Luigi Di Gianni

The only film shot in Sardinia by Di Gianni about an ancient solidarity among shepherds in the Nuoro area.

Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside.

Between makeup, embassy receptions, and musical evenings, the lives of some fallen noblewomen.

A man lives holed up in an old house, inherited from his ancestors, seeking refuge from the threats of the outside world. Between waking and dreaming, he is the helpless witness to his own disintegration.

The documentary analyzes the role of “leader” in different social contexts—in politics, industry, and organized crime—and seeks to answer questions about the characteristics of a leader. In particular, it focuses on the new figure of leader that characterizes the era of technocracy: the corporate executive, the manager.

Elena receives anonymous phone calls and fears they concern her son. Young Sandro's attitude has changed recently and she is certain he is hiding something from her. Her main fear is that he is having a romantic relationship with a girl of lower social standing, which could distract him from his studies, which Elena is struggling to maintain after the loss of her husband.

The only film shot in Sardinia by Di Gianni about an ancient solidarity among shepherds in the Nuoro area.

Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside.

Between makeup, embassy receptions, and musical evenings, the lives of some fallen noblewomen.

Between makeup, embassy receptions, and musical evenings, the lives of some fallen noblewomen.

A man lives holed up in an old house, inherited from his ancestors, seeking refuge from the threats of the outside world. Between waking and dreaming, he is the helpless witness to his own disintegration.

The documentary analyzes the role of “leader” in different social contexts—in politics, industry, and organized crime—and seeks to answer questions about the characteristics of a leader. In particular, it focuses on the new figure of leader that characterizes the era of technocracy: the corporate executive, the manager.

Elena receives anonymous phone calls and fears they concern her son. Young Sandro's attitude has changed recently and she is certain he is hiding something from her. Her main fear is that he is having a romantic relationship with a girl of lower social standing, which could distract him from his studies, which Elena is struggling to maintain after the loss of her husband.

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

A horse carriage transports a coffin through a village.

A horse carriage transports a coffin through a village.

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

These are ceremonies and events linked to the traditional festival of the Madonna dell'Arco, which culminates on Easter Monday in the church of St. Anastasia, 9 kilometers from Naples. The sanctuary houses around four thousand votive offerings that document the popular desire for salvation during collective and individual calamities.

Documentary on a case of heretical worship that occurred within popular Catholicism in Serra d'Arce, in the province of Salerno, where Giuseppina Gonnella, a sort of mystical sorceress-exorcist, freed people from evil and spells and was sometimes possessed by the spirit of her nephew, who died in a car accident in the 1950s.

Through the character of a model, there is an almost science fiction-like reference to a certain fashion trend projected into the future that is quite inhuman.

The Lagno is the canal that crosses Naples, collecting its debris to stop even before reaching the sea. Around its dirty waters, the film outlines a cross-section that is anything but oleographic of the Neapolitan capital, immortalized already in the advanced industrial era and still wearing the signs of war and desperate poverty. After a few spoken notes, the sound commentary is entirely inhabited by a ghostly composition.

In a working-class neighborhood of Naples, a woman works as a sorceress and healer. Gianni spends a day with her, observing her work with poor clients, the sick, those suffering from love, and, of course, the superstitious.

When he is granted a day off to celebrate his daughter's wedding, office worker Krehler begins to realize how alienated he is.

The life of the Lucan peasant faces not only atavistic poverty, but also the ferocity of nature. When bad weather rages, the hard-won shelters are at risk of being destroyed by landslides. The only thing to do is to leave home, hoping to find it intact on the way back.

The life of the Lucan peasant faces not only atavistic poverty, but also the ferocity of nature. When bad weather rages, the hard-won shelters are at risk of being destroyed by landslides. The only thing to do is to leave home, hoping to find it intact on the way back.

A visit inside the walls of the Annunziata, an ancient Neapolitan orphanage for girls, where numerous young women reside while waiting to get engaged, find work, and redeem themselves socially, but also elderly women who have resigned themselves to a life spent there.

A visit inside the walls of the Annunziata, an ancient Neapolitan orphanage for girls, where numerous young women reside while waiting to get engaged, find work, and redeem themselves socially, but also elderly women who have resigned themselves to a life spent there.

Symbology of power of the expressions dominating the man of today. The technologic and scientific progress in an anti-human sense. Freedom humiliated and compromised.

In a small town in Lazio every year a procession is held in honor of San Giovanni, to ask forgiveness for the sins committed, recalling an ancient legend.

An important Jewish holiday: the feast of the dedication of the temple, also known as the ‘feast of lights’, celebrated by the Jewish community in Rome.

In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.

A soldier is sentenced to death for failing to “honor his superior.”

Three shady-looking men arrive at a small mountain inn in an attempt to recover the treasure hidden in the hotel by the old owner and her grandson, who was killed by the three crooks. During dinner, the waitress recounts the legend of the mountain rooster. If the rooster crows at midnight, it warns that the angel of death is coming for one of the inhabitants of the house.

An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the documentary focuses on the link between the cult of the Madonna and ancient rites related to female fertility.

Chilling documents from recent history and “visions” of great figurative art, from Goya to Munch to Ensor.

Pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Montevergine, in Irpinia, between ancient and new customs.

In the province of Salerno in Campania, a village is attracting more and more pilgrims, sometimes several hundred a day. Arriving by bus, car and even on foot, they pray to Saint Antony to protect them from demons and disasters. They do this through the intermediary of a certain Giuseppina who embodies the dead soul of young Alberto, the grandson of the former seminarian who died accidentally some ten years earlier.

Portrait of the painter Ennio Calabria: the title refers to one of the dominant themes in his paintings.

Di Gianni records an archaic festivity that takes place on August 15th on the mountains near Potenza.

The film reconstructs, using archive footage, some events from the Nazi occupation of Rome.

The story of the prince musician Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa, who lived between the 16th and 17th century, told by the testimonies of musicians and musicologists such as Francesco D'Avalos, descendant of Maria, the unfaithful wife killed by Gesualdo.

Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.

The alien Achtab lands in the garden of a couple in the middle of a party. The extraterrestrial, who has fled his planet, is greeted with curiosity and fear by his hosts, despite being unable to remove the heavy space suit that conceals his appearance. Achtab's arrival particularly intrigues Alice, who embarks on a special and intimate relationship with the alien, driven by her curiosity to discover what lies behind the stars.

In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.