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Dissatisfied with his life and unable to come out to his dying mother, a queer artist flees to a remote villa in Sicily, where visits from a classical Muse drive him to absorb himself in his art and forsake his real-life responsibilities.

A man wakes up in a room, bound hand and foot and blindfolded. The only thing he sees is the white of the bandage close to him... The only thing he can do is wander with his imagination, rediscovering himself and the world.

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to his cynical and powerful master, an unscrupulous philanderer contrasted with his cruel and unforgiving fool. Rigoletto encourages and welcomes the Duke's conquests, pitilessly mocking his victims until he discovers that the Duke has abducted the one person he genuinely loves, his own daughter. As a result, the character of the court jester is transformed into a tragic figure who, in spite of his evident immorality and malice, allows us to sense the devotion he feels for his daughter and his horror at being destroyed by the same despotic world as that which he himself has helped to create.

A corpulent two meters tall man goes to Turin for a fair. There, by chance, he finds the daughter of two people he knows "walking the streets". With various expedients, he convinces her to return to her native land

Enea and Maria have been living together for many years in their university apartment but find that their love is now just habit. The two are unable to resolve their relationship, so Enea begins an escape path from his pain by trying to commit suicide. An old man, searching for his own answers, will ask him why he decided to die.

It is the story of the meeting of two men, presumed childhood friends, of which one remembers every detail, with nostalgia and perhaps resentment, while the other pretends to remember only because he is distressed by a tax assessment and his friend is a tax official. Metaphor of two opposite ways of looking at one's roots, which one cannot free oneself from without risking losing one's identity.

Lidia is a girl too light to be on the ground. Her mother, on the night of June 23-24, asks for help to St. John’s magical water. At the same time her friend Elio has an idea to solve her problem.

Rosaria is a southerner who lives in Turin. Alone and with many sacrifices she raised three children, the youngest of whom, restless and rebellious, left home without giving any more news of himself. On the same night in which, unexpectedly, he returns to his mother, he is arrested for murder and indicted, among other things, for numerous rapes. Incarcerated with overwhelming evidence against him, it seems that there is no escape for him, also because he does not defend himself and assumes the attitude of someone who is hiding a terrible secret, thus appearing guilty in everyone's eyes. Only the mother persists in believing in his innocence, even improvising as a detective: she undertakes, once again alone, an investigative investigation in order to identify the true person responsible for the crimes and demonstrate Michele's innocence.

A docu-film on the history and meaning of the painting Madonna Sistina by Raffaello, painted in 1513. The meaning of Raffaello's masterpiece is told through the eyes of Russian author Vasilij Grossman, who dedicated a short but significant story to the painting in which he reviewed the tragic history of twentieth-century totalitarianisms.

Cosimo, an impetuous and idealistic scion of an aristocratic family, has decided to leave his home and live alone in the woods, rejecting society and his parents, whom he deeply loathes. On Christmas Eve, his twin brother Biagio goes looking for him in the depths of the forest to convince him to return home, even if only for one night.

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently political opera in which power struggles are interwoven with family conflicts, Simon Boccanegra echoes the life of its composer – the man who championed the cause of Italian unification and overcame the loss of his wife and children. Calixto Bieito, that most Shakespearean of opera directors, brings humanism and truth to a work haunted by gleaming images of the sea.

Anita’s life begins to unravel when small, everyday incidents lead her to doubt both her husband and herself. Caught between suspicion and confusion, reality grows increasingly unstable, forcing her to confront something she can no longer control.

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.

After the Charlie Hebdo shooting events by the hand of jihadist terrorists David wants to bring on stage a play based on the late satyrical cartoonist George Wolinski's comicbook strips, but he struggles to finds cohoperation from institutional figures. He then agrees to direct in a small provincial town a stage play about an apulian folk dance, the Pizzica. Masterminding to disguise the original planned one, with its sexually explicit nature, into the accorded one he will gain the complicity of the curious cast hired on the spot. The start of the rehearsals will arouse excited consensus either censure which will lead to a growing boycott of the staging.

Not even the beam is perfect

A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.

In a rural home hollowed by abandonment and silence, 12-year-old Rosi keeps her family from falling apart. While her mother is immobilized by grief, Rosi becomes a quiet pillar for her sisters, resisting despair amid taunts. Between moments of hardship, a small, unexpected gesture leads her toward dignity and resilience.

Originally this was just another Italian drama, but because of the Naples Earthquake, the producers added some stock earthquake footage and changed the title to Terrible Earthquake. Larry Anderson

Is it better to rely on your instincts or an app that guides you toward the perfect choice? Is it better to ask someone out in person or send a heart emoji on a dating app? This is the dilemma of Riccardo, the classic shy and awkward teenager, who relies on an unsettling digital avatar to find his soulmate; it is also Teresa’s dilemma, his sister, who seeks to explore the limits of love and respect in her relationship.

Many years have passed since the 1980 earthquake devastated Irpinia. Subsequent reconstruction profoundly changed the topography, leaving the ruins to bear witness to the tragedy like open-air museums. Walking among these stones, immersed in a dull silence for some time, one experiences the embarrassing sensation of being observed. Stones that seem to claim their own soul, and which now seem horrified by an unexpected visit...

A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.

A minimalist cinematic style is used in this film to tell the story of a young man who reacquaints himself with an old girlfriend after a chance meeting. He talks to a film director who wishes to make a feature about political change but is uninspired about the lack of real change in everyday life. The woman goes on a boat with an old friend before making love to her former boyfriend. The two rekindle their passions as the passage of time has them viewing each other in a more favorable light.

Gigione goes on tour and Jo Donatello, who would like to go with his father, is forced to stay at home. Walking through the city he meets a friend with two young girls, one of whom obviously has to go to Donatello, who enchants her with the most boring and rhetorical saccharine love song. However, the girl is worried about "all those people who fight for freedom", so Donatello offers to be a driver in a series of clandestine races that we do not have the pleasure of seeing. Overseeing the entire operation is Don Franco, a sinister man with a Camorra streak who takes the young lover under his wing. Returning from the triumphant series of concerts Gigione discovers that Donatello is involved in a bad circle, and after an inconclusive confrontation with Don Franco, he thinks it would be a good idea to go on a pilgrimage to San Giovanni Rotondo to ask for mercy from Padre Pio.

The body of a young hooker is found one night in the center of Rome, killed with a single gunshot. By questioning the pimp who exploited the young woman, and the former prostitute who was the woman's best friend, two police officers will solve the mystery.

Giuda is an experimental film by Flavio Sciolè

1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the Government. Campanella, under the charge of the plot, is put into a prison in Naples and waits for the conclusion of an endless process. Throughout the Calabrian countries his name is wrapped up in legend, he becomes almost a myth. Someone believes he has escaped from prison and wanders about under a false name.

N. undergoes Compulsory Medical Treatment that kills him: it is the epilogue of a violent encounter with psychiatry, which fails to provide him with support and pathologizes his pain until he becomes yet another victim of the system. To say goodbye to life and accept his death, N. embarks on a journey through his memories, accompanied by the voice in his mind.

Trapped in a transparent cage, four characters perform their empty, ritualistic actions, staging an endless hunt, synonymous with feelings that are now dead. Michele, the puppet son of a declining nobility, manipulates and commands his fictitious bourgeois friends, Ettore and Leo, to avenge the love of Mariagrazia, which has now faded away. In this eternal hunt, each character pursues their own authentic existence, which eludes them with terrifying ease. Thus, their entire lives become empty, similar to that of objects. Only a cruel glimmer of honesty can shake the golden cage, whose walls have been too thick to be demolished until now.

A lonely actor, Arturo, is unexpectedly embraced by a young boy named Mirko who believes Arturo is his father, leading Arturo to step into a paternal role despite not knowing the boy’s background.

A woman, director of advertising films, catches the eye of a mysterious young woman dressed in white during an evening of dancing on the terrace of a bar and is fascinated by her.

Fiore is one of the many Italian single fathers crushed by serious economic necessities. After the loss of his job he cannot maintains his son anymore and realizes that his life has reached a bit of a dead end.

The tragedy of our times as seen by those who'll have to learn to live the tomorrow.

Cinzia and Filippo meet for the first time after meeting in chat. A badly cooked dinner, some drinks, a constant alternation of attraction and embarrassment. The two discovering each other until Cinzia falls into her usual trap, the one triggered when she feels insecure.

Carlo Salice, renowned chemist, creates a virus that destroys world agriculture. Thanks to the police, the virus is destroyed. Before this happened, however, a vial was stolen by a criminal organization to modify the virus making it lethal to humans. The artist Antonio Marini will be involved in the story that will put his life and the humanity's one in danger.