Lina Wertmüller - I Basilischi (1963)

I Basilischi (also known as The Basilisks and The Lizards) is a 1963 Italian drama film. It is the directorial debut of Lina Wertmüller.
It was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.

Margarethe von Trotta - Rosa Luxemburg

Shirley Clarke - The Cool World (1964)

The Cool World (1964) is a feature film about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.

This film is an electrifying revelation of the American problem: the desperate meaning of segregation that will not easily be erased even if every civil rights battle is won for the next ten years…

–James Farmer,

THE COOL WORLD… is a hauntingly bitter, savagely realistic yet not unpoetic look at a world you don’t know. You won’t be entertained by the film but you will be rewarded — if you don’t scare easily. Director Shirley Clarke… has, in every sense, authored a work of art… judged as a documentary study of the world’s foremost metropolitan jungle… ‘THECOOL WORLD’ is an unqualified success.

–Mike McGrady, Newsday

THE COOL WORLD is a loud, long and powerful cry of outrage at the world society has created for Harlem youngsters and at the human condition in the slum ghetto…

–Judith Crist, The New York Herald Tribune