Michael Beltrami

The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.

In this documentary, a variety of directors and actors, many of them well known, give answers to questions the viewer never hears -- answers which, on the face of it, call into question the validity of the whole filmmaking enterprise and the culture which spawned it. The narration asserts that the theme is "art versus enterprise," but critics objected that the film is not sufficiently focused to back up that claim. It does, however, reveal a strong anti-Hollywood bias.

This is the story of Kunsang Wangmo, a 100-year-old Buddhist nun exiled from Tibet in 1959 to escape the Chinese occupation.

The Italian children who grew up in Switzerland between 1950 and 1970 were considered illegal. The law allowed guest workers to work, but not to raise their children here. Many seasonal workers defied the legislation because they wanted to keep their family together. Their children, who now live well integrated in Switzerland, look back on the difficult time of their childhood.

May 2021: The world sees a way out of the coronavirus pandemic. Manuele Bertoli takes over as President of the Ticino cantonal government and enters his last term of office with a great deal of optimism. But things don't turn out as he had hoped.

The mafia-like structures in the Calabrian Mesoraca were built up in the 1990s, mainly thanks to weapons from Switzerland. The hub of the illegal trade was Ticino. An investigation into how the ‘Ndrangheta infiltrated a small Swiss town.

After a burn-out, Filippo, a film director, undertakes a professional reintegration as a waiter in a social enterprise.

In 1929, a small, strange building was constructed on the summit of Monte Generoso, overlooking the rocky cliff face. Located at an altitude of 1,700 meters and difficult to access, it resembled an eagle's nest dominating the region, similar to certain war bunkers or hermitages clinging to the rocks. Who was the mysterious woman of noble origins for whom the building was constructed? A spy, as rumored, or an extravagant scholar in search of contemplative peace? Almost a century later, the enigma remains. Through a lengthy investigation, the director delves into intricate events and complex historical periods in search of answers.

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A hospital room. A camera in hand. A motionless man begins to travel – through memories, through longings, through silence.

A container for stories, between cinema and reality, memories of the past, dreams, and journeys on an eleven-day trip around the world. Piazza Grande, the undisputed symbolic location for the Locarno Festival. Stories experienced firsthand by those who frequent, inhabit, and experience Piazza Grande during the Festival period. Emotions felt for a moment, as ethereal as cinema itself: this is the flamboyant and mysterious magic that is perpetuated every year in this extraordinary place.