloved mountains, before bravely facing the fascist firing squad in the Villeneuve cemetery. She was arrested during her last mission, intent on leading a group of communist exiles from the Swiss border towards the Cogne Valley, where her comrades from the […]
White planet
‘White Planet’ is a representation of the border between dream and reality. It is a planet with a milky atmosphere whose soil emits light and on which terrestrial space-time rules, sensation and perception are altered. It is a wrinkled giant that comes alive out of scale, engulfing the observer and disorienting him: it is no […]
The flawed reflection
“The flawed reflection” is an unscripted film that explores the lonely life of Michele, an outcast with a difficult past. Through scenes of delirium, monologues and visions, the film offers a portrait of contemporary society as seen through Michele’s ‘pure’ eyes. The camera frames Michele in situations of fantastic imagery and moments of confession, without […]
L’endroit où ils sonnent les tambours il y a la paix
The story of the creation of a multicultural orchestra made up of some of the students of the Aosta Music School and young musicians from Bobodioulasso in Bourkina Faso. A documentary that tells the story of music and through it the differences and similarities of distant cultures. Luca Bich, a native of Aosta who graduated […]
Verso dove
A man walks through more or less known places, wanders as if trying to tread on portions of unknown lands, never trodden before. He walks and observes the world passing before his eyes, trying to fix it, to freeze it in an ‘other’ space and time, on the celluloid of his old camera. This man […]