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A painter from Turin, Stefano Faenza, arrives in Reggio Calabria on the occasion of a personal exhibition organized in his honor in Locride. Behind this initiative there is a schoolmate of his, Gino Jacona, today councillor to the culture. During the trip, on the 106 state road, that takes him from the airport to the town, Stefano remembers the period he spent in this region in the early 70s...
In biblical times, a shepherd buys a wife for one of his sons, but a passion breaks out between the patriarch and the slave and the tribe risks falling into ruin.
The Reno, or Italian Rhine, may not be as renowned as its Teutonic sibling. Nevertheless, as Lorenzo Pullega’s witty and playful film informs us, the banks alongside this river, which courses through northern Italy, has its own rich and undulating history.
Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
The film tells the story of an organization that operates in the field of immigrant trafficking and male prostitution.
Ostia, outskirts of Rome: the beach in winter. Two sixteen-year-old boys steal a scooter at 8 in the morning, then rob a store, all in time for getting to school at 9. Nader is Egyptian, but was born in Rome. Stefano is Italian and his best friend Brigitte, Nader’s girlfriend, is also Italian, but for this very reason Nader’s parents are against the match, and Nader runs away from home. The film describes a week in the life of a teenager who tries to subvert the values of his own family. Torn between his Arab and Italian identity, audacious and in love, like the hero of a contemporary fairy tale, Nader will have to put up with the cold, the loneliness, life on the street, hunger and fear, the flight from his enemies and the loss of his friends, before he can really understand who he is.
Rosy has an important committee to do to get even with his childhood, a secret consumed in solitude, a secret that puts an end for ever to that Rosy had to endure so far.
A portrait of the community of Erto, in the Dolomites, which 60 years ago suffered a huge human disaster, due to external ambition and avidity, and still fights for dignity and recognition. Over 10 years, we see the efforts of the community splinter due to the proposal of an art installation on the dam, at the origin of the disaster. While for the mayor and the art curator it could be a way for the village to look forward, many alert it would be another step in making the people forget the tragedy.
Yousef is a successful cook, the son of immigrants, who grew up in Italy. After a long wait he manages to obtain the Italian citizenship, a few days after the attacks at Macerata. Yousef's certainties start to falter, leading him to a real identity crisis. When you find yourself faced with a choice that until recently would have been obvious, you will not know what to do.
A mother takes her son to visit his father before leaving on vacation.
Written and directed by Sergio Pastore in 1969. Il diario proibito di Fanny is an anthology film starring Giovanna Lenzi as four different women, all named Fanny. The film touches upon all the hot-button issues of 1968: illegal immigrants from the Eastern bloc, the Prague Spring, the Italian star cult and even abortion.
The last three years in the life of entrepreneur Raul Gardini (1933—1993).
"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
The contact between 4 guys united in their differences, take us to a journey through a world made of natural and ancient beauty.
A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.
Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.
Claudio Amerio works in a large factory near Florence. His life was recently turned upside down by the sudden death of his father caused by a heart attack. Claudio, who also lost his mother a few years ago, lives alone in the house that belonged to his parents. Between Claudio and the world now there is a wall, Claudio in fact lives holed up in this house where strange things have been happening for days: disturbing noises, falling paintings, sick energies that turn into nagging dreams...
Stella, a former film star now in decline, proposes a surrogate pregnancy with Monica to her son Giovanni and his husband, Jonathan. Stella hides behind this proposal the plan to make a comeback.
A young girl is witness to her father's destiny.
Eva is 19 years old and lives in a small town. One night she causes an accident in which a woman loses her life. Eva, terrified, runs away and no one learns of the dynamics of the accident, not even Bruno, a 45-year-old French man who is the victim's husband. Overcome with guilt, Eva begins to date Bruno while hiding her true identity from him, in a relationship that will lead them to free themselves from their suffering.
The story of Roberto Rossi, victim of mobbing in the workplace. Harassment, frustrations, recurring nightmares and thoughts of a man who lives a persecution and psychological violence daily and systematic.
A young widow becomes a prostitute in order to provide a better life for her son.
Gianni wakes up, eats and wash himself. Gianni puts all himself to go on. Gianni repeats these actions like any human being. Gianni lives following a strict routine. Gianni: is he living his life freely like he thinks? Gianni doesn't know that.
On the day of the apocalypse, a group of friends gathers in a house to party with drugs, alcohol, and love as they wait for the end.
The tragic story of a runaway girl in the 1970s in Verona.
Serebrjakov, Uncle Vanya's brother-in-law, is widowed and has remarried Helena. He wants to sell the country estate where the family lives: this unpopular decision sparks one of Chekhov's most famous dramas.
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.
Aldo lives as a guest in an RSA. Every day he waits for his loved ones looking out the window of his room. On his birthday there will be a surprise to cut through his loneliness.
A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the girl's sister.
An ancient legend becomes a predicament to the faith of two lovers coming from very different cultural, religious and social backgrounds.
Five years of work, a one-hour movie, two zines with more than a hundred coloured pages. Hand screen-printed cover, 350 numbered copies. These are the numbers of URAGANO NEGLI OCCHI, a true story (self)built in the sweaty and smoky corners of the illegal Milan of occupations and hardcore punk concerts. Dozens of voices, interviews, flyers, illustrations and photographs describe a heterogeneous community of individuals, squats and collectives that in recent years has experienced an explosion of vitality, moving with enthusiasm and determination in the contradictions of the metropolitan city of Milan, affirming an unprecedented approach to Do It Yourself practices. An entirely self-produced narrative and visual project, conceived, developed and finalized in our spare time, with a lot of unexpected events in between.
Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. Costanza and Lucia are not aware of Laura's responsibility, but a strange being is: Carlo, who starts blackmailing Laura.
Carlo is an amateur boxer, who trains in a renowned gym in his neighborhood! A forge of champions. The young and immature boxer, fights every day against his opponents and against the prejudices of a bigoted society, which is still struggling to accept homosexuality. His training weighs twice as much and his achievements are worth the same, specially in manly environment like that of boxing, when for those like Carlo, maybe, there is still no place.
Marco Fuser, an outlaw. returns to Venice after many years. His son who works in the studio of a celebrated painter is unaware of his father's history. Arrested by the Doge's men, Marco agrees to become a bravo in the service of the city's ruler and kill his enemies. He enjoys some success at this, until he finds he has been tasked with killing his son.
Three young sisters share a rented apartment in Rome’s university district with their respective boyfriends. Active in the student collective yet openly opposed to its leadership, they see themselves as guardians of a legacy of betrayed struggles, convinced they can renew a true sense of the “commons” on a small scale. Marginalized and outnumbered within the collective, they decide to make a documentary about the student occupation of the university.
A shy 17-year-old girl playing classical piano discovers soul music through a strange friendship with an old rocker in a summer that will change her life.
Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back the winning team of director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, while the music is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. In the title role, the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, joined by Luca Pisaroni, Kate Royal and the young Russian soprano Anna Samuil.
Nando secretly prostitutes himself to survive the day, but will they manage to discover his secret?
Paul is married with Lorenza , a rich woman who does not respect him . After losing a poker game, Paul decides to hide the truth from his wife and try and earn back the money by any means necessary.
Alberto Tango is the owner of a small and shabby detective agency in the area close to Naples. His collaborator is Corrado, naive boy with some problems of mental stability. Tango lives by his tricks, often at the limit of legality, to fill the huge debt that he has contracted with the cynical Rava, his ex former employer and current creditor. Tango receives a call from Sergio Tudisco, an important industrial man. He wants to hire him to find her daughter Olga, rebel girl run away. Tudisco gives Tango the sum that would solve the problems with Rava. Tango accepts after a hesitation.
Basilio lives in an abandoned villa in Sicily with his mysterious elderly mentor Casimir who is to help him find true poetry. In this villa, he tries to translate the symbols of his inner world into music. One day, Basilio meets equally strange Karla whose life already seems mysteriously intertwined with his. The symbolism of the world around them leads to an unexpected discovery.