Meet the
Italians
@ Hot Docs

While visionary minds imagine new ways of inhabiting the planet, two composers, isolated in the Alps, compose a symphony recording human traces in the air, revealing that zero impact doesn't exist.

Zero impact does not exist.

In an era of inevitable change, where no place remains external from human presence, Thermocene asks an unsettling question: how do we listen in a world where there is no silence?

Across continents, visionary minds experiment with new ways of inhabiting the planet, reshaping daily gestures, work, food, movement, and community. Not as a utopia, but as a reorientation. Their actions show the transformation from a collapsing chaos into a new shared form of existence.

Meanwhile, two composers withdraw to 3,000 metres in the Alps. In the apparent silence of high altitude, they record hidden frequencies and traces of human activity. What appears remote is already permeated. From these signals emerges a contemporary symphony, not as demonstration but as experience. A dispersed chorus of human and non-human presences, infrastructures, atmospheres, bodies, machines, voices. Each frequency is a voice. Each participant is a trace. Silence is saturated, there is no outside, no neutral ground.

Zero impact does not exist.

From its Rome headquarter, Kino reaches out towards international partners and filmmakers to develop a new generation of emerging voices and support established talents, promoting stories that explore the main social and human issues of our time.

From 2012, Kino is led by producer Giovanni Pompili, member of ACE, EAVE, Berlinale Talents, Eurodoc and TFL Alumni. Since 2021 he is the Head of Study at TFL-Green Film Lab, a training programme driven by a strong engagement for a more sustainable approach in the audiovisual industry.

Among the company's latest international co-productions presented at A-List International film festivals: Carlos Marques-Marcet's POLVO SERÁN (2024) - TIFF Platform Prize and 4 Gaudí Awards; Carlo Sironi's QUELL'ESTATE CON IRÈNE (2024) - Berlinale, Generation 14 Plus; PUÁN by María Alché and Benjamin Naishtat (2023) - San Sebastián Official Competition (Best leading performance and best screenplay); Laura Luchetti's LA BELLA ESTATE (2023) Locarno Film Festival, Piazza Grande; Carla Simón's ALCARRÀS (2022) Golden Bear at Berlinale.

A journey along the wheat supply chain, from seeds to pasta, to discover the oligopolies that profit from war and hunger.

The Food Barons is an investigative documentary that recounts the transformation of wheat from a common resource, cultivated for generations by expert farmers, to a financial asset traded on global markets and controlled by a handful of multinationals.

Following the supply chain from Canada to Italy, passing through France and Lebanon, the documentary reveals how control of agricultural production has shifted from small farmers to oligopolies that profit from war and hunger. From patented seeds to the standardization of wheat, multinationals today hold power over every aspect of the supply chain, exploiting practices that impoverish local communities, damage the soil, and compromise the quality of food.

Through testimonies from farmers, experts, and activists, the film denounces a system that sacrifices biodiversity and global well-being for profit, but also celebrates sustainable alternatives that can save our food future.

Point Nemo is a production company based in Milan, engaged in a wide range of film projects, including movies, TV series, and documentaries. The goal is to reach a broad and attentive audience with projects that have a unique imprint and an important message, collaborating with emerging talents and established authors who share the same vision.

Inside a Rome anti-violence center and secret shelter, two trainee counselors confront emergencies and moral dilemmas as survivors rebuild fractured lives - revealing the hidden labor, solidarity, and fragile, non-linear path to freedom.

Set in Rome, Be Free unfolds inside an Anti-Violence Centre and a protected shelter-home where women who have experienced abuse seek safety, support, and the possibility of rebuilding their lives.

The documentary follows the daily life of the Centre through the one-year training journey of two young trainees, Ilaria and Daniela. Entering this world for the first time, they are confronted with emergency situations, painful testimonies, and ethical dilemmas that challenge their expectations and emotional resilience. Their gradual learning process becomes the narrative thread through which the stories of the women hosted at the Centre emerge.

Women from different cultural and geographical backgrounds share the shelter, revealing how gender-based violence - though experienced in Italy - reproduces similar dynamics across societies and cultures.

Be Free is a collective portrait of a hidden frontline, asking what it truly means to reclaim freedom when starting over is a complex, uncertain, and deeply personal process.

Nacne is an independent production company based in Rome specializing in historical, social, cultural and creative documentaries. Nacne's films have been screened and awarded at national and international film festivals such as DOK Leipzig, GZDoc, Biografilm, Rome Film Festival, Vision du Réel, Cinéma du Réel, Trieste FF, RIFF, Torino FF, Locarno, Venezia FF, Vancouver FF, Annecy, Al Jazeera FF, etc.

In the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, women from diverse backgrounds have joined the PKK guerrillas to fight for freedom. Through the eyes of seasoned militant Tekosin Ozan, this film reveals their hidden lives - living in underground tunnels to survive relentless Turkish airstrikes - and explores the sacrifices and resilience behind their struggle for Jin Jiyan Azadi - "Women, Life, Freedom".

In July a historic ceremony unfolds deep in the mountains: 30 guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) place their weapons into the fire, ending four decades of armed struggle.

Living in hidden tunnels in the Qandil Valley, veteran Tekosin Ozan and her comrades confront the challenge of reshaping their lives beyond war. Drawing on Kurdish philosophy and the ethos of Jin Jiyan Azadi ("Women, Life, Freedom"), the film tells the story of a community transitioning from the battlefield to the political stage.

It's a story about courage, identity, and the radical belief that the most powerful struggles are fought with ideas, not with weapons.

Founded in 1989 by Domenico Procacci, Fandango has produced more than 100 films, most of which have been selected in International Festivals, winning prestigious prizes (two Cannes' Grand Prix for Matteo Garrone's "Gomorrah" and "Reality").

Moretti, Sorrentino, Antonioni, Kusturica, De Heer, Crialese, Comencini, Muccino, Roth are some of the directors with whom Fandango has worked.

Among the series produced: "My Brilliant Friend" (HBO-Rai), the "Gomorrah" series (Sky), and "The Lying Life of Adults" (Netflix).

Fandango's recent documentaries: Argentieri's "The Matchmaker" (premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival - Official Selection), Mannocchi's "Ukrainian Whisper" (Best Documentary at the David di Donatello 2025), Longoria's "The Sleeper" (nominated for Best Documentary at the Premios Goya 2026) and Smutniak's "Mur" (premiered at TIFF 2023 - Best Documentary at Silver Ribbon 2023).

Fandango is also a publishing house, a record label, a distribution company and an international sales company.

A forest marked by radiation and suspended in time becomes the narrator of Chornobyl's trauma. Through testimonies, symbolic imagery and music, the film explores memory, the persistence of life, and the unexpected beauty that can emerge from catastrophe.

In the Exclusion Zone, the Red Forest, scarred by radiation and time, continues to live where humans have disappeared. Here returns Sergii Mirnyi, a former liquidator and scientist who was among the first to enter the forest after the 1986 disaster to measure the invisible.

Today the Zone has changed: the war of 2022 has left new wounds among trenches, mines and fires. As Sergii walks through reborn trees and ruins reclaimed by nature, the voices of scientists and witnesses intertwine with the forest's breathing.

Between memory, catastrophe and renewal, the film explores the mystery of life persisting beyond humankind.

Founded in Rome in September 2018, Slinkset operates in the broader field of visual and sound creativity, with an interdisciplinary and innovation-driven approach. Its activities range from strategic and financial consulting for the film and audiovisual industry to the production of film and audiovisual works, as well as music publishing and the creation of original film scores.

The company supports producers and creative companies in defining development strategies and structuring project financing models, combining economic, managerial and creative expertise. At the same time, Slinkset develops and produces original content with a strong focus on narrative quality and on the visual and sonic identity of each project.

After experimenting with different production and financing models alongside several partners, in 2019 the company developed its own "associate & co-production business" framework, which led to its first associate productions with some of the key players within its professional network.