Franco Piavoli

At the end of the war, Odysseus, the wandering hero, with his companions begins his sail back home to the Mediterranean. The conclusion of his adventure is delayed by many natural obstacles and he takes an internal journey of fleeting memories of his childhood, his parents, love for a beautiful girl, nostalgia for the past, regret for what he did, and the deep silence that envelops everything. He confronts the most terrible loneliness following a shipwreck in which all the comrades perish. (imdb)

Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon. (imdb)

One of the great personal cinematic testaments to the beauty of planet earth. The movie has no dialog and is filled with the sounds of nature and the images of its wonders, selected in a very unique and idiosyncratic way. (imdb)

Set in a bucolic Lombardy village, Piavoli's lyric ode to the cycles of life charts the passages of infancy, youth, maturity and old age against the seasons of the year. (The Center for Italian Studies)

The medieval town of Bobbio becomes a space of visual and emotional exploration for the children in a film workshop run by Piavoli and organised by Marco Bellocchio. Known as the Laboratorio Fare Cinema, it is proposed within the Bobbio Film Festival. Piavoli taught for many years and his pleasure in working with students comes across in this short film, a lesson in imagination and style. (Cinema Du Reel)

Life throughout the seasons ("le stagioni" is Italian for "seasons"), as it adjusts to them, transforms, is shaped by them.

The debut short form documentary by director Franco Piavoli.

Summer swinging documentary short by Franco Piavoli.

Gaggle of excitable facial gesticulations.

A documentary about the precariousness of men traveling to Milan in search of work.

Observations along the riverside, the flow of water, the stasis of life, and the emergence of a teenager's sexual desires.