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Suicide Italy is a journey into crisis' reasons. Through archive, demonstration and interviewing material it describes the Italian recession in its most recent and cruel evolution.

ANOTHER WORLD is a feature documentary about mankind's journey to discover our true force and who we truly are, challenging the modern view of the world and reconsidering the world view and value systems of ancient societies such as the indigenous Americans. It's a quest through science and consciousness, individual and planetary, exploring our relationships with ourselves, the world around us and the universe as a whole. It demonstrates how connected we really all are, as best expressed in the Mayan greeting In Lak'ech, which means "I am another yourself." It also demonstrates just how unnatural the sense of separation that characterizes much of modern thought really is as opposed to the understanding of unity and oneness found in many ancient traditions. Above all it is a transcendental pilgrimage of repossession and empowerment, affirming our place in the universe and asserting mankind as a conscious mankind with real power as individuals and as a collective to create our reality, leaving us with a message that will not only open our eyes, but will hopefully stimulate everyone into generating a better and brighter tomorrow for the benefit of present and future generations.

At the age of 14, Megalie, daughter of an immigrant family from Senegal but born and brought up in Italy, is faced with the difficult task of finding a place for herself in the world she is living in. When she is denied the opportunity of taking part in a school trip abroad, a perfect occasion for the girl to reveal her feelings to her classmate, that place in the world will seem unattainable to her. But will it really be so ?

Castiglione d'Otranto, in the South of Italy. A group of thirty-year-olds no longer accept that the solution to the economic, ecological and political problems of the territory is always "to leave". They propose to the villagers who own pieces of uncultivated land, often felt as a burden, to put them in common. They decide to stay, to link their lives to the land and to invest in a value: being together. Castiglione becomes the village of restance. They cultivate ancient seeds and local biodiversity, they make decisions together, they develop a local economy. Accepting the shadows of the past, another potential of the place is rediscovered.

WE ARE ALITALIA focuses on the definitive closure of national airline Alitalia enlighten about the events and the political interference that caused the largest mass layoff ever in the history of Italy: 11K workers.

Masha was deceived: the men who took her to Italy with the promise of work, have stolen her passport, reducing her to slavery. The longest night of Masha begins with a run on the suburban streets of Rome. The woman is run over by the car of his jailers and left on the asphalt. A unknown stops with car and, despite being involved in his shady dealings, he tries to help the woman, taking her with him.

After their award winning documentary, 'Suddenly, Last Winter', Luca and Gustav are back. This time they have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already. Looking at some defining Italian icons, they go on a emotional trip on a old Fiat 500 through Italy, to look behind the cliches and to discover, what's left of the famous Italian way of life, confronting a glorious pas, a shaky present and an uncertain future.

In Oliena, Sardinia, local legends seem to have disappeared from people's memories. But the songs, the olive trees, and the fires of San Giovanni evoke them powerfully.

Tormented by guilt, a wealthy old man (Toni Garrani) is visited by a stranger (Stefano Fresi) with whom he begins a kind of chess game: an unconscious trick to reckon with the obsession that he has plunged since he got involved in the life of a young woman (Elena Arvigo). After the death of her lover, left alone to fight against unemployment and job insecurity, the woman refuses any help from the old man: without any real human contact, his offerings become even more obsessive and his generosity maybe hides only the presumption of control her life.

Afro-Napoli is a Neapolitan football team composed of first and second-generation immigrants, mainly from Africa. This film follows the team's season in the Campionati Fedrali in 2009.

"Residence Hammamet" is a documentary that recounts director Salvatore's journey to Tunisia and his (re)discovery of his mother, Antonietta. At over seventy years old, she decided to move to Hammamet. Her son, with a small crew, follows her, trying to understand the intimate reasons that led his mother to such a radical life change, as well as the personal, economic, and cultural reasons that drive more and more elderly people to leave their roots and emigrate to countries with a lower cost of living and a tax-friendly environment, allowing them to increase their pensions. Reflecting on the ability to reinvent oneself at any age, with a touch of irony that overturns traditional generational roles, the documentary tells of how Antonietta found a new community of Italians, all different from one another yet all seeking an "earthly paradise" made of friendship and solidarity.

Why did Tunisia, the country of dates, of tourist resorts and mass tourism, turn overnight into a powder keg, producing the first of the so-called "Arab Spring" and today, after the Revolution of 2010- 2011, become the country that provides more volunteers to Isis militias? Here is the idea of this film: a trip, actually a road movie, between the images produced by a culture and within that culture, to understand the roots of a crisis that the cinema of Nouri Bouzid has said for twenty years.

An investigation into the contradictions of the current Albanian society, in particular in its relations with Italy. Through numerous interviews, the rise and success of call centers are highlighted, which today attract many young Italians and Albanians. The interviews alternate with archive footage of Albanian history and readings by Albanian writers.

Between Columbia and Italy, a trip to tell a modern love story. He is Italian and had an affair with a prostitute. She is Colombian and she had an affair with a crack-addict, from which her child was born. Like parallel stories, an ocean between them, it seemed they would never meet. But a chat works a miracle and their lives change direction: they fall in love and go to live togheter, at first in Columbia and then in Italy in a small mountain village near to Rome, both still trying to find a job or reinvent a work. The child, that they are bringing up together, reads 'Pinocchio', recreating their crazy and romantic adventure in his own unique way.