Vito Zagarrio

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.

An Italian-American woman traveling to Sicily picks up a teenager who claims to be in trouble with some drug dealers.

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Three young roommates get together at lunchtime, each with their own problems. At the table, however, the closure and lack of dialogue leads them to talk about trivial things, and then take their leave and retire to their rooms in solitude.

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This documentary focuses on the careers of influential partners in trash film, John Waters and Divine. The film includes interviews with Waters' parents and sister, actress Edith Massey sings two songs (Punks, Get off the Grass and Fever), as well as a live performance of Divine performing his song Born to be Cheap.

The three days power vacuum in a Sicilian village shortly after the American landing in Sicily in July 1943.

A passionate, disillusioned and possibly (self)ironic portrait of a generation of filmmakers who decided to tread the rugged paths of real cinema.

Vito Zagarrio, who in 1985 directed the famous documentary "Divine Waters", after 40 years goes again through it's relationship with John Waters and it's family, giving a new and intimate insight.

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October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ousts the dictator in power since 1987 and later staves off an attempted coup. In 2015, the country votes freely for the first time in its history, yet real change remains allusive, especially regarding ongoing economic exploitation by foreign companies. In one year of struggle and resistance, the film follows the daily life of four Burkinabes: a musician and leader of the revolution, a local political candidate, a miner engaged in the labor movement, and an impoverished mother, all sharing hopes that the elections will change the country’s path.