Franco Piavoli Movies

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 aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.

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...

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

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.

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...

The passing of the seasons in the Mantua town of Castellaro follows the seasons of the life of its inhabitants. Thus, alongside the games of...

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

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...

The director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.

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

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

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

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...

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...

In a Renaissance castle, masks and costumes are moving animated by moonlight. In this magical atmosphere, the painting of a girl comes to life, while...

Franco Piavoli is one of the most important directors among Italian independent panorama. Through the years, He built one unique and authentic...

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...