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Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

A coming of age story of a boy, Turi (Ernandes) and his younger sister, Teresa (Guarrasi) on an island off the coast of Sicily. Using mostly non professional actors in a neorealist style, this film creates a charming and seemingly authentic slice of village life.

Following the movements of ten people from different social and cultural backgrounds in São Paulo, the filmmaker redraws the map of South America's largest metropolis. It is the railway tracks, the taxi routes and the underground lines that both structure the city and reveal its rhythm, its daily rituals and the diversity of cultures that live within it.

Vittoria lives in the suburbs with her son Salvatore, a great fan of superheroes stories, who shapes the harsh reality that surrounds them by imagining himself as part of the adventures of Astroman, the idol of his favorite web series.

The director documents his failure to make a film connecting the Mafia in Sicily and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.

À l'occasion du 25ème anniversaire de Capaci et des attentats d'Amélio, Franco Maresco s'intéresse à ce qu'il reste de leurs idéaux et de leurs luttes dans la Sicile contemporaine, et à ses relations avec la mafia.

Eighty years of life and activity of the Experimental Center of Cinematography (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) through the eyes of those who attended the school over the years. From Fascism to the Second World War, from the Economic Miracle to the Protests of 1968, from the 80s till today, the documentary passes though the imaginary of a whole country, Italy, thanks to the exclusive use of archive materials from Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce.

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.

The film follows the lives of migrants arriving in Italy without the possibility of integration, and forced to accept any compromise, just to survive.

Emigrating can also turn into an extraordinary adventure. They have made a radical decision. They have chosen to leave their "bitter land", as just under 30 million Italians have done in the last 100 years. They have packed their bags, crossed borders and crossed the ocean. Of all the American lands, they have chosen Quebec, an enclave with a Mediterranean flavour, where the French language is spoken, a province rooted in the Catholic tradition, always open to crossbreeding. They are men and women of great courage and resilience, inspired by a "nomadic spirit": they have preferred to be masters of their time rather than fighting, among brothers, to defend a small patch of bitter land. Some of them, going to the mining districts of the icy north, have discovered (thanks to culinary and musical "contaminations") a special complicity with the Innu "natives", who lived there well before the first waves of migration. Following the path of the Stea family from Sannicandro di Bari, who emigrated to Belgium to work in the mines, before moving to Toronto and Montreal, where they found casual jobs, and finally to the iron mines of Schefferville in the Canadian Great North, the film offers portraits of nine "economic migrants" and their children who have been able to adapt to a new life, planting new roots without losing their links with the Italian spirit.

Carrara, city of marble and cradle of international anarchism. An editor, university professor, sculptor, historian and a typographer discuss Italian anarchism from 1894, the Spanish Revolution of '36, the anti-fascist partisan struggle and the end of WWII, and the local, national and global struggles of the present day. Umanità Nova publisher and printer Alfonso Nicolazzi (1942-2005) - an outstanding figure in the contemporary Italian anarchist movement (and a good friend), Professor Gigi Di Lembo, sculptor Dominique Stroobant, historian Massimiliano Giorgi and typographer Donato Landini contribute to this documentary, discussing a variety of cultural subjects as well as anarchism and violence, anarchism and society, and anarchy and utopia. It took Antonio Morabito two years and 40 hours of filming (with only a digital camera and a microphone) to make this 75-minute film. The first part, a 'confession interview', opens a discussion among the five interviewees about the fundamental values of anarchism.