Planet Tonino

At my age I don’t like hardly anything about myself, or about others. I want the dirtiest, the wrongest, the most interrupted stuff. While we speak a camel is going by. There…I wish it were like that.
Tonino Guerra

Portrait of Tonino Guerra, one of the most prominent Italian screenwriters, author for world-famous directors such as: Fellini, Tarkovski, Antonioni, the Taviani brothers, Mikailkov. The documentary goes back through his career as a screenwriter and shows his everyday life at Pennabilli.  In this tiny village near Rimini, Tonino Guerra has succeeded in constructing a world in his image and likeness through the realization of a series of works-signs which express his indomitable vitality and creativity: fountains, road signs, “thinking” gardens. It is an encounter with a man who possesses an enormous vital force, with which he reconstructs his “fables” in order to defeat boredom and the predictability of everyday life

It’s not fair

The adult world seen through the eyes of two eleven-year-olds.

Sofia and Valerio, aged 11 and 12, meet by chance in a semi-deserted Naples suffocating because of the summer heat. Both have been entrusted to the care of their fathers, a pair of forty-year-olds afflicted with every sort of sentimental and existential problems, while their mothers are far off, present only in brief telephonic incursions.  The two kids feel continually threatened by the instability and confusion of their families.  “It’s not fair…” they say as they join forces to face the adult world together with detachment and irony, so as to be no longer afraid of it.

 

the cinema

O’cinema, as we used to say euphorically when we were kids. Each time it was an encounter with unbridled fantasy that gave us the possibility of travelling full speed through all the worlds of possibility.”
Enzo Moscato

A young Neapolitan takes a walk through his city.  He gazes at the people as well as the things about him with curiosity and transfigures them, at times drawing us into the personal, at times the cinematographic, world of imagination. The evocative power of sounds, visual impressions and old film clips come together in this journey into the heart of Naples.  The union of reality and fantasy is a pretext for reassembling the fragments of the history of a city and its wonderful cinema.

Saharawi

Songs and the testimony of the Saharawi people in the actuality of their exile.

For over thirty years the Saharawi people have been living in the Nigerian desert, struggling to be recognized and regain their land that had been appropriated by Morocco.Through traditional songs and images of life in the desert, the film gives voice to a people who, with dignity and determination, are only asking to exist and return to their homelands by the sea.

O sole mio

The history and success of the song ‘O sole mio, a world famous classic.

A tale that peers behind the clichés of Naples, too often defined only as “sole-pizza-amore” (sun-pizza-love). Through the history of the song ‘O sole mio, from its birth in 1898 to its consecration, the film narrates the two faces of Naples: on the one hand the paradisiacal, luminous postcard-city, on the other hand, the dark mysterious Naples of the vicoli (the alleys). A kaleidoscope consisting of evidence ranging from the era of silent movies to our days, with the celebrated interpretations of Mario Del Monaco, Elvis Presley, Luciano Pavarotti, Sergio Bruni, and occasional performers such as Paul McCartney and the Spice Girls.