Premiers Pas
A tattoo parlour in Torre del Greco, a city outside Naples. People walk in to have their bodies rewritten following their lives or dreams. The act of tattooing becomes one of tribal sorcery or social...
Regard Neuf
A village in Calabria. Three youths, three families, three social classes. The same unchanging condition of expectation, despair, and the pain of living. This has been Italy, the South, for over a...
Grand Angle
Giallo Dozza is not your usual rugby team. Its team members are all inmates of Bologna's penitentiary. Max is their coach and he is a tough one. He wants only the best from his team. Therefore, he...
International Medium Length Competition
Vincenzo has always led a marginal existence. He is now 42 and has not seen his daughter for a long time. One day, he takes the train to go and see her, not even knowing if he will be welcome. The...
Regard Neuf
David Monacchi, a hi-tech explorer, knows the Amazonian forest well, but his means of exploration are unusual. A sound artist, “field recorder”, and eco-acoustic composer, he understands terrain...
International Feature Film Competition
There is a new mayor in Messina, Sicily. A Buddhist one. Old politicians have lost for once, and there is an outpouring of new hopes and energies. People around the newly elected mayor try to reshape...
Regard Neuf
Once again evicted from their squats in Barcelona, two groups of Senegalese men float in an apparently endless existential drift. Unemployed, but also proud, they try desperately to make the best of...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
Renato Nicolini (1942 – 2012) was the most visionary cultural councillor of the municipality of Rome. Architect, playwright and passionate cinephile, he managed to reshape the role and image of Rome...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The island of Lampedusa is a mirage of freedom for the thousands of migrants and refugees stranded on its shores. Over the past 20 years, it has also become the symbol of Europe's greatest...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The acronym GRA means Grande Raccordo Anulare (Great Ring Junction). A ring-shaped, orbital motorway that encircles Rome. Its circumference measures 68,2 kilometres. The acronym derives from the name...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
The film takes place in a motel somewhere along the U.S. / Mexico border. A man sits in an armchair. A black mesh covers his head. In his hands lies an empty copybook in which he draws and writes...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
Gopal, a frail-looking man, rows tirelessly across the Ganges carrying western tourists from one river bank to the other. A low-paid job that helped him, over the years, develop a disenchanted outlook...
Atelier Gianfranco Rosi
There is a place 190 miles south-east of L.A. where people outcast by society settle down. A place lying 129 feet below sea level. A place called Slab City. Women and Men from all walks of life,...
Special Screenings
The adventures of a hotel-restaurant in Alba (Italy) that integrates people with disabilities in their working staff. An exceptional human adventure. Event offered by Mémoire Vive. Free admission.
International Medium Length Competition
Propelled to stardom by winning a TV reality show five years ago, Imma, a full-figured woman, a mother of a little boy, has dreamed of recognition in film or theatre ever since. She moves to Rome,...
Helvétiques
After having rubbed shoulders with the Parisian avant-garde, Alain Daniélou set off to discover India in 1932 and settled in Benares on the banks of the Ganges River where he would live for almost 20...
Helvétiques
From one cave to another. In prehistoric times, human beings would leave paintings in caves to show their amazement and admiration for the complexity of the world. These reproductions of natural forms...
Helvétiques
This is the story of the first waves of Italian immigration to Switzerland. People threatened by the Schwarzenbach-Initiative. When signposts that read “Dogs and Italians forbidden” were “acceptable”....
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