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Realized for the Telethon research awareness campaign. The protagonist is a researcher, a scholar who has spent her entire life looking for a possible cure to defeat thalassemia, in honor of a childhood friend.

The authentic and youthful energy jumps out at you from the screen in this simple love story based on true facts and set in the favelas of Bahia, the most hot-blooded city in Brazil.

A boy from a working-class neighborhood, Manuel, weary of his life, tries to escape his circumstances and leave the drug-dealing ring of his area, but finds himself hunted by the crime boss who controls the local drug trade.

A young woman accidentally becomes a movie star.

Nino heads to the earthquake region of Abruzzo to surprise his mother, Azzurra, on her birthday. Once there, he meets Malatesta, a boy his age who works at the hotel. When the earth begins to shake, the relationships between the three start unraveling.

Franco, a young Neopolitan about to leave for military service, promises his fiancee, Maria, to write to her every day. But after two months apart, his comrades meet a general's daughter, and his letters to Maria become increasingly rare.

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.

Chris is an Atlantic City go go boy with a little something extra to share...

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo Gregoretti looks in on a variety of social and ethnic situations throughout Italy. Sexual morés are contrasted, from the quaintly out-of-date courtship in Sicily to the sometimes uncomfortably explicit sexual references in the conversations of the youth at the opposite end of the country. Aside from these manners and morals, there is an examination of what happens when mechanized tools of production begin to take away from the human element at factories and in other industrial venues.

A British soldier in WWI, under siege and overwhelmed, commits an act of compassion that haunts him the rest of his life.

The collective Amanda Flor returns with a history of intolerance and revenge, which will unleash a real street war. The film is set in the increasingly degraded suburbs of Rome.

A young father and his eight-year-old son walk up a mountain. Their journey, nights in a tent, and life in the open air become opportunities for intimacy and dialogue. Meanwhile, in the city, four workers have climbed onto a crane, and a voice on the radio recounts the (mis)adventures of a music producer in the 1970s.

A racist, Lega Nord supporter from Veneto lashes out at people from Southern Italy, shouting his great truth at them.

The life of a high-society art curator in Turin ends both in a professional and personal downward spiral when she discovers that her fiancé has suddenly and inexplicably turned into an octopus.

“The Inexact Sciences” tells a particular love story set in a unique and strange place populated by many bizarre people. Our protagonists, Rebecca and Jonah, will be put in danger by an unexpected guest, Rachel, the ghost of a little girl who disappeared many years before

One day, Luigi receives full marks for his first school test. Excited, he decides to spend the night waiting for his mother’s return so he can share his results.

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

Don Juan sins with his servant and is doomed in this tragicomic opera.

A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

At the end of the summer, while preparations for an air show are taking place in the sky, a man and a woman go to the water. But the arrival of a legendary aerobatic pilot will not be the event of the day for them.

An original rewriting by the Vetrano-Randini company of two one-act plays by Pirandello, ‘Sgombero’ and ‘L'uomo dal fiore in bocca’, whose threads are intertwined with surreal dialogues and lightning-fast quotes drawn from the repertoire of Totò and Vicé, fantastic and poetic characters from Franco Scaldati's theater. - Luigi Pirandello: L‘uomo dal fiore in bocca – Sgombero – Colloqui coi personaggi - Franco Scaldati: Totò e Vicé

During an excursion in a nature reserve a few kilometers far from crowded beaches and chaos, Erion finally finds the courage to tell Christian that they will never have to see each other again.

A man, desperate and ready to commit suicide for having lost everything, is interrupted by a mysterious stranger in a hat and top hat. This man proposes a challenge, a last bet that could change his life. In an instant, the man's destiny will be balanced between hope and ruin.

The study of “Six Characters in search of an author” that Luca Ronconi conducted for three years in his summer creative workshop with the students of the National Academy of Dramatic Art.

Can you love movies until you hate them? A short film that contains the author's last wishes.

The play wants to explore afterlife, death re-emerging into life even just for an hour in a whirlwind of powerful emotions ranging from disbelief to joy and anger, until total despair and the last goodbye.

A boy runs away from home with his dog when his father tries to get rid of the dog, only to become lost on a desert island.

A killer wandering through the fog begins to question the world around him and his own nature.

Docu-drama about cancer patients. An elderly farmer, believed to be mad by his family, dispenses wisdom to the other patients; an actress takes advantage of the hospitalization to shed light inside herself; a young doctor lives with schizophrenia his condition as a patient.

Some studies suggest that after a person’s death, the brain continues its activity for another seven minutes, during which one can relive their entire life. But if it were possible to choose what to relive, as a final test, what would happen? Enea decides to relive his own death, to discover who killed him and why. But is this the right way to honor the time that has passed? Or does death, like life, offer no explanations?

The Balkans 1443 . After a long successful military experience in the Turkish army, the reputation of the young Kastriota reached Albania and people began to hope in his return to his homeland, from which he was taken away as a child. When the Sultan gives the hero the task of facing János Hunyadi, Kastriota will start a journey towards finding his true self and choosing his path.

Dora is a 25-year-old girl with an apparently rough and impenetrable character who works by bringing shopping home, a very heavy job. This is not the only difficulty in her life though, as she comes from a broken family.

Filippo Derblay, a young man of humble birth, became, thanks to his job, the owner of the ironworks. He is secretly in love with Clara, the daughter of the Marquis of Beaulieu, who lost all his fortune. Clara is engaged to the Duke of Bligny, a vain cousin of her. After learning of Clara’s financial disgrace, the Duke prefers to engage to Atenaide Moulinet, a social climber and daughter of the industrialist Moulinet, the “King of Cacao”. To get revenge, Clara agrees to marry Filippo Derblay, despite she considers him an upstart and she despises him. But Filippo, who loves her deeply, can’t tolerate to be humiliated, will prove how much her prejudice was wrong and, at the end, he will win her love. Among the most captivating aspects of the film, the intense performance of the great diva Pina Menichelli and the high level of the photography, that captures spaces from life as the remarkable images of the factory and the workers at the machinery.

Fornovo, Parma. A grandson trying to communicate with his grandfather, who passed away. A Ouija board to assist him. A situation from which it seems difficult to get out.

A boy who is devastated by a missed date with a girl is watching something very unusual in the driveway below his house.

"Orgy or the small daily agonies" - Loosely based on the theatrical tragedy of Pier Paolo Pasolini, which tells of the sadomasochistic relationship between a Man and a Woman, both victims and executioners who move within separate worlds of solitude.

After much deliberation, Kurtz decides to gather his friends at his villa to propose that they write a collective book: one hundred chapters, written by as many voices, to devise a way to annihilate Silvio Berlusconi's excessive power.

In a weird pub, a lone man is sleeping. Suddenly, an ensemble of voices wakes him up. He opens his eyes and looks around, confused, as he neither knows who he is nor how he got there. In this pub, there is only the bartender. Staggering to the counter, he doesn't recognize where he is; he asks the bartender but receives only cryptic answers. The man doesn't understand. He then tries to leave, but he is unable to do so. However, he realizes that if he wants to get out of that pub, he must deal with his problem.

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.

Vera, a forty-year-old woman of Romanian origin, finds herself unemployed once again and is forced to move Kali, a young Nigerian girl, from one city to another across sun-scorched Sardinia: a seemingly simple ‘task’ turns into a journey that lasts a lifetime.