Walls and Borders – Part 1

The Strait of Sicily has become the largest underwater cemetery in the Mediterranean.
The most conservative estimates speak of twelve thousand drowning deaths in the last ten years on the routes between Africa and our southern coasts."

A subjective shot of the camera approaching the wall at three points along its path.
In Erez – Gaza Strip

Like a prison door between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

July 2003. Brazil. An intense journey.
Here: inland Bahia. Poor.

On a country road, at sunset, some women pray before a sacred image; beyond the wall, the idea of ​​a mystery perhaps too difficult to grasp.

During World War II, two girls are locked up in a concentration camp, just because they are Romany.
The girls decide to run away and find themselves in a paradoxical situation.

"more time than..."

A normal day. A normal beach. And then a child.

Aziz, twenty years old, has lived in Italy for ten years. A permanent smile. His disillusioned gaze, for once free from the oppression of daily life, makes us understand, without mediation, that a sense of belonging cannot be confined within the cage of bureaucracy.

Cannes Film Festival, between reality and image: a woman begs on the Croisette while stars and festival-goers parade by, not even giving her a glance.

A group of Chinese, locked in a dark place, pass the time eating rice, listening to the radio, sleeping and dreaming of water falling from above, waiting to one day see the light of day again.

The silent wall of the German factory.

“Raise the shot!” we used to shout as children, when playing football on the asphalt, at the little ones to make them kick the ball higher so it would go over the heads of the bigger ones, and often the ball would end up outside the playing field.

On August 6, 2009, Mohammed Al-Dhakir III, a fake Sheikh, travels at the production's expense to Alba Adriatica, a town on the Abruzzo coast, to boast about real estate investments with the aim of meeting local administrators.

It's the name of a young Moroccan woman who lives in Italy and who one day decides to cross the border between the past and the future...

Andrea Chiarotti, known as Chaz, is the captain of the National Ice Sledge Hockey team.
He led the team to the 2006 Paralympics and now, after winning the European and World Championships, they have qualified for the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics.

Johnson Righeira, born Stefano Righi, who rose to fame with his "brother" Michael and the famous musical duo Righeira in the 80s, was imprisoned in Padua in 1993 following a major police raid.

Mary builds herself a terracotta wall to protect herself from something.
Or to get inside it.

Two students become aware of the barriers that divide them.

An ordinary man looking for an escape, wrapped up in his memories, his feelings, his ideals.

The film, part of the collective project Walls and Borders, aims to describe some aspects of the generational wall through the cut-up technique.

A playground where a metal fence has been installed instead of swings, to avoid interaction between the children from the council houses and the children of the owners of the building opposite.

Humanity lives its existence in a constant pursuit of longevity. Mortality is the driving force that drives individuals to strive for greatness, unlike immortality, which, according to a paradoxical argument, would lead to existential boredom.