Giuseppe Taffarel

An overview of various sport fishing techniques, with a focus on surf casting or heavy casting from the shore, which originated in England and allows casts of up to 70 meters to be made in rough seas (which encourages large fish to approach the shore), using fresh razor clams as bait.

All the small islands, even those measuring just a few square meters, that make up the Grado lagoon (province of Gorizia) are inhabited by fishermen. There is one hut per island, rarely two. Fishing is carried out using the ebb and flow of the tide, which exposes and floods vast areas of muddy shallows.

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

An elderly widower visits his wife at the cemetery. In his mind, a dialogue begins between the two, in which their son, who died prematurely, also becomes involved. The man realizes that he is living without a purpose and that perhaps death would be a liberation for him.

During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

An overview of various sport fishing techniques, with a focus on surf casting or heavy casting from the shore, which originated in England and allows casts of up to 70 meters to be made in rough seas (which encourages large fish to approach the shore), using fresh razor clams as bait.

All the small islands, even those measuring just a few square meters, that make up the Grado lagoon (province of Gorizia) are inhabited by fishermen. There is one hut per island, rarely two. Fishing is carried out using the ebb and flow of the tide, which exposes and floods vast areas of muddy shallows.

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

An elderly widower visits his wife at the cemetery. In his mind, a dialogue begins between the two, in which their son, who died prematurely, also becomes involved. The man realizes that he is living without a purpose and that perhaps death would be a liberation for him.

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Short film preparatory to an unrealized feature film. The life of a homeless man in Rome. The elderly man plays guitar on the street among passersby. Under a bridge over the Tiber, he makes himself a bed out of cardboard boxes; an old woman joins him, washing handkerchiefs in the river, and he approaches her.

A child has no memory of his dead father, but every day he spends hours on his grave.

The “nerte” are wandering women who travel down from the Upper Friuli region to the Veneto region to sell wooden objects for domestic use. They live humbly, sleeping in barns and eating whatever they can to save what little they earn. The documentary follows one of these women on her long journey.

A man promised to his dying mother to find and give a proper resting place to the remains of the father, a soldier, dead during WW1 and never found. It's an impossible and desperate quest since he died during Mount Piana battle that lasted two years and resulted in the killing of 14000 soldiers. But the obstinate man never gave up searching on the Dolomiti Mountains for all his life.

The hard work of a family of farmers during hay-making season.

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

Cesare Maestri demonstrates rock climbing technique by making an ascent in the Sella Group in the Dolomites. Maestri starts by climbing a fourth and fifth grade route. Then he progresses through a sixth grade rock face, and ends climbing a roof using aid climbing techniques. Maestri, nicknamed the 'Spider of the Dolomites' is known for his solo repeats in the Dolomites, as the first climber in the world to ascend the sixty-year walls, and for the controversial first ascent of Cerro Torre in Patagonia.

First short film directed by Taffarel. A large wooden sled is carried by a farmer to the top of Mount Visentin to collect the hay left to dry along the slopes.

It illustrates the operation of a large bird catcher (uccellanda) with a net and bait, characteristic of northern Italy and in particular the Veneto region. Preparations for bird-catching nets, training to call numerous birds, laboriously prepared tricks to deceive migratory birds and catch them in the net.

Reconstruction of a dramatic episode in the partisan struggle that took place in Treviso in July 1944, where a raid by Nazi-Fascist militias led to the capture and hanging of more than seventy partisans.

The documentary reconstructs the writer's experiences in Brancaleone, in the province of Reggio Calabria, quoting extensively from letters published in the book Il vizio assurdo (The Absurd Vice). In search of references between past and present, various images of Brancaleone flash by.

Origin and historical profile of present-day Vittorio Veneto (an Italian municipality in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region), resulting from the merger of two different and rival municipalities: Ceneda and Serravalle.

The vineyards of Bagnara Calabra (in the province of Reggio Calabria) are located on rocky cliffs overlooking the sea. Small terraces were built by local fishermen over centuries of hard work, on days when fishing was not possible. The short film describes the life of a couple of farmers/fishermen divided between the vineyard and fishing at sea.

Ancient bird hunting techniques, still practiced in Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, are illustrated.

Two children are alone on the beach; the little girl plays while the older boy, Enzo, aged seven, collects firewood for the coming winter. Their parents are working, and the two children will have to grow up quickly.

The public display of hanged partisans, the bloody revenge of German soldiers, the bodies of those who had been shot, the deported families: traumas that remain in the memories of survivors and relatives of victims.

Toni is an elderly man who lives in a nursing home in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso). Every night he has a nightmare: crows attack him and peck at his face, leaving him frozen in terror. For him, the nursing home is a waiting room for death, but he still wants to live. Around him are other elderly people in bed and in the dining room.

The lagoon of Grado as seen and loved by the poet Biagio Marin. People, things, the sea, the seasons, seagulls: everything filtered through a poetic lens that transcends reality to recreate moods, visions, passions, and love for one's homeland.

A look into the harsh life of a hard-working couple of terrace farmers in the Valley of Brenta.

Various hunting systems with huts (in this case, “capanno” is an artificial shelter, the simplest of which actually resemble a tent). Decoy birds and assistants. What are decoys used for? How are they selected and trained?

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

An in-depth look at a little-known sport that is technical, athletic, and physically demanding: cross-country skiing.