Films

In development and in production

Eight films are being made right now. We put them here because a documentary takes years, and the years are part of the work.

Be Free
In production

Be Free

Come se fosse possibile cambiare il mondo

Silvana Costa

Inside a Rome anti-violence center and secret shelter, two trainee counselors confront emergencies and moral dilemmas as survivors rebuild fractured lives—revealing the hidden labor, solidarity, and fragile, non-linear path to freedom.

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Motel Africa
In production

Motel Africa

Caterina Borelli · 75 min

In 1964, the year Tanzania was born, the Italian state oil company AGIP/ENI opened a motel in downtown Dar es Salaam. Today it stands abandoned, and its owners have opened it to us. Through the people who worked, stayed and grew up around it, the film holds two histories usually told apart: the decolonisation of an African nation and the transformation of a European state company.

70% shot. A 52-minute television version is also planned. Delivery February 2028.

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Pela Akapupela — Zambian women rise up
In development

Pela Akapupela — Zambian women rise up

Federico Schiavi

On Lake Tanganyika, fishermen decide who gets fish — and some name a price that is not money. A circus puts it on stage; the village answers.

Written with Maarten Roest. Development covered; shooting 2027.

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Blind Pit
In production

Blind Pit

Federico Schiavi · 75 min

Federico Schiavi is also director of photography. Synopsis to come.

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