Giovanni Piperno

16 millimetri alla rivoluzione (2024)

Navigating freely among the images produced for the Italian Communist Party between the 1950s and the '80s by important Italian directors, and after encountering the gaze of Luciana Castellina, the legendary communist politician and a founder of the "Manif ...

Cipria - Il film della vostra vita (2023)

Cipria is a ghost film: three Italian women who lived during fascism had told their lives hoping they could become a film, but the war had shattered the dream. We didn't even have an image of them: only the stories, still current, of their lives, which had ...

Come si scrive ti amo in coreano (2019)

9×10 Ninety (2014)

The Istituto Luce turned ninety in 2014, its decades-long history intertwined with that of Italy itself, through cinema and that unique treasure trove of images known to all as the Luce Archives. To celebrate its anniversary, some of the most acclaimed ris ...

Le cose belle (2013)

Naples 1999, two boys and two girls full of hope. Naples 2013, the same protagonists disenchanted in a paralyzed city. ...

Il pezzo mancante (2010)

"The Missing Piece" - Founded 1899, Fiat builds cars to make the Italian economy go faster. The history of this pillar of industrial capitalism is also the story of a very powerful and very prominent family: the Agnellis. ...

L'esplosione (2004)

Intervista a mia madre (2000)

Il Film di Mario (1999)

It's Christmas. Mario, a forty-year-old unemployed grandfather who lives by his wits but has an equally chronic dream of becoming an actor, is hired as a caretaker (sixteen hours a day) of a grotesque nativity scene set up on the main street of Bari by a p ...

Caro diario (1993)

Nanni Moretti recounts in his diary three slice-of-life stories marked by a dry, ironic gaze: in the first, he rides his Vespa through a deserted, sun-drenched summertime Rome; in the second, he visits a reclusive writer friend on an island, who ropes him ...

Secret Scandal (1990)

Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete with remote control. Her life will change dramatically, as the machine reveals to her not only her husband's betrayal with her best friend, but also the desola ...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits. ...

L'esplosione (2004)