Franco Piavoli

Vedete, sono uno di voi (2017)

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its vocation and ideals. Through dramatic events (terrorism, Tangentopoli, labor crisis, conflict, loneliness) Carl ...

The Feast (2016)

The feast of St. Peter in a country village. The priest admonishes his parishioners to confess and be free of avarice, but after mass he invites them all to make merry. Outside the church the elderly villagers are the first to start dancing, while street a ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema. ...

Fragments (2012)

Fragments of a collaboration between director Franco Piavoli (The Blue Planet, The First Breath of Wind) and students of the Laboratory Making Cinema founded by Marco Bellocchio. ...

Mother Earth (2009)

Documentary about sustainable agriculture and food. ...

Flora's Garden (2009)

Throughout the seasons, the work of a farmer in his vegetable garden, from the seed to its fruit. ...

Lo zebù e la stella (2007)

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short was made with children from a nursery school in Mantua. Playing with colours, the children seem to conquer ...

The Wind Blows Round (2006)

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three children to produce goat cheese, in order to escape the wrongs of ci ...

Tender Presence (2004)

2004 documentary by Franco Piavoli based on correspondence between poets Alessandro Parronchi and Umberto Bellintani. ...

At the First Breath of Wind (2003)

Set on an August afternoon in the Lombardy countryside, a family lingers around the table after a long summer meal. As the day stretches on, each member moves off to their own activities, quietly passing the hours. ...

Landscapes and Figures (2002)

A forerunner of Al Primo Soffio Di Vento. Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a teenager's sexual desires. ...

Voices Through Time (1997)

Visual ode to contemplative journey through the stages of life and the essence of human existence, set in a timeless backdrop of an Italian village. ...

Nostos: The Return (1990)

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his child ...

Lucidi inganni (1986)

In a Renaissance castle, masks and costumes are moving animated by moonlight. ...

One Lives By Love (1984)

Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, the director tells a series of stories about sexuality and feelings. An investigation that becomes a quest to explore the other side of love. ...

The Blue Planet (1982)

A look at the passage of time through the changing seasons, human evolution and everyday life. ...

Convicts (1964)

The short registers a sports spectacle of great importance (probably of soccer). We never see the spectacle itself but the people watching and reacting at the stadium. ...

Emigrants (1963)

Emigrants from Calabria arrive at Milan station with their luggage, to make their home there or set off for other destinations. A man falls asleep in a waiting room. The travellers look lost and tired. The language of the others is henceforth incomprehensi ...

Sunday Evening (1962)

Young peasants come together to dance in the evening. The girls arrive by bike; the boys get ready for them by doing their hair. The less shy amongst them begin to dance. Then, some of them go home, singing as they go, delighted to have obtained a promise. ...

The Seasons (1961)

Eternal and cyclical movement. A young woman crosses the seasons. With his 8mm Paillard, Piavoli starts his poetic journey with a drawn-out gaze on nature, which condenses passing time into a single shot. ...

Sul lago di Garda (1959)

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda. ...

Surgery (1954)

Paradise Lost in Two Reelers (2023)

Franco Piavoli is one of the most important directors among Italian independent panorama. Through the years, He built one unique and authentic cinematographic grammar. Born in 1933, He spent his whole life in Pozzolengo, a small village near Garda's lake. ...

me/portray/you (Franco Piavoli) (2020)

Very short documentary about filmmaker Franco Piavoli. ...

Habitat [Piavoli] (2013)

Franco Piavoli in his world. ...

I giorni dell'amore nascente (2008)

Documentary about Franco Piavoli ...

Sweet War, Farewell (1991)

A man walks with his child on the grass of a hill. He reaches an old country house, where years before he had spent his childhood during World War II. The deserted and desolate rooms make him travel back in memory to the time when the war was ending. Episo ...

The Cinema Machine (1979)

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry. ...