Michele Tarantola

In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scientific community supported Nazism, distorted history to legitimize a hideous system and was an accomplice to its unspeakable crimes. The story of the Ahnenerbe, a sinister organization created to rewrite the obscure origins of a nation.

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.

Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that leads you to delinquency as the only way to exist. The pitch: Sam, a little bandit, finds himself trapped by a corrupted police officer who forces him to get information about Ali, one of the high crime boss known to be very dangerous.

Киностудия «Альбатрос» была основана в Париже в 1920 году русскими кинематографистами-эмигрантами, покинувшими Россию после революции 1917 года. С 1920 по 1929 год студии «Альбатрос» и именно русским кинематографистам удалось совершить настоящий переворот во французском кино. Феноменальный успех фильмов студии «Альбатрос» обеспечил вторую жизнь французскому кинематографу, позволив ему выйти в международный прокат и создать конкуренцию Голливуду. Во главе этой небольшой студии, родившейся одним февральским вечером 1920 года на одноимённом греческом судне «Альбатрос», стояли два русских продюсера: Иосиф Ермольев и Александр Каменка.

To the Least of My Brothers and Sisters is a new documentary on the life of Jerome Lejeune, the Father of Modern Genetics that was made to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his death. Filmed on two continents, it contains numerous interviews with former colleagues, families, current medical researchers, and others, all who express the importance of Jerome Lejeune in both the history of medicine and the defense of the dignity of human life.

A Donatello award nominated short feature that follows two elderly neighbours after one inherits a dog that kills his friend's beautiful white cat.