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

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.

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.

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.





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