'Sguardi del Sud' is the project of the Home Movies Foundation-National Family Film Archive of Bologna. Since 2002, the Foundation has collected, preserved, restored, and digitized over 400 films shot between the 1930s and 1980s, selected by the Foundation in collaboration with the University of Catania and with the "Archives of the South" project.
The films make up a journey among the rites and myths of Southern Italy, an unprecedented anthropological and ethnographic journey, cultivated by the gaze of filmmakers, among beliefs, rituals, and popular traditions. The most represented cities are Palermo, Naples, Catania, Trapani, and Messina. The theme of 'nostos' emerges, emigrants or children of emigrants who return to the South, to stay or to find their family, and film it, fixing on film the memory of their origins, but the rural and peasant dimension, now lost, is also documented.