Cecilia Mangini Movies

Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day...

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...

The second film by Cecilia Mangini is based on the words of neo-realist writer Vasco Pratolini. It alternates between documentary and the...

A piece based on Mangini's photographs of a journey that would change her life: the one she took at the age of 25 to the pumice mines of Lipari, a...

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra,...

The story of Cecilia Mangini, documentary maker, photographer and intellectual who told thirty years of Italy's history with her films.

On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes...

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the...

Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that...

Roman township of San Basilio: Fabio, 7 years old, in Italian a "character", is assigned to a differential class. How the family reacts, what the...

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people...

A day in the life of Maria, an old woman who lives on a farm in Puglia. She is not afraid of death, the gestures and actions that fill her days give...

A unique 1960s documentary on the traditional dirge sung by women in Griko, an ancient dialect of Salento, so old that it originates from the ancient...

Two young militants in love try to link their ideals to their everyday life together. A reflection on the attempt to combine love, intimacy and...

In 1962 Cecilia Mangini, an Italian filmmaker made 'Stendali', a documentary about a group of women who practiced an Ancient Greek funeral rite in...

The industrial city of Brindisi is the setting for this film, the tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright...

Vietnam will be free is a chamber film that tells of a war, of memory that fades, of a challenge against the passing of time. Two shoeboxes full of...

The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these young men spontaneously express their vitality,...