Films.

Selfie – Lato B

A film by Agostino Ferrente

What becomes of a documentary’s unused footage? Ten years after Selfie, Ferrente returns to Naples’ Rione Traiano, immersing himself in the images left behind. He rediscovers a chorus of lively, restless teenagers, asking himself not what lives they ended up living, but what lives they ever had the chance to live.

Production

CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT) · Pirata Manifatture Cinematografiche (IT) · Rai Cinema (IT) · Istituto Luce Cinecittà (IT), in collaboration with Dschoint Ventschr (CH)

Alice nella Città2026 | International Competition

Don’t Let the Sun

A film by Jacqueline Zünd

The heat keeps rising. People grow distant, in curious kinds of solitude. This is where 28-year-old Jonah provides comfort to strangers. But when he finds himself in the role of the father for nine-year-old Nika, his life starts to unravel. A delicate drama about the fragility of human relations.

Production

Lomotion (CH) · CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT)

Locarno2025 | Winner: Best Performance — Filmmakers of the Present CompetitionMOSTRASão Paulo International Film Festival2025Busan2025Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla2025Solothurn Film Festival2026Tirana International Film Festival2025

The Miraculous Transformation of the Working Class into Foreigners

A film by Samir

With the help of private family photographs, animation, music clips and previously unseen archive material, the film tells the story of migration from neighboring countries to Switzerland in an entertaining way. How did the working class come to be labelled “foreigners”?

Producers

Levin Vieth · Gianfilippo Pedote · Davide Pagano · Andrea Randazzo

Production

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (CH) · CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT)

Locarno2024Solothurn Film Festival2025HOFHof International Film Festival2024El Gouna Film Festival2024

E trema ancora — L’altra voce di Luchino Visconti

A film by Morena Campani

On Ischia, Luchino Visconti spent his summers from 1945 and began writing La terra trema. At his villa La Colombaia, now in decay, the film explores the aristocratic world he could never leave and the tensions it brought to his art, relationships and politics. Narrated by Fanny Ardant.

Producers

Gianfilippo Pedote · Davide Pagano · Xavier Lavant

Production

CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT) · France Movie Service (FR)

Peripheric Love

A film by Luc Walpoth

Maria, a Mexican migrant, hides her pregnancy from Giorgio, her husband, who is sterile. Afraid he will suspect infidelity, she keeps her secret as both drift towards other people. Caught between longing and doubt, they must learn whether trust can bring them back to one another.

Producers

Sereina Gabathuler · Davide Pagano · Gianfilippo Pedote · Andrea Randazzo

Production

Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (CH) · CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT)

Solothurn Film Festival2023HOFHof International Film Festival2023

Lotta di classe — Il cinema dei ragazzi di Emilio Sidoti

A film by Demetrio Giacomelli

In the late 1960s, teacher Emilio Sidoti gave his pupils in Albisola the freedom to make their own Super 8 films. More than twenty followed, written, shot and edited by the children. Decades later, they revisit those images and reflect on how the experience shaped their lives.

Producers

Gianfilippo Pedote · Alessandra Grilli

Production

CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT) · Controra Film (IT), in collaboration with Lab 80 film (IT)

Selfie

A film by Agostino Ferrente

Alessandro and Pietro are 16 and inseparable in Naples’ Traiano district. Filming themselves with an iPhone, they share their work, dreams and friendship against the backdrop of their friend Davide Bifolco’s death, shot by a police officer who mistook him for a fugitive.

Production

Arte France (FR) · Magneto (FR) · CDV – Casa delle Visioni (IT) · Rai Cinema (IT), in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà (IT)

Berlin International Film Festival2019CPH:DOXCPH:DOX2020BAFICIBuenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema2019European Film Awards2019 | Nominee: European DocumentaryGIFFGöteborg Film Festival2020David di Donatello Awards2020 | Winner: Best DocumentaryNastri d’Argento2020 | Winner: Best Cinema del Reale FilmSHEFFIELDSheffield International Documentary Festival2019IDFAInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam2019RIFFReykjavík International Film Festival2019MILANOMilan Film Festival2019RÉELCinéma du Réel2019

Ammore e Malavita (Love and Bullets)

A film by Manetti Bros.

When Neapolitan crime boss Don Vincenzo fakes his death, nurse Fatima sees him alive. Ciro, sent to kill the witness, discovers she is the woman he once loved. To save her, he turns against the clan and his closest friend in a bloody, musical showdown.

Production credit: Roby Schirer / Tam Tam Fotografie.

Venice Film Festival2017International Film Festival Rotterdam2024TIFFTransilvania International Film Festival2018VIFFVancouver International Film Festival2018 | Focus on ItalyDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Nominee: Best ProducerDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Winner: Best Original SongDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Nominee: Best Hair Design/StylingDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Winner: Best FilmDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Winner: Best Supporting ActressDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Nominee: Best Production DesignDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Nominee: Best EditingDavid di Donatello Awards2018 | Nominee: Best Director

Liberami (Deliver Us)

A film by Federica Di Giacomo

In contemporary Sicily, people seeking relief from suffering turn to Father Cataldo, a veteran exorcist. The film follows their encounters and asks what we are willing to do to have our pain recognized and to find release. Team credit: Davide Pagano / MIR Cinematografica.

Venice Film Festival2016 | Winner: Orizzonti Award for Best FilmBAFICIBuenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema2017KARLKarlovy Vary International Film Festival2017ISTAIstanbul Film Festival2017MOSCMoscow International Film Festival2017GIFFGöteborg Film Festival2017David di Donatello Awards2017 | Nominee: Best Documentary FeatureGOLDGolden Globes (Italy)2017 | Nominee: Best DocumentaryZURIZurich Film Festival2018FANTFantasia Film Festival2017HOT Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival2017

The Bridges of Sarajevo

A film by Collective film

Thirteen European directors, from different generations and backgrounds, explore what Sarajevo has meant to the continent over the past century and what it represents today. Their distinct films are linked by animated passages from Belgian comic artist François Schuiten, inspired by the city’s bridges.

Producer: Gianfilippo Pedote / MIR Cinematografica.

Cannes Film Festival2014Busan2014Sarajevo Film Festival2014VIENNALEViennale2019RIFFReykjavík International Film Festival2014

Tutto parla di te (All About You)

A film by Alina Marazzi

Back in Turin after many years, Pauline researches the lives of mothers at a maternity centre. There she meets Emma, a young dancer struggling with her new role. As an unexpected bond forms, Emma searches for herself and Pauline confronts a painful chapter of her past.

Producer: Gianfilippo Pedote / MIR Cinematografica.

Rome Film FestCamera d’Oro for Alina Marazzi · 2012

Paura 3D

A film by Manetti Bros.

Production credit: Roby Schirer / Vision Project.

Vogliamo anche le rose (We Want Roses Too)

A film by Alina Marazzi

Through archival films, advertisements and the voices of three women, Alina Marazzi revisits Italy’s sexual revolution and feminist movement. Their stories of family, abortion, love and activism reveal the struggle for autonomy, and the desire for both the necessities of life and its beauty.

Producer: Gianfilippo Pedote / MIR Cinematografica.

Locarno2007BFIBFI London Film Festival2007David di Donatello Awards2008 | Nominee: Best DocumentarySindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani2008 | Nominee: Best EditingIDFAInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam2007

Fame chimica (The Munchies)

A film by Antonio Bocola and Paolo Vari

In the suburbs of Milan, a residents’ association tries to push immigrants out of the neighbourhood. Meanwhile, two lifelong friends find their bond tested by the return of a former schoolmate. Their intertwined stories capture the tensions and restless desires of a changing city.

Producer: Gianfilippo Pedote.

Venice Film Festival2003GIFFGöteborg Film Festival2004David di Donatello Awards2005 | Nominee: Best New DirectorDavid di Donatello Awards2005 | Nominee: Best SongSindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani2005 | Nominee: Best SoundSindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani2005 | Nominee: Best New DirectorSindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani2005 | Nominee: Best ScoreCPH PIXCopenhagen International Film Festival2004

Peripheric Love

A film by Luc Walpoth

Maria, a Mexican migrant, hides her pregnancy from Giorgio, her husband, who is sterile. Afraid he will suspect infidelity, she keeps her secret as both drift towards other people. Caught between longing and doubt, they must learn whether trust can bring them back to one another.

Solothurn Film Festival2023HOFHof International Film Festival2023

Un’ora sola ti vorrei (For One More Hour with You)

A film by Alina Marazzi

Alina Marazzi pieces together the life of her mother, who died when Alina was seven. Home movies, recordings and diary entries become an intimate conversation across time, tracing a woman’s inner world and the daughter’s attempt to know her beyond the loss.

Theatrical distribution: Mikado / CDV – Casa delle Visioni.

TFFTorino Film Festival2002 | Winner: Best Documentary — Documentary CompetitionLocarno2002 | Special Jury MentionFESTFestival dei Popoli2002 | Special Jury Mention

Anima Mundi

A film by Godfrey Reggio

In their third collaboration, director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass bring images of wildlife together with an insistent musical rhythm. Made for the World Wildlife Fund’s Biological Diversity Campaign, the film turns the variety and movement of the natural world into a vivid audiovisual journey.

World sales: CDV – Casa delle Visioni.

Venezia 48Opening programme · 1991