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Director and Writer: Thomas Torelli, Production: Blum Lab, Ivan Nossa, Un Altro Mondo  Language: English, French, Italian, Italy, 2016, 57′, Rights: World LogLine: A documentary film by Thomas Torelli, based on unused footage for Another World This documentary was made to support Alberto Ruz Buenfil‘s campaign to create a Charter for the Rights of Mother…

Director and Writer: Thomas Torelli, Production: Bluma Lab  Language: English, Italian, Italy, 2017, 85′, Rights: World Food ReLOVution: What we eat can make a difference is an eye-opening and compelling feature documentary that examines the consequences of the meat culture as concerns grow about health, world hunger, animal welfare and the environmental cost of livestock…

Director and Writer: Thomas Torelli, Production: Un Altro Mondo / Divisione Red Joss,  Language: English, French, Italian, Italy, 2018, 68′, Rights: World A compelling and moving documentary featuring the world-renowned American author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra and the prominent American developmental biologist Bruce Harold Lipton among others, that examines the scientific implications and…

Director and Writer: Thomas Torelli, Producer: Bluma Lab, Iva Nossa, Production: Lotus Production  Language: Italian, Spanish, English and Japanese, Italy, 2014, 63′, Rights: World The world and human beings are undergoing a period of powerful transformation. A great part of the change has to do with a shift in consciousness. There is a great and…

Director: Andrea Mura With: Nicolo Capriata, Giuseppe Grosso, Andrea Luxoro, Luca Navarra, Luigi Pellerano, Tullia Pusceddu, Remigio Scopelliti, Production: Ginko Film, Language: Italian, ITALY, 2019 , 22′,  Rights: World The documentary, through testimonies, archival documents and animations, leads the spectator to discover the fascinating story of the Tabarchine people during centuries of wanderings across the Mediterranean.…

Director: Matvey Troshkin, Screenplay: Matvey Troshkin, Producer: Maria Chuprinskaya Production: ETHNOFOUND, World Sales in collaboration with Antipode Sales & Distribution, Language: Russian, RUSSIA, 2015, 75′,  Rights: World excluding Russia and CIS countries   Eugeniy Tsoy is a drag artist, he works in a show of twins, parody, a multi-performance drag show. He is a young…

Director and Writer: Belén Ortega Valdés, Producer: Sylvana Bacigaluppo, Language: Spanish, Chile, 2018, 27′, Rights: World excluding Argentina and Chile In 2016, Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered for being a lesbian. The film evokes Nicole through the use of testimonies of her closest ones combined with images that portray absence felt in…

Director:  Alessandro Stevanon, Production: La Fournaise, Italy, 73′, 2017, 4K Rights: World  Alessandro Stevanon’s biopic tells the life and artistic exploits of the star Omar Codazzi and his band, told throughout their tour, at street parties and dance halls, across various regions in the North of Italy. A road movie recounted by the most famous…

Director:  Alessandro Stevanon, Production: Ezechiele 25:17 Film Production, Italy, 13′, 2013, Rights: World  Two hands kneading, the rustle of flour, the sewing machine making a hem by ticking, a whispered prayer among the beads of the rosary, the whistle of the train, the silence of days all the same, a courtyard that no longer exists…

Director:  Alessandro Stevanon, Production: Ezechiele 25:17 Film Production, Italy, 30′, 2011, Rights: World  Felice is an 80-year-old farmer who lives, together with his wife, in a small rural world marked by the slow rhythm of the seasons. From the mountains that dominate his small town comes the echo of an ancient story that, perhaps, no…

Director: Valentina Belli, Producer: Salvatore Braca, Production: Pandataria Film, Language: Italian & Khmer, Italy, 60′, 2020, Rights: World no Italy  In the strip of land that stretches from the Cambodian countryside to the Angkor forest near Siem Reap, far from the chaos of a city trying to cope with the consequences of the modern world,…

Director: Treasa O’Brien, Executive Producer: Joshua Oppenheimer, Production company: Wildfire Films, Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland, Ireland, language: English, 80′, 2018, Rights: World  There are only two stories: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. This film is about a stranger who comes to make a film in…

Director: Ana L’Homme , Producer: Ana L’Homme, Chile, 30′, 2019, Rights: World  Premiered at EFM in Berlin 2019. A documentary which tells us about Mauricia Saavedra’s world: a poet and singer, rooted in her tradition, but breaking down this tradition all the time. Sharing the atmosphere of the Chilean land, we start knowing about the…

Direction, image and editing: Joseph Péaquin Production: DOCFILM and Centre d’Etudes Les Anciens Remèdes, Italy, 34′, 2019, Rights: World  Grazia and Bruno are an eighty-year-old couple, married for 60 years. They have always lived in La Thuile, a small town at the foot of the Piccolo San Bernardo hill in the Aosta Valley. Together, they…

Director: Iacopo Patierno, Executive Producers: Jacopo Fo, Bruno Patierno, Production: Jacopo FO Gruppo Atlantide, Funded by: Eni Foundation in collaboration with Medici con l’Africa Cuamm, 75′, Mozambique/Italy, 2016, Rights: World This is the story of Wiwanana, or how dialogue is the most powerful weapon for change. A group of five Italians and a Mozambican are…

Director: Iacopo Patierno, Producer: Ilenia Amoruso, Production: Jacopo FO Gruppo Atlantide Funded by: Eni & the patronage of the Municipality of Gela, 21×8-10′ (total 189′), Italy, 2019/2020/2021, Rights: World  Gela The Roots Of the Future The series Italy Sicily Gela tells in 21 episodes Gela, one of the most contradictory cities in Italy, through the voice of…

Creator: Deaglán Ó Mocháin,  Production: Dearcán Media, Funded By: ILBF & BBC Gaeilge, Northern Ireland UK, 2×29′, 2020, Rights: World excluding UK and Ireland In Magheraroarty in West Donegal, the O’Brien family fish for crab behind Tory Island and out towards the Scottish coast. It’s tough and unrelenting work. John O’Brien skippers the Handa Isle with a…

Creator: Deaglán Ó Mocháin,  Production: Dearcán Media, Commissioned by TG4, with support from the Irish Language Broadcast Fund, Northern Ireland UK, 50′, 2021, Rights: World excluding UK and Ireland   The radical plan reversing the decline of bees and pollinators across all of Ireland Bees and pollinators have been declining in Ireland and other countries…

Directed by: Adesua Okosun, Production: Blackverse Studios, Nigeria, 60′ (5 episodes of various length), 2020, Rights: World “The Otherside” a series by Adesua Okosun is a documentary series taking you on a journey across the African continent and exploring an alternative and not often told African story. Each episode surpasses barriers and boundaries that create…

LOOP  Sci-Fi, 8′,  2019, Spanish- English Subtitles, Colombia, Written, Directed and Edited by: Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba, Produced by: Laura V Lozano V and Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba A man owns a time machine that he must use to save his own life, taking the risk of getting trapped in a series of time paradoxes.…

Director/Writer/Producer: Anna Fahr, Co-producer: Habib Battah, Produced by: Morning Bird Pictures, Canada/Lebanon, Arabic, 2020, 6×3-5′, Rights World Migrant Mothers of Syria is an interactive documentary web series that seeks to bring the Syrian refugee crisis out of the realm of numbers and statistics and engage audiences with personal stories about life in-between places – told…

Director: Matti Johansson, Executive Producer: Nils Ringmar, Production Company: Vagel Studio, Sweden, Format: Vertical, Language: Swedish, 10′, 2020, Rights: World William had to take 30 medical pills per day due to his diagnosis of autism and ADD. When he finally got a prescription of the Swedish medical authority Läkemedelsverket certified cannabis recipe Sativex, he managed…

Director: Matti Johansson, Executive Producer: Nils Ringmar, Production Company: Vagel Studio, Sweden, Format: Vertical, Language: Swedish, 7′, 2020, Rights: World Svea Sigmond calls her self The Queen of Comedy, she had a career as a well-paid recruiter, leading 65 employees at her former workplace. She decided to put everything at risk when she quit her…

Director: Matti Johansson, Executive Producer: Nils Ringmar, Production Company: Vagel Studio, Sweden, Format: Vertical, Language: Swedish, 8′, 2020, Rights: World A personal story about Sabine and Simon that are living in an open relationship. Having the possibility to find an attraction for others can be fun, sexy and free. But being polyamorous also requires lots…

Director: Fredo Valla, Production Company: Incandenza film, Chambra d’Oc is realized with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte – Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Italy, Languages: French/Italian/Occitan/Bulgarian,3h 16′ (200′), 2020, Rights: World  BOGRE – the great European heresy a documentary film by Fredo Valla. Bogre is a road-movie in the footsteps of the Cathars and Bogomils,…

Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren,  Production Company: Sirimiri Films, Spain, Languages: Arabic, Spanish, Basque, 17´, 2018, Rights: World except North and South America In 1968 the bases of EUSKARA BATUA, or Standard Basque, were established in the Arantzazu sanctuary, the purpose of which was to bring together the speakers of the different dialects and bring them…

Director and Writer: Pavel Pljuskov, Producer: Pavel Pljuskov, Supported by: Statutory City Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 3×52′, 2018, Rights: World This is a story about people who have fallen in love with the Brazilian temperament and culture. They have surrendered to the circle and are not afraid to fight. Through the rhythms of traditional Afro-Brazilian…

Director: Jan Marin, Producer:  Jure Kreft, Copyright: Fixmedia, Co-producer: Slovenian Film Center, Slovenia, 4K, 10×10”, 2019, Rights: World ‘Why Not?‘ a family science show for from 10+. The original title ‘Zato, ker lahko’ translates literally to ‘Because we can’ and this playfulness underpins this educational entertainment show from Slovenia. We get to explore our presenters…

Director: Marco Eisenbarth, Copyright: 4ReelDocs, Germany, 4K, 6 x 20-30′, 2018, Rights: World The ‘Pretty Bastards’ dream of making a living as professional wrestlers. But the struggle is real in a business that is deemed to be fake.   “BASTARDS” is a wrestling documentary series that follows the German-Iranian wrestling tag team ‘Pretty Bastards’ as…

Directed by: Sara Mignogna, Produced by: Sara Mignogna, Italy, Language: English/Italian 60′, 2018, Rights: World The Faroe Islands are 18 islands in the North Atlantic somewhere between Scotland and Iceland. A quiet and uncontaminated place, which is mostly only mentioned for their old custom of Grindadráp, better known as whale hunting that has been practised…

Directed by: Luca Vullo, Produced by: Ondemotive Productions and Videoplugger, UK/Italy, 4×25′, 2020, Rights: World Red Zones is created by Luca Vullo, Ondemotive Productions and co-produced by Videoplugger. ‘Red Zones’ has been commissioned by SKY Italy and broadcast on SKY tg24 the series is now available for international distribution. The series has been shortlisted for…

Director: Cristiana Cerrini, Production: Cristiana Cerrini,  Lucia Manganaro Morelli, Italy, 12′, 2020, Rights: World ‘Lindsay Kemp Claudio Barontini. Drawings and photographs’ was the last exhibition that Lindsay Kemp was part of before his death. The multi-talented British choreographer, actor, dancer, mime and director, who was also known as a mentor and collaborator of David Bowie.…

Directors: Victoria Bornaz and Julia Zárate, Scriptwriter: Julieta Ledesma, Production: Sinapsis Produccion, Copyright holder: Glowstar, Argentina, 4×30′, 2019, Rights: World Argentinian series commissioned by Encuentro the public educational channel of Argentina. After winning support from INCAA, exploring the life of transgender people in Argentina. Transgender rights in Argentina have been lauded by many as some…

Director: Various, Executive Producer: Glowstar, Production/Copyright: Glowstar Media, Argentina, Language: Latam Spanish, 15×10′, 2020, Rights: World  Latin-American LGBTQ factual documentary and entertainment series, more than six hours of locally produced programming,  factual programmes for the rainbow community with an open mind. Friendly is for a sophisticated, open-minded audience that wants to find entertainment with innovative programs…

Director: Aleksandar Reljić, Executive Producer: Vanja Kranjac, Production/Copyright: RTV-Radio Television of Vojvodina, Serbia, Language: German and English, 53′ and longer version of 74′, 2018, Rights: World  Rainer Hess is the grandson of an Auschwitz commander, who becomes ‘adopted’ by Eva Mozes Kor (1934 – 2019) the world-famous Holocaust survivor, in 2014 on the grounds of…

Director: Eloïse Barbieri, Producer: Eloïse Barbieri, Production/Copyright: Eloïse Barbieri, Italy, 4K, 14×26′-35′, 2019, Rights: World except Italian speaking territories A compelling intimate travel documentary series in 4K featured in the popular RAI program Geo, filmed in different parts of the world seen through the eyes of Eloïse Barbieri who narrates the series. Each episode comes…

Director: Clarisa Navas, Executive Producer: Maria Laura Buslemen, Production: Yaguá Pirú Cine, Jaque Content, Argentina, Music: Fran Villalba, 26′, 2017, Rights: Europe, South Asia, Asia. Love between borders is a documentary film which examines the lives of two women who are loving across borders and barriers that exists in society around them both physical and…

Director: Lucas Combina, Producer: Paola Suarez, Production: Jaque Productions, Germina Films, Signal Colombia, and Mario Riorda, with support from Amen Montevideo and FM Producores, Copyright: Jaque Productions and Mario Riorda, Argentina/Colombia, 6×48′, 4K, 2018’, Rights: Europe, Asia and Africa. In the name of the people after an idea by and featuring Mario Riorda is a…

Director/Creator: Andrea Capranico, Producer: Andrea Capranico and Darlene Catly Malimas, Philippines, Languages: Tagalog, English and Hiligaynon (English and Italian subtitles available), 2015, 79′, Rights: Selected territories The Landscape Within is a lyrical documentary “A journey of healing through art family and culture”. The Filipino conceptual artist, body-painter and photographer Eric “Nui” Cabales struggle to find…

Director: Stephen Guest, Production: Stephen Guest, UK, 2019, 30’, Rights: World A documentary exploring hate crime against the LGBTQ+ community. Over recent years progress has been made to increase visibility for LGBTQ+ people, unfortunately, reports from rainbow organisations show an increase in hate crime against the rainbow community. For trans people, these findings have been…

Director: Gaël Truc, Production: Gaël Truc,  Italy/France/Switzerland, Languages: French/Italian, 2019, 10×30’, Rights: World  A gastronomic road trip around the Alps. In Le Petit Tour a gastro journey presented by sommelier and foodie expert Mathieu Champrétavy, he takes the audience on a cross-cultural tour around the Italian and French Alps. In a series of original reportages ‘Le…

Director: Michele Peyretti, Script writer: Michele Peyretti, Producer: Luigi Cinalli, Copyright holder: Monte Bianco Droni, With support from: Film Commission Vallee D’Aoste & Fondation Grand Paradis, Italy, Language: French, 2019, 12×30′, Rights: World A topical environmentalist docu-drama The flight of Anouk (Le Vol d’Anouk) that can be enjoyed as a documentary thanks to its intriguing…

Director: Francesco Cordio,  Copyright holder/Produced by: Own Air, Italy, 2018, 109′, Rights: World  A documentary exploring the reasons behind the forced resignation and the charges of alleged embezzlement and fraud of the ex-mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino. “In order to kick me out, they would have put cocaine in my pocket ” Ignazio Marino Rome,…

Director: Luca Pellegrini, Writer: Maria Teresa Venditti, Luca Pellegrini, Executive Producers: Alessandro Tartaglia Polcini, Luca Pellegrini, Maria Teresa Venditti, Roberta Arcangeli, Producer/Copyright holder: OWN AIR, Italy, 2018, 75′, Rights: World Being divine (Essere Divina) is the story of the Drag Lab the only course in Italy where one enters wearing everyday shoes and leave on…

Director: Alan Gilsenan, Writer: Alan Gilsenan, Producer: Stuart Switzer, Coco Television, Ireland, 2013, 80′, Rights: World A feature docu-drama on the life of Irish-born Eliza Lynch, who became Paraguay’s uncrowned queen. The story of Eliza Lynch, one of the most intriguing, infamous and — outside of South America — least known characters of modern history.…

Directed by: Garry Keane, Produced by: Mind the Gap Films, 60′ film, 2016,  Rights: World Deafening reveals the world through the eyes of four Deaf people with uniquely different lives. Through its carefully designed sensory landscape, it will challenge the audience to rethink their perception and understanding of sound. RTÉ News & Weather presenter Sarah…

Director: Anda and Dragos Teglas, Producer: Dragos Teglas, Anda Teglas, Ana Turcanu, Cristian Spiridon, Produced by: This Is Insomnia Limited, 3×42′, 2016,  Rights: World Chronicling the lives of 13 Romanians living in Britain, this compelling 3 episode, portrait style documentary, gives voice to universal themes and stories while anchoring different immigration stories into the ever-changing…

Director: James Stier, Producer: James Stier, co-producer: Leo Kaserer Production: Anattic, AK Tirol and Rame Heritage 71′, 2017, UK, Rights: World. A documentary film about a 70-year-old Cornish fisherman who is the last of his generation, Malcolm Baker is the last traditional Fisherman in the Rame Peninsula, a beautiful, sleepy and forgotten corner of Cornwall, England.…

Directed by: Luca Vullo, Produced by: EM Production, UK, 8×12′, series and film 2016, Rights: World

Directed by: Paolo Ruffini and Francesco Pacini, Production: Non C’è Problema, Laser Film, Fenix Entertainment and Agnus Dei Production, 75′ film, 2018, Rights: World Five actors with Down syndrome and one autistic are the protagonists of this social doc that follows this very special company on a tour of Italian theaters. This is UP&Down – An ordinary film,…

Director: Laura Martin-Robinson & Claire Hill, Producer: Catryn Ramasut, Produced by: ie ie productions, 60′, 2017,  Rights: World A BBC Wales documentary exploring autism through the eyes of Welsh actor Richard Mylan and his 11 year-old son, who is on the autism spectrum. Jaco Mylan is like any other 11-year-old boy. He loves rugby, dancing and…

Director: Laura Martin-Robinson, Producer: Catryn Ramasut, Executive Producer: Steve Robinson, Produced by: ie ie productions, 59′, 2019, Rights: World Richard Mylan and his autistic son Jaco are going on a journey of discovery. Travelling from Wales to America and back again, they’re visiting the most autism-friendly places around the world, to find out how we…

Directed by: Paolo Ruffini, Andrea Cavallini, and Antonio Cavallini, Production: Nido del Cuculo, Non C’è Problema, Sui Passi di Ale, 71′ film, 2017,  Rights: World The definition of Resilience is the ability to react with a positive attitude to traumatic events, and adjust when faced with adversity. The documentary Resilience by Paolo Ruffini, an Italian actor, and presenter, is…

Directed by: Anna Rodgers, Produced by: Hilary O’Donovan,  Company: Coco Content, Commissioned by: RTÉ and the BAI, Ireland, English, 4×50’, 2014, Rights: World excl. Ireland Norah’s Traveller Academy is a four-part documentary series in which entrepreneur and mentor Norah Casey known from RTÉ’s Dragons Den, attempt to kickstart the business potential of four talented young…

Directed by: Garry Keane, Production: Mind the Gap Films, RTÉ , 60′ film, 2015,  Rights: World RTÉ landmark documentary represents a television first – an intimate portrayal of the Irish Deaf Community told through their unique experience of the controversial St Joseph’s School for Deaf Boys in Dublin. Presented by renowned Performance Artist and daughter of Deaf parents, Amanda Coogan.…

Directed by: Luca Vullo, Producer: Dave Atkinson, Executive production: Ondemotive productions, 44′, 2018,  Rights: World Dallas in Prizzi documents the journey of an artistic team from Dallas, Texas, attempting to reinforce the life and the values of the isolated town of Prizzi in Sicily. The economic and political frustrations of southern Italy are plainly seen,…

Director: Anna Rodgers, Producer: Wildfire Films, Ireland, 2014, English, 53′, Rights: World. Love, sex and disability are explored in this documentary which takes us into the romantic lives of people with physical or intellectual disabilities. Sexuality is an integral part of life and is recognised as a basic human need. Yet, for people with a disability,…

Directed by: Luca Vullo, produced by: Ondemotive productions/UCL, UK, 30′, film 2018, Rights: World. CCÀ SEMU Here we are, lives on hold in Lampedusa – ‘Here we are ‘ the proverb encompasses how the people from the Italian island of Lampedusa define their place in the world with both pride and resignation. Surrounded by the…

Directed by: Gareth Molan, Producer: Helen Nash, Production: Mister Shark Ltd. 21′, 2017, UK, Rights: World. This is the remarkable story of Dan Wilson ‘The Horse Whisperer of Bodmin Moor’. Based out of his farm in Cornwall, England, Dan is a natural horse trainer, commonly referred to as ‘Horse Whisperer’. Dan was brought up with…

Directed by: Luca Vullo, Executive production: Ondemotive productions, 60′ film, 2012, Rights: World A funny, fantastic but also an educational journey through the typical Sicilian body language. The Sicilians are famous all over the world, among other things, for this very peculiar way of accompanying every word, conversation or greeting with gestures, facial expressions, and…