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Francesco Clerici
Francesco Clerici is an award-winning documentary director. Since 2009, he has been collaborating with the Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai and with contemporary artist Velasco Vitali, as well as teaching courses and lessons for schools and universities (Università degli studi di Milano, Università degli studi di Parma, Università Bicocca di Milano, IULM Milano, Roma Tre, …
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La vocazione di perdersi · 2024La vocazione di perdersi
★ 7.02024
MovieDocumentary
Beyond · 2025Beyond
★ 6.52025
MovieDocumentary
Beyond begins with Alex Bellini's 2017 Vatnajokull glacier expedition, a life-changing experience. In Jan. 2025, Alex returns to the expedition sites to seek answers and interpret the meaning of what happened eight years earlier with new eyes. Through this reconstruction, the documentary aims to contribute to universal reflection on the meaning of exploration and the concept of limits.
La Paz del Futuro · 2022La Paz del Futuro
★ 5.02022
Movie
La Paz del Futuro is a film about the personal, political and artistic journey of Janet Pavone, an American muralist who joined the Sandinista revolution Nicaragua of the 1980s. Janet and her fellow muralists are today invited to restore their most monumental work almost 25 years after its completion: the Quiabu mural at the Esteli military base. Showing different historical moments through extensive use of archival materials and new footage, La Paz del futuro paints an "on the road" portrait of what remains of a series of murals and a revolution, and at the same time proposes a reflection on public art, politics and the passage of time: a look to the past from the future.
The Ice Builders · 2025The Ice Builders
★ 7.52025
MovieDocumentary
An urgent portrait of the people of the Zanskar valley and their struggle to survive extreme living conditions aggravated by climate change.
Memoria del fuego · 2018Memoria del fuego
2018
MovieDocumentary
A short documentary, inspired by Eduardo Galeano: a short trip in rhythms, sounds and atmospheres in a cuban cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua.
Even Tide · 2024Even Tide
2024
MovieScience Fiction
In an unspecified future, in unspecified woods, some solar-powered camera devices, left by documentary filmmakers, are activated with motion sensors. The documentary filmmakers are dead, almost all humans on the planet are dead, and the animals are alive. A man, now facing the end of his species, sends a voicemail to his best friend for the first time. The camera devices keep rolling.
Beyul · 2026Beyul
2026
MovieDocumentary
The Himalayas, a vast natural barrier steeped in holiness and myth, are home to the legendary Beyul, or "hidden valleys". Among these there is the Zanskar Valley, now threatened by climate change.
米 (Mî) · 2020米 (Mî)
2020
MovieDocumentary
14 August, sunrise. In the south of Milan, the most international city of Italy, three figures wake up at dawn and are brought to work. They are the silent guardians of a great Italian agricultural tradition that has undergone profound changes in the last century.
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