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- The long and painful fight of Allegra, the only survivor of a terrorist attack that took the life of her three friends.
- With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Granz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
- A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.
- Ettore Castiglioni, a great Italian mountaineer and a restless soul, found a new mission by escorting war refugees to the Swiss border. The pursuit of absolute freedom will guide him towards his last mysterious challenge in Switzerland.
- Cycling and poetry, titled a Swiss Italian newspaper. The film uses a poetic sports commentary by the famous Swiss Italian poet Alberto Nessi who likes personally cycling and his text is spoken by the well-known Italian actor Omero Antonutti. The film fellows the young polish racing team during their preparations in Poland, the very flat landscape and their arrival in the Swiss hills. But we also fellow the highly professionals from Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and others during the World championship in Lugano, Switzerland. We do have interviews with the Spanish cook and journalist in the documentary also. The documentary shows not only the official races but also the preparations of young raiders of different teams, the training of various professional raiders, the women and men's competitions and some little and amusing stories happening beside and during the big event. We are the only film crew who filmed the accident of Alex Zülle when he fall down. The documentary shows not only the winner like Barbara Heeb, Alex Zülle or Johan Museeuw, Michele Bartoli, Tony Rominger, Giuliano Figueras, Luca Sironi, Andreas Kloeden, Mauro Gianetti, but also the outsiders. The film contains also a rare b/w flashback of the champions Fausto Coppi who won the World championship in Lugano 1953. The music was especially composed for the documentary by two Swiss musicians, Christian Gilardi and Ivano Torre.
- San Gottardo is first and foremost a film about emigration, the exodus brought about by the construction of the two tunnels - the railway tunnel (1872-1882) and the road tunnel (1969-1976). People migrated from one country to another, from one civilization to another, and different social mores and customs were confronted with one another. The film takes place between the unveiling of two monuments: it begins with the unveiling of the monument dedicated to the tunnel workers in Airolo, and it ends with the unveiling of the Escher monument on the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse. In between the two unveiling, the film depicts the essence of that which lay behind the veiling cloth.
- Sinestesia chronicles the vicissitudes of four young adults in two moments of their lives which are in turn linked to two dramatic episodes three years apart. The intervening years see the characters confronted by the usual joys and difficulties of everyday life.
- The film is about two artists: one from the mountains, the Italian-Swiss architect Mario Botta who built a chapel, and the other, the Italian painter: Enzo Cucchi, a man of the sea who painted the frescoes in the chapel, up to 70 meters.
- A film about the journey from adolescence to adulthood, about growing self-awareness, about the lonely choices of dreams and fears, successes and failures.
- This film on Renzo Ferrari is not a biography, but rather a kind of biographic spy, based on hints found in his paintings, like associations, objects, sculptures, shadows and signs. The paintings selected for this production are from his 2000-2003 collection and are rich in strong socio-political references, from migrants and their countries to multi-ethnic elements and peculiar characters, like Gaio, who is neither man nor woman. No experts, no friends, no critics, just his paintings and the visual and sound elements they express. I have known Renzo Ferrari for decades and have followed his exhibits in Ticino and in Northern Italy. The perspective chosen for this film is that of a fiction novel, a biographical journey through Renzo Ferrari's paintings. The film shows the areas in Milan (Italy) where Renzo Ferrari lives. It shows his atelier, small drawings in his agenda, scribbled notes in his diary, but also the forest around Cadro (near Lugano, Switzerland), his outdoor Bateau-Lavoir, with curtains swaying in the wind, his small atelier in Ticino. I also used some archive material, photographies, excerpts from other films and newspapers, and posters from past exhibits. All this is mixed together with sound material, with African music - which he often listens to when at work - with quotations from films and of sentences in French, literature, philosophy and arts history, sounds from the subway in Milan and from New York; cities, which have much inspired him. Renzo Ferrari is a "border" artist.