Andrea Zambelli

Umberto Eco's private library was a world in itself: more than 30,000 contemporary books and 1,500 antique volumes. With the help of Eco's family, the director has produced a documentary that describes a one-of-a-kind place.

Art documentary about the Accademia Carrara gallery, which reopened in 2015 after seven years of extensive restoration.

In a Burmese village on the Irrawaddy river, a group of people fight against fear of repression to celebrate love in a forbidden gay wedding.

This documentary travels back to the World War II period, with archival footage of the workers that demonstrates how the women lived from day to day (driving trucks and tractors, bathing in streams, et cetera - always singing to keep their spirits up); director Andrea Zambelli then interviews those among the women who are still living (now in their 70s and 80s). As the film unfurls, it reveals an astonishing and colorful truth: a number of the women subsequently formed a singing ensemble during their golden years, and decided to tour Italy in that outfit, regularly performing the folks songs of their youth that majestically re-evoke that time. As the women congregate and talk on-camera, revealing their colorful, magnetic personalities, they tell detailed and evocative tales of the past and of the emotions they initially experienced.

The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.