Materia oscura tells the story of a war zone in peacetime. The film location is the Salto di Quirra test range (Sardinia, Italy) where, for over fifty years, governments around the world have tested 'new weapons' and where the Italian government has carried out controlled explosions of old weapon stocks, inexorably endangering the territory.

While investigating the murder of a woman that occurred in the sado-masochistic club scene, Inspector Luca Moccia discovers fantasies that threaten his relationship. Will he overcome them?

This both encyclopedic and essayistic film successively explores the worlds of animals, plants and minerals in three acts. In the first part, built around archive footage, scholars analyze the recording and classification of animals and their behavior, as well as the care of animals and experimenting on them, as different forms of appropriation—a method to determine a hierarchy, with human beings at the top.
In the following acts, the film tilts and shifts this anthropocentric worldview. The second, poetically observational part, shot in the botanical gardens of Padua in Italy, argues that plants surpass and overshadow humans in almost every respect. The third act, which again has its own tone and documentary approach, reflects on the role that stones play in war and destruction, as well as in commemoration.
This ambitious film does not consider animals, plants and minerals as elements from a world “around us”. Within the formalistic structure, a web of cross-connections is created in which humans are not the omniscient center.

War and Peace recounts the relationship between film and war since their first encounter, in 1911, during the Italian invasion of Libya. Questioning the nature of the aestheticisation of war, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti produce a deep consideration about the meaning of History and its transmission to future generations.