Documentary

ZaLab documentaries  focus on lives in modern conflicts, with the aim of casting them to the widest audience of cinema and television.

My Place Is Here

LOGLINE A 30-days journey inside a hospital. A unique document on the Western World facing the unknown. A crew observes...

ONE DAY THE NIGHT

SYNOPSIS Sainey is a twenty-year-old Gambian who knows the harsh reality of his destiny: because of an irreversible illness, he...

All our Worries

SYNOPSIS 69 days of isolation, 7 apartments, 1 participatory video path. On March 9, 2020 in response to the exponential...

Flying Roots

  SHORT SYNOPSIS A group of teenagers, a participatory video lab, three second-generation stories. Flying Roots is a collective self-narrative...

Molecules

SYNOPSIS Between February and April 2020, Andrea Segre, who lives in Rome for several years, got stuck in Venice during...

Ibi

Synopsis Ibi took pictures and filmed her life in Italy for over 10 years. This film is born from her...

Dreams of the Salt Lake

Kazakhstan is now living the euphoria of development that Italy does not even remember anymore. Yet its growth is hardly...

This is The End

“This is the End” represents the second and last chapter of a survey about work in Bergamo and its territory,...

Limbo

Imagine one of your loved ones, someone you live with – your father, partner, mother, a son or a brother...

My Bread and Butter

In October 2012, after 123 years, the cotton factory Honegger of Albino, in the middle valley of Bergamo, where working...

Container158

Giuseppe wakes up every day and starts looking for iron with his van. Remi is a mechanic without workshop, and...

Under the same roof

Under the Same Roof tells the daily life of Mohammed Gare, a guy who loses any taste for life when...

Furrows – The Pain of memory

The narration of the story of the Palestinian people through crossed interviews to five old men in the village. Furrows...

The Portraitist

School year 1934-35. The young teacher Antoni Benaiges takes office at the rural school of Bañuelos de Bureba, a tiny...

Our best years

From February to March 2011, 23 thousand young Tunisians reached the island of Lampedusa, in the south of Italy. The...

South of Lampedusa

Shot in May in the Sahara desert, in Niger, “Further South than Lampedusa” documents desert journeys hardships as well as...

Closed Sea

Since March 2011, after the outbreak of the Libyan War, many African migrants and refugees escaped from the country. While...

God was a musician

Stories and daily life of the musicians participating to the project MusicRekk (first project of music production according to the...

Song for Amine

Every Wednesday, on Addis Abeba Square in Algiers, mothers and relatives of Algerians kidnapped by the national security agents rally...

May things change

Neda is a 50 years old lady from Rome. “A Roman of Rome”, meaning that she grew up in the...

Like a man on earth

This is the film that in 2008-2009 shocked many Italians, contributing to break the silence on the dramatic consequences of...

Green blood

This project is available on demand here January 2010, Rosarno, Calabria. Widely publicized immigrant riots exposed the unjust and squalid...