Stories of Bologna nights of musicians, journalists and other unfortunates of a city that never went to
Directed by
Paolo Muran
DOCUMENTARY
01:10:00
My Mother
Love and War in the Eternal City
BIASSANOT
My mothers out look on life
Directed by
John-Francis Nero
SHORT SHORT 1:23
Love and War in the Eternal City
Love and War in the Eternal City
Life, death and the kitchen table
We’re in Rome, June of 1943. The German army is headquartered at the luxurious Excelsior Hotel. The shaky alliance between Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy is personified in the relationship between a German intelligence officer and an Italian chef who works in the hotel. When the alliance shatters, Germans and Italians fight each o
We’re in Rome, June of 1943. The German army is headquartered at the luxurious Excelsior Hotel. The shaky alliance between Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy is personified in the relationship between a German intelligence officer and an Italian chef who works in the hotel. When the alliance shatters, Germans and Italians fight each other in the streets of Rome. The two men become more deeply intertwined. Their allegiances will be questioned. Their love will be tested.
Written by
Leonardo Amedeo Pappano
SCRIPT 70 PGS
Life, death and the kitchen table
Life, death and the kitchen table
Life, death and the kitchen table
You can't learn to live at the point of death
Directed by
John-Francis Nero
SHORT 22:00
THE DOLLS DOCTOR
Life, death and the kitchen table
Dinner with Dante
Vincenzo is called the doctor of dolls for his skill in repairing them, he hides within himself the secret of the violence suffered by his mother by his father. She will relive that experience with Lia, a girl beaten by her husband to the point of making her disabled. She will find the courage to denounce the man after yet another violenc
Vincenzo is called the doctor of dolls for his skill in repairing them, he hides within himself the secret of the violence suffered by his mother by his father. She will relive that experience with Lia, a girl beaten by her husband to the point of making her disabled. She will find the courage to denounce the man after yet another violence done to his doll in which he sees his life again. Vincenzo will fix the doll by bringing it back to life together with its mistress.
Directed by
LUCIA VITA
SHORT 15:00
Dinner with Dante
Life, death and the kitchen table
Dinner with Dante
A Young Italian woman, who suffered a traumatic incident in Florence, Italy, during WWII, comes to terms with her past through an unlikely relationship she forges over the course of a lifetime with the statue of Dante in the Piazza di Santa Croce.
Written by
Katherine Diane Schimmel
SCRIPT 14 PGS
A Glance Into The Future
A Glance Into The Future
A Glance Into The Future
The Fork Awards each year identify the most promising newly opened restaurants and the most courageous gastronomic proposals. In this short documentary 10 award-winning restaurateurs tell their point of view on food in Italy. What are the challenges of this profession? How to preserve the culture of a territory? How to deal with the issue
The Fork Awards each year identify the most promising newly opened restaurants and the most courageous gastronomic proposals. In this short documentary 10 award-winning restaurateurs tell their point of view on food in Italy. What are the challenges of this profession? How to preserve the culture of a territory? How to deal with the issue of sustainability in the kitchen? What can be innovative in Italian gastronomy? These and other questions are trying to answer the new protagonists of the Italian food industry.
Directed by
Chris Myhre
DOCUMENTARY 9:15
In Sign of my Love
A Glance Into The Future
A Glance Into The Future
Francesco is a journalist, he is married to Serena and they have no children, in his free time he loves to walk along the beach with his dog, one morning during the walk the man finds a ring on the sand, it is a wedding ring, he comes home and shows the ring to his wife. Serena reads the names of the bride and groom and the date of their
Francesco is a journalist, he is married to Serena and they have no children, in his free time he loves to walk along the beach with his dog, one morning during the walk the man finds a ring on the sand, it is a wedding ring, he comes home and shows the ring to his wife. Serena reads the names of the bride and groom and the date of their wedding and convinces Francesco to look for the rightful owner to return the lost ring. Together they will manage to find the people involved but, inevitably, they will also discover their bitter fate.
Written by
Emanuele La Placa
SCRIPT 13 PGS
Italian Cultural Capital Festival HONORABLE MENTION
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
Written by
Mark Axelrod
SCRIPT 94 PGS
Queen: checkmate for the King
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
This documentary film expresses the will and commitment to sharing, through the story of emotions and experience, the context of the socio-cultural event 'Queen: "Check the King"', and with it re-present the testimonies of the victims of gender violence and feminicide.
Especially that of Stefania, who asked that her experience be of help
This documentary film expresses the will and commitment to sharing, through the story of emotions and experience, the context of the socio-cultural event 'Queen: "Check the King"', and with it re-present the testimonies of the victims of gender violence and feminicide.
Especially that of Stefania, who asked that her experience be of help to other women who experience or have experienced similar domestic violence.
Directed by
Luca De Giorgi, Sergio Vespertino
DOCUMENTARY 1:11:23
THE BEST YEARS
MALARKEY, LOST AMONG THE FLORENTINES
THE BEST YEARS
Turin, 2012. Thirteen-year-old Paolo has parents who adore him and a little sister who venerates him, but with whom he often quarrels. He lives in a cozy house, is a model student and has a best friend who takes care of him. His life would be almost idyllic if it weren't for the bullying he suffers. While his peers try to adjust to the ch
Turin, 2012. Thirteen-year-old Paolo has parents who adore him and a little sister who venerates him, but with whom he often quarrels. He lives in a cozy house, is a model student and has a best friend who takes care of him. His life would be almost idyllic if it weren't for the bullying he suffers. While his peers try to adjust to the changes of adolescence, Paul struggles with humiliation and oppression. While the others live, Paul barely survives.
Written by
OLGA FANTÒ
22 PGS
History
Una verità rubata
THE BEST YEARS
Founded in 2005, Indiefilmonline Film Festival has grown to become one of the premier film festivals in the country, attracting filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from all over the world.
Written by
OLGA FANTÒ
19 PGS
Sergio De Vitis
Una verità rubata
Una verità rubata
A documentary on the partisan Sergio De Vitis, who died in Val Sangone shortly before the end of the war.
Directed by
Roberto Tomeo
DOCUMENTARY 11:08
Una verità rubata
Una verità rubata
Una verità rubata
Una verità rubata, il Cortometraggio tratto dal romanzo “Una verità rubata - Un racconto a voce alta“ di Rosa Maria Mauceri.
Basato su una storia vera.
Directed by
Rosa Maria Mauceri
SHORT DRAM 14:54
13 Driver's Licenses
The Pickleball Killer
13 Driver's Licenses
The discovery of 13 confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face its horrendous and regrettable past. With no other clue but those licenses, a group of high–school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later, an unexpected turn takes place. The mo
The discovery of 13 confiscated driver’s licenses from 1938 leads a small German town to face its horrendous and regrettable past. With no other clue but those licenses, a group of high–school students with their tenacious teacher research the fates of the town's former Jewish citizens. A year later, an unexpected turn takes place. The modern-day Germans and some of the Jewish descendants from overseas gather in “their hometown,” and a fortuitous friendship begins.
Directed by
Ryoya Terao
DOCUMENTARY 26:50
What is Kuthuli?
The Pickleball Killer
13 Driver's Licenses
A commercial promoting a made up brand of pasta where the sauce is mystery blood.
Directed by
Anvi Dayal
SHORT COMMERCIAL :30
The Pickleball Killer
The Pickleball Killer
The Pickleball Killer
Brigg, an aging pickleball sensation, with supernatural speed, and dark mysterious origin, becomes the target of the Cartel after he inadvertently rescues a young trafficked girl from their clutches.
Written by JIM CAROLL
SCRIPT 113 PGS
The Adagio
The Pickleball Killer
Samuel Barber struggles with depression and alcoholism, his complicated relationship with fellow composer Gian Carlo Menotti, and the rising violence toward homosexuals in Europe and the United States to write The Adagio for Strings.
Writer Gerald C Wood
SCRIPT 101 PGS
IL CANTO DELLE CICALE. (The Song of the cicadas)
We used to listen to two kinds of music at home.
Classical music when Dad was there. And De André and Guccini, who expressed your desire for ideals and freedom, and you’d tell me to switch them off before he came home from work.
Directed by
Marcella Piccinini
DOCUMENTARY 01:10:00
Culture Talk on the Radio
"Culture Talk on the Radio" is a hybrid, narrative and documentary, a road movie and also an art film and for the most part affectively a silent movie with some music.