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  • Axè – building children’s future through capoeira

    Axè – building children’s future through capoeira

    A documentary project by Shahab in Motion Francesca Gentile and Gemma Santi are developing a new project. In November 2009 Gemma was travelling across Brasil when she discovered what was happening in Pipa. Merete, a Norwegian woman, moved there to found “Projeto das Crianças“, a...

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  • About Shahab in Motion

    About Shahab in Motion

    In Somali language Shahab means flash, light in movement. Shahab in Motion is an artistic encounter between the two film makers Francesca Gentile and Gemma Santi, sharing the willing of telling the complexity of human existence through the documentary. Gemma Santi was born in Turin...

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  • Generazione Piccole Donne

    Generazione Piccole Donne

    Un percorso di creazione che nasce dall’incontro di quattro artiste torinesi con Julie Anne Stanzak, danzatrice “storica” della Compagnia di Pina Bausch, Wuppertaler Tanztheater. Dal celebre romanzo di Louisa May Alcott al vissuto personale delle coreografe, “Generazione piccole donne” è un’esplorazione di desideri, valori e...

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  • Michael Nyman – Sublime

    Michael Nyman – Sublime

    Michael Nyman is one of the greatest living composers, and one of the masters of minimalism. But there is one aspect of his art which is still unknown: photography. Michael Nyman talks about himself in this new role, and then peforms a special concert where...

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  • Il profumo del prato verde

    Il profumo del prato verde

    A documentary directed by Giorgio Gambino and Sara Mansour about a year in the life of the Torino Women’s Football Club. Directors: Giorgio Gambino, Sara Mansour DV directors: Francesca Gentile, Paolo Rapalino Production: Ideamatic, RAI

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  • Multimedia Cronenberg

    Multimedia Cronenberg

    Un artista deve essere capace di turbare la gente, scavare sotto la superficie della civiltà, avere a che fare con quegli aspetti della natura umana che si vorrebbe ignorare. Director: Francesca Gentile Production: Current TV

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  • Female Genital Mutilation

    Female Genital Mutilation

    Kassida and Suad analyse why this tradition keeps going on. They both condemn infibulation, but don’t condemn women who practice it. They first want to understand why a woman would want to infibulate her daughter: it’s for her future, otherwise she won’t get married and...

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  • L’ardua sentenza

    L’ardua sentenza

    “L’ardua sentenza” (Let history decide), documentary trailer. Two women talk about their lives during the Second World War from different points of view. Director: Francesca Gentile (2000)

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