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...

"Regina Coeli" is the nickname with which inmates call Regina, voluntary assistant in Rome's Rebibbia jail, very involved in solidarity but lonely in...

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...

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...

A work commissioned by the Ministry of Labour to which Mangini brings an eloquence that transcends any propaganda ambition. It is an accurate...

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,...

"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...

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...

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...

Initial panorama of Brindisi, a city with a peasant tradition. The petrochemical, city within a city. Children in poor neighborhoods, workers'...

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

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

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...

An astonished crowd turns its face to the boldness of a young photographer in 1956, at the Puglia village festival.

Trieste, after being liberated from the fascist regime, seems to have been forgotten by the rest of the Italian Republic. Mangini investigates the...

Series inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Comizi d’amore. This time, Italian people are confronted with though questions about sex before...

The Italian unification, also known as Risorgimento, took place between 1815 and 1870. During this period, caricature was a privileged medium for...