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Is a family with a disabled child a disabled family? For the last 16 years a group of parents have gotten together to talk about their routine and to find achievable and effective solutions to better the lives of their disabled children. The group has become a micro-society. The documentary allows itself to enter, to imagine and to share the reality of the world of disability.
Footage of Mount Etna erupting, filmed continuously over the years by Rai cameraman Giovanni Tomarchio, superimposed on the original images by the Lumière brothers.
Documentary that covers Federica Pellegrini's career and her preparation in the last 300 days before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
A documentary-fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims of the Piazza Fontana massacre.
The suburbs of Padua, in northeast Italy. Flavia, a hairdresser, is closing the shop after 43 years of activity. He is 61 years old. He left school when he was 11. He made the hairdresser always. He is leaving behind a clientele of older women who did hair for years at a rate of regular appointments. He knows every single hair of their heads.
Bari, summer 2013. In a city still in shock from the 2011 match-fixing scandal in football, the local team is preparing for a new Serie B season in a hugely precarious economic situation. The owners, the Matarrese family, have pulled back, yet the team will qualify for the playoffs matches despite the declared bankruptcy.
“She” is not well, she is unhappy despite a full and intense life, she is alive, but inside she feels dead, everyone sees her, but she feels invisible. The diagnosis is clear: gender dysphoria. To save herself, she is forced to face an inner journey that perhaps will lead her to a new light. After three years of psychotherapy, that journey becomes a real journey "on the road" in the company of two friends: Franca, fifty, theater director and casting director, and Francesca, twenty-seven, actress with Down syndrome. Between uncontaminated nature and breathtaking landscapes, they will meet other women, each with an intense story to tell.
For the first time, an unprecedented journey into the life of Marco Pantini. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Cesenatico, with public and private archive material and intimate conversations with family members and close friends. With tenderness, empathy and love, The Natural tells the story, from the inside, of the man and the sportsman.
The film recounts the transformation of Scampia from a drug dealing hub to a hub for books and culture, focusing on the activities of La Scugnizzeria bookshop and the Marotta&Cafiero publishing house.
Cesenatico, a town located on the Romagna Riviera, has always been synonymous with seaside tourism. Every 100 meters, an endless series of massive buildings alternate—structures that, over the years, have welcomed generations of teenagers during the summer: the colonies, many of which have since been abandoned and left to decay. In 2014, Simone Tribuiani—known as Tribu—with the help and support of other local creatives, decided to revitalize one of them: the former Santarcangiolese colony, later renamed Bronx Ponente. Inside, he created a space dedicated to local artists, surfers, and skaters—a place for meeting and self-expression. In 2020, members of H.C.B.P. (Hard Core Bronx Ponente)—a collective of skaters that emerged from the events of La Santa—breathed new life into another structure, located just a few meters from the Bronx.
The œuvre of poet Raffaello Baldini (1924-2005) through the words of those who knew him, the poems he himself read, the fragments of his monologues, his beloved Romagna landscapes.
Short documentary about the great italian director.
In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify “Classic Art”. This immersive new documentary reveals the Nazi’s complicated relationship with classical and modern art, displaying an incredible number of masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir and Gauguin amongst others, intertwined with human stories from the most infamous period of the twentieth century. A state-of-the-art detective story exploring the Nazis’ obsession with creative expression, Hitler versus Picasso combines history, art and human drama for an unforgettable cinema experience.
What can be harder than "conquering the world" for an Italian woman of the XX century? Creating the perfect family.
Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the case, at the same time Under the cold stars can hardly be considered a documentary: the microcosm on which it focuses appears to be a reflection of a broader reality and perhaps a way to deal with the themes of man’s existence and his relationship with animals, nature and, most importantly, with time. As written by Franco Piavoli "it is a film which essentially relies on images and sound, where words themselves are sound and the music of life, of the relentless flow of time."
A man promised to his dying mother to find and give a proper resting place to the remains of the father, a soldier, dead during WW1 and never found. It's an impossible and desperate quest since he died during Mount Piana battle that lasted two years and resulted in the killing of 14000 soldiers. But the obstinate man never gave up searching on the Dolomiti Mountains for all his life.
Documentary about the life of Aldo Braibanti, an 'heretic' Italian intellectual, from early anti-fascist activism to his death, passing through the infamous 1968 mock trial which, under the flimsy accusation of “plagio”, actually aimed at his independence and homosexuality.
A documentary about the possible ties between H.P.LOVECRAFT and the Polesine region (Italy), stimulated by the casual discovery of a mysterious manuscript attributed to the great American horror writer died in 1937.
EstrAtti (Passages) is a docufilm that alternates five excerpts from poems, songs, and adapted texts by the following authors: Gianni Rodari (The Sky Belongs to Everyone), Omar Khayyam (the Persian poet who composed a series of poems, including Rubaiyat No. 2), David Bowie (lyrics from Quicksand), Jorge Luis Borges (excerpt from The Aleph), Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
A docufilm about the exciting story of the play-off between Cagliari and Piacenza in June 1997, when 20,000 Sardinians left for Naples to support the team then led by Carlo Mazzone, who needed a victory to avoid relegation to Serie B. Deu Ci Seu tells the story of the exodus of an entire island that mobilized to support one of the symbols of its identity.
A Donatello award nominated documentary on writer and journalist Italo Calvino
the story of SupportoLegale
Through the anecdotes and stories of actors, directors, critics and experts, this documentary traces the career of Lamberto Bava, from his first steps in cinema with his father Mario to his 1980 debut with "Macabro" to his collaborations with Dario Argento to the big TV series successes of "Fantaghirò," "Desideria" and "Sorellina."
At first, there are a wrecked father and a daughter who wants to fix him. A cat falls from the 8th floor and becomes paraplegic. A medical experiment gathering 12 paralyzed people in China. A car accident in Italy. And then, La Mécanique des choses gathered everything in a journey, to fix the irreparable.
It is 1993 when Bekir Hasanović exchanges a gold coin for the camera he will use to film everyday life in Srebrenica during the days of the war. The images he records with his improvised crew, called Dzon, Ben & Boys, give life to the unexpected portrait of a population lost, but able to maintain a proud connection with reality without giving up its typical humor. Ado, Bekir's son, starts from these images and from the pages of the diaries kept by his father to reconstruct, together with his mother Fatima, the image of his father and finally be able to know how he survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide.
A reconstruction, through the testimonies of those who participated in it, of the history of the construction of the Cinema Teatro Nuovo in the Emilia municipality of Cavriago.
It’s a documentary about the life os a famous italian driver, who sadly passed away on the track.
This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
A short film which retells the story of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.
Five dancers take the audience on a sensory and historical journey through the physical world of 20th-century Western culture, bringing to light overlooked aspects and forgotten perspectives to help us understand not only who we are, but also who we are becoming.
March 2020, the lockdown is triggered. A cinephile, Alessandro Aniballi, takes refuge in cinema, trying to understand how this obsession came about in him. Films become the tool to reconstruct his memory of himself and the outside world.
Writer and filmmaker Paolo Cognetti travels from his native Italy to Alaska, where he visits the landscapes that inspired many of his literary heroes.
A documentary in which Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer research the origins of sexism in the west and in Italy, the land of Berlusconi, Mussolini and Casanova, a nation with 887 words to say "penis".
Licu is born in Bangladesh and he's a 27 years old muslim living in Rome, in a rented house with eigth other people. He works in a warehouse in the morning and in a deli shop at night: 12 hours a day. One day he receives a photo from his family of the spouse they choose for him, so he must take four weeks of unpaid holidays to get back in Bangladesh and set up his marriage with a girl he doesn't know. But in his country things are about to get complicated.
Three-day diary with Giacomo on the Sibillini mountains, in August 2004.
What would have happened if the Neanderthals had prevailed over Homo Sapiens? How would our species have evolved? How does art relate to evolution, and why in the world does evolution behave like a bricoleur? Last of all, just what does Marcel Duchamp have to do with all of this? This film is neither a documentary nor a portrait of the artist Pable Echaurren; it’s a kaleidoscopic meditation on our past, present and future.
30 real-life stories of American horror, based on true facts. A 3000 miles journey into a mysterious America, investigating true crimes and hideous happenings that eventually inspired famous horror films
Under the shade of a Magnolia tree, a group of pregnant women gathers weekly. Among them is Teresa, an experienced midwife who listens to them attentively. Sitting in a circle, the women reflect on the impending birth of their children and their own emerging roles as mothers.
A heartfelt tribute, ten years after his death, to Franco Scaldati, a project curated by director Franco Maresco, thanks to the collaboration with the Lumpen Association of Palermo.
A documentary about the Italian provocateur industrial band Disciplinatha.
Italian documentary illustrating the xylella virus devastation of the olive-growing flora in Apulia by the xylella virus. In Apulia, a region in south-eastern Italy, the most serious botanical pandemic of the century is underway: a quarantine bacterium, Xylella Fastidiosa, is killing millions of olive trees. Disrupting landscape, economy and human relations. The Era of Giants narrates Giuseppe’s journey to his father’s land, in the Plain of the Monumental Olive Trees, where the epidemic is imminent. He will have to explain to the old farmer how their lives will be disrupted by this invisible bacterium, hitherto unknown in Italy.
30 minutes of moving clouds above the earthly elements: buildings, tower blocks, high voltage pylons, etc. Their movement reminds us that time and life flow inexorably.
Documentary about Franco Piavoli