Perché droga

This documentary intends to contribute to the analysis of the drugs problem, by studying a huge district in a peripheral area of a large city: the Mirafiori South suburb of Turin, a vast ghetto where 15.000 people live in huge 9/10-storey buildings without any social services.

Caballos

Ich war ein glücklicher Mensch

The Tick

Documentary movie about the legendary underground fanzine "Krpelj" (The Tick), the brainchild of Danilo Milošev-Wostok.

Headhunter's Song: The Cry of the Aboriginal People of Taiwan

Kao Chin Su-mei, a former actress and now a legislator in the Taiwan Legislative Yuan (the legislative assembly), is from the Tayal tribe, one of the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. Together with both the Taiwan Aborigine Workgroup, consisting of all the tribes including the Han people, and the aboriginal music group Feijuyuenbao Synectics, she finds the courage to fight for the return of their ancestors’ souls from Japan. Their appeal is unambiguous: “We cannot bear it that our ancestors’ souls are still in Japan. This is because we are not Japanese.”

El Turbio

1997: The Birth of the Camera Phone

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantly on public networks. The impetus for this invention was the birth of Kahn's daughter, when he jerry-rigged a mobile phone with a digital camera and sent photos in real time. In 2016 Time Magazine included Kahn's first camera phone photo in their list of the 100 most influential photos of all time.

Die Siedlung

Abdias Nascimento

Skateparks

Between poorly paved roads and hidden parks are the spaces created for the enjoyment of those who are passionate about four-wheeled boards. Skateparks proposes a day trip to these places, approaching their architectural designs that defy gravity and those young people who by chance, by leaving home or by stubbornness when taking a trick, inhabit them.

Memoria sumergida

Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Verandah

Bronislaw Malinowski changed the way that field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands—the Trobriands—and lived for long periods among the people he was studying. A brilliant linguist, he quickly learned their language and later published books which brought the islanders to life. The idea that native peoples were primitive savages was altered for good with Malinowski's insight into their mastery of their world.