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A short documentary about a homeless couple who face the ban on being on the street during 2020 quarantine. Just through their eyes, the two protagonists show us a different Milan, silent and suspended.

A minimalist portrait of Olga, a Biellese farmer.

The film is a documentary that explores the world of two underground actors, Thomas Goersch and Marco Klammer, through conversations, reflections and previously unseen content, offering a glimpse into their world and into the creative process of director Marian Dora.

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.

A Tunisian musician, his Italian wife and their marital crisis. A journey to his home village, for the first time with his children, instinctively in search of his origins and identity. La Vie de Marzouk is an intimate portrait of an attempt at integration, which can only be achieved through love.

Three-day diary with Giacomo on the Sibillini mountains, in August 2004.

The demand for gender equality, the abolition of the compulsory hijab and fundamental human rights did not begin with Mahsa Amini’s death; Iran’s feminist movement has a long and deep-rooted history.

Matera has long been the most representative site of agricultural life and rural culture in Italy. Now, this fascinating city is on the UNESCO's world heritage list. Acknowledged as one of the most desirable holiday destinations in the Italian Peninsula, Matera lies at the heart of an extremely fascinating region, where tradition, science and technology coexist and thrive together, creating an unforeseen bridge between its folkloristic past and its bright, promising future.

In Cuba, the nights are very dark indeed when there’s yet another power outage—but as much as possible, life goes on. People find their way around in the pitch dark, cyclists loom out of the blackness, children hang out on the streets by the light of flashlights. At the same time, the disruption appears to create intimacy: a priest takes the opportunity to open the Bible by candlelight and reads about the creation of light and darkness, an aged blind singer plays the guitar for his wife in their bedroom, a boy and his teacher play endless games of chess in the half-light, a fisherman heads calmly into the water with a lantern. Headlights from passing cars flash over houses shrouded in darkness, while the people inside sing and talk under the glow of portable lights.

Freemasonry is one of the most secretive organizations in the world, and for the first time, this documentary reveals long-hidden truths.

A young man, animals, the choice on the border with society. Stefano Cappellaro plows through the mountains following his goats. A nomad of places, he has a center within himself, but he is not antisocial. He found a way to support himself by getting milk from animals, water from rocks, food from the garden, and a little money for flour, rice and newspaper from some manual work. It is made of the same substance as the grass, the moss and the stone that frames the Valle Cervo, in the Biella area, where it lives all year round along the course of the stream of the same name. He doesn't accept this society; he longs for another one made up of authentic relationships. In the meantime, he does his part by giving an example of how it is possible to live with little, smiling.

Milena Gabanelli sits in her room while listening to one of the last voice recordings of Jean Eustache.

My Father, The Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau revisits the adventure and the legacy of Captain Cousteau not only through intimate stories from his family but also from some of the people whose lives he influenced. In rediscovered footage of the earliest days of scuba diving, Jean-Michel Cousteau shows how his father brought the great unseen ocean into focus and into our homes. Jean-Michel and the next generation of Cousteau children, now adults, describe the legacy they have taken upon themselves to carry and cast a meaningful light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our relationship with the sea and its creatures.

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.

Stefano is a filmmaker commissioned to make a movie about the poet Rosanna Bertoja. The two discover they share an unusual interest: a passion for stones. Stefano feels he must start precisely from this strange affinity that unites them. The result is a portrait of a poet who is never seen writing verses: when poetry is discussed, it is done by talking about stones. Because, as Rosanna believes, poetry exists even without words.

A film made a single batch of 45 pin holes in a 50 cm hollow tube.

An extensive interview with legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky conducted by Donatello Baglivo.

In 1937, Italy enacted a law requiring 2% of public construction budgets be spent on art installations. The law's implementation, and citizens' interactions with the artworks over time are chronicled through an objective lens.

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.

Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.

In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.

Friends, acquaintances, family, and artists who knew Federico bring us a never-before-seen portrait of him, compiled from interviews conducted by Donatella Baglivo over the decades. The result is a cinematic biography of a man with an immense sense of irony, intelligence, and an uncommon artistic sensibility.

Vaghe stelle is a seven-chaptered film, each chapter named after a star of the Plough. This is the third chapter, although the project is conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films…

Documentary on climbing in the famous Verdon gorges, a mecca for world climbing. From Bernard Vaucher to Catherine Destivelle, from Bernard Gorgeon to Lionel Catsoyannis via Enzo Oddo and Fabien Ristori, relive the evolution of climbing in Verdon through testimonies and anecdotes from climbers from different generations. History, anecdotes and emotions from the early 60s to the present day, with an eye towards the future. Can we define ourselves as a climber without having visited the Verdon?

The Japanese expression 'Ichi-go Ichi-e', in a broader sense, we can translate it as 'the encounter of a lifetime'. With a person, with a situation but also with a country, demonstrating how cultural distances can be overcome.

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.

Short video showing the funeral of Don Michele Rua (1837-1910), the first Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Don Rua's funeral procession makes its way through the most important places of Salesians: the Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice (Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians), the so-called Casa Madre of the Salesians and Valsalice, at the tomb of Don Bosco.

Talsi is a little town in Latvia by the border, inhabited mostly by women due to the enormous loss of human lives during the WWII. The story of a province becomes the choral story of a feminine universe evoked by Liga the fortuneteller, who enters into the lives of the women she meets, speaking with them and interiorizing their lives, which she then transmits in open monologues in front of the camera.

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½

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?

A beautiful collection of pictures ties Frank Cancian, an elderly photographer and retired professor of anthropology, American with origin from Veneto, to the people of Lacedonia, a small town in southern Italy. Thanks to the rediscovery of the photos taken in 1957 by the young Cancian in that rural village where he had arrived almost by chance, the story resumes there where it was interrupted 60 years earlier. And the thread of memories ties back to people and places, bringing with itself some essential reflections on how photography can become an ethnographic look at small communities.

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

Silvano Bignozzi and Lino Toselli have been working as salesmen of camomile tea and spirits for 30 years. They are both from Bologna, but travel all over the country to sell their goods. Not without success, because all these years they have always won the deluxe vacation the company bestows on its best salesmen. With the firm footing the bill, they have travelled to various remote corners of the globe: they went on a safari in Kenya, rode camels in Saudi Arabia and visited temples in Asia. This year, they are going to Cuba. We meet the two gentlemen through the man who has been filming them on their excursions for the past 15 years.

Temptation of Influence is a filmic collage and an essay exploring how architectural ideas are passed down, reinterpreted and – inevitably – misread across generations. Centred on Irish architect Shane de Blacam, it begins in his Dublin study, where Palladio’s plates frame Louis Kahn’s sketches. From Inishmaan to Rome, from Veneto to New Haven, the film follows a path of conversations, buildings and landscapes – tracing the uncertain mechanics of architectural inheritance. Contributors include Kenneth Frampton, Níall McLaughlin, Sheila O’Donnell and others.

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the disappearance, one by one, of the members of La Plata Rugby club. A tragic and compelling story where the passion for politics and sport is opposed to a fascist - military regime.

It often happens that at the moment of death, transgender individuals are shorn of their identity. Their families are ashamed, the funeral takes place in secret, and on the tomb appears the name the deceased had before their transition, in one stroke nullifying the entire life path they had chosen. The same thing happened to Antonia. Her girlfriends gather to honor her memory and give her back her identity denied. In telling her story, the film’s stars, all drawn from the variegated transgender world, interweave the narrative with tales of their own lives, experiences, and memories.

An expressionist and hypnotic vision of a disconcerting rural ritual in Lucania, the symbolic slaughter of a goat, a collaboration between Mangini and her husband and partner Lino Del Fra.

"It all started with a flea market and "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire". A night storm and the cat Vadinho did the rest, leading me on the first walk."

“Pulling up the nets of memory from the depths of the sea, the story of Pino emerges."

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.