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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.

Very short documentary about filmmaker Franco Piavoli.

Eternal and cyclical movement. A young woman crosses the seasons. With his 8mm Paillard, Piavoli starts his poetic journey with a drawn-out gaze on...

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

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

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short...