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Films

the recall of the songbird

The Recall og the Songbird   
A woman walks in the forest whilst travelling through her memories. Seeing herself again as a child out hunting with her fathershe relives the terror of the gunshots and the desire to be accepted by him despite the fact that she was not...more>>

Hanna&Violka

Hanna & Violka    
Hanna Korszla, one of Italy’s 1,700,000 immigrant carers, has lived in the Salento for three years, looking after Antonio - who is over 80 and suffers from Alzheimer’s - day and night. Violka, her 19-year-old Polish daughter...more>>

fotogramma del corto "Come ieri"

Like Yesterday  born as a first study about "Hanna & Violka".
Today, like yesterday, there are those who are forced to leave home to work abroad.  Many of the immigrant women who work in Italy today are carers of the migrants of yesterday...more>>

voci di donne native e migranti

Voices of Native Italian and Migrant women  
Immigration issues in Salento (South of Italy) as discussed in Naemi, a Lecce-based forum of local and immigrant women for the promotion of intercultural exchange and social integration...more>>

fotogramma dal film "To my darling"

To my darling 
Flemish sculptor Norman Mommens and his companion, writer and jeweller Patience Gray, moved to the Basso Salento, Finibus Terrae, in 1970.  They lived in an ancient masseria without electricity, running water...more>>

fotogramma da "Mauritania"

Mauritania, the ancient libraries in the desert
Mauritania was for many centuries a hub of culture in which the acquisition and spread of knowledge was an activity of fundamental importance. The  remains of cities...more>>

occhi negli occhi

Occhi negli occhi - recollection of a journey
The golden sun setting between the soft dunes of the Sahara is the starting point of “Eyes in the Eyes– recollections of a journey”, a personal and deeply felt account in which ...more>>

interno sei - foto

Interno sei    
A lonely girl, ran away from her past and stranger to her present life, lives her sickness by a stream of consciousness that leads to "full introspection, till to disappear into a crevice of her room...more>>