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Documentary about the life and career of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica.

The fourth generation in his family to be born intersex, Jewish Rabbi Levi was assigned the female gender at birth and grew up thinking he was sick and defective. "In the Image of God" tells the story of his struggles and transitions, culminating today in a life as a religious leader and an LGBTQI+ activist living happily in Los Angeles with his wife.

A social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.

The story of Cecilia Mangini, documentary maker, photographer and intellectual who told thirty years of Italy's history with her films.

A documentary about the historic film producer, the first woman to make her mark in a predominantly male environment. A key figure in the great season of Italian auteur cinema between the late 1960s and the 1970s, Marina Cicogna worked with great directors and actors, winning an Oscar with "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" by Elio Petri and a Golden Lion with "Belle de Jour" by Luis Buñuel in Venice.

A meeting with Francis Ford Coppola in Rome, on the occasion of the Italian release of Dracula, which remained unreleased until 2021.

Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days Oriana Fallaci waited in the holy city of Qum for her interview with the 79 year old Ayatollah, who is the de facto ruler of Iran. On Sept. 12, she was led into the Faizeyah religious school, where Khomeini holds his audiences. She was accompanied by two Iranians Nyho and Iran prime minster Banisadr who had helped set up the interview and who served as translators. Oriana Fallaci, barefoot, enveloped in a chador, the head to toe veil of the Moslem woman, was seated on a carpet, when the Ayatollah entered, and the recorded interview could begin.

A poetic, experimental, industrial documentary.

Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood.

A silent film starring poetess Patrizia Vicinelli, shot in Turin and Morocco between 1968 and 1970. “We set out and traveled far because Patrizia had called us. The film bears witness to what we saw there and what we found upon returning home—the two things ideally united. In addition, it contains my personal inventory of love and visions, as well as the search for love, navigating between reality and unreality along the ideal thread and the obsession of the mind.”

The documentary film tells the story of Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari through his words and those of colleagues and friends such as Bono, Sting, Brian May, Paul Young, Andrea Bocelli, Salmo, Francesco Guccini, Francesco De Gregori, Roberto Baggio, Jack Savoretti, Don Was, Randy Jackson and Corrado Rustici. A journey of the soul which, thanks to images coming from Zucchero's private archives and from the "World Wild Tour", his last and triumphant world tour, goes beyond the portrait of a successful musician reaching into the doubts and fragilities of 'man.

Claudio is a farmer. His wife Ivana is a dressmaker and they are avid tango dancers. They have a big dream: to dance the tango together in Buenos Aires. Claudio has Parkinson’s, an incurable degenerative disease. His condition was diagnosed 20 years ago. Doctors told him that he would be in a wheelchair within two years. However, not only is Claudio still on his feet and able to work, but he’s also still dancing. Today he is devoted to fostering and supporting research on the benefits of tango for Parkinson’s patients. Claudio and Ivana’s story inspired the renowned Latvian composer Arturs Maskats to write a new tango composition with world-famous accordionist Ksenija Sidorova. But just as their dream of dancing in Buenos Aires is about to come true, Claudio is hospitalized...

A 20 minute short that reunites the best plays of the Chilean striker Marcelo Salas before his stint at SS Lazio.

The film tells the story of Anna, Rosa and Maria, weavers from Nule in Sardinia, who are taking part in a tapestry competition. Whilst Anna and Rosa try to impress the judges making by perfect and beautiful carpets, Maria surprises the village by creating an unexpected textile. Designer, illustrator, and animator Carolina Melis' short film Le fiamme di Nule uses animation and live footage to portray the story of the three weavers in the Sardinian village of Nule. The story was inspired by a trip Meils took to the village, where she became fascinated with their traditional textile-making techniques.

In the 1980s, Michelangelo Antonioni traveled with his partner, actress and filmmaker Enrica Fico Antonioni, to Japan with the intent of creating a documentary, Un viaggio in Giappone, that would chronicle “the social transformations undergoing in Japan through the experimental use of new film technologies,” specifically the Betacam. Un po' di Giappone is the shortened version of the documentary.

A text read by the narrator traces the vicissitudes of the crucifixion of Jesus, while the objective of the two directors investigates the style of Piero della Francesca by exploring his frescoes in the Arezzo church of San Francesco.

This documentary film looks into femicides in Italy, where one woman is murdered every three days. By focusing on cases that rocked the country, the film tries to understand the reasons behind the phenomenon.

In QUANDO DAL CIELO, Italian filmmaker Fabrizio Ferraro rises to the challenge of filming music, or rather filming musicians in the midst of the creative act to reinforce the idea that the dimension of listening is active.

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new visual grammar capable of describing "the new geography of boundless perceptions and imaginaries, the emergence of memories from the very distant phylogenetic past of our animal ancestors, a gift of psychotropic substances."

This is the follow up documentray to 1978's Speed Fever.

Two months before his death, the central figure of "The Guildford Four" Gerry Conlon meets Lorenzo Moscia to recount his remarkable life, from falsely imprisoned to world-famous human rights activist.

A documentary short.

On September 14, 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini played his last game of football, before his death, in San Benedetto del Tronto. “The last match of Pasolini” starts from a pretext of a football game, to tell a historical period that was fundamental for the whole of Italy, with its contradictions and tragedies, through an apparently playful vision of Pasolini, but that allows us to understand better the importance of the Italian poet and director.

A powerful and poetic short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini’s Fascist regime.

Film by Armando W. Tamburella.

The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notes on Summer is a 2023 short movie shot in Italy and France. It is up to you to grasp the meaning, because the meaning is always different, nevertheless, I want to dedicate this film to all those who already know what to do even before starting their holidays.

On the occasion of the Neapolitan exhibition dedicated this year to Luca Giordano, a great painter active in the '600 in Naples, the short film alternates the details of the many paintings exhibited at Castel Sant'elmo with some fragments of the contemporary city: from the Cathedral to the convent of San Gregorio Armeno, from the churches of Santa Brigida, Dell'ascissione, Santa Maria alla Sanit`, Santa Teresa a Chiaia up to the Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Fontanelle cemetery.

Through interviews with prostitutes, transsexuals, marginalized people, and the disabled, the director tells a series of stories about sexuality and feelings. An investigation that becomes a quest to explore the other side of love.

The brackish waters of Venice are an inexhaustible resource, yet at the same time, a threat to the city's survival. Today, the increasing frequency of high tides and increasing sea levels caused by climate change are threatening the city's infrastructure. Therefore, a decision was made to protect Venice with a massive system of Mobile Barriers. Will the project help solve Venice's problem?• The brackish waters of Venice are an inexhaustible resource, yet at the same time, a threat to the city's survival. Today, the increasing frequency of high tides and increasing sea levels caused by climate change are threatening the city's infrastructure. Therefore, a decision was made to protect Venice with a massive system of Mobile Barriers. Will the project help solve Venice's problem?

Giovanni Segantini rose from humble origins to become the most important of Italian pointillists, and one of the most important symbolist painters in the 19th century. This film focuses on his way of feeling nature as a source of artistic and spiritual inspiration.

A film on the come back of exorcism in the contemporary world. Each year a growing number of people call their sense of unease “possession.” The Church answers to this spiritual emergency nominating an increasing number of exorcist priests and organizing training courses. Father Cataldo is one of the most sought-after exorcists in Sicily and elsewhere; he is famous for his tireless fighting spirit. Every Tuesday Gloria, Enrico, Anna, and Giulia, along with many others, attend Father Cataldo’s mass for deliverance, trying to find a cure for a sense of discomfort that has no answer nor a name. Whether believers or not, how far are we prepared to go to get recognition for our own disease? What are we prepared to do to be delivered from it, here and now?

Igor D'India's epic journey down the Yukon River, across Canada & Alaska. 16000 km hitch-hiking and nearly 2000 km solo paddling with an "old-fashioned" approach to adventure. Without any assistance, radio, GPS or phone, just some solar panels to re-charge his audio/video equipment. In 1965 well known mountaineer Walter Bonatti, accomplished a solo expedition by canoe down the Yukon.

Tonino, son of a museum guard in Venice, is barred from a masked ball. In a little theater he dons an Arlecchino costume and, guided by Beatrice, embarks on a fantastic journey through masks, monuments, and Goldoni’s characters.

A journey into the pre-adolescent world to recount the year of Covid. A portrait of Italy seen through the eyes of boys and girls aged between 10 and 14. The virus, quarantine, home schooling, distant friends, suspended activities, the new normal. The dreams, fears, and fantasies of young people during the pandemic...

The intriguing life of Father Gabriele Amorth, the famed exorcist, and witness his confrontations with the devil's influence on humanity in this revealing biopic.

Autumn 2018: Elia, Ester, Ginevra, Ilenia, Loris, and Tiffany begin their school journey at the primary school of Pieve Torina, newly rebuilt on the site of the previous one, which—like much of the town—was destroyed by the earthquake that struck the Marche region in 2016. From learning to read and write to filming videos of their own, the film follows them over the course of five school years, concluding in the summer of 2023, as they prepare to move on to middle school. Amid separations and reunions, online classes and afternoons at the swimming pool, with the rubble still visible and reconstruction ongoing, the children grow up before the camera.