Italy

How can you capture the consciousness of a city?  In Sei Venezia, award-winning Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati goes in search of the pulse of Venice, looking to touch the soul of the city itself.

Peering into the city’s many mysterious corners, down narrow alleys and icy waterways, and into the lives of six of the city’s citizens, this beautiful documentary captures a Venice that is both immediately contemporary and strangely timeless. Through the stories of these citizens, Mazzacurati brings the distant city to life within the peaceful darkness of the cinema.   

Following his impressive debut with The Wind Blows Round, Giorgio Diritti returns with a dense historical drama that earned him the Silver Grand Jury prize at the International Rome Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Brussels European Film Festival.

Winner of Best Film at the Salerno International Film Festival, and Winner of Best Actress, Actor, and Screenplay at the Donatello Awards (Italian Oscars). 

Director Alexandru Maftei creates a new path for Romanian Cinema in Hello, How Are You?; one that embraces mass appeal through humor and a deep attention to storytelling. 

In a hushed medieval village on a hilltop in southern Italy, an elderly shepherd tends his flock. He is sick and his days are numbered, but a daily glass of water mixed with the church floor’s dust is his medicine. As day-to-day living pushes ever forward, the cosmic interconnectedness of all things is slowly revealed in this shifting portrait of an isolated Calabrian village, populated by bleating goats who run loose through the houses and fields.