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A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.

Set in apocalyptic Palermo peopled by ignorant, inbred, flatulent gluttons and deformed Mafiosi, a dark comedy which centers on a poor family of three-middle aged brothers who are coerced, by local Mafia honchos, into hiding a mysterious old man known as the Uncle from Brooklyn in their home.

On the first of May 1947, the bandit Salvatore Giuliano conducted a raid to the mountain pass Portella della Ginestra, with a view to capturing Sicily's most prominent communist, Giacomo Licausi. What actually happened was a regular massacre, leaving fourteen people dead and more than thirty wounded. In 1951, about a year after Giulano's violent death, his men are tried in Viterbo. Unconvinced by the official version, Gaspare Pasciotta's lawyer, decides to travel to Sicily and starts investigating the facts.

Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In the first segment, a widow attends her husband's funeral and ends up having sex with her brother-in-law next to her husband's corpse.

Maria, a 7-year-old girl who lives on the island of Ustica, has forgotten her mothers birthday, and only remembers it when she sees her brothers presenting her with two bunches of wild flowers. To make amends, she immediately sets off to buy some irises she had spotted in the market down at the port that morning. Luckily the flower seller still has some left, but Maria only has enough money for one Iris.

The trial of a woman in San Miniato accused of witchcraft in 1594.

Italian slice-of-life comedy-drama following the exploits of four low-life teenagers from Rome's suburbs.

This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and personalities, but she can't stop collecting adventures. One day she meets Valerio, a young student who falls in love with her.

MONTAGE 11 FAST FORWARD REWIND is a palindrome video. The streets of the city of São Paulo mix with the streets of Rome and the past of my ancestors: Italians immigrants in Brazil. The camera goes around the ancient "House of the Immigrants" in the borough of Bras and mix with photos, memories, people, suggestions of the past and the present reality of São Paulo. The peculiar thing about this video was that the music was composed at the same time that the editing was made seeking for a perfect balance between sound and image. It has not been released in public yet.