Movies

Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day...

On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes...

A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give...

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra,...

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people...

Twenty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra once again investigate what Italians think...

An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini...

Series inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore. This time, Italian people are confronted with though questions about sex before...

The story of Cecilia Mangini, documentary maker, photographer and intellectual who told thirty years of Italy's history with her films.

A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a...

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the...

This documentary is one of the earliest film enquiries on women's condition in Italy, seen in its different aspects: social, economic, psychological....

The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these young men spontaneously express their vitality,...

A unique 1960s documentary on the traditional dirge sung by women in Griko, an ancient dialect of Salento, so old that it originates from the ancient...

In 1962 Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker made 'Stendali', a documentary about a group of women who practiced an Ancient Greek funeral rite in...

Third and last episode by Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra in which they investigate what Italians think about sex and gender. Now, the questions...