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Luis, a wandering street performer, crosses a forest in search of Sàmara, a legendary city where artists are welcomed and celebrated. Along the way he encounters a mysterious Persian poet, an ambiguous magician, the dancer Rosita and young Morito. As reality gives way to visions and apparitions, Luis discovers that the road to Sàmara may be an inner journey rather than a destination.

The tension is extreme in this area of the planet. Diversities are many, pressure here has a destructive potential. But not always.Yet tension can be creative, it can be both destructive and creative. This is the reason why every writer who travels through this place is fascinated by the power of these lands and these peoples. The Author doesn't want to just get off the train and then on again, he wants to carry a memory and a hope. Not only a memory, and not only a hope. Maybe it is possible to coexist with a past without giving up one's visions. Maybe it is possible to harbor a hope without disconnecting from the past. A train passes slow across the heart of the Balcans. This is a train that has a lot to tell.

Ribelli! is a chorus of faces and voices that brings together the stories of the men and women who helped rebuild Italy after the darkness of Fascism. Through the memories of partisans from Bologna, Florence, Venice, Parma, Rome, Viareggio and beyond, the film revisits resistance, rebellion, ideals and disillusionment, turning their experiences into a powerful warning for the present.

The Teatro Povero of Monticchiello in the Sienese hills, a community in the Ligurian Alps, an agora reclaimed from decay in the heart of Genoa, a restored newsstand in Bologna, and new experiments in communal living across southern Italy. What connects these distant places? Women, men and communities driven by the same desire: to rebuild human bonds and imagine shared futures. Through conflicts, radical choices, solitude and hope, the film travels across Italy to give voice to those who refuse to wait for change and instead choose to make it possible.

A journey through Romani communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where men, women and children reveal fragments of a culture shaped by centuries of migration, persecution and survival. Moving between documentary observation and poetic imagery, the film explores identity, memory and the enduring mystery of a people whose history reaches back a thousand years.