I piaceri proibiti

Documentary short about Italian painter Antonio Ligabue.

Following the steps of the painter Antonio Ligabue, the documentary discovers the works of many naif painters from the Bassa Padania who live along the banks of the river Po.

We are in the Gargano, where the Sunday dish is the “maccaruni” seasoned with pieces of meat, and for the rest of the week you have to settle for the pancotto made from stale bread with chicory, fava beans and potatoes (a poor dish that today sometimes passes for refined delicacy).

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.

A girl walks into a house, in order to pose nude for a portrait.

A Silver Bear winning documentary short about Italian painter Antonio Ligabue.

Documentary about high rises.

A documentary without a narrator on certain episodes of superstition and magical rituals in Rome.

Documentary short about Italian painter Antonio Ligabue.