DOCUMENTARY by Antonio Napoli - 29’ - 2025 - ITA - World Premiere June 19th 2025 @SHEFFIELD DOC FEST

According to an ancient Neapolitan proverb, ‘More things happen in a day than in an entire century’.

For the city of Naples, that day is today.

Faith vividly portrays football as a modern religion, embracing its near-sacred significance. The film eloquently and wordlessly explores the deep-rooted connection between the phenomenon of football fandom and Italy’s cultural fabric, in doing so drawing striking visual parallels with Catholicism. The film’s cohesive style and blue-nuanced colour palette, along with its keen observational eye for peculiar detail, immerses us in the heightened atmosphere of the present. As the director himself notes, ‘in no other place than Naples is the love for the profane so deeply felt that it becomes a cult, to the point that it rises to something much more precious… something sacred.

DOCUMENTARY by Tommaso Montaldo - - 61’ - 2022 - ITA / ENG - Visioni dal Mondo 2022 Jury Special Mention

The Borri brothers wrote the history of Italian motorcycling. Between 1960 and 1979 they won 84 races and five Italian hillclimb championship titles. Thanks to their talent as drivers and mechanics, they earned the esteem and respect of generations of fans. In 2018, now almost 80 years old, they participated in Speed Week in Bonneville, Utah, the world's premier absolute speed competition on wheels. Their dream was to set the speed record in the 50cc motorcycle category, racing on a motorcycle built and modified in their workshop in Italy, and thus also write their name in the history of world motorcycling. The documentary shows that youth does not depend on age, but on the ability to accept challenges and pursue one's dreams.

DOCUMENTARY by Emanuele Mengotti - 74’ - 2022 - ENG - Biografilm Festival 2022 audience award Winner

While the entire U.S. is in social, political, and health turmoil, three larger than life characters live their lives in pursuit of their dreams under the same Las Vegas sky.

DOCUMENTARY by David Gerson - 83’ - 2021 - ENG / ARAB - Hot Docs 2021 - Official Selection

Documenting the real life events following the artists who rose up from the Syrian war. All with different backgrounds in music, dance, & art but all still products of war; including a Syrian rapper/choreographer tortured by military police in Bashar al-Assad's regime, and a graphic artist who saw his brother die in an attempt to desert the draft who believe without doubt in the possibility of social change.

DOCUMENTARY by Denise Janzee - 78’ - 2017 - ITA - IDFA 2017 Official Selection

In 1937, a class photo was taken at a school in Rome's Trastevere district. No one could have known that two of the boys in the photo would go down in film history: they were director Sergio Leone and composer Ennio Morricone. Another boy sat between this duo destined for world fame. What would become of him? Denise Janzee took the photo to Trastevere to discover the identity of the unknown boy.... A delicate and metaphysical parable about fame and anonymity.

DOCUMENTARY by Antonio Napoli - 78’ - 2017 - ITA - Biografilm Festival Special Screening

Luciano De Crescenzo is one of the most incredible figures in Italian culture. Known the world over as a writer and popularizer of Greek philosophy and mythology, he has also been a photographer, cartoonist, poet, screenwriter and film director, actor and television presenter. Through his life and works, Luciano De Crescenzo emotionally conveys to us all the power of the precious qualities that most distinguished him: curiosity, irony and an infinite joy of life.