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An in-depth documentary into the life of American supermodel Gia Carangi (1960–86).

Using unedited archive footage Questa storia qua recounts Vasco Rossi's exceptional career as an artist and a man. Twenty-five million albums sold in his thirty year-long career, unfading success and a unique story: Vasco Rossi talks about himself in this documentary and for the first time presents us with an intimate self portrait. A new, authentic picture is created of this rockstar from Emilia Romagna thanks to super 8 footage, family photographs and amateur videos. Vasco accompanies us along the path which took him from Zocca, in the province of Modena, to success. He describes his personal history without ever taking himself too seriously, while his words conjure up recollections of an era and a generation. He is accompanied by friends, his loved ones and musicians who have always followed him and who help us to discover that special mix of memories, nostalgia, rebellion, freedom and talent which have inspired his songs.

Tuber is a noir documentary about the truffle's world; the story starts from diging the ground in search of truffles all the way to glamorous auctions through illegal night fights and international intrigues.

20 short films about human rights.

A documentary recounting the stories that have characterized the personal and artistic lives of Sergio Martino and Ruggero Deodato, two filmmakers who have represented Italian genre cinema in the world, loved by directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Tim Burton, etc. All this takes place in the setting of a typical Roman restaurant, where the two directors meet for a lunch based on "spaghetti alla carbonara". Pasta is a determining element in Italian culture and, like the spaghetti western, it will characterize our story.

As a reinvention of the documentaries made by Pasolini, Vezzoli pushes the public of a fictitious italian tv program to talk about love and relationships

As part of the centenary of the Great War celebrations, this film focuses on a crucial moment of the conflict: the intervention of the United States in Europe.

Documentary about Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film.

Seydou Sarr, the young star of Matteo Garrone's film *Io Capitano*, brings Serie A football to Venice during the 21st edition of Venice Days, featured in the Confronti section with the documentary *Seydou - Dreams Have No Color*, directed by Simone Aleandri. Seydou also becomes an ambassador for Lega Serie A's 'Keep Racism Out' campaign, fighting against racism in football.

An avant-garde theater troupe based in one of the provinces of Emilia is attempting to involve the residents of the small town of Fabrico in a production of Sophocles’ "Electra". However, it soon becomes clear just how difficult this task is, given the group’s persistent collective desire to "question everything."

Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Eleven Italian filmmakers show in eleven segments the terrible conditions of the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem.

Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hospitality, picks fruits, herds sheep: anything that keep his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.

Gigi is a rural policeman who works in a place where nothing ever happens… until a young woman commits suicide by throwing herself onto the tracks as a train passes.

The film begins at night, as parishioners holding lanterns form a series of processions, travelling through the night from Rome, and villages in the Abruzzi and Lazio regions, to make it to the Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore, 10 miles from the capital, by morning. More than an anthropological study of ecstatic devotion – with its genuflecting disciples, and women who scream desperately at the sky – Divino Amore also speaks to Mangini’s interest in disappearing rituals and communities at risk of extinction. When generations of worshippers pour out of the church at the end of the service, formality dissolves into secular leisure, as families perched on horse carts eat plates of spaghetti and men fall asleep on the grass. The velvet-clad austerity of the church’s interior gives way to a series of pastoral tableaux.

What does a dance company have in common with robots? Nothing, at first sight. But what if we could transfer to artificial intelligence the heart of the human brain? Empathy, imagination, feelings... and the ability to cooperate? World-renowned artists and scientists explore the different paths artificial intelligence is taking, envisioning a collective use of this intelligence, to shape a positive future for humanity.

Three restoration students and scholars from all over the world meet in a Palladian villa in view of a conference on Palladio. Meanwhile, in the United States of America, a young university professor asks his mentors, Kenneth Frampton and Peter Eisenman, how to be able to transmit Palladio's humanistic values to the new generations.

Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam.

The story of a small community of cloistered nuns, devoted to Santa Chiara, in Urbino.

Alberto Angela hosts an episode filmed in the Palace of Versailles with a single sequence shot: a unique opportunity to admire works of art, monumental rooms, and discover the secret passages and most inaccessible areas of the structure.

Five young Italian climbers, Paolo Grunanger, Lorenzo Marimonti, Pietro Meciani, Lodovico Gaetani and Giorgio Gualco, members of the expedition organized under the patronage of the Milanese section of the Italian Alpine Club, reached Tamanrasset, in Hoggar, the Tuareg kingdom. From there, with a caravan of camels, they head towards the mountainous volcanic chain of Tahalra, little known to Westerners. During the exploration, climbers will climb seven virgin peaks via very difficult routes and at the same time carry out topographical surveys.

Argento looks back at the making of his stunning debut, THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE

In the streets of Moscow, Lina Wertmuller asks its inhabitants if they know who are personalities like Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Stanislavsky, Shakespeare and others. She also inquire about their dreams, about work and freedom. Between one testimony and another, she documents the daily life in Russia during the 1990s: street trading in Moscow, dancing in public spaces, nightlife, casinos, and popular religiosity.

The stories of a group of Latina migrant mothers whose kids have been taken away by an unfair system in Italy.

The incredible story of the Italian Emilio D'Alessandro, personal driver of the great director Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), who met Emilio by chance in London in 1971 and hired him, thus establishing a deep friendship that lasted thirty years and helped create four masterpieces of cinema. A moving tale about two seemingly opposing people who found their ideal travel companion far away from home…

Events and athletes that characterized the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. From the absolute protagonist Wilma Rudolph, called the black gazelle, to Livio Berruti, the first white to win the 200 meters, to the deeds of Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who won the marathon racing barefoot.

Mondo-style documentary in which a movie crew travels to newly independent Papua New Guinea to capture the customs and culture of the cannibal natives. Prepare yourself for death rituals, war costumery, crude tattoos, animal killings, and cannibalism.

Milan, 1 May 1969. A propaganda film produced by the communist organization Servire il popolo.

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

Images of Sicily.

Violetta is over and they look back to how their life has changed and how much fans they have. The film also includes songs and behind-the-scenes footage from the Violetta Live 2015 International Tour in Montpellier, France.

Damiano David's short film for the presentation of his first somo album: Funny Little Fears. He speaks and sings about his fears.

Critical Passion studies the relationship between critics and authors in the history of Italian cinema in relation to the history of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI), since its founding act in 1971. It is a non-secondary path in Italian cultural history, traced thanks to the interventions of prestigious witnesses and the editing of archive material, from the 1960s to the advent of the web and social networks and the current explosion of the audiovisual sector, which questions the very definition and boundaries of cinema.

Silvio, One of us, shows the current political mood in Italy and through some portraits investigates the phenomenon of how far Berlusconi and his politics mirror Italy.

Exploration of Lucania, a region of Southern Italy with maintains rich history and traditions, thanks to the faith of its people. Between devotional processions of saints and Madonnas, rows of wind turbine blades that have partly transformed a landscape at times wild and the incessant flow of seasons dictated by the wind, the author goes in search of a spirituality that our times seem to have lost

Starts from the Time lapse technique, to tell how nature changes everything using the longest time and how it has refined biodiversity, placing in some territories like Africa and Australia its best excesses.

A New York pharmacy and the feelings of the people who have run it, putting their heart and soul into it, for two generations: the Gardini family.

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.

In the First World War, alongside the men fought an army of animals. Mules, oxen, dogs, horses, pigs, pigeons were used for moving units and materials, communications, and for the support of the troops. The forced cohabitation with men closer to each other in a possible fate of death and suffering: officers and enlisted men had the opportunity to give and receive affection, but also to deal with beings weak and completely dependent on their . Animals in the Great War offers an unconventional story of dramatic conflict, through letters, diaries and photographs taken by the fighters, and collected in the book that Lucio Fabi has derived from his research, The good soldier mule (ed. MURSIA). A documentary rebuild memories, stories, episodes of real life relationship, in and out of the trench, between humans and animals, including incredible moments of absolute serenity and tenderness, alternating the background of one of the most tragic periods in modern history.

When Anna was fourteen years old, her father was arrested and accused of being the secret head of Italian terrorism, charges of which he would be acquitted, years later. After four years in prison and fifteen in exile, Toni Negri became a world-class political philosopher, and his arrest merely one chapter in an extraordinary life. On Anna, though, that story left an indelible impression, and this film becomes a tale of the traumas of two generations, both personal and collective. Anna and Toni meet up in Venice, in front of a film camera, a friend of theirs doing the filming. Toni knows it will be his last time in Venice – and dies six months later. Anna, who has never lived with her father since his arrest, now tries to make up for lost time. And it is in this new dimension of a voyage of mutual discovery that we witness, as conveyed in a few gestures and choice words, any last doubts and misconceptions fade away, and the real meaning of two such complicated lives become clear.