A charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush and his adventures on New Year's Eve.
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A charming featurette about a teenage boy’s first crush and his adventures on New Year's Eve.
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.
1943. In a small village, Amerigo, due to his crippled leg, is the only man who hasn’t gone to war. He lives with his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Annetta, who is very sick and in urgent need of a medic.
Vera, a ten-year-old girl who loves astronomy, disappears without a trace while walking with Claudio, her teacher, near the cliff of Punta Crena, in Liguria. Two years later she returns, but instead of being a teenager, she is a woman of about twenty-five years old. She doesn’t remember anything. When images resurface in her memory, Vera realizes that she has lived the life of a man, clinically dead, who woke up at the same moment in which she vanished in nothing.
Based on the true crime known as Mystery of Via Monaci or The Fenaroli case.
As in an old film, the protagonist Carmelo relives the moments of his youth in a nostalgic atmosphere.
Ciro and Mike, two men in their thirties who couldn’t be more different, go out for a beer and decide to approach Max, a sleazy real estate agent, to convince him to pull off a major heist targeting his clients. Things don’t go as planned.
A Donatello award nominated short drama concluding a trilogy of films about a young Chinese girl living clandestinely in Italy.
A young aspiring actress has an argument with her father on the phone just before recording a self-tape. Later, as she begins to perform her part, she struggles to concentrate and can’t stop thinking about her father’s hurtful words.
A Sicilian janitor gets visited by a Madonna statue in his dreams, telling him that she is buried under an olive tree and asking him to help getting her out of the earth.
A drug addict escapes his misery one night by reliving the founding of Rome and imagining himself the Emperor.
Something that has the appearance of a traditional family – mother, father, son, daughter – wanders through the rooms of a baronial villa near Monte Pellegrino, in Palermo: looking out the window, reading the newspaper, watering the plants. However, the constant comparison with objects, sculptures and paintings triggers something else, another family portrait, free and different.
"My name is Pier Felice Filippi. It was 1978, I was 23. I was kidnapped and kept by the Mafia for ransom. I was locked and tied up with an iron chain. I escaped. I wanted to make sure my kidnappers were arrested. And I did it'.
Audely, 39, works as a lumberjack in the Guatemalan jungle. At home, his daughter Carol, 11, dreams of entering that same forest. Audely thinks about it, then goes to the moon.
My pain, and my emotional dependence were hidden until I met her, my weak point...
An Italian movie.
A romance story about Jenny and the men that love her.
A long phone call, the end of a love story. The female protagonist prowls her apartment like a wounded feline, while the male protagonist wanders through the streets of a small town, encountering intrusive acquaintances. A painful, lacerating dialogue that is at the same time tragicomic, constantly balanced between laughter and tears.
In a remote mountain village, the ritual of the chain of time occurs every year: here, a child, chosen by the Priestess, must deliver her the symbol of the childhood.
Exasperated repugnance, deep impatience, radical incompatibility. A silent film about the circle of life through the story of different people. Farmers works the land, a woman in a marriage crisis, a middle-aged man wants another life.
An iconographically already dead Christ, who assails life and goes astray, performing miracles with only the power of despair. In Antonio Rezza's reinterpretation, Jesus Christ never utters a word and expresses himself only with heartbreaking screams, capable of healing man and performing all kinds of miracles.
A Donatello award nominated short drama about Carla, a large and scruffy lady who lives with her rather neglected son Francesco and her younger and handsome partner Antonio. Most people are surprised by their relationship, and when Antonio meets the young and vivacious Giorgia things might change for everyone.
Young Rosalia marries the painter Corrado Palmieri, but gets disowned by her family, opposed to the marriage. Then during a fight, Corrado kills his brother in law and is sentenced to a life sentence.
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.
During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.
How can a great painter live in a place where there is no other color than white? It is 1889 and Vincent Van Gogh's only desire is to leave the austere walls of the Saint Paul asylum. His first hope is placed in the unexpected visit of his brother Theo who had to take four trains and even a cart to go and see him ... Through the unpredictable metaphor of the temporary isolation in a mental asylum of Vincent Van Gogh
Nemo is a portrait of nothingness and of what lies within it: a limbo suspended in the irreversibility of loss, observed from both sides.
Jody toured Italy with hid dad's carousel. While his peers live a life dedicated to the stability of friendships and family relationships in the same city and in the same school, he travels and meets dozens of teachers and classmates.
Le cinque stagioni is a four-part television drama directed by Gianni Amico and broadcast by RAI in 1976. Set in a retirement home, the film studies components, manias, small and large dramas of retirees.
Amidst Iran's tumultuous socio-political unrest, 'No End' directed by Navid Nikkhah Azad follows Gholamali Darbari, a filmmaker whose daring exposé, 'Forced Confession,' reveals Iran's covert coercion practices. When government authorities seize his film, Darbari refuses to be silenced. Determined to challenge the Iranian government's suppression of truth amidst societal upheaval, he creates a protest selfie-video.
Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
In ancient times Rome looked upon Carthage as her greatest rival, and determined to plan her downfall. Cato, a Roman Senator, appealed to the Senate to conquer Carthage, and under a pretext that she had failed to keep faith, the Romans began a new war. The Roman army embarked for Africa and landed near Carthage.
Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be well-off. He is an intellectual, moderate and patient. She is an anxious housewife. They have a ten-year old son who is filled with melodramatic revenge fantasies and a twelve-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The methodical, ascetic, cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. They are now servants, with no identity other than their acquiescence...