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Gaia lives her life in joy. She is a teenager, she loves her father, manager of an important firm, she has a boyfriend and she is among the best in her classroom. But one night two policemen arrest her father. He is accused of bribe.

Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, this documentary gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their stories and to prominent women in culture, art and academia who were forced to leave their beloved country. They are a guiding force, able to explain through their individual, perilous and often tragic experiences, the drastic shift of a nation, caught between patriarchy, deep economic crisis, corruption, rigid religious and ideological beliefs.

Editing and reworking of television, film, and photographic archive material relating to Paul VI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964, carried out by Olmi when he was already planning to make E venne un uomo (And a Man Came), the film about Pope John XIII.

Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.

The opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini from the Arena di Verona (2024), with desings by late Franco Zeffirelli. Turandot is sung by Ecaterina Semenchuk.

Gigliola discovers, during the trial of her boyfriend accused of theft, that she loves him more as a criminal.

The history of the activities of the Culmv (Compagnia Unica dei Lavoratori Merci Varie) in the Port of Genoa, spanning from the 14th century to the present day. The documentary is structured in three parts: "Caravana e Camalli," "Compagnia Unica Lavoratori Merci Varie," and "Il Sacco e il Container." It was broadcast by Rai on January 19th, January 26th, and February 2nd, 1981. The program alternates between dramatized reconstructions (such as the formation of the company in the 14th century or the resistance and sabotage during World War II) and a television investigation

A documentary made with archive footage and photographs alternating with recent film footage; the choice of texts is taken from Mario Rigoni Stern, Emilio Lussu, Piero Jahier, Filippo Sacchi, and Nuto Revelli.

John Gabriel Borkman, a former bank director, was imprisoned for fraud but believes he was wrongly convicted. He had invested clients' money in a major industrial venture but was reported by his friend Hinkel, who was in love with Borkman's former fiancée, Ella Rentheim. Borkman now lives on the first floor of the house, with his estranged wife, Gunhild, living on the ground floor. He occasionally receives visits from his friend Wilhelm Foldal, who supports Borkman's delusion that the bank will reinstate him. In his youth, Borkman betrayed his love for Ella by marrying her twin sister Gunhild to advance his career. After his conviction, Ella took care of their son Erhart and now wants him to live with her and take her name. Borkman agrees, but Gunhild refuses to let her sister take their son.

Luca Magni investigates the atrocious murder of a girl, Benedetta. The young victim was the only daughter of Bruno Corti, driver of the Rinaldi family, owner of a large industrial group.

Lori Saint-Just, a master jeweler shattered by his wife’s death, relocates and becomes obsessed with Cona, a prostitute who first entices then rebuffs him. Driven to possess her, he robs and accidentally kills his benefactor to inherit a $30 billion fortune, gives Cona a replica necklace, and she enacts a staged murder-suicide to destroy them both while sparing him guilt.

The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to this day. On that day, radio took its first tentative steps into our homes, broadcasting a brief official announcement followed by the inaugural concert of Haydn's Quartet Op. 7. At that precise moment, we imagined that a child was born in a working-class neighborhood of the capital, whose voice would accompany us throughout this journey.

Italian film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The silver key"

Coral reefs are the greatest living organism of this planet.They are the lung which permitted life to exist on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. But today something has changed.The coral reefs are dying.Three young scientists, Federico Fanti, Grace Young and Vanessa Loveburg are hot in pursuit. But how can a geologist and paleontologist, a robotic engineer and a marine biologist find the killer of an organism which does not follow the rhythms of human beings? But not all is lost. The way of saving the coral reefs is buried in the breath- taking views of the Dolomites.

A hit-and-run driver hits and kills a little girl in Pontevico. The latter's father, a long-time friend of Walter, asks the reporter to investigate the matter, before dying by suicide. Walter, not believing in this hypothesis, throws himself headlong into the search for the truth. Meanwhile, the return of the charming Candy provokes the jealousy of Federica who decides to resign from the newspaper and leave for Milan.

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.

Franco and Antonio recount how they met and how their “religious” love for science was born.

Performance shot in 1977, in which emblematic actor Carmelo Bene, in the charming reconstruction of the ruins of a theater on fire accompanied by the disturbing notes of Vittorio Gelmetti, reads four poems of the Twentieth Century russian poets Vladimir Majakovskij, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Blok and Sergej Esènin.

While on his way to visit Father Felipe, Sandro has a car accident and dies. Commissioner Selvaggi investigates the case, directing his investigations towards a group of the man's friends addicted to gambling.

Mario Aldara is a state employee; perhaps out of a desire for protagonism, his girlfriend Patrizia has spread the rumor that he is a high-ranking secret service official...

While traveling by car, Alex witnesses a murder. Together with his partner, he wants to find out who the victim is and what lies behind a strange check won during a poker game.

Red Sox is a stand-up show produced by Trident and Piper Lizia . Show recorded in Cesena on 24 April 2024

Carmelo Bene reads poems by Dino Campana

A lyrical documentary about the fundamentally harmful nature of money.

A motorist is driving from Turin to Sicilu and listening to the radio. The real journey that leads from Turin to Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome to Sicily is actually a journey through time (made entirely from italian public television's archive material).

The life of Saint Anthony is intertwined with the seventh centenary of the discovery of his relics.

Mauro, a young jazz musician living in the Emilia countryside, becomes the victim of a serious accident. At his bedside arrives Lucia, his twin sister, an astronomer based in Rome. Through a telepathic bond with her brother, she senses that it wasn’t an ordinary crash.

Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti recount the birth and development of Bestiari, erbari, lapidari, their latest film, presented out of competition at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024.

Billy Nelson returns to his hometown of Malopasso after ten years as a rancher on a large ranch in San Vito. Once in town, Billy discovers a terrible truth: His parents, Santo Nelson and Rosa Lopez, were killed by the terrible bandit Parker. Shocked, Billy vows revenge against the perpetrators of his family's massacre.

Klezmer derives from the Hebrew words "Kley Zemer", which refer to the musical instruments (generally, the violin and stringed instruments in general and the clarinet) used to play the traditional music of Eastern European Jews from the XVIth century on. Moni's StageOrchestra is inspired by that music, by its constant change of tones and by the spirit which pervades it, from the sorrowful, monochord which revives the spirit of a synagogue prayer to the explosive joy of songs and dance music created for happier occasions. It is not a faithful reprise of klezmer music or a philological revisitation we propose here, but rather a free use, which maintains the climate and the imprint of several centuries of musical practice, born and developed in close proximity with the Polish, Czech and Byelorussian civilizations and enriched by a fertile exchange with the musical culture of that other diasporic population of Europe, the Gypsy people.

Serata Paperino is a special-movie produced in 1988 by Walt Disney Television Italy, directed and written by Aurelio Castelfranchi, Antonella Condò and Cecilia Valmarana. It was broadcasted for the first time on Rai 1 on 1988, Easter day, and was regularly re-proposed until 1996.

Interview with Peter Del Monte conducted by Luca Guadagnino.

One of the last TV performances by Carmelo Bene, from Publio Papinio Stazio and Henrich Von Kleist, mixing the myth of the amazon Pentesilea with the invulnerability of the greek hero Achilles. Bene performs alone in a stage filled with mannequins, acting in playback.

Niki tells us about herself and recounts the story of her first kiss.

The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.

Edoardo Ferrario's hilarious new stand-up comedy show. Filmed live in front of a packed audience at Rome's Teatro Brancaccio, "Diamoci un tono" is a compendium of travel stories, social commentary, pop culture, strange accents, badly dubbed films, and any other topic that can be laughed at without restraint.

Recording by Rai Milan of Adelchi staged by Carmelo Bene at the Teatro Lirico in Milan in 1984, with the Rai orchestra and choir for the bicentenary of Alessandro Manzoni's birth. Broadcast only once on Rai 2 on September 9, 1985.

The right to freedom of speech is an essential element to democracy. In our so-called democratic countries, is there space for a concrete exercise of such inviolable right? Or is its guarantee a utopian Constitutional ideal? In 2002, pirate local TV stations started to spread throughout Italy, as an answer to the lack of public access television and a statement against the oligarchic control over the most influential medium. INTERFERENZE explores the intriguing story of what became known as the Telestreet network through the personal experience of the members of Orfeo TV, the pirate station who initiated the movement. —Zoe D'Amaro

Nino gives flowers to girls passing by.

The Final Evolution series had a television broadcast as an animated feature film in December 2008 on Italia1. However, this version cut several scenes for reasons of time.

"Our nativity scene will be among the blast furnaces this year": on 24 December 1968, Pope Paul VI visited Taranto, to spend Christmas Eve with the steelworkers, in a shed of the steelworks opened in 1961. For the first time, a pontiff celebrated Christmas Mass in a factory.

Turin, Italy. In an apartment building, a child gets into trouble. Suspense ensues.

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