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| This filmography includes films that have had a widespread distribution in Italy and abroad. All the films listed below were taken on board, developed and realized by us, in collaboration with the writers and filmmakers. |
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VINYLMANIA: WHEN LIFE RUNS AT 33 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE
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My mother used to wake me up with a vinyl record. It’s the first thing I remember about life. Many years have passed but vinyl records have never abandoned me. And you? Have you ever listened to a vinyl record?...
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Italy, France, Germany / 2011 / 75’ HD 16:9
Director: Paolo Campana
Produced by STEFILM in co-production with Lato Sensu Productions (France), ZDF/Arte (Germany/France)
With the support of MDR / YLE / Lyon TV.
Supported by MEDIA Programme, Piemonte Doc Film Fund and Genova Liguria Film Commission.
Italian distribution: CINECITTA' LUCE
Worldwide distribution: Deckert Distribution
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Coffee, Please
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Coffee. Everybody’s heard of it. A daily habit for millions, over 400 billion cups are consumed per year. Infact today after oil and steel, coffee is the most traded product in the world! Yet it remains a beverage that few people know much about…
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Italy-France / 2010 / 52 min.
Director: Stefano Tealdi
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with: FRANCE TELEVISIONS / PLANETE / RTBF/ TV5MONDE / YLE / DBS Satellite
With the support of: Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission, Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.
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Tea for all
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Tea, the drink of kings and queens and one of the most consumed beverages in the world with an estimated 15,000 cups being sipped per second world wide. Impressive statistics for a drink that was discovered 4750 years ago!
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Italy-France / 2010 / 52 min.
Director: Stefano Tealdi
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with: FRANCE TELEVISIONS / PLANETE / RTBF/ TV5MONDE / YLE / DBS Satellite
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Life above the clouds - Series
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What is life like in a place where water boils at 80 degrees and everything takes twice as long to cook?; where hardly anything grows and even the hay has to be gathered some thousand meters below?
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Germany–Italy / 2010 / 5 x 43′, 5 x 52′
Director:Titus Faschina, Reinhard Kungel, Andreas Pichler, Stelios Apostolopoulos, Carmen Butta and Anuschka Seifert.
In co-production with Stefilm and ZDF in association with Arte. |
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Global Drinks - Collection
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Our new collection tells the story of six drinks. Six surprising fates for non-alcoholic drinks that have managed to make themselves indispensable, almost “unavoidable” in our daily lives, with economic, industrial, sociological and cultural implications on a world-wide scale.
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Italy-France / 2010 / 6 x 52 min.
Director: Pierre BOURGEOIS - Pierre-Olivier FRANCOIS - Gérard LAFONT - Emma TASSY - Stefano TEALDI
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with: FRANCE TELEVISIONS / PLANETE / RTBF/ TV5MONDE / YLE / DBS Satellite
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Doctor Ice
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Kristan Bromley worked 12 years as an engineer for British Aerospace. Today he's competing internationally as a Skeleton World Champion, racing at 130 kmph on the sled he himself has developed. Doctor Ice builds his success on scientific research, technology, design, computer aided training and his personal abilities. A unique case where the continuous scientific and technological improvement is personally verified. A daring experience for him and the audience!
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Italy: 2008 / 58 min.
Director: Stefano Tealdi
Production: STEFILM
In coproduction with ZDF
and in association with ARTE |
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Global Food - Collection
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Pizza, sushi, French fries, pasta, sandwiches and ice cream may not make the most-balanced of six-course meals, but they’re perfect as a six-part collection!
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Italy-France / 2007 - 2008 / 52 min.
Director: Pierre BOURGEOIS - Pierre-Olivier FRANCOIS - Gérard LAFONT - Stefano TEALDI - Susan GRAY
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS |
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Mostar United
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Mensud fought in the Bosnian war, defending his hometown Mostar and the Old Bridge. Now that peace has returned and the Old Town has been rebuilt, Mensud is fighting once again, this time against the new nationalist mentality.
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Italy-Slovenija / 2009 / 52 min / 75 min.
Director: Claudia Tosi
Production: STEFILM with Petra Pan Production
In association with: Multicanal Iberia, RTF BiH, Lichtpunt, YLE FST, NRK, RTV Slovenija, TSI
With the support of: Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Provincia di Modena, Assemblea Legislativa Regione Emilia-Romagna, UISP per Adottalapace, Peace Games. Movimenta |
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Pasta Mania (A world of pasta)
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Spaghetti, mian, ramen, noodles. Different names for just one food: the mix of wheat and water put into form and cooked in boiling water. Pasta historians and maccheroni makers lead us through 4.000 years to discover how people in Naples, Japanese Soba Academists and Shanxi Province cooks have made of pasta an art, a culture and a life-style!
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Italy-France / 2008 / 52 min.
Director: Stefano Tealdi
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with:
FRANCE5 / LA7 / PLANETE/ RTBF / RTV SLOVENIJA / YLE TV1
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Which Sandwich
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1762, the Earl of Sandwich, an obsessive gambler, invented a snack that he could eat without silverware, quickly and neatly, without interrupting his game nor getting his cards...
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Italy-France / 2008 / 52 min.
Director: Pierre Bourgeois
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with:
FRANCE5 / LA7 / PLANETE/ RTBF / RTV SLOVENIJA / YLE TV1
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Sans Sushi
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Who knew what sushi was 20 years ago? Back then, the little slab of raw fish was reserved for the initiated, who worshipped it with cult-like devotion. Today, it has passed into the category of fast food: chic and trendy at first, practically pedestrian now.
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Italy-France: / 2007-2008 / 52 min.
Director: Gérard Lafont
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with:
FRANCE5 / LA7 / PLANETE/ RTBF / RTV SLOVENIJA / YLE TV1
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Once Upon a French Fry
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It’s a story as basic as the salt of the earth. An international adventure including diplomatic quarrels, scientific discoveries and indus-trial R&D. The Belgians are famous for eating them, and the British call them chips, but for the Americans, they will always be French fries.
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Italy-France: 2007-2008 / 52 min.
Director: Pierre-Olivier François
Production: STEFILM and ARTLINE FILMS
In association with: FRANCE5 / LA7 / PLANETE/ RTBF / RTV SLOVENIJA / YLE TV1 |
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Pizza nostra
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Water, flour, tomato, and cheese. A poor man’s meal, pizza has become globalization’s favourite food. 350 slices eaten per second, far outstripping the hamburger...
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France-Italy / 2007 / 52 min
Director: Pierre-Olivier François
Production: Artline Films
in association with Stefilm, FRANCE 5, YLE
and the participation of Film Commission Regione Campania |
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Overbooked
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A polite Italian travel agent and an authoritarian Moroccan immigrant, two very different men from two different cultures, try to manage a diverse group of people traveling from Italy to Morocco.
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Italia/USA / 2007 / 52 min.
Director: Stefano Strocchi
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: ITVS International
with the support of Regione Piemonte
and Film Commission Torino Piemonte |
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Guernica
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On 26 April 1937, German and Italian bomber planes all but levelled the Basque city of Guernica. From the outset, the destruction was clouded by propaganda, myth, counter-myth and blatant lies and for nearly forty years Franco’s Spanish Government denied the operation. Unique film archive, eye witness accounts, dramatic reconstruction and CGI together with expert military analysis finally tell the definitive story of what happened on market day at Guernica.
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Spain/UK/Italy / 2007 / 52 min.
Directors: Alberto Rojo, Hanno Brühl
Production: Idem Producción Audiovisual, T & G Films in association with Stefilm, ARTE, RTBF, NPS, TSR, TSI, The History Channel Italia, Channel5 Russia
Co-production: RBB, WDR, ETB, The History Channel Iberia with the support of Istituto Luce
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Piemonte Stories - Collection
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There's much more to Torino and Piemonte than just winter sports. Art, history, culture and of course food and wine. This films takes you on a journey into the Italian way of living - with emotion and humor.
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Italy/Finland/Switzerland / 2006 / 12 x 10 min.
Directors: Matteo Bellizzi, Elena Brusasco-Daniel Ruffino, Claudio Cavallari-Fabrizio Scapin, Mario Garofalo, Enrico Possenti, Stefano Scarafia, Stefano Tealdi
Production: Stefilm
Co-production: YLE FST, TSI with the support of Regione Piemonte and Film Commission Torino Piemonte
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Building the games - Series
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Come behind the scenes with the designers of the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games venues and meet the athletes who tested them. Discover the secret preparations in the run up to the grand event. This is a trip around the Olympic Alpine building sites, a neck and neck race against time.
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Italy/UK / 2006 / 3 x 46 min.
Director: Claudia Tosi
Production: Stefilm for Discovery Channel Europe
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My 3 peaks
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A little more than a century ago the Three Peaks of Lavaredo were practically unknown.Then it took just 30 years for this mountain to become a veritable landscape icon recognized throughout the world. Told through the personal view of the award winning filmmaker Andreas Pichler, the film recounts this media phenomenon, from the terrible mise en scéne on the stage of the 1st W.W. to the making of a natural monument.
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Italy / Austria / 2005 / 42 min.
Director: Andreas Pichler
Production: Stefilm / Pale Blue Productions / Miramonte Film
in association with: ARTE France "La Lucarne" / ORF / Rai-Bolzano / YLE with the support of RTR- Austria / Comune di Auronzo di Cadore Comune di Dobbiaco / Comune di Sesto / Provincia di Bolzano - Alto Adige
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Gelato: an endless passion
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The making of ice cream is a craft and a skill, but also a unique way of life. Gelato identifies Italians around the world. This documentary searches is origins and development through the centuries.
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Italy / 2005 / 43-52 min.
Director: Susan Gray
Production: STEFILM
Coproduction: AVRO / NDR-ARTE / YLE Teema / MA.JA.DE |
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Citizen Berlusconi
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Silvio Berlusconi controls 90% of Italian national television, directly or indirectly. Following him during an election campaign, from the football stadium to the court and the parliament, is a rather gripping experience.
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Italy / USA / 2003 / 45-56 min.
Author and director: Andrea Cairola and Susan Gray
Production: Stefilm / Thirteen/WNET New York Production
Coproduction: YLE Teema with the support from Public Broadcasting Service and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting |
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Uncorcked! In Italy - Series
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An eclectic half hour television series presented by Jancis Robinson that explores all that is Italy - a land where wine and food and intense individuality have been central for thousands of years.
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Italy / UK / Canada / 2004 / Pal
Director: Rory Fallon
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction for National Geographic Channels International and Food Channel Canada. Distributed by Alliance Atlantis |
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Andiamo !
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Noto, small village, at the southern tip of Europe, must find its place in the new world and join the global net of the digital money transfer. The Café Sicilia is planning a transfer of products via Internet to Tokyo and Manhattan. The film documents a parting that concerns us all: the farewell to the old Europe.
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Italy / Germany /2004 / 35 mm / 94 min.
Director: Thomas Crecelius
Production: EuroArts / Stefilm
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Visions of crumbling houses
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Gianni Celati, Italo Calvino's faithful disciple, today one of the greatest Italian contemporary novelists, & english writer John Berger, travelling around the Po river delta, document with superb storytelling technique the tragedy and loss of values in this new and desolated landscape.
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Italy / 2003 / 61 min.
Director: Gianni Celati
Production: Stefilm / Pierrot e la Rosa
Coproduction: ZDF / ARTE / YLE TEEMA / TELE+
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Rice girls
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After the war, young girls were hired as seasonal workers in the rice paddies of the Piedmont region. “Riso Amaro” brought their story and the image of the major character Silvana Mangano to the world. Fifty years later a young filmmaker takes the girls back to the same fields on a trip down memory lane constructing the portrait of an epoch and confronting the fictitious world of the film and the enormous changes of modern day Italy.
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Italy / 2003 / 56 min.
Director: Matteo Bellizzi
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: YLE- TV1 / Teema Finnish Broadcasting Corporation with the partecipation of RTSI Televisione Svizzera and the support of Regione Piemonte |
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Porto Marghera, Venice
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1950: Gabriele Bortolozzo is a happy man, has a job in his country and doesn’t have to emigrate: the Petrochemical company of Porto Marghera is hiring labourers for its new plants. They will be producing a new material: plastic. What he doesn’t knowis that the process is dangerous and gives cancer. This documentary tells his story and how he brings the company’s managers to court 50 years later.
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Italy / Spain / Switzerland / France / Germany / Belgium / 2002 / 56 min.
Director: Paolo Bonaldi
Production: Stefilm / Media 3.14 / Periscope
Production Coproduction: SRG SSR / ARTE/ BR / RTBF / MEDIA / TELE+ /TSI
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All in white: an army of dreamers
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Beppe Caccia, one of the founders of the movement Tute Bianche, takes us round the historic headquarters of these children of anti-globalisation and onto the Streets during the G8 demonstration in Genoa.
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Italy / Germany / 2002 / 30 min.
Director: Adonella Marena
Production: Stefilm / Eikon for ZDF / ARTE |
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Mirabella - Sindelfingen
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Mirabella-Sindelfingen is a film about Sicilian families who have been work migrants for three generations but still have neither left Sicily nor have they have quite arrived in Germany yet.
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Germany / Italy / Danmark / 2001 / 54 min
Director: Andreas Pichler
Production: Filmtank Hamburg, Stefilm, Angel Films
Coproduction: 3SAT - SWR - DFI - PLANETE |
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Like fossils
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A visual documentary that portrays abandoned factory buildings in Italy as dying witnesses of a once thriving industrial past with a visual style and a soundtrack where past, present and future seem to clash in violent echoes.
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Italy / 2001 / 16mm / 42 min.
Director: Luca Pastore
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: Rai Sat with the support of Regione Piemonte
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Song on a narrow path
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"Jerusalem is a dream that troubles the mind. This is a portrait of my city, as I see it, through the lives of those who are close to me".
Akram Safadi, director
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Italy / Germany / Belgium / France 2001 - 16mm - 52 min.
Director: Akram Safadi
Production: Stefilm / Versus Production / Dora Productions
Coproduction: Bayerischer Rundfunk (D) / RTBF (B) / C.N.C.F (B) / TELE+ / Swiss Agency for dvelopment and cooperation (SDC) / Soros Founfation / C.U.S (F) |
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Leonardo Da Vinci: the man behind the Shroud?
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The Shroud of Turin: sacred Christian relic or clever fake? If it was created, it must have been by someone with extraordinary skills. The evidence points to one man, one of the greatest geniuses that has ever lived. Was Leonardo da Vinci the Man Behind the Shroud of Turin?
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Italy / 2001 / 47-52 min.
Director: Susan Gray
Production: Stefilm for HIT Entertainment
Coproduction: National Geographic Channels International
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Fred
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A light-hearted look at the ups and downs of Fred Buscaglione’s life and career. The Italian James Dean is recounted by those who lived and worked alongside him: the Asternovas band, his wife Fatima, Leo Chiosso and Gino Latilla.
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Italy / 2001 / 54 min.
Director: Pit Formento
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: Tele+ / Regione Piemonte
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EURO BLOWS OVER STROMBOLI
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There’s an air of excitement, curiosity and a little trepidation in the air on the small island of Stromoli as the new currency called Euro is about to be circulated. It’s not going to be easy to get used to it, especially if the post office hasn’t been adequately supplied in time…
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Italy / The Nederlands / 2001 DV 38 min.
Director: Silvana Zancolò and Rossella Schillaci
Production: Stefilm / MMFilmprodukties
Coproduction: NCRV |
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Don Cesare
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Don Cesare runs a costal refugee camp in the south of Italy, the first stop in Europe for refugees and clandestine immigrants. Franca Cereghini, a young talented filmmaker, tells us their harrowing stories and experiences and their hopes for a new life. But also how Don Cesare handles the emotional moments of their arrival.
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Italy / UK / 2000 / 56 min.
Director: Franca Cereghini
Production: Stefilm / Mosaic Films
Coproduction: TELE+ |
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The Town, my neighbourhood and I
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One hot summer Gianfranco Pannone leads us around his part of Rome, the Appio Latino, to meet the locals, listen to stories and recollections of the place made famous by Pasolini - now home to the Papa Boys .
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Italy/Germany 2001 DV & Super 8 31 min.
Director: Gianfranco Pannone
Production: Stefilm / MA.JA.DE for ZDF ARTE |
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Ouvrieres du monde
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What lies hidden behind the worldwide success of a brand like Levi’s?
Rosa and Marie-Thérèse are trying to save their jobs with the Belgian company that is about to close. In Indonesia, Mutiri works on the same item of clothing in much more difficult working conditions. How do these women live? What have they got in common apart from this artificial bond? How aware are they of the fact that they are pawns in a “globalized” economy?
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2000 / 53 min.
Director: Marie-France Collard
Production: Stefilm / Latitudes / RTBF / Arte Belgique / Movimento production / CRRAV Nord Pas-de-Calais / WIP (Wallonie Image Production)
Coproduction: La Cinquième / TELE+ / Canvas-VRT |
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Tougher than the rest
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Natsnet and Mohammed grew up during the war of independence in Eritrea. Getting used to a new life and new identity during peacetime has not been easy. With the help of archive film footage of them ten years earlier and up-to-date images, we cross a country that was destroyed during thirty years of fighting. Now it is struggling to make sure the fruits of cultural, social and political change ripen.
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1999 / 56 min.
Director: Stefano Tealdi and Edoardo Fracchia
Production: Stefilm / Avalon
Coproduction: Tele+ / DR TV / RTBF / FAB with the support of DG VIII EU |
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The song of Bosa
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The town of Bosa is on the west coast of Sardinia, a region on the periphery of Europe. Once it was a wealthy town; today most townspeople are unemployed, as in so many other places in Southern Italy. The people in the film are characters with a humorous outlook on life, happily making the best of what Bosa has to offer. We witness a number of incidents in this archetypal Mediterranean town with its undercurrent of something familiar, something universal.
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Italy / 1998 / 16 mm / 88 min.
Director: Ulla Boje Rasmussen
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: NORDFILM (DK) / ZDF / ARTE / NRK |
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Nespolo in snippets
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Ugo Nespolo, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, has created graphics for advertising, TV commercials and design objects for Campari, Azzurra and Swatch. 60 one minute clips show his multimendia works. With a creative use of the television medium, Nespolo's art comes into our lives.
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Italy / 1997 / 60 min.
Director: Marco Di Castri
Production: Stefilm
Coproduction: RAI INTERNATIONAL
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