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An interview with the Italian directors Ruggero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi at the the "Joe D'Amato Horrorfest" in Livorno, 2004.

In a retirement home in a small town surrounded by mountains, the daily lives of the people who live there alternate. Them inside, the world outside. An imbalance that manifests itself in "Pucundrìa", an indefinable feeling of melancholy, boredom and perennial dissatisfaction, which leads to an unconscious resignation for what has not been, is not and can never be.

The film is a historical and socio-anthropological portrait of the provincial capital of Campania, Naples, and the organised crime that afflicts it, and is the fruit of months of rummaging through the treasures of Rai Teche, the archives of the Italian state broadcaster. Surprising vintage footage, most of it never shown before, finds a visceral connection with the original music and songs written by Meg.

Shot on U-matic.

End of 2011. Pippo Delbono and Giovanni Senzani, the former leader of the Red Brigades recently released from prison, decide to get back together on their relationship with violence, with dreams of revolution, with the world today, and Italy in ruins. For a book, or a movie ... But the reality is that almost making mock of their projects, the death surprises them. Pippo rushed to the bedside of his sick mother, a fervent Catholic and a former elementary school teacher who hated the Communists ... While Anna, after waiting 23 years, her husband Giovanni came out of prison, gets sick in turn. Despite their efforts, the two women die three days apart. Pippo and Giovanni suddenly find themselves orphans, vulnerable, exposed. Meanwhile, L'Aquila, the city disfigured by the earthquake and emptied of its inhabitants, the city of promises and political campaigns, today also lonely and orphaned, abandoned, waiting for someone to finally bring her back to life.

Born in the creative heart of 1980s and 90s Bologna, Kinki was Italy's first LGBTQ+ club: a visionary space where house music exploded and the night became a realm of freedom, identity, and cultural revolution. Through the voices of the DJs and charismatic figures who led it, this documentary tells the story of how a small club beneath the Two Towers changed music and clubbing culture forever.

Goffredo Fofi does not want to be considered an intellectual but he has spent his life founding magazines, writing books, reviewing movies. The film portrays his tireless political and cultural work, his encounters with famous figures, the extra-parliamentary groups, ideological excesses, discovering new authors and directors. Social work as a political resource. The profile of a heretical intellectual and an extraordinary cultural organizer reveals a very critical view of Italian society, its power mechanisms, and the injustice that leaves a mark on it.

An interview with Antonioni about his film career, shot in 1978 by eminent film critic, film historian and founder of the Pesaro Film Festival, Lino Miccichè. Karlovy Vary IFF 2012

Based on a true story, the first film about MMA in Italy. In the Milan of degradation and survival, Al is a former boxer trapped in the criminal underworld. A failed father and a man adrift, he finds a chance for redemption in MMA. The final of the Milan in the Cage tournament becomes the only way to redeem himself.

Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.

An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva.

The last interview of Bernardo Bertolucci who recalls his work with precision, delicacy and philosophy.

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

A family taboo, a missing story. Using 25 photos and the cold readings of artificial intelligence against his mother’s warm memories, a nephew reconstructs the life of Michele, an uncle lost to HIV and heroin in 1980s–90s Italy, exploring memory, the value of images, and what remains unspoken.

The documentary follows the work of those who, in the aftermath of the outbreak of war, immediately took action, even at the risk of their own lives, to secure works of art and tried to understand why, in the event of war, destroying and plundering works of art is one of the first objectives of invading armies in an attempt to eliminate the culture of a nation to erase its memory and annihilate its essence.

An attempted exposé of worldly violence using various scenes of graphic human and animal behaviors.

"A partire dal Dolce brings together "portraits-interventions" of a dozen or so thinkers, artists, friends of Gianfranco Baruchello (including extremely rare footage of Jean-François Lyotard), who comment on the concept of the "dolce" (gentle/soft/sweet)" Claudine Eizykman, Les Rendez-vous du Cinéma Expérimental, February 2000

Portraits of women, stories from their past and their present as prostitutes working between Italy and France (and Brazil). Women who used to think they were lost, and men just as lost as them.

A documentary that traces half a century of history telling the two mysterious warriors who emerged from the sea of Riace in 1972, after two thousand years spent underwater. Interviews and unpublished documents, direct testimonies and the story of a present in turmoil are the heart of this journey.

In the heart of Rome, face to Saint Peter’s, stands a Palace. The owner, like a renaissance patron, has once been offering shelter to a bizarre group of friends, embracing their joyfully ambitious causes. The perfect hideout from where to pursue the most aleatory artistic projects, far from the hassles of life. Now in their 50s’, they are suddenly reunited by the premature death of their charismatic leader, Mauro. He left something tangible to the group of friends: hours of footage where he directed them in the most diverse roles, a supposed masterpiece that was never finished, and now a a mirror reflecting images from the past. The mourning, in the shudder of a moment, shakes the numbed spirits, leading them into a radical confrontation with their future.

Scenes showing sexual rites and dances around the world are contrasted with cabaret shows at places like the Crazy Horse Saloon.

All the games and behind-the-scenes of Silvio Berlusconi's power, including politics, media and soccer. Citizen Berlusconi is the original version of the documentary written by Andrea Cairola and Susan Gray broadcast on August 21, 2003, during the Wide Angle program of Thirteen/Wnet New York, the major U.S. public TV station Pbs.

Mondo style documentary about European nightlife.

Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-part of the "Profondo Rosso" shop.

Documentary dedicated to Sergio Marchionne, the entrepreneur who led Fiat to a profound renewal managing, in just three years, to save it from the brink of bankruptcy, to put its accounts back in order and to face the great global recession with a strategy of attack that seemed to be on the verge of impossible but which turned out to be successful.

The documentary gives a detailed description of the conquest of K2 climbing from the north edge on the Chinese side of the mountain. The climb - that proceede well for the first days without too much difficulty even because the weather was good - was extremely hard and took over 30 days in July and August.

On May 18, 2023, Cuban movie posters were inscribed on the UNESCO Memory Of The World Register. Cine Libre tells the story of this invention and its creators.

I Fuori Campo di Anna are approximately 30 tapes containing the video footage from which the film was edited, along with other video material shot during the same period. Thanks to the work of Annamaria Licciardello, the Cineteca Nazionale, the A.P.S. Grifi, and the La Camera Ottica lab in Gorizia, these hours of footage have been restored and made accessible.

Documentary about the making of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.

It is a documentary, which submits to the public the most dramatic, subhuman situations in which men find themselves living in all corners of the world. From India to Brazil, from the African nations of the Sahel to Bolivia, the camera ruthlessly shows the images of a humanity marginalized in a thousand ways by the so-called"civil consortium".

In one of the worst air tragedies in Italy’s history, 115 passengers lost their lives when an Alitalia flight crashed outside Palermo in 1972. Among them was director Franco Indoniva, a collaborator of Antonioni and a significant voice in Italian cinema. The causes of this deadly and mysterious accident were never fully uncovered. Today, more than half a century later, Indoniva’s daughter, the actress Lorenza Indoniva attempts to re-open the case, fully insistent on finding “a better truth,” and wishing to piece together her father’s psyche from, quite literally, debris, splinters, and shards.

After an introduction consisting of a series of close-ups of Totò, the anthology presents clips from films performed by the late comedian actor, collected in chapters.

Documentary. Shot on U-matic.

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

A documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as Killing, aka Satanik in France and Sadistik in America. Also the basis for the Turkish cult film series shot as Kilink. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from spaghetti westerns, splatter films and historical dramas from the 1960s and 70s.

The film follows three young teachers in three different Italian regions.

Documentary looking at death, destruction, and weird customs around the world.

Corradino D'Ascanio gave us three inventions that influenced the 20th century: the helicopter, the variable pitch propelled and the famous Vespa.

Fouad, a Moroccan clandestine living in Italy for years awaiting medical treatment, and Daniela, a former drug-addict from Apulia’s upper middle-class, find each other by chance in Umbria. The meeting is the beginning of a special bond that helps them heal, both claiming without any hesitation, they saved each other’s life. But Fouad’s feeling of not belonging and the interminable waiting for a visa are pushing him to the brink: will he stay in Umbria or go back to Casablanca, even if it means never to return?

The growth and success of Gianni Versace: his childhood and adolescence in Reggio Calabria in the 60s, his first steps in the world of fashion. The docufilm collects a series of interviews with friends and colleagues as well as archival images of fashion shows and interviews.

A documentary that follows the story of Dario Pasquarella, deaf director and actor, and his company. Through his work, Dario seeks to bring together the deaf and hearing community, who are usually separated by a lack of communication. In his shows he uses both languages, LIS, sign language and spoken language, to tell stories in which the deaf and hearing can live in symbiosis.