Movies: Danilo Monte

In 1983, Franz Paludetto acquired Rivara Castle at the foot of the Italian Alps. A century earlier, artists from all over Europe had gathered here to establish the Rivara School of Painting. We witness the story of Italy during the latter half of the...

Life on the edge of a boy and a woman meet and unite, for a moment, among the rubble and solitude of one of the largest discotheques in Europe of the 1990s: Last Empire. Here, between the fog and the cold, the warmth of humanity seems to have almost ...

Roberto loves history, in particular WWII. His life has been marked by drugs, communities and prison, but also by movies and literature. For his thirtieth birthday, his brother gives him a slow journey, by train, to a destination that is off the beat...

A portrait in the past and in the present of Turin which in 1961 was the scene of the international labor exhibition. In that period, an entire neighborhood was built to celebrate the progress and well-being of Italy during the economic boom. '61 was...

Alberto Grifi, an experimental filmmaker, becomes aware of the experiments conducted by Dr. Kanudo, who, following in the footsteps of T. Leary and A. Huxley, documents the effects of psychotropic substances on the human mind. In collaboration with e...

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In May 2017 Alessandro, the director's son, was born. It is a parenting that he and his life and cinema partner, Laura D'Amore, have intensely sought with a series of repeated, laborious, painful attempts to become the subject of a film, Vita Nova (2...