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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...