Movies: Mario Piavoli

Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death....

Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon....

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its vocation and ideals. Through dramatic events (terrorism, Tangentopoli, labor crisis, conflict, loneliness...

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A forerunner of Al Primo Soffio Di Vento. Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a teenager’s sexual desires....

Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making Cinema founded by Marco Bellocchio....

The feast of St. Peter in a country village. The priest admonishes his parishioners to confess and be free of avarice, but after mass he invites them all to make merry. Outside the church the elderly villagers are the first to start dancing, while st...

Throughout the seasons, the work of a farmer in his vegetable garden, from the seed to its fruit....

2004 documentary by Franco Piavoli based on correspondence between poets Alessandro Parronchi and Umberto Bellintani....

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short was made with children from a nursery school in Mantua. Playing with colours, the children seem to co...