Through a dreamlike journey, three painful events are recounted that marked the life, soul, and career of Maria Callas, one of the greatest voices in opera.
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Through a dreamlike journey, three painful events are recounted that marked the life, soul, and career of Maria Callas, one of the greatest voices in opera.
Short aired during the Pippo Chennedy Show
In the center of Naples, in the Montesanto district, Maurizio, a homeless man, has built a shack on the stairs that lead to Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Maurizio gathers and collects all the objects that consumer society gets rid of. Thus, the interior of his shack resembles a real house.
A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera IL TROVATORE, in Elijah Moshinsky's new Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, with sets by the noted film designer Dante Ferretti and costumes by Anne Tilby.
Didier, a boy of sub-Saharan origin, dreams of building his own boat made of pizza boxes. His father Amir brings home a pizza every night to add a piece to his masterpiece. But one night a storm destroys Didier's boat.
A boy suddenly wakes up on a small beach by a lake, looks around, he doesn't know where he is but is immediately in love with the beauty of the place...
A Drama film.
After a night at the club, a man tries to enter his car but is blocked by the software running it, because of his alcohol level. The man and the car discuss like a couple until his physical and verbal violence grows unexpectedly.
At a hilltop cottage, Giorgio and Matteo are hosting a dinner party for Giorgio's artistic friends from the city. As the group discuss art, cinema and gossip, Matteo becomes withdrawn. He goes inside and turns on his video camera, and through its lens he sees for the first time what his and Giorgio's relationship really is.
A story of a kid whose only friends are a dog and the stars. The kid without a name, together with his beloved dog Matteo, tries to sell cigarettes at a street corner; he doesn't succeed, pursued by a cop. His only consolation will be stars-watching at night.
Unhappily married with an affluent banker, former hippie Silvana awaits her chance to get rid of her husband without giving up his wealth.
Two friends catch up in a Paris apartment, each under the impression that the place belongs to the other. As they try to unravel who the flat actually belongs to, a woman’s sudden arrival at the door forces them to hide, trapping them inside a heartbreaking family secret that isn't theirs to know.
Italian erotic drama
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...
Filmed in Rome and Bangkok, the film tells the story of Giulio, who has felt like he was born in the wrong body since he was a child. At the age of 27, he decides to undergo surgery, at a prestigious clinic in Thailand. But once he becomes a woman, he suffers an identity crisis that he overcomes with the help of his companion and lifelong friends.
The classic opera by Giuseppe Verdi, brought to Teatro Real Madrid with stars such as Ermonela Jaho and Gregory Kunde in 2016, conducted by Renato Palumbo.
A couple in love meets to eat every afternoon. Miscommunication and displeasure begin to be the main ingredients of their menu, and the dishes they eat are the slow warning of inevitable decay. Every desire transforms in the time it takes for dinner to be ready. All that remains is to taste a frantic and exhausting dessert.
Adapted from Franco Scaldati's play, the movie transposes the story of Totò and Vicé from the theatrical representations to urban scenes. Totò and Vicé are timeless creatures, bewildered and misplaced, that roam about Palermo, marooned and empty; an urban journey and waking life between memories and dreams in one magic night. Out from a timeless cave, their story of sanctification crosses the suburbs, reaches the city and it's bowels, showing the real settings of Scaldati's writing and cosmogony.
Ettore, owner of a funeral home, meets Marilena, the only woman he has ever loved, who has just lost her husband.
Irmela had one and only goal over the past 30 years: to erase each and every single trace of hate around her.
The theatre company managed by Marco is passing through a crisis; the big networks invaded the market with their poor products and they lay down the law. Marco finds an important subject to work on: homosexuality; but it is hard to ask Federica, who is a writer and director, to work on it. That subject is a thorn in her side, as it was the cause of her marriage break up. Federica angerly refuses Marco's proposal, but after one night of searching, spent on Internet, she brings to light an aspect of the homosexuality, which doesn't want to give up, now: "The Pink Triangle" that means homosexuality as a martyrdom, the tribute of blood that homosexual people shed during the nazi period. Federica explains Marco and other actors of the company the new project, by telling the historical documentation. Each of them imagines his own character in dark colour performances, often brutal, following the line of blood that history has drawn.
Italian Silent Film
An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.
Behind Rosaura lies a story involving a man who is a permanent guest at the boarding house, the painter Camillo Canegato; ahead of her, an improvised wedding and a violent death, all unfolding within a short span of time. But who Rosaura really is -her true identity, her personal history, the traits of her character, even the features of her body- will never be clearly revealed.
25 years have passed since Andrea Romanelli, a yacht designer and sailor, disappeared at sea: he was attempting, with Giovanni Soldini, the record in the Atlantic crossing. His son Tommaso was 4 years old and now, as a filmmaker, he faces a journey through memory to discover who his father was.
The central theme of the project is the trip to Stockholm that Grazia Deledda made in December 1927 to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to her in 1926. During the long and nerve-racking journey, accompanied by her husband, Grazia experiences a series of flashbacks that retrace some fundamental moments of her existence, such as one of the first "encounters" with snow or the death of her sister.
A father starts to work as a driver for a criminal organization.
The love story of Bruno and Tiziana is turned upside down by the 59 seconds that wrote one of the most tragic pages of Italy's history – the earthquake that devastated Friuli in May 1976.
On board a train on its last trip, five people know each other, collide, make friends and solve their personal issues finding out what's really important in life.
Young Palermitan Lorenzo must make the FtM transition. He has broken up with his family and wanders between the Foro Italico , in Palermo, Sicily, and his friends' bedrooms to draw, play video games, and have his future told on cards. He measures his desire by the clothes he wants to wear, the tricks he wants to do and the drawings in which he can imagine himself again...
A little alien comes face to face with a group of bullies. But the violence here is not only physical: there is also the intent to film everything and humiliate him online. A timely and profound theme, told with the power of animation!
An Italian everyman living in Rome discovers a violently ill intruder on his sofa after returning from the market. The Everyman must help nurse this stranger back to health before he can unearth the ominous man's true purpose for being there.