DOCUMENTARY

ZaLab documentaries tell of lives largely ignored by mainstream media, marked by today’s conflicts; our desire is to make these stories accessible to all.

Closed Sea – trailer January 20, 2012
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, mare chiuso.

As a result of an agreement signed by Berlusconi and Gaddafi in 2009, all migrants intercepted at sea by the Italian navy were forcibly returned to Libya. A story of great grief and dignity.
Our best years – trailer October 25, 2011
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documentary, Italy 2011, 45 min, by Matteo Calore and Stefano Collizzolli _video_ What are the remains of a revolution in the people who experienced it? From February to April 2011, 23 thousand Tunisians reached the tiny island of Lampedusa, Italy The Italian Government called this event an invasion, a barbaric horde, a biblical exodus, a [...]
Italy, love it or leave it – trailer September 16, 2011
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After their acclaimed documentary “Suddenly Last Winter” (winner of the Nastro d’Argento in 2009 and of a Special Jury Mention at the Berlinale in 2008, and featured in 200 festivals worldwide) Luca and Gustav are back to take stock of today’s Italy, with their signature irony and sarcasm.
forthcoming in mid-October – 2011 distribution by ZaLab
Ju Tarramutu (The Earthquake) – trailer April 6, 2011
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“There’s one thing that no tv, no radio will be able to report faithfully: the silence. The first days after the earthquake of L’Aquila, silence was everywhere. Not only between the ruins. People wandered like phantoms. around people was silence, inside the heads was silence”. The night of 6th April 2009 a violent eartquake devastated one of the most beautiful italian cities, and it’s territory, gifted of a unique artistic and natural heritage.
The green blood – trailer September 8, 2010
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, TRAILER, the green blood.

January 2010, Rosarno, Calabria. Widely publicized immigrant riots exposed the unjust and squalid conditions that thousands of African laborers, exploited by an economy controlled by ‘Ndrangheta, the calabrian mafia, endure on a daily basis. For a brief moment the immigrants caught the attention of the Italian public, who responded to these protests with fear and violence.
May things change December 1, 2009
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Neda is 50 years old, she is from Rome. She grew up during the Sixties in the heart of the capital, a few steps from the Coliseum. Now Neda lives in Ponte di Nona, in the heart of “new centres” in the suburbs of Rome, more than 20 kilometres far from the Coliseum. Sara, 18 years old, has grown up in Ponte di Nona.
May things change – trailer November 30, 2009
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Neda is 50 years old, she is from Rome. She grew up during the Sixties in the heart of the capital, a few steps from the Coliseum. Now Neda lives in Ponte di Nona, in the heart of “new centres” in the suburbs of Rome, more than 20 kilometres far from the Coliseum. Sara, 18 years old, has grown up in Ponte di Nona.
Song for Amine – trailer September 15, 2009
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, TRAILER, song for amine.

The hidden tragedy of forced disappearances in Algeria as told through the life story of Nassera Dutour, an Algerian mother who, after the kidnapping of her son in 1997 by the security forces, dedicated her life to the fight for truth and justice.
Like a man on earth – trailer October 31, 2008
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, TRAILER, like a man on earth.

Since 2003 Italy and Europe have asked Libya to block African migrants from entering Europe. What are the Libyan police really doing? What do thousands of African men and women really experience? And why does everybody pretend not to know about it?
Carmine. Voices from neighborhood July 7, 2007
Posted in DOCUMENTARY.

This documentary has been produced in accordance with the project Equal Koinè “immigrant’s integration in local society and enterprise”.
Carmine. Voices from neighborhood – Trailer July 6, 2007
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, TRAILER.

This documentary has been produced in accordance with the project Equal Koinè “immigrant’s integration in local society and enterprise”.
South of Lampedusa – trailer May 6, 2006
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The documentary shows the struggle of people crossing the desert, through the voices of the seasonal migrants arrested in Libya and abandoned at the Nigerian border. They are captured by the police and imprisoned in squalid conditions before being deported.
Under the same roof January 16, 2006
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, PAY PER VIEW, images beyond the wall.

Taghreed and Mohammad are a girl and a boy from Biddu, a village between Ramallah and Jerusalem (Palestine). Biddu is going to be surrounded by the Israeli wall on three sides. Mohammad spends his daily life on the street and playing billiards; he doesn’t see any reason to create a future when just the roof is missing to close his people in jail. Taghreed stays at home: she can’t continue to study because she cannot cross over the wall.
Under the same roof – trailer January 15, 2006
Posted in DOCUMENTARY, TRAILER, images beyond the wall.

Taghreed and Mohammad are a girl and a boy from Biddu, a village between Ramallah and Jerusalem (Palestine). Biddu is going to be surrounded by the Israeli wall on three sides. Mohammad spends his daily life on the street and playing billiards; he doesn’t see any reason to create a future when just the roof is missing to close his people in jail. Taghreed stays at home: she can’t continue to study because she cannot cross over the wall.
Furrows – The pain of Memory January 6, 2006
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“Solchi – the pain of memory”: the story of palestinians through the interviews of five elderly persons in the village of Biddu.
Solchi means furrows, lines on the elderly faces as on the plowed fields. A potentially fertile wound. Burden of a memory, in Palestine, often oppressive, a memory that marks, that is immediately a public matter, an obsessive identity.
God was a musician May 4, 2004
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“God was a musician” is a movie dedicated to the different aspects of indie musical production in Senegal. The stories, the voices and faces of the artists seem to blend, revealing a hidden face of Africa: its complex spirituality, its original mix of tradition and modernity, the encounter between its different cultures.