The Purple Meridians

We started in the cold of the morning and began to walk. Between high stone mountains, we encounter fear.

Going in depth into her father’s photo archive and diaries about his experience during the military service at the Sahara spanish colony in 1964, Pilar spots the lost paradise where he always would try to come back.

The video departs from the idea of symbolizing the material, physical and emotional exploitation, in which colonization was based and embedded, by the robbery of the
Alger’s port by The French Colonial troupes.

"Europe Trap" is a film depicting the true struggle of a refugee. A close-up of Zakereh, a 55-year-old mother trying to reunite with her son, who is trapped in Greece.

Autobiographical short film made in 2003 by Lili Marsans

In O Courel in Galicia, Spain, the dead dwell amongst the living. The film opens with images of a deserted mountainous region and picturesque villages over which a female voice begins her narration. But from the outset, her documentary commentary should not be trusted.

Is staying home enough to stay alive in pandemic times?

Two women live in a prison in the middle of the desert.

A child returning to his post-war home looks at life with hope despite all the borders.

Ozan, a university student, returns to his village on receiving the news that his grandmother has died. Back in the village, he finds out a lot about the past of his father, whom he is secretly angry at.

What is left after the state takes someone from the house? A middle-aged father, teenager Dilan and little Berçem try to normalize their lives together in a house where the routine has been broken.

Five young girls, armed with musical instruments and a desire to sing, leave the Tuscan province for a tour in the Far East. They dream of success, but find themselves at war. It's 1968 and the war is the real one in Vietnam.

March 2020. In these days, when the image of the world seems denied to us, and we sadly wonder about the return to "normality" of our cinema and the impossibility of producing images if not completely turned in on themselves, in the forced intimacy of our homes, among the priorities there is certainly that of asking where to start again when the world can once again become the “object” - and not just of consumption - of our gaze.

The story of Manuela, MP, and Daniela, a city council member, told intimately and in full without ever ceasing to maintain an elegant air of respect, fits into the context (and this is the challenge for the protagonists at the beginning of their journey) of an Italy where "Berlusconism," an attitude governed by the "total disinterest of the Other," which has "ruined" the country and is expressed in shameless sexism, continues to creep in violent insulting messages sent to the elected official on Facebook, the harmless words of ordinary citizens and the jokes made by a party colleague about women’s manners, who acts as if it’s nothing. Because it’s a matter of fact that women aren’t allowed to act in the same disrespectful manner. And so, they keep their calm.

“He and I” narrates the reflections of a woman in her role as wife and mother lived between imposition and choice.

A journey through post-World War II Italy, when the young people who had lived helplessly through the horrors of the conflict began to plan a new future.
Between dances and songs, between age-old traditions and sudden changes, the images from the archives are counterpointed by the analyses that the most lucid intellectuals were already proposing while all this was happening.

A young woman investigates an island’s geologic specificity, discovering hidden strata where history and memory meet barely submerged narratives of displacement and imaginaries of possible futures.