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- It's been twenty years since Genoa, 2001. Twenty years is the time in which a newborn becomes a person: nowadays there is an entire generation that is autonomous and present, yet which was not born at the time. Twenty years is the time in which a boy becomes an adult, and an adult becomes an elder. There are two generations who have gone through that experience, in one way or another, and twenty years later they cannot consider it closed. The dream of Genoa 2001 is not over, because the themes of those days - growing inequality, finance which concentrates resources in few hands and makes precarious or crushes the others, environment robbery, great migrations - are today's issues, only more urgent. And the violence of Genoa 2001 is not over, because that violence has been told many times, and counter-told, celebrated or condemned, but never understood or resolved. Now is the right time to talk about it: to start from Genoa to go beyond Genoa, and to understand what Genoa means.
- For those who face the "journey of hope" to seek for a better life abroad, the sea is a frontier to overcome, but for many it can turn into a grave. Through this thin line move the SEA ANGELS, equipped men and women both of the Italian Coast Guard and of several NGO trained to take action in extreme situations, when the smallest distraction can be fatal. The spectacular nature of their task goes along with their human side. Saving the lives of the thousands of castaways who arrive on the Sicilian shores in search of a better future, not only requires a good technique: it's a matter of heart and courage. Behind the action element there is always the human factor. The SEA ANGELS are not heroes from comics, they are real people, generous women and men who have decided to put their lives at stake to save other people. Men and women with their families at home waiting for them to return safe. Men and women trained to put their fears aside, weaknesses and personal political ideas, to rescue someone they've never met.
- Ibla - Le chiavi dell' Anima (Ibla - A music journey - english title) is a one-off documentary that follows the winners of the competition on their tour around the world, from the Asian megalopolis to the American college cities and finally to New York, for the most exciting step of their tour: the concert at Carnegie Hall. At the same time, the jurors of the prize evaluate the auditions of the candidates for the following year's competition, in order to select the musicians who will compete in Ibla at the end of July. Every year the winners of the competition will become the members of the jury for the following year's prize. Ibla - Le chiavi dell' Anima (Ibla - A music journey - english title) is a film about freedom, unconsciousness, music, beauty and the legacy of the past. But also about future, hope and dreams. Because through the "stalking" of young and older musicians (this is the only competition that does not set any age limit) we want to tell how people can still dream of making a living with music. For someone might be the only way to achieve success, for someone else would be the improvement of a natural talent, for another one carrying on family legacy... But for everyone, going to Ibla and play in front of an audience of strangers is an opportunity of lifetime. Our guide will be the founder of the award, Salvatore Moltisanti, musician and citizen of Ragusa. And when the winners will finally perform in front of the New York audience at Carnegie Hall, we would have been part of a great, exciting dream. A dream that has only the sky as its limit.
- Reza and Steve start their journey in Nordkapp in the Arctic Circle and continue through Scandinavia and Russia. As the pair ride closer to troubled Dagestan in Southern Russia, Steve decides to sidestep the province and meet Reza on the other side. Reza continues on alone with resentment in his heart into the notoriously dangerous province.
- After discovering in Dagestan much friendliness and interest despite the ominous military presence, Reza rejoins Steven in Azerbaijan and together they cross Iran before reaching Egypt. Here they inadvertently cycle into a tense political demonstration and they are held at Muslim Brotherhood gunpoint. When the Muslim brothers discover that Reza has a camera they become threatening
- Reza and Steve face food poisoning, heatstroke, torrential rains and stone-throwing locals in Ethiopia, travelling on some of the worst roads in the world. Reza goes down with malaria surrounded by the atrocious conditions of a rural Kenyan clinic he faces his darkest moments of despair as trapped by a situation beyond his control, he sees the World Record slipping away from him
