A young university graduate from Rome province spends his days as a volunteer in his church parish until his father forces him to face the real responsibilities of life. He works as a mason, and what is more, he lives away from home and without his family’s support. It’s really hard for the young man.
The film unmasks the hypocrisy, falseness and duplicity of the main characters in the story, painting a bleak picture of today’s world of work.

La rieducazione (The Re-education), shot in coarse grained, imperfect and suggestive black and white film, was produced at a cost of only five hundred Euros by Amanda Flor, a Tivoli based group. It stands out for its realism, freshness and depth. The cast, wholly made up of non-professionals, brings to life characters that are so ordinary that they are both familiar to us and recognizable in their small, daily miseries.

La Rieducazione (The Re-education)
Italy, 2006
Dramatic comedy
Length: 96 minutes

Direction: Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto, Daniele Guerrini, Denis Malagnino
Production: Amanda Flor
Starring: Marco Donatucci, Denis Malagnino, Pablo Sallusti, Gianluca Tiberi, Daniele Malagnino, Massimo Pasquali, Daniele Guerrini, Alessandra Alfonsi, Don Romano, Alessandro Fusto, Elisabetta Bugatti
Screenplay: Davide Alfonsi, Denis Malagnino, Daniele Guerrini
Photography: Alessandro Fusto
Editing: Alessandro Fusto, Daniele Malignino

Amanda Flor is a group of four people, Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto, Denis Malagnino and Daniele Guerrini, working in the eastern part of Rome province for the last 4 years. One of the group's objectives is to bring out the socio-anthropological characteristics peculiar to the area, discreetly and without contrived stories and characters.

This film delves into a still relatively unexplored period of Italian art. It is the story of Maria Palliggiano and deals with her tormented ideals of perfection, her severity and her youth. A young Neapolitan painter, she was the wife of Emilio Notte, an important man at the forefront of the artistic world and director of the Naples Accademia di Belle Arti (Academy of Fine Arts). The 60s were harbingers of great advances in painting and the visual arts, but they were also the years when the risks of separation body and spirit were starting to become clear.
In Ossidiana, this dichotomy is reflected in all its tragic reality in Maria’s life, suspended between her ideals of love and her search for meaning on the one hand and the roles of wife, mother and artist on the other. Prejudice prevails in the end, forcing her to submit to psychiatric torture, leading to a "normalization" that was unacceptable to her.

Ossidiana (Obsidian)
Italy, 2007
Drama
Duration: 100 minutes

Direction: Silvana Maja
Production: Silvana Leopardi e Vincenzo Di Marino per Artimagiche srl
Starring: Teresa Saponangelo, Renato Carpentieri, Andrea Renzi, Vincenza Modica, Tina Femiano, Marco Manchisi, Stefania De Francesco, Alessandro Cione, Pio Di Stefano
Story and screenplay: Silvana Maja, Rolando Stefanelli
Photography: Roberta Allegrini
Editing: Giò Giò Franchini

Silvana Maja is a Neapolitan writer, journalist and photo reporter. She has written about women for many years, dealing with the conditions of workers in Southern Italy, India, and Southeast Asia as well as psychic and relational discomfort. She has lived in Rome since 1997, where she founded Studiaperti & Artisti Associati, with other writers and artists. Together they plan cultural events aimed at bringing artists in direct and constant contact with the public.

Kakà Shirin is a young Afghan boy who loses his parents due to a bombardment in 2001. From then on his and his sister's lives change radically. He goes to Kabul to his old and nearly blind aunt and survives by doing thousands of odd jobs, until he is “reborn” after an encounter that marks a turning point in his life.
Storie d'armi e di piccoli eroi (Stories of weapons and of little heroes), tells us about the world that surrounded Kakà from 2003 – 2006 and how he how changed and grew up. It is also the parallel story of Mr. Wali, the social worker whose work is finding girls and boys to attend Ashiana School, a centre that teaches reading and writing and also a craft. These children work in the streets and are orphans but also heads of families. This is a documentary that tells of things that should never have happened and things that, luckily, did happen.

Storie d’armi e di piccoli eroi (Stories of weapons and little heroes)
Italy, 2008
Documentary
Duration: 98 minutes

Direction: Isabella Sandri e Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Production: Gaundri srl
Starring: Kakà Shirin Nazirullah, Mr. Walì Baaen
Story and screenplay: Isabella Sandri, Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Photography: Isabella Sandri, Giuseppe M. Gaudino
Editing: Isabella Sandri, Giuseppe M. Gaudino

Isabella Sandri, is a graduate of D.A.M.S. in Bologna and diploma holder in Film Direction from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma. She has participated in the activities of Ipotesi Cinema, a training and production group directed by Ermanno Olmi from 1985 to 1991 and has worked with RAI as a director and screenplay writer since 1987.

Giuseppe Gaudino, has a diploma in Screenplay writing from the Naples Accademia delle Belle Arti and in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Roma. He has produced documentaries since 1983. He produced O’ Ciuna in 2002 and Materiali a confronto in 2003 together with Isabella Sandri.