The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

An anxious young man struggles to accept his vulnerabilities whilst on holiday in an upper-class summer residence in Sardinia with his overtly masculine family.

Gabriel and Xavier spend their afternoons playing, wandering the countryside, and exploring abandoned places. All seems peaceful, but a feeling is tormenting Gabriel. Is it love or religion ?

A woman with an hurted face sits in the half-light of a room. The incoming of a second character brokes the stasis in which she’s trapped.

At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.

On the evening of 21 November 1974, the Provisional Irish Republic of Army carried out a terrorist attack in Birmingham (UK). It was recognised as the bloodiest attack in the Troubles England. This short film tells the “behind the scenes” of this attack, which hides a series of mistakes, delays and frictions within the same terrorist cell responsible for it.

Lucas and his crew of fellow writers spend their days in a secret forest that stretches along the railway. Lucas, however, is uneasy: something ominous is happening in the woods and he is the only one able to sense it. An unexpected encounter with a mysterious figure leads Lucas to a cathartic moment, suspended between conflict and freedom.

A young man wanders around his bomb-wounded city with his dog and his noseless friend Jean-Michel, while trying to keep his everyday life intact.

A modern satire targeting the current media obsession with virtue signaling and greenwashing.

Grace and her mates get lost whilst skateboarding in a teenaged journey accompanied by the narration of her strange perceptions. Paying homage to sci-fi imagery, skater and streetwear fashion, TAPE001: GRACE, recalls the 90s starting from the title and vintage camcorder shots with which parts of the video were made.