ONE DAY THE NIGHT
SYNOPSIS Sainey is a twenty-year-old Gambian who knows the harsh reality of his destiny: because of an irreversible illness, he...
Distribution
ZaLab is an interactive and participatory distribution network, made of cinema d’essai, cultural associations, festivals and indipendent screenings, spread in Italy and in contact with European networks, with the aim of promoting free circulation of films and documentaries usually out of the traditional market.
All our Worries
SYNOPSIS 69 days of isolation, 7 apartments, 1 participatory video path. On March 9, 2020 in response to the exponential...
Flying Roots
SHORT SYNOPSIS A group of teenagers, a participatory video lab, three second-generation stories. Flying Roots is a collective self-narrative...
IUVENTA
Sinopsys The documentary film Iuventa relates the events of a crucial year in the lives of a group of young...
Dove Bisogna Stare – Where they need to stand
While its political class chases after emergencies and visibility, there is a part of Italy, which works every day to...
The Order of Things
Synopsis Corrado is a high-ranking official at Italy’s Ministry of the Interior, specialized in international missions to combat illegal immigration....
Ibi
Synopsis Ibi took pictures and filmed her life in Italy for over 10 years. This film is born from her...
Sharp Families
For a century the Dolomite’s men (Alps regions, North Italy) emigrated to England to work as knife sharpeners. Nowadays the...
Les Sauteurs -Those who Jump
In northern Morocco lies the Spanish enclave of Melilla: Europe on African Land. On the mountain above live over a...
Patience, patience. T’iras au paradis!
In the sixties, thousands of people from Maghreb left to Belgium to find a work. Among them, there were women...
Gayby Baby
Gayby Baby follows the lives of four kids – Gus, Ebony, and Matt Graham – whose parents are gay. While...
On the Bride’s Side
A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian...
fuoriClasse – A School of Their Own
Montecucco, Rome. In a small primary school made of red bricks, in a red brick working class suburb, a class...
Mingong
What is the meaning of leaving? Leaving friends, the newborn children and the mountains where you grew up? Catching a...
Dreams of the Salt Lake
Kazakhstan is now living the euphoria of development that Italy does not even remember anymore. Yet its growth is hardly...
Elementare
Franco Lorenzoni: “Since my first experience like teacher I’ve tried to record every single conversation between my students, to catch...
This is The End
“This is the End” represents the second and last chapter of a survey about work in Bergamo and its territory,...
come il peso dell’acqua (Like the Weight of Water)
As a result of the cooperation between Giuseppe Battiston, Stefano Liberti, Marco Paolini and Andrea Segre, Come il Peso dell’Acqua...
Limbo
Imagine one of your loved ones, someone you live with – your father, partner, mother, a son or a brother...
Indebito
Greece 2013. In the taverns of Athens and Thessaloniki the ancient tradition of Rebetes perpetuates its life, and musicians offer...
My Bread and Butter
In October 2012, after 123 years, the cotton factory Honegger of Albino, in the middle valley of Bergamo, where working...
Container158
Giuseppe wakes up every day and starts looking for iron with his van. Remi is a mechanic without workshop, and...
The Last Sheperd
Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in a metropolis. He has a dream: leading his sheep to the...
Under the same roof
Under the Same Roof tells the daily life of Mohammed Gare, a guy who loses any taste for life when...
Furrows – The Pain of memory
The narration of the story of the Palestinian people through crossed interviews to five old men in the village. Furrows...
The Portraitist
School year 1934-35. The young teacher Antoni Benaiges takes office at the rural school of Bañuelos de Bureba, a tiny...
Vol Spécial
Each year, thousands of men and women in Switzerland are imprisoned without trial or sentence. Simply because they stay in...
Li and the poet
Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and enable...
Italy: love it or leave it
Luca and Gustav are two young Italians who over the past few years have witnessd the exodus of many of...
Our best years
From February to March 2011, 23 thousand young Tunisians reached the island of Lampedusa, in the south of Italy. The...
Carmine – Voices from a neighborhood
The Carmine is a neighbourhood in Brescia that in the last decades underwent sudden changes. Immigrant residents increasing number and...
South of Lampedusa
Shot in May in the Sahara desert, in Niger, “Further South than Lampedusa” documents desert journeys hardships as well as...
Closed Sea
Since March 2011, after the outbreak of the Libyan War, many African migrants and refugees escaped from the country. While...
God was a musician
Stories and daily life of the musicians participating to the project MusicRekk (first project of music production according to the...
Song for Amine
Every Wednesday, on Addis Abeba Square in Algiers, mothers and relatives of Algerians kidnapped by the national security agents rally...
Like a man on earth
This is the film that in 2008-2009 shocked many Italians, contributing to break the silence on the dramatic consequences of...