Alberto Vendemmiati

Movies

Left by the Ship
Director
Robert, Jr, Charlene and Margarita are Amerasians: the sons and daughters of Filipina sex workers and American servicemen stationed at the Subic Bay US Naval Base, once the largest outside mainland USA.When the Base closed in 1992, thousands of Amerasian children were left behind. Unlike Amerasian children from other countries, Filipino Amerasians were never recognized by the US government. Over the course of two years, we followed the lives of our four Amerasian, as they struggle with discrimination, family problems and identity related issues, trying to overcome a past they are in no way responsible for.
La persona de Leo N.
Director
As a twelve-year-old boy, Nicola de Leo already knew she wanted to become a woman. Today, the now forty-year-old transsexual lives in Venice and has changed her name to Nicole. She has undergone a hormone treatment and grown breasts, but she still lives inside the body of a middle-aged man, including a penis, a beard and a substantial Adam's apple. This is why Nicole is applying for a sex change through official channels. 'I never thought it would be so hard. I thought making the decision was enough,' she says. During five tense years, Nicole fights her emotional and physical struggle in the presence of director Alberto Vendemmiati's camera. Working as an actress, a seller of carnival masks and a prostitute, she finances her cosmetic treatments and looks forward to the subsidised sex change operation. Meanwhile, she turns to her elderly mother for support, who has a hard time accepting that her son will soon be a daughter.
Afghanistan: Collateral Damage
Editor
A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.
Afghanistan: Collateral Damage
Cinematography
A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.
Afghanistan: Collateral Damage
Writer
A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.
Afghanistan: Collateral Damage
Director
A documentary that follows the efforts of aid workers to re-open a hospital in Kabul from October to December 2001, while fighting between US and Taliban forces was still underway.
Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin
Director
Jung is a narrative documentary that follows the human and professional adventure of its protagonists, the Afghan people in the midst of civil war.