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This documentary by Paolo Fazzini revolves around the birth of italian rap music movement in early 90's.

An accurate biographical reconstruction dedicated to the master critic Tullio Kezich. A man who transformed his passion for cinema into a true art form.

The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.

In the small mountain town of Barga, Italy, a group of four filmmakers speak with local cat lovers and immerse themselves in the unique world of street-trotting felines and Gattaras.

In 1968, journalist Sergio Zavoli interviews italian psychiatrist Sergio Basaglia and documents the changes he made in the Lunatic Asylum of Gorizia.

Indagine su un cittadino di nome Volonté is a documentary exploring the life and career of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté. Known for his roles in films with significant political and social impact, this documentary offers an intimate look through interviews and archival footage, highlighting his commitment to cinema as a form of artistic expression and a tool for social change.

This film of the fountains gives a very good idea of their beauty, and brings Rome to New York. The Plaza of St Peter's, with its grand architecture, is still more embellished by the beautiful fountains playing in its midst. This film takes us on a panoramic tour of the beautiful architecture that is to be seen in this world-famed city.

Hazira survived Srebrenica. She saw the war, it corroded her life. She has been stuck in a refugee camp in her own country for 29 years, working hard and unceasingly to make ends meet and keep the trauma at bay.

Refugees in Algeria since 1975, the Saharawi have had to forge another life path, fighting to return home. Their children, a generation born in exile to parents born in exile, tell the story and struggle of their people, the Saharawi, through their dreams, hopes, and strength.

A documentary on the paintings of Gerolamo Bosch.

It has been almost thirty years since Filippo Dobrilla started to sculpt a giant male nude inside a cave 650 metres deep in the Apuan Alps. This almost inaccessible place has jealously protected his secret: his youthful passion for a fellow climber, a passion Filippo was only able to indulge in here in the intimacy of this cave. Even after it was over and ever since then, Filippo has been returning regularly to the cave to work on the most important sculpture of his life, a masterpiece no one will see.

During World War II, the Italian submarine Macalle was shipwrecked in the Red Sea, near the coast of Sudan. 45 crew members ended up on a deserted island. NCO Carlo Acefalo died on the island, being buried by his mates there. Nearly 80 years later, a team arrives at the site and rescues Carlo's remains, taking them back to his home village, Castiglione Falletto, for a funeral ceremony attended by almost the entire village.

The history of Italy in the 20th century is recounted through the typewritten pages of Vincenzo Rabito, a semi-literate former farm laborer born in the province of Ragusa in 1899, collected in the book Terra matta. The texts are read by actor Roberto Nobile and accompanied by music by Paolo Buonvino, footage from the Luce archive alternating with images of modern Sicily in the Monti Iblei area, and interviews with Rabito's family and fellow villagers.

One country, two worlds. Montereau, suburb of Paris: in the lower part a normal urban centre; in the "upper city", on the hills, are the homes of Turkish immigrants, a population poised between two identities and cultures...

During his long journey as an immigrant, before his tragic death, my great grandfather Angelo wrote fifty letters to his beloved wife Anna. After discovering these treasures, I've decided to follow his steps, back in time and space, to bring him back to life.

In this rare Rai television special from 1984, Andrea Pazienza recounts his artistic and personal journey through comics, politics, creativity, and generational anxieties. Through characters like Zanardi and Pentothal, a lively and intimate portrait emerges of a visionary author, a symbol of Italian culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

A journey into the largest and oldest transgender community in Europe — that of Naples — told through the voices of six femmenelle, suspended between centuries-old rituals and contemporary tensions.

An Italian documentary.

Leonardi's film about the Living Theatre is less concerned with a straight documentary presentation of the exile theatre group from New York, but rather is concerned with the specific atmospheric factor which is indicated by their name, and which constitutes the highly suggestive effect of their playing. Cutting, for Leonardi, is the most decisive aesthetic device. The result is a wonderfully composed furioso of pictures. The hand-held camera catches rehearsals, conversations without sound, bits of theatre and daily life actions (which, for Living Theatre people, is very often intermixed).

Initial panorama of Brindisi, a city with a peasant tradition. The petrochemical, city within a city. Children in poor neighborhoods, workers' voices: the crisis, the layoffs, the need for the recommendations of the Christian Democrats to enter Montecatini. Wealthy men and women binge at the restaurant. Voices of agrarians, forced to leave the earth to make room for the petrochemical. A ballroom. In a puppet theater, a show is staged in which the worker is addressed as "starved". At a course for foremost workers, various compliant testimonies follow one another: Monteshell is a large industry, and no one has any criticisms against it. But another worker, elsewhere, with his face in the shadows, confesses that everyone is afraid to speak, skilled workers get the same pay as simple ones, 400 colleagues have been fired, union activists are "special supervised", and going on strike is a business. 35mm b/w

Ascoli Satriano, Apulia. A small town in the internal areas, depopulated as one would expect. A place of “there’s nothing here”, as everybody tells Eleonora when she arrives in the town after spending most of her life in Milan, a place of “there’s everything there”, where her parents moved in the Sixties. She is emigrant, but not for her choice. A second-generation emigrant. Always being separated from this “here” she could never know, but that has always been in her mind in an image made by stories told by others. Eleonora goes down to the town in order to provide images to other’s words: those by her family and those by Adele, the kid from the town met during the only visit Eleonora made with her parents when she was very little. Adele wrote letters for years and Eleonora rarely replied. Eleonora starts today an impossible conversation with Adele: a conversation disconnected from a synchronized time and localized in a largely imaginary space.

This film deals with an atrocious and inhuman truth of various worldwide drug problems, according to the text which scrolls in the opening sequence. Some of the problems include: Drug trafficking, investigations and how drugs are affecting people around the world.

During his stay in Italy, Harlan accepted a commission from Rai and created a ruthless portrait of society through an archetypal setting. This film, set in a Roman school and filmed inside a classroom during a lesson, is a ruthless portrait of students and Italian society after the end of the protest movements of previous years.

The return of juvenilia! Shots of Rome circa 1973 on splendid Ferraniacolor reversal stock, developed years later and then lost, that somehow survived the decades. Half a century and some digital editing later, this footage is a piece of cinehypnotica that is at once visionary and soothing.

Georgia, Lorena, Elena, and Jessica are four different women who all faced marginalization and didn't turn away. They stayed where they felt they belonged.

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."

La nave sul monte is the opening song on the album È bello perdersi by the band Extraliscio, and their opening number for all their concerts. Highly symbolic, it celebrates the beauty of the imagination and impossible dreams that come true, the effort that goes into them, the wait, the joy at last. It's a film about songs that is openly inspired by Werner Herzog's masterpiece Fitzcarraldo and revisits the choir "Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares", here in the form of a colorful troupe of dancers from Romagna.

Following one of the most famous italian singers: Nino D'Angelo.

In an increasingly oppressive modern age, the characters of this film are subject to the alienation and meanness that characterizes today’s days.

Since the seventh century AD, Sado has been called the "island of exile". Unwelcomed people by the shogunate such as homeless, artists and politicians were exiled, some of them even put to forced labour in the mines. Their spirits, trapped in the depths of the earth, will never see the sky again.

Socially progressive, strict with corruption in the Vatican and with the amorality of cardinals, bishops and priests, Pope Francis has managed to transform the reality of an institution with 2,000 years of history.

Who are the people who will comprise Italy’s future leadership ? Three entrepreneurs offer some responses to the question: Antonio Ambrosetti, founder of a new course called «Leader del Futuro», Federcio Morgantini, a young man whose business ambitions take him to China, and Matteo Storchi, a succesful manager of a family business. The filmmakers want to record these individuals in «their roles as leaders within the society they represent.» So they follow their three protagonists through their working lives. All three are at a crucial stage in their careers: will they succeed in their respective projects? Taking a humorous perspective, navigating both hope and pessimism, the film moves from Italy to China on the heels of these contemporary entrepreneurs who are often destined to lead more through heredity than vocation.

In 'Flòr da Baixa' the past no longer presents itself by overlapping or burning the present, but is part of the image itself, altering and deforming it from within. Thus an old guesthouse with empty windows becomes an echo, a reminder of an image dreamed or seen by others. Flòr is a film about distance, about travel, distance, wait for a return, time that consumes, snow that hides and preserves feelings... about something that is always missing...

A satirical and surreal mockery of top-down, positivist urban planning exemplified in the character of "Professor C", the film was made by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo with Carlo Doglio, Michele Gandin, Billa Pedroni, Ludovico Quaroni and Elio Vittorini for the 10th Milan Triennale in 1954. Shot on 35mm film.

A documentary about Roberto Rossellini and the making of his 1950 film "Stromboli."

Busy shooting a crazy film he is directing with Samuele Sestieri, for which Andrea Sorini is the director of photography, Federico Francioni talks to us about his films and his current projects.

The story of the most famous party of the 2000s. The story, still unpublished, which starts from the mid 90s and the Muccassassina where Queen Vladimir Luxuria discovered the talent of Emanuele Inglese. The testimony of those who made great an event that then became a true phenomenon of costume. Over the course of one night we retrace the fundamental stages of this story, just a few days after the death of Lou Bellucci, historic vocalist who passed away on September 15, 2017.

A documentary composed by home movies shot between 1959 and 1974 by the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono and his wife Nuria Schönberg

Four men decided to enter in the oldest Fight Club of the History, The Florentine Football tournament. A father and son, a black guy, an old champion and outsider clerk will enter in an arena of the time to win their fears, to go over their limits, to be heroes for a day.

To his gambling buddies, Massimo is known as "Er Pantera" (The Panther). Life has never given him anything. No opportunities. Only the squalor of Laurentino 38, a Roman suburb on the fringes of a society that is always stingy with possibilities.

The first art film by Emmer and Gras dedicated to Giotto's frescos in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. By capturing the humanity of the figures that populate the story of the life of Jesus, the two Directors treat the series of paintings like a true canvas, isolating the single scenes from the context of the work, and then re-composing them in a new synthesis. The film was re-edited in 1946 and entitled Il dramma di Cristo.