NOUR AL MAGHREB (WESTERN LIGHT)
by Stefano Grossi

The protagonists of this documentary will be Nouri Bouzid, the author of Les sabots d’or supposed to be the most beautiful and important among the Tunisian films of last twenty years, and his colleagues - Taieb Louichi, Ferid Boughedir – and the producer Ahmed Attia. Thought their eyes as narrators and directors and with the help of their movies, we would compose a sort of unexpected and original portrait of Arabic-Tunisian world and of his relationship with Europe and Western world.
That portrait will be made in two different levels; on the first one we would see Tunisia from the inside, with all its problems and contradictions, thought clips from some movies chosen among the masterpieces of Bouzid and his colleagues; cinema would be as an archive of images which will represent Arabic life and culture; and inside these movies we would find out the most scabrous and forbidden issues: women’s condition, homosexuality, political corruption, repression of who rebels to the dictatorship, the underground development of Islamic fundamentalism in the shadow of official religion.
On its second level the documentary would take the shape of a road movie, a travel along the whole Tunisia, starting from the heart of Tunisi until the desert regions, in the deepest south of the Country.
Along this travel we would be able to interview the directors – protagonists of the documentary – in the exact places where they chose to set their movies, and we would talk with them, from the outside, that is from the personal point of view of the European director, about his own vision, his opinions and emotions about Tunisia and Arabic world in general.

ISLAND OF MEMORIES (DOCTOR PITRE’)
by Alessandro D’Alessandro and Marco Leopardi

Adam, a Canadian documentarist of Sicilian origins, is in Palermo for his first time ever to do some scouting for a work about Inquisition. As he is told that some graffiti made by prisoners in an old palace had been found out by Giuseppe Pitrè in 1906, he decides to visit a museum that bears Pitrè’s name. Here he is fascinated and interested by the great deal of writings and finds Pitré had left and above all by the correspondence he had with so many people of his period.
On the strength of these letters he starts discovering Palermo, and visiting places where Pitré had lived. His investigation on Sicilian demo-psycologist gets richer of writitten and shooted testimony. He meets university professors, populaces, puppet-masters, fishmen, musicians; he takes part in feasts, processions, going troughout Sicily from Palermo to Trapani, Messina, and even to Siracusa
His journey in Pitré’s Sicily becomes a discovery of Sicily of nowadays. While regaining his own roots, in a land permeated by different cultures, Adam has the opportunity to know better himself and the sense of being in that world.

CLOUD MAN
by Stefano Mordini and Mauro Bartoli

The scientist Guglielmo Marconi, soon before his death, developed revolutionary theories kept strictly confidential; the sole traces of them can be found in some statements made by Benito Mussolini. However, there is a man who was a concealed assistant of the scientist, a co-worker with fertile ideas and creative experiments, who is the one and only witness of the mysterious Marconi’s work. This man is Pier Luigi Ighina. Pier Luigi Ighina has lived at Imola since 1936, in a big house-laboratory near the racing track, surrounded by imposing and colourful apparatuses capable of extraordinary things - some can even control the atmospheric conditions. He has always said that he was responsible for the rain that often caused problems to the Formula One races.
In January 2004, after having spent more than eighty years in experiments and studies, Pier Luigi Ighina died. The authoritative science believe his theories absurd and not worth of being taken into consideration.
Some researchers spread all over the world are carrying on Ighina’s studies, and one of the reasons is that when his machinery went into operation something inexplicable happened…

THE CARAVAGGESCHI
by Mario Balsamo

IL VENTO FRA LE MURA (Italian silent cinema)
by Paolo D’Amato

Pasquali (1883-1919) was a man of letters, before becoming a man of cinema. His original and careful analysis of the Turin society at the beginning of the 20th century emerged clearly in his fresh, spontaneous, ironic and never banal newspaper articles. He cast his inquisitive eye on people, places and events in Turin, always attentive and involved, and his pieces were a pleasure to read and had a taste that distinguished them from others due to the youthful and direct style that had nothing to do with pomposity and rhetoric. And reading them again today allows us to go back in time, to an age that was about to be violently wiped away by World War I and the changes that it would bring about.

OUTSIDE TRACKS
an idea by Laura and Silvia Pettini and Silvia De Felice

MERCY FOR GOETHE
by Mario Balsamo and Giorgio Pettini

TALK TO ME ABOUT HANNA
by Maury Dattilo, from the story of Giorgio Pettini

OMICIDIO ALL'ART GALLERY
by Corrado Paima

UNDER CONSTRUCTION...