Within the documentary market Bio To B - Industry Days | Doc, we propose a unique and experimental moment of encounter between cinema of the real and contemporary thought: an hour and a half of immersion in three documentary projects still in their embryonic phase, at the moment of maximum creative potential, when anything can still happen.
The format intends to unhinge the habits of traditional pitching and contaminate the creative processes, offering the stories in power new possibilities for growth, new points of view, new looks and new voices.
In this open and unprecedented space, ideas and suggestions will be solicited, stimulated, shared and questioned by three personalities of contemporary culture, coming from fields not strictly related to audiovisuals in view of confirmation, such as: anthropologists, writers, philosophers, theorists, artists, etc... Free voices, called upon not to judge, but to inspire, question and open up new trajectories.
In front of an accredited audience - producers, commissioning editors and industry professionals - each project will have: 10 minutes to tell its story through a pitch (speech + teaser); 15 minutes of dialogue and discussion with the three experts. The session will end with brief conclusions by the moderator, to gather stimuli and insights.
In the year 2786, Johanne, a young German traveler, retraces — a thousand years after Goethe — the legendary journey through Italy, reflecting on what it means to cross a land shaped by the Anthropocene. Her thoughts form an intimate and philosophical audio diary, where emotions and observations intertwine. In parallel, the images reveal an Italy suspended between past, present, and future — portrayed as a vast open-air amusement park, where postcard beauty is fractured by the transformations — at times harmonious, at times violent — brought about by the hand of man.
At twenty-five, Michael discovers the identity of his biological mother: Maria Antonietta, a homeless woman and mother of five children, four of whom were taken away by social services. Camilla, his adoptive mother, took him in shortly after experiencing the pain of two miscarriages. Valentina, Michael’s adoptive sister, also began her search for motherhood early on and, like him, decided to trace her own origins. Three women, connected by two invisible threads: on one side, motherhood — with its joys, struggles, and traumas — on the other, Michael — the lost son, the found son, the contested son. Driven by a desire to discover himself and to understand the maternal identities around him, Michael picks up a camera and embarks on a deep, therapeutic journey. Through the lens of cinema, he draws closer to the three women who have shaped his life, giving voice to three parallel experiences of motherhood and their surprising capacity to love.
The mountains of the Calabrian Apennines are reflected in the sea — they seem empty, scattered. But if you look closely, among the centuries-old trees and the roads climbing toward the sky, there is nothing fuller. The mountains emit frequencies that stir the soul; they absorb and reflect light. They are like the Lyman forest, out there in the cosmos. It could only be here that Sandra Savaglio would return — after a life spent in the world’s top astrophysics centers — to a place that mirrors the mysteries of space. Among dogs, grandchildren, admirers, priests, unfinished buildings, ancient trees, trash on the streets, and stars visible like in few other places in the world. All of this, while waiting for a supernova to explode. In the end, Sandra longs for just one thing: a light so powerful it fills the sky and illuminates her land.
