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1. Trap Diary (Diario di tonnara)

From the book by the same name by Ninni Ravazza, "Diario di Tonnara" tells the story of the towns, villages, communities and adventures that dictate the daily lives of the tuna fishermen in Italy.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

2. The words of Ventotene (Le parole di Ventotene)

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi , who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the island of Ventotene, he co-authored the Ventotene manifesto.

3. The Eyes of Dante (Gli Occhi di Dante)

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

4. Earth: The Inside Story

Earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and extreme weather. Has Earth always been this way? Featuring footage of top geologic hot spots on every continent, the film traces the scientifically-based story of the 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, from the core to the crust and up into the atmosphere.

5. The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra (Die italienische Art)

The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.

6. The Lost World Cup (Il mundial dimenticato)

The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

7. back home

In 1999, 11-year-old Nisha Platzer lost her older brother, Josh, to suicide. Twenty years later, her search for a specialized medical treatment leads her to the door of someone who was once exceptionally close to Josh. And so it is that she finally has the chance to truly know her brother through his chosen family. Captured over five years in which synchronicities continually manifested, Platzer’s documentation of these encounters gently asserts that both grieving and healing are meant to be communal experiences.

8. Women's Bodies (Il corpo delle donne)

The representation of women in contemporary Italian media

It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

9. My Mirror is the Door (பெண்ணாடி)

The ten anthologies and eight long poems of the Sangam age are the oldest and most distinguished body of secular poetry extant in India, of which women poets were a very strong presence.

10. A Day in Barbagia (Un giorno in Barbagia)

Against the background of flocks of sheep at pasture, mules walking down unpaved roads, tractors in the fields, and isolated figures in a deserted village, a caption explains that Barbagia is a vast region in Sardinia; Orgosolo, Oliena and Mamoiada are villages of shepherds and the men spend most of the year far away, with their flocks. This is why the houses and the children are entrusted to the women, who cut the wood, work the fields and prepare bread, shepherds’ bread.

It has an average vote of 6.386 on TMDB.

11. Supervolcan Yellowstone : Menace sur la planète ? (Supervolcan Yellowstone : Menace sur la planète ?)

(Supervolcan Yellowstone : Menace sur la planète ?)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

12. Here I Am...Here You Are (ها أنا ... ها أنت)

Eccomi ... Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon. Conditioned to live in a long-distance relationship with his partner because of strict European visa regulations, the director patches together the shared moments in an attempt to create a possible day-to-day reality for their couple. With a lyrical, ambient soundscape set atop a dreamy, atmospheric visual style that oscillates between still photography and moving images, the film explores what it means to be gay in contemporary Beirut and existential discomfort that blocks one from reaching a sense of complete-ness. Does such in-completeness have to do, in particular, with being gay? Or is it related to a grander malaise endemic to the human condition?

13. Girls Life Is Trembling (Ragazze la vita trema)

Four stories set between the 60s and the 70s in Italy. Four personal female adventures crossing the path of Italian history, the struggle for women rights, the liberation of the body, in a country without memory.

14. Cold Trumpet (Tromba fredda)

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

15. Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne (Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne)

(Voyages au centre de la Terre : Dans les pas de Jules Verne)

It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.

16. Resurrecting Hassan

Traces the lives of the Hartings, a blind Montreal family of three who make their living singing in the city's subway stations. The Hartings lost their only sighted child Hassan in a tragic drowning accident, and have since turned to the teachings of Russian mystic Grigori Grabovoi, hoping to resurrect their son. Resurrecting Hassan is an exploration of this family's legacy of grief, tragedy and abuse; the film will follow them on their path to redemption.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

17. Prampolini-Menarini Express (Prampolini-Menarini Express)

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of born-again found images, re-animated, examined, reviewed in a past time, revisited.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

18. Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati (Il Pranzo di Natale di Mario Soldati)

Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi.

19. Notarangelo the Soul Hunter (Notarangelo ladro di anime)

David Griecos documentary showcases the underappreciated photography of Domenico Notarangelo, and through it, tells the story of Matera, it's people and it's history.

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

20. Grief During a Pandemic

Documentary short about grief during COVID-19, how people are dealing with it and how we can move on collectively.