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In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.

Short film by Alessandro Onorato.

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.

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.

Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.

The story takes place in the landscapes of La Spezia, where urban and rural environments intertwine. Water plays a primary role as a form, alongside the circle (e.g., bicycle wheels, pizzas, clocks…), which sets the rhythm of the character’s life, dynamically accelerating until it becomes very fast. The overlapping forms invite the viewer into the cyclical rhythm of the short film, moving from the spinning bicycle wheel to the washing machine drum in the character’s bathroom, from a freshly tossed pizza to the delivery mailbox, and finally to a dead-end wall. Savana is a race against oneself and against others; it’s a matter of decision and unpredictability — it’s black or white.

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a shy child who struggles to make friends with his neighbour.

Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.

A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.

Argentinian-Italian western features a rancher and landowner who makes a common mistake - he marries the wrong woman, a dazzling showgirl.

Michele, recently released from the asylum, returns home where his sister Teresa, the only one who knows about his past madness, is waiting for him.

A story of the romance of Maria Baschkirtzeff and Guy de Maupassant beginning with their first meeting leading to other meetings and the development of their ill-fated romance.

Three phases of the life of guerrilla priest Camilo Torres (the initial caption explains well how Camilo's mother distanced herself from the film, which falsifies in her opinion her son's life and ideology), told in such a way that it is difficult to read the same person in them; also because the protagonist of the first segment, a young bourgeois university student who is seduced by revolutionary ideals dying during a student revolt, is blessed on the lawn at the moment of his death by the very protagonist of the second episode, this one more obviously inspired by the Camilo Torres who felt his vocation and gave himself to the priesthood.

Franz Bollenstein is a thug. One day, jealous of his stepdaughter Nicoletta's rich inheritance, he instructs his trusted man, Antonio Olivieri, to track down the girl who in the meantime has run away from home and to lock her up in a Swiss clinic. But Antonio falls in love with Nicoletta.

Set in a tiny seaside town, Fabio Mollo’s feature debut is a quietly evocative drama about a family’s attempts to cope with the loss of their son, and the impact of his absence on his teenaged sister Grazia.

Composed by Fiorenzo Carpi to a libretto by Giorgio Strehler based on Franz Kafka’s famous short story *The Metamorphosis*, this one-act opera is divided into five scenes and remains unfinished. The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale has commissioned Alessandro Solbiati to compose the fifth scene.

A boy leaves the house, his parents ignore him. After getting into bad circles, a friend betrays his trust. The whole city knows what he has done. He doesn't know if the next time he leaves the house he will come back.

The kindly "Don Luigi" and his pernickety sister "Angelica" welcome a variety of needy folks to their rectory.

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.

A mysterious wrongdoing shakes the life of Castelrotto, a small Apennine village that has always been off the news... and history. Ottone, a former local journalist and retired elementary school teacher, takes advantage of the incident to pick up the pen again and seek revenge for an old injustice suffered. His plan is clear: manipulate the narrative of the new crime to accuse the men who ruined his life.

After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery.

An early version of Marco Bellocchio's Sorelle Mai

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.

A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived.

You are in the countryside. Just you and your girlfriend. You hope that with the silence of an isolated house in the woods you will find inspiration to write your next book. There is something wrong. You don't like this place. It tortures you. It's not just in your head.

Valerio, a blind man of war, and his little sister Fiorella live with Uncle Mario, who has a shop on the coast.

Andrea, a young man from the provinces, leaves his home, his friends and his girlfriend to go to the city in search of new intellectual satisfactions that he believes he can no longer find in his small world. The young idealist meets Eleonora, a beautiful woman romantically linked to Luca, a rich and unscrupulous businessman, and becomes his lover. In order to live forever next to Andrea, Eleonora does not hesitate to abandon Luca and the luxurious life that he allowed her. The death of Eleonora in a car accident, however, abruptly cuts off Andrea's dreams of happiness, who returns to his provincial town, where he finds his fiancée waiting for him and comforting him.

A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and befriends a Czech mechanic, bringing the man into their dysfunctional home.

Thinly sketched portrayal of Maria, a sixteen year old girl who is resentful of her mother's decision to live with her lover. She flirts with the lover and eventually succumbs to his lust.

A detective has to work on a murder he himself committed

20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve “the forgetting”, that unconscious state that is impenetrable to his existential angst and other fears. He’s fleeing pain but above all, he’s fleeing from himself. When he goes to work for the cleaners’ cooperative at Bambin Gesù Hospital, he’s sure that this experience, the contact with sick children, will be the death of him.

A suburban high school, structures, students and teaching staff are the exemplary mirror of a social and economic depression that seems irreversible. To worsen the situation, a few meters from the school, between the houses of the neighborhood, the "Zoo", a center of assistance to migrants became over the years a permanent refugee camp. A professor is called to hold a remedial course for six students suspended for disciplinary reasons. But when the clashes between the population and migrants break out, the situation quickly gets out of hand.

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.

Malik is a sensitive and awkward child who is teased by two older boys. He finds refuge in his home, a dark basement, where his drawings and imagination lead him to experience fairy-tale adventures alongside bizarre characters.

After growing up in a youth community, Dennis prepares to leave—facing bittersweet goodbyes and an uncertain future.

A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. IlViaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you areblessed or doomed is often dependent on someone's soul that on whether theypray or suffer. The kindred spirit of San Gil ! the Holy Gil ! is CiccioBavaria who, unilke the former, continues to seek sin. For Bavaria sin isliberating and dynamic. The film tells the story of the journey made by thesetwo protagonists; a journey that leads to the demise of San Gil, while Bavariais reincarnated as Buddha. There is another traveller, a clandestinetraveller. Christ, always fleeing the angels. This Christ does not helphumanity with miracles, but by keeping himself alive as best he can givingweather forecasts.In this strange sainty story, Ruiz allowed himself ot be inspired byapocryphal books about saints of flesh and blood.

A man who has just robbed a small bank holds four people hostage in a bakery after escaping a police chase. He begins a tense negotiation with the police, who have set up headquarters in a post office overlooking the street where the bakery is located. The situation is made difficult and comically bizarre by the nature of the hostages who just so happen to be in the bakery at the time of the raid.

After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.

Defeated Germany has just been divided into two zones ( Soviet and Allied ) when Hans, a young inhabitant of Berlin, decides to cross the demarcation line to join his family.

Matteo, a nine years old kid, builds a mask identical to the one of his hero: a wrestler of a roman suburb called The Tiger. Once the mask is on, Matteo never wants to take it off. What simply appears as a tantrum is in reality a call for help that nobody seems to hear.

This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the factory's dismissal plan, by occupying the factory and continuing to work until the proprietor cancels the dismissals. None of these women can really afford to lose their jobs, as it is the only income in the family. All workers receive moral and material support from their families, apart from Giovanna, who bravely endures her husband's disapproval. Almost all the women hold out for thirty-five days in spite of the proprietor's attempts to break their resistance. At first he blocks the road to the factory, then he cuts off electric power to increase their isolation; finally, he tries to convince them to accept the dismissal of at least a smaller number of them. But the women overcome these obstacles, determined to resist...

The prince goes to the city, Milan, to meet a mysterious lady who turns out to be his niece. Travelling in a very elegant Lancia Aurelia Spider B24, a symbol of Italian design and industry in the world, and driven by the faithful Fefe, now more of a godchild than a butler, he chooses the secret enclave which is most similar to the atmospheres of the princely Rocca in Soragna: the Four Seasons Hotel.

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.