Lino Del Fra

Third and last episode by Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra in which they investigate what Italians think about sex and gender. Now, the questions focus on the notion of modesty and on the meaning given to the sacrament of marriage.

Series inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore. This time, Italian people are confronted with though questions about sex before marriage, extramarital affairs and homosexuality.

Twenty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore, Cecilia Mangini and Lino Del Fra once again investigate what Italians think about sex and gender. They travel through the country and gather opinions and testimonies, resulting in a complex portrait of a society in-between progress and tradition.

"Gramsci, los años de cárcel" es un riguroso drama biográfico que realiza un recorrido por el complejo devenir personal e ideológico de este líder y teórico político italiano. El filme se detiene concretamente en los años que Gramsci estuvo recluido en prisión a causa de su praxis política y en la intensa actividad teórica que desarrolló hasta su muerte en abril de 1937.

This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake). –IMDb

This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake). –IMDb

Two young militants in love try to link their ideals to their everyday life together. A reflection on the attempt to combine love, intimacy and revolution.

Humorous observations on the Italian Beat world featuring poet Gianni Milano, Majid Andrea Valcarenghi, and other Italian beatnik.

The Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento, took place between 1815 and 1870. During this period, caricature was a privileged medium for political commentary. From Napoleon III to Garibaldi, no one escaped the caricaturists, who also resorted to drawing to talk about the new legal system, the emancipation of women or the freedom of the press.

Indagación sobre los orígenes del fascismo y su desarrollo en Italia y en otros países mediante material de archivo. Esta revisión muestra el marco ideológico del fascismo y el rastro que ha dejado en la mentalidad de la gente.

Indagación sobre los orígenes del fascismo y su desarrollo en Italia y en otros países mediante material de archivo. Esta revisión muestra el marco ideológico del fascismo y el rastro que ha dejado en la mentalidad de la gente.

Indagación sobre los orígenes del fascismo y su desarrollo en Italia y en otros países mediante material de archivo. Esta revisión muestra el marco ideológico del fascismo y el rastro que ha dejado en la mentalidad de la gente.

Fata Morgana is the train that arrives in Milan coming from the south of Italy. It is the train of the “southern” migrants. They arrive with packages, luggage, wives, children, in the hope of the economic boom. But there is no place for them and the city pushes them to the periphery. Few manage to find work, but new men keep coming every day.

A village in Calabria still follows ancient customs in which young women must secretly wait for a log to be dragged to their doorstep in a symbolic declaration of love. Lino Del Fra reflects on how the weight of traditions exercises social control over love and family relationships.

An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini and her husband and partner Lino Del Fra.