Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson, Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities – in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland – as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. As the oil majors drive deeper into their fragile […]
Compared to the rhythms of peasant societies today everything is hectic and time is given importance, first of all economic. Highway A3 is both the past and the future, encompasses the concepts of time and space, architecture and landscape. The man is master of himself in balance with nature and […]
“How is our daily bread made? Where does the flour come from? How is wheat cultivated?” Back in 2006 the Solidarity Purchasing Groups of Brianza asked themselves these questions. Their answer was a real challenge: to rebuild a local production of bread, starting from seeds. This was far from easy. […]
A journey in a land where the rebellion and the fight against neo-liberalism have never vanished. A series of interviews offer multiple looks on Mexico and the struggles that animate it, especially in the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca. A documentary in which we talk about capitalism and resistance, of […]
“Worldwide, millions of tons of „Roundup“, with its active ingredient glyphosate, are applied to the land year after year. The alarming consequences: poisoned soils, resistant superweeds, contaminated crops and sick livestock. Nonetheless, especially the United States adhere to the destructive model of GM-agriculture. Three sustainable projects in India, Egypt and […]
The struggle of some tens of environmentalists to save Gezi Park trees becomes the biggest political movement for human rights which Turkey has ever known. The film is a snapshot of what we have seen and what we have been told. The voices: students, lawyers, architects, journalists, activists; young and […]
Twenty years after the tragic events that upset Bosnia, DERT stirs in the places of the memory of a country marked by the war but it is not a film on the victims and on the pain. It is the testimony of an extraordinary collective experience founded on dignity and […]
A motionless non-place, a metaphor for a world exploited and vilified. Five youngsters are trying to save the planet. Two artists construct ostraka, engraved with words to exile and others to support, for the good of the Earth, suggested by hundreds of scholars. These are cries of alarm, food for […]
ETHIOPIA RISING is the story of the phenomenal environmental transformation of a nation told through the experience of one man, Aba Hawi. He mobilises an entire community to regenerate a region in northern Ethiopia. It’s the story how they face drought, famine and conflict in a monumental struggle to restore […]
In the Amazon the ” Supreme company” is intent on educating new recruits . Inspired by the slogan of one of these companies ( ” yes, we agree” ) the short film wants to denounce the devastation in Ecuador is destroying the ecosystem , causing diseases and environmental pollution .
In 1954, an Italian named Baron Ludovic Toeplitz arrived in Goa. With the financial support of an enterprising Italian, Alessandro Vassallo, Toeplitz is looking for iron ore for blast furnaces in Europe. He acquires the mining concession Orasso Dongor in North Goa and starts a new company, Sesa Goa, Eonomici […]
Inalva is a teacher. Jose Carlos Levinho is an anthropologist. Robson is a student in Physical Education (at the University). Zè is a researcher, the guardians of Tupì-Guaranì language. Fernando is a cultural operator. Their stories reveal the impact of mega events on a metropolis such as Rio de Janeiro, […]
Un breve omaggio a un territorio, un piccolo paesino situato tra il mare e le alpi Apuane. Il video è stato realizzato nell’arco di circa due anni, registrando immagini statiche del paesaggio per restituire l’affascinante mutamento cromatico della terra e del cielo nel susseguirsi delle stagioni e delle semine.
The tragedy of the Vajont was one of the first major staging of caste and mafia organizations to pursue economic interests at the expense of a community. A scenario that in Italy repeats itself after each tragedy. Not a single Vajont, but many Vajont screaming to be told and heard. […]
Located on the border between Pakistan and China, K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth. For many climbers, it is an even greater prize than Everest, with limited routes, a steeper ascent, and a harder push to its summit. Nicknamed the ‘Savage Mountain,’ K2’s peak juts unprotected into the atmosphere, […]
Our family adventure to become farmers on the outskirts of the city. We are farmers in a small town near Lyon. Highways, houses and commercial areas nibble gradually agricultural space. Land prices is getting so high that peasants can’t afford it and have to go away, even as citizens demanding […]
The moving story of a farmer who has rented a large farm outside Pavia, under threat of eviction. Within three years has to find the place for its 25 local breeds of cows, plus other farm animals. Milk is what makes him survive, without aid from the State. An emblematic […]
Molfetta, a southern Italian town overlooking the Adriatic.Here the sea is not only the background of picturesque postcard landscapes.Fishing and maritime trade have shaped over the centuries the social and economic ecosystem of the city.Through the voices of some fishermen, Mare Nostro weaves and reassembles fragments and memories of a […]
“What does it mean to leave? Leave friends, newborn children, the mountains where you grew up? Get on the bus, to the big city. Living in five in one room, the same as thousands of other rooms. What does it mean to return? See a village of elders aging run […]
A contemporary Don Quixote is wandering in the countryside with his faithful Sancho Panza, when his motorcycle break down in front of a field of wind turbines located in the middle of nowhere. The windmill is an opponent to challenge? Maybe not, cannot be bad something nourished by the wind. […]
A documentary about landscape creation and nature control. A mesmeric film about the islander community and its contradictory habits and traditions. A cowboy movie with herds running in the meadow at sunset and white horses resting in the dark of the night, a documentary film about artificial nature and landscape […]
This film takes us into the world of Udehe – indigenous people of the Far East of Russia. According to the census of 2010 their population dropped to 1,490 souls…
The Land for our Food is a documentary movie produced by the Access to Land network and directed by Julio Molina. The video takes us on the journey of Gavin Bridger, a grower from the Community Supported Agriculture project of Farnham Local Food in England, through various European countries in […]
What does it mean today to be a farmer in Romania? The country has nearly 5 million active farmers, 50% of all European farmers. In thousands of villages industrialization has not arrived or came too quickly, erasing years of history and subjecting these lands to expropriation and speculation. A trip […]
The documentary Between Land and Water, realized with the contribution of the CMU and the legal advice A.pro.duc Cultural Association, was produced by Lastcam Film Production and Video under Project Civic Uses – Collective Ownership: Video necklace on the collective properties in Italy. Recounts the historical, legal, and cultural aspects […]
