SHORTDOC | 20′ | COLOR | DCP | 2026

a film by Paolo Baiguera production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Ring Film (ITA) and Il Varco Cinema (ITA)

One member of the family is not remembered – only 25 photos of the uncle who died of AIDS remain. His nephew asks both his mother, who looks back via the pictures, and AI tool Google Vision API, which reads the photo data statistically. Memory cultures.

written and directed by: Paolo Baiuguera produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu, Tommaso Bertani, Andrea Gatopolus sound design and audio mix: Marco Falloni, Marta Billingsley graphic design: Giulia Stucchi Developed in workshop Nouvelle Bug vol. 4 Revine Lago - 2025 Hosted by Lago Film Fest

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DOCUMENTARY | 106′ | COLOR | DCP | 2026

a film by Simone Manetti production Ganesh (ITA) with Fandango in collaboration with 5e6 (ITA), Percettiva (ITA), Hop film (ITA) e Wider Studio Music (ITA)

Giulio Regeni – All the Evil in the World is the first documentary to reconstruct the judicial truth behind the abduction, torture, and murder of the Italian researcher whose body was found near Cairo on February 3, 2016. For the first time, the story is told by his parents, Claudio Regeni and Paola Deffendi—a mother and father who, in their quest for justice, challenged the military dictatorship of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Alongside them is the exclusive testimony of Alessandra Ballerini, the lawyer who assisted the family throughout their long legal battle. In 2023, eight years after Giulio’s disappearance, this relentless pursuit of truth finally led to the trial of four Egyptian National Security agents. Commencing in the spring of 2024, the trial is expected to reach a verdict by the end of 2026.

directed by: Simone Manetti written by: Emanuele Cava, Matteo Billi with the participation: Paola Deffendi, Claudio Regeni, Alessandra Ballerini edit by: Enzo Pompeo cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli music: Piernicola Di Muro produced by: Agnese Ricchi, Mario Mazzarotto, Domenico Procacci, Laura Paolucci sales: Fandango

DOCUMENTARY | 90′ | COLOR | DCP

a film by Rocco Di Mento production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Insel Films (DE) and ZDF (DE)

“TORO” is the tragicomic odyssey of ROCCO and ANGELO, two friends facing the challenges of adulthood in their late thirties. Torn between personal desires and social expectations, their journey reveals the profound impact of patriarchy on their lives and the difficulties faced by a new generation of young men.

written and directed by: Rocco Di Mento editor: Valentina Cicogna produced by: Friedemann Hottenbacher, Graziano Chiscuzzu in co-production with: ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel developed by: Documentary Campus 2022

- 1° South by Soyth west London "International competition" - 21° Biografilm "International competition"

SHORTDOC | 13′ | COLOR | DCP | 2025

a film by Paolo Baiguera production 5e6 (ITA), with Andromenda Film (ITA) and Ring Film (ITA)

In the woods of Fobbia, Claudio spends his days obsessively carving wood. Years earlier, his son vanished in that very forest. All that was ever found was a red T-shirt beneath a pine tree. Since then, Claudio has been uprooting trunks and shaping them, convinced his son is hidden within. Blurring the line between reality and fable, his story echoes a reversed tale of Pinocchio.

written and directed by: Paolo Baiuguera produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu, Tommaso Bertani, Filippo Montalto sound design and audio mix: Marco Falloni, Andrea Sabbatini color grading: Nicola Belleri graphic design: Giulia Stucchi

82° Venice Film Festival SIC "Special mention"

FEATUREFILM/DOC | 90′ | COLOR | DCP | 2024

a film by Suranga Katugampala production 5e6 (ITA), with Okta film (ITA) and Rai Cinema (ITA) in co-production with Subobscura (FRA) and Kaiya Collective (Sri Lanka)

A former B-movie actress disappears, leaving her two children with their father in a crumbling neighbourhood slowly erased by urban renewal. Her only trace is a fleeting appearance in Natalik’s Love, the one film she ever acted in — a ghostly presence suspended between fiction and memory.

written by; Suranga D. Katugampala and Simona Cella directed by: Suranga D. Katugampala produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu and Chiara Budano

Alice nella Città '22 - Roma Film Fest

DOCUMENTARY | 70′ | COLOR | DCP | 2023

a film by Luca Ferri, featuring 9 reverse shots by Luca Sorgato production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Lab 80 (ITA)

A documentary film that is the portrait of a film critic seen by a director. Where contemporary cinema manipulates reality by hiding itself, this experiment manifests its opposite in an explicit and evident way. The critic was asked to be willing to travel to the city of Bergamo and participate in a film experiment lasting 70 minutes: tasting 2 kg of oysters while simultaneously drinking 2 bottles of wine, and answering 15 questions of a cultural nature and 15 solicitations of a private and personal nature. The outcome is a ruinous game in which the sense of filming and the fragility of a human being merge in a melancholy testament.

written and directed by: Luca Ferri 9 reverse shots by Luca Sorgato editor: Andrea Miele with: Domenico Monetti, Vincenzo Turca, Annamaria Poma Swank, Stefano Burroni, Antonella Burroni

Bellaria film festival PREMIO miglior film “concorso gabbiano” 2024

SHORTFILM | 20′ | BLACK&WHITE | MINI DV | 2024

a film by Luca Sorgato production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Luca Sorgato and Pipe’s Not Dead (ROMANIA)

Tired of not having his paternity of a heinous crime recognized, Antonello sends a confession letter to Father Z. hoping that it can be heard and published in a religious magazine.

with: Giacomo Laser, Marco Antonini and Fabrizio Andriulo and with: Deian Martinelli e Vanda Terraroli written and directed by: Luca Sorgato produced by: 5e6 e Luca Sorgato cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli editor: Luca Sorgato set design: Francesco Dioni sound: Lorenzo D’Anniballe, Andrea Corvaglia musiche: Piernicola Di Muro sound design e mix: Diego Schiavo progetto grafico: Leo Colalillo

- Beijing international short film festival (2024) - ⁠Laceno d’oro festival internazionale di cinema (2024) - ⁠Avvistamenti (non) è un festival 2025

FEATUREFILM/DOC | 60' | COLOR | DCP | 2024

a film by Marco Jeannin and Paolo Bignamini production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with CTB (ITA)

It is 10:12 AM on May 28, 1974: the characters, from the stage of an empty theater, the setting of the story, speak directly to the present day, to those approaching that moment in history, recounting fragments of personal memories, lives that abruptly end at the same moment, in the same place. Tragically. It is always the same minutes that repeat in each person’s different history. These are the minutes before the bomb explodes. The reality of lived experience thus blends with memory. In the end, we always return to 10:12, and the characters leave the technical space to symbolically return to the square. The time of recounting those stories, constantly questioned in the film, surpasses the very time in which their lives were lived.

written by: Paolo Bignamini, Giulia Asselta and Marco Archetti based on the novel: “Una specie di vento” by Marco Archetti directed by: Paolo Bignamini and Marco Jeannin with: Andrea Soffiantini, Mario Cei, Marta Lucini, Matteo Bonanni, Jasmine Monti, Valentina Bartolo, Roberto Trifirò, Antonio Perretta produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu for 5e6 and Giacomo Brambilla for Centro Teatrale Bresciano with the participition of: Comune di Brescia and Associazione Casa della Memoria with the support of: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri Italiano, Laba - Libera Accademia di Belle Arti

DOCUMENTARY | 52′ | COLOR | DCP | 2023

a film by Elia Moutamid written by Simone Brioni production 5e6 (ITA) with Stony Brook University (USA)

Maka presents Geneviéve Makaping’s life in Italy and perilous migration journey. By sharing Makaping’s experience as the first Black news editor in Italy, Maka speaks out against the media representation of immigrants and offers an evocative examination of the intersection between sexism and racism in Italy. From Moroccan-born Italian director Elia Moutamid, this riveting documentary offers a poignant exploration of displacement, identity, and belonging.

with: Geneviève Makaping written by: Simone Brioni inspired by: Geneviève Makaping “Traiettorie di sguardi. E se gli altri foste voi?” (Rubbettino 2022). “Reversing the Gaze: What if the Other Were You?” translated by Giovanna Bellesia-Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto (Rutgers University Press, 2023). directed by: Elia Moutamid produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu line Producer: Tania Gualeni cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli editor: Irene Breda music composer: Piernicola Di Muro sound: Gabriele Cardullo

- Integrazione Film Festival 2023, Bergamo, Italy - “Best Documentary” - Film Only Film Festival 2023, Canada - “Best Documentary” - Voci di Donne Invisibili 2023, Terra di Tutti Film Festival, Bologna, Italy - “Premio COOP” - Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival 2023, Kalamata, Greece - “Honorable Mention” View the full list of festival screenings & awards

DOCUMENTARY | 40′ | COLOR | DCP | 2023

a film by Simone Brioni e Matteo Sandrini production 5e6 (ITA) with Stony Brook University (USA)

The accidental discovery of a small box of photographs, taken in 1930s Italian East Africa by a distant relative, sparks a broader reflection on the imperial gaze, its construction of the "other" and the "elsewhere," and its enduring legacy. Through a narrative that weaves together personal reflection and collective history—shared by both colonizer and colonized—this documentary invites viewers to look "beyond the edges" of colonial photography.

directed by: Simone Brioni, Matteo Sandrini written by: Simone Brioni edit by: Matteo Sandrini with: Elia Moutamid, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah cinematographer: Matteo Sandrini, Marco Jeannin music: Nour Bakr

- Virginia Dares Cinematic Arts Award 2023, United States - “winner” - Montauk Film Festival 2023, United States - “Finalist” - Boden International Film Festival 2023, Sweden - “Finalist” - Better World Film Festival, Murnau am Staffelsee 2023, Germany - “Honorable Mention” View more

DOCUMENTARY | 84′ | COLOR | DCP | 2022

a film by Mathieu Volpe production Supermouche (FRA) and Replica (BEL) in co-production with 5e6 (ITA)

15 years ago, the Denne family left Burkina Faso for Italy. This film paints a portrait of the second generation of Dennes ; of Sokuro, his sister Falira and their little brother Nassir, at a crucial moment in the family’s history. A portrait of a youth struggling to find its place in the world. The deracinated heirs born to a diaspora.

written and directed by: Mathieu Volpe produced by: Robin Andelfinger, Arnaud Dufeys, Francois Ladsous editor: Mael Delorme music composer: Andreas Moulin sound: Jerome Petit

- 63° Festival dei Popoli - In competition - FESCAAL, Milan - DOCUMED, Tunis - FestIFIS, Bénin - Construir Cine, Buenos Aires - FIDADOC, Agadi - Montreal International Black Film Festival, Montreal - Diffusion en VOD: BeTV, Canal + Afrique

SHORTFILM | 15′ | BLACK&WHITE | SUPER16 | 2022

a film by Luca Sorgato production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Luca Sorgato and Pipe’s Not Dead (ROMANIA)

A man tries in vain to get the good numbers to play from an old deceased uncle named Palmiro. Failure is certain, fortune cannot be obtained or given away.

with: Giacomo Laser, Toni Pandolfo and Giovanni Bagnasco written and directed: by Luca Sorgato produced by: 5e6 and Luca Sorgato executive producer: Graziano Chiscuzzu and Gianluca Ceresoli line Producer: Tania Gualeni cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli editor: Luca Sorgato sound: Lorenzo D’Anniballe sound designer: Alessandro Fusaroli and Davide Favargiotti

- Torino film festival (2022) - ⁠Beijing international short film festival (2023) - ⁠ShorTS International film festival (2023)

SHORTFILM | 20′ | COLOR | DCP | 2021

a film by Luca Sorgato production 5e6 (ITA)

Weak and battered, a man wakes up near a railway. The pale sun looks like it doesn’t feel like rising. The man walks through deserted places and stumbles into a plastic bag containing items from his past. He gets into a courtyard of a house and phones a woman. The sun washes over him with all its strength.

with: Renato Ansaldi written and directed by: Luca Sorgato produced by: Luca Sorgato e 5e6 cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli editor: Luca Sorgato sound: Gabriele Cardullo poetry: “Tic tac” di Attilio Lolini

- Beijing International Short Film Festival 2021 “Best film” - ShorTS International Film Festival – Maremetraggio 2022 “Official selection” - 46° Laceno d’oro – Festival Internazionale del Cinema “Official selection” - Mondi Lontani Short Film Fest “Official selection”

DOCUMENTARY | 61′ | COLOR | DCP | 2021

a film by Valeria Mazzucchi and Antoine Harari production Akka film (SWITZERLAND) in co-production with 5e6 (ITA), Futur Proche (FRA), Temps Noir (FRA)

Ten years ago, activists wanting to experience a collective way of life besieged a wooded countryside near Nantes in order to block the construction of a new airport. L’Étincelle paints an empathetic portrait of the environmentalists who raise questions about the future of the “Zone à défendre”, when their struggle leads to a first victory: the cancellation of the airport project.

directed by: Valeria Mazzucchi and Antoine Harari cinematography: Valeria Mazzucchi sound: Antoine Harari editing: Christine Hoffet sound editing: Francois Wolf

Visions du réel 2021 - "Official selection"

DOCUMENTARY | 57′ | COLOR | DCP | 2020

a film by Elia Mouatamid production 5e6 (ITA)

Elia Moutamid is the director and protagonist of this story. After a few weeks spent in Morocco looking for places and stories for what he wanted to be his next film, Elia returns to Brescia, the city where he lives. The idea was to make a film about urbanization and the territory, without losing the relationships with humans, of course. During the elaboration of what has been observed and in search of the form of his next work, he is blocked by the pandemic that has shocked the whole world. Stuck in the house he starts an autobiographical journey by collecting his reflections. “Kufid” is Elijah’s diary, of his personal and family events told, at times, even with irony: an autobiographical film shot during the pandemic and not a film on the pandemic. A story that comes to terms with a virus that upsets lives, families and old habits but without undermining stereotypes and prejudices, thus leaving unresolved issues pending. To the many questions about the future, an answer: “Inch’Allah”.

written and directed by: Elia Moutamid produced by: Elia Moutamid, Graziano Chiscuzzu and Chiara Budano cinematographer: Elia Moutamid editor: Elia Moutamid music composer: Piernicola Di Muro

- 38 Torino Film Festival “Official selection” - Nastri d’Argento Doc 2021 “Official selection” - 30° Festival Cinema Africa Asia America Latina “Special Mention” - 14° Film Festival del Garda “Special Mention Jury Award” - 8° Bridge Film Festival “Best film” - 15° IFF “Official selection” - 8° Molise Cinema Film Festival “Official selection”

DOCUMENTARY | 73′ | COLOR | DCP | 2020

a film by Andrea Grasselli production 5e6 (ITA) with OM video

Inspired by the essay The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by sociologist Erving Goffman, the documentary explores the threshold between social and dramaturgical roles. The need to represent what we are missing, what we cannot experience, and the impossibility of stopping this need is examined through the struggle of Ettore, singer-songwriter and protagonist of the documentary.

with: Ettore Giuradei written and directed by: Andrea Grasselli editor: Mauro Rodella music composer: Maurizio Rinaldi produced with support of: Fondazione ASM, Produzione dal basso, Comune di Provaglio d'Iseo

DOCUMENTARY | 84’ | COLOR | DCP | 2017

a film by Elia Mouatamid production 5e6 (ITA)

After over thirty years in Italy Abdelouahab, Aldo, decides to return home to Morocco. Ilyass, his son, who is now thirty years old, who grew up in Lombardia, joins him on this journey of memories and stories. The immigration issue is the background of the story of the relationship between a father and a son during this trip that will take them to Morocco, passing through France and Spain.

written and directed by: Elia Moutamid produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli editor: Mauro Rodella sound: Marco Parollo music composer: Piernicola Di Muro

- 35 Torino Film Festival “Special Jury Prize” (Italia doc) - 35 Torino Film Festival “Special Prize: Gandhi’s Glasses” - 11° Film Festival del Garda “Audience Choice Award” - Working Title Film Festival 2018 “Best Feature film” - Nastri D'argento DOC 2018 “Best Debut Film” - Italia in doc film festival 2018 (Bruxelles) “Special Mention Jury Award”

SHORTFILM | 13′ | COLOR+BLACK&WHITE | DCP | 2015

a film by Armando Lulaj production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Debatik Center (ALBANIA)

“Recapitulation” is part of the “Albanian trilogy: A series of Devious Stratagems”. On December 23, 1957, at 11:10 AM, a US Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star aircraft flown by Major Howard J. Curran left Chateauroux, France, heading for Naples, Italy. Above Turin, the aircraft radio failed and after hitting bad weather with strong winds, the plane veered off its flight path to end up, by mistake, in the sovereign airspace of the People’s Republic of Albania. At 1:28 PM, the intruder was intercepted by the Albanian Air Force Command, which instantly ordered two MiG-15 fighter jets to take off and identify it. By 3:50 PM, the fighters reported that they had spotted the intruder in the area around Rinas Airport, flying at 500-650 km/hr at an altitude of 150-200 m. Prompt countermeasures were taken. The airplane was forced to land and, to keep it from taking off again, the airport was locked down.

written and directed by: Armando Lulaj produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu

- with the “Albanian Trilogy: A Series of Devious Stratagems” - 38° Cinema du réel - 56° Biennale d’Arte di Venezia - Global Chengde International video art exhibition, Chengde, China (2017)

SHORTFILM | 18′ | COLOR+BLACK&WHITE | DCP | 2011

a film by Armando Lulaj production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Debatik Center (ALBANIA)

1959, at the height of the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev visited Albania. Soviet plans to arm Enver Hoxha’s state with submarines and warships, positioning long and medium-range missiles along the Albanian coast, were devised to counter the US missile bases installed in Italy in order to control the Mediterranean. A large number of young Albaniansailors took part in military training under the Soviet army. In 1963, after the break in relations with the USSR, the Albanian navy, in paranoid fear of enemy attack, sighted an object that repeatedly appeared and vanished in the sea off the coast at Patok. Believing it to be a submarine, they fired. The object was in fact a cachalot {Physeter macrocephalus L.. ), the Mediterranean sperm whale. After being recovered, its remains were displayed in the Natural History Museum in Tirana, where it canstill be found.

written and directed by: Armando Lulaj produced by: Graziano Chiscuzzu

66° Locarno Film Festival, Off site

DOCUMENTARY | 96′ | B/N | IN POST-PRODUCTION

a film by Suranga Katugampala production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Kaiya Collective (Sri Lanka) and Supermouche Production (FRA)

Swarna spends her days caring for her home and her mother, carrying with her a story of love, loss, and resilience. Her unfulfilled dream of becoming an actress resurfaces as popular Sinhalese cinema enters into a dialogue with her daily life. Between reality and fiction, End of Battle crafts an intimate portrait of contemporary Sri Lanka: a country defined by rain, change, and a suspended emotional tension, where cinema becomes a space for both memory and desire.

SHORTFILM | 20′ | COLOR | IN POST-PRODUCTION

a film by Alessandra Savoldi production 5e6 (ITA) financed by Nuovo IMAIE

Twin sisters Elvira and Adele run a religious shop in a mountain village. During Holy Week, their long-hidden resentment explodes: Adele clings to tradition and faith, while Elvira longs to escape her claustrophobic life. Amidst sacred rituals and bitter conflicts, their bond shatters, reaching a point of no return by Easter Sunday as their inner worlds collide.

written by: Alessandra Salvoldi e Giulia Noè directed by: Alessandra Salvoldi with: Rosalia Marino, Paola Scotto di Tella, Alice Alessandra Gagno, Emanuele Maria Fortunati editor: Mauro Rodella cinematographer: Gianluca Ceresoli line producer: Milena Lenza

DOCUMENTARY | 90′ | COLOR | DCP | IN POST-PRODUCTION

a film by Elia Moutamid production 5e6 (ITA)

Torn between two identities — Ilyass and Elia, Moroccan and Padanian — a man embarks on a journey across Italy, Morocco, and the United States to reconcile his fractured self, only to discover that the ultimate border lies within.

DOCUMENTARY | 90′ | COLOR | DCP | IN POST-PRODUCTION

a film by Francesco Boscarol production 5e6 (ITA)

Sixteen-year-old Necati, known as ‘Doktor,’ survives on the fringes of society, moving from the tomato fields of Siverek to the relentless streets of Istanbul. When a violent encounter with the Turkish police shatters his family’s fragile existence, Doktor vanishes. His disappearance triggers a journey into the shadows of a system designed to make him invisible.

DOCUMENTARY | 90′ | COLOR | DCP | IN DEVELOPMENT

a film by Rocco Di Mento production 5e6 (ITA) in co-production with Insel Films (DE)

With Veleno, Rocco Di Mento concludes his trilogy on human emotions, a cathartic journey that began with The Blunder of Love and continued with Toro. While the previous chapters investigated love and identity, this final installment stems from a physical symptom: the skin on the director's hands cracking—a sign of a suppressed rage that can no longer be contained and is fighting to escape the body. Moving from the support groups of Berlin to the shores of Lake Garda, the film inhabits the thin line between documentary and auto-fiction. At the heart of the narrative lies a secret archive of violent adolescent writings that the director chooses not to hide, but to transform into raw performance material. By involving his brother Mattia in a disturbing mise-en-scène and challenging his mother’s austere discipline through dance, Di Mento turns the film set into the only possible space for a long-denied family dialogue. Amidst vintage television interludes and the stubborn vitality of his centenarian grandmother Attilia, Veleno explores a suspended grief passed down through generations. It is a visual mosaic that does not seek redemption, but rather transforms trauma into a profound act of presence and shared connection.