Franco Piavoli Movies

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

Seasons of the year are used to frame human life, from birth to death.

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...

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

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

Visions and suggestions of the shores of Lake Garda.

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...

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 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...

Franco Piavoli in his world.

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

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

Emigrants from Calabria arrive at Milan station with their luggage, to make their home there or set off for other destinations. A man falls asleep in...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...