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What are you willing to do for love? Nilde, when she was in her early twenties, followed the person she loved from Brazil to Italy. Here she started a family and here she got stuck. Saudade is an intimate conversation between a grieving mother and her son who tries to understand her. Memories resurface and sculpt the present, creating the complex portrait of two different families who have inevitably united.

A film about painting and its denial concerning Giordano struggling with the Sleeping Beauty, this is the challenge. Will art, free of museums and academies be able to give back to the child raped and abandoned on the snow, the desire to go on living? Giordano, Prince Charming bearing butterfly catchers and rotating optical games, plods along sinking into the snow and… but revolutionary creativity is not the one that makes the bird in the cage sink: is it the reason why the imprisoned bird breaks the cage.

An Italian documentary that questions the age old tradition of sex being a sin and being Catholic in Italy, and how the two go hand in hand. From the mid 1970s, it's a forgotten, but very accurate portrait of Italy at the time, capturing the most sensitive problems faced by Catholic women like prenuptial intercourse, open weddings, and homosexuality. Interlaced with real comments from priests, psychologists, sexologists and social workers, the film tells the story of the difficult path Italians had to walk to achieve sexual freedom.

ILVA and its high chimneys dominate the Tamburi neighborhood of Taranto. Those who live in that area try to maintain the normality of family, childhood, love, even if they are forced to deal with a daily life that is full of difficulties. This is the story of those who decided to remain in their own territory when many were abandoning it, of those who have chosen to continue living on the ruins of industrial promises.

A 20-year long friendship and a past similarly marked by tragic events unite Ben, a European filmmaker, and Negi, an Indian Buddhist. Fascinated by the possibility of finding in Negi a spiritual guide to come to terms with death, Ben relives and shares his personal story. His journey leads him to deal with the role life has given him, closely linked to his relationship with his father. As the impossibility of finding clear and definitive answers becomes apparent, the deeply human need to accept death emerges, transcending cultural, religious, and geographical barriers.

in 1982 there was a boy like you who loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones but most of all he loved Frank Zappa.... that boy was me and today 30 years after the concert at the Palermo stadium finished amidst police tear gas, I retrace Frank Zappa's journey to Palermo and Partinico, the city from which his father and grandfather left for the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. Now Frank's children, Dweezil and Diva, are going to Sicily for the first time, together with Massimo Bassoli, a friend of Frank's, who had accompanied him in 1982. It is a journey towards their Sicilian origins .... (Salvo Cuccia )

The first doc-movie about women's basketball world and its protagonists, touching topics as combination of sport and femininity, the economic crisis of clubs, the 'homosexuality, the professionalism sports for women. The director Silvia Gottardi meets the strongest players of the basketball scene and the champions of the past, as well as basketball star USA, coaches, presidents and main personalities of other sports, in order to give a look on women's basketball.

Two boys, two teenage sweethearts launched and overwhelmed in the great whirlwind of war. Dreams and hopes shattered: a story like many others - But he is the son of Benito Mussolini, she is the last family member to meet him in life. Exciting and dramatic stories told with the letters of the two young people including the one Mussolini wrote to his dead son.

A docu-film on the history and meaning of the painting Madonna Sistina by Raffaello, painted in 1513. The meaning of Raffaello's masterpiece is told through the eyes of Russian author Vasilij Grossman, who dedicated a short but significant story to the painting in which he reviewed the tragic history of twentieth-century totalitarianisms.

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

The documentary addresses the problem of the Palestinian people from its historical origins, to the social situation that characterizes it, to the forms of struggle to achieve their liberation. In particular, the film - through footage taken in the Jordan Valley, in refugee camps, in the cities and countryside of Jordan - describes the organization and function of one of the components of the Palestinian Resistance, the Popular Democratic Front. The phases of military training that the Front imparts to its militants, the guerrilla actions it conducts, its relations with the Arab masses, the characteristics of its political intervention are shown.

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

A young author investigates the event that changed his family forever: the sudden death of his grandfather Nino. Returning to his hometown in Campania with Luisa, his grandmother and imaginary companion, he is guided in his search for the causes of this untimely demise by the footage Nino himself shot before his death and the fragmented memories of the five children he left behind.

Flòr da Baixa is the story of a journey that starts from Lisbon, touches Rio de Janeiro, Marseille, Taranto, and returns to the Portuguese city. It is a film about absence, about something that is missing, always and everywhere: in one's own room as on sunny and distant beaches, in foreign neighborhoods as on old, familiar walls. It is the diary of two solitudes, of two parallel gazes that rest on places and bodies, waiting to find each other and recognize each other in the same gaze, finally seeing the same image from the window of the Flòr da Baixa

Documentary with rich archive of films and photos along with footage from the 1962 film Le quattro giornate di Napoli depicting the uprising in Naples against Nazi occupation during World War II.

It's Christmas. Mario, a forty-year-old unemployed grandfather who lives by his wits but has an equally chronic dream of becoming an actor, is hired as a caretaker (sixteen hours a day) of a grotesque nativity scene set up on the main street of Bari by a photographer who uses it as a backdrop for photographing children. For us, it's a great opportunity to make a documentary about him... But for Mario, too, we are an excellent opportunity to make his film, the dream he had in his drawer, the film about his life: we are his crew and he is the director! The result is a constant battle: between us, who want moments of the real Mario, the cheerful and optimistic one despite the objective difficulties of his existence, and him, who proposes a tragic but partial Mario, convinced that by loading his testimony with suffering and melodrama, the story of his life will have more appeal...

A documentary made with archive footage and photographs alternating with recent film footage; the choice of texts is taken from Mario Rigoni Stern, Emilio Lussu, Piero Jahier, Filippo Sacchi, and Nuto Revelli.

A new age Mondo film that explores the realm of urban decay and various oddities of the modern world, ranging from underground club scenes to sex change operations.

A historical document on the uses of Architecture and urban reform as tools for political propaganda, populism and the co-optation of the masses. The newsreels of the time are a testimony to it: the city is a gigantic construction yard; new buildings rise next to the demolitions in the heart of Rome and the Fascist regime adopts new architectural styles and transforms the city. The documentary La Roma di Mussolini, by Leonardo Tiberi and Leonardo Ciacci, aided by footage of the Istituto Luce and maps and drawings of the time, describes XX century Rome, a monumental city opposed to the ancient and medieval one. And yet Mussolini, and his ‘demolishing fury’ take on older city plans, started or laid out back in 1800s. Republican Italy indeed did the same with projects that have begun under the Fascist regime.

Stefano runs a theater workshop with people with mental disabilities, transforming fragility and marginalization into creativity, resilience, and life.

The extraordinary story of Sanja and Zoran, a couple who in 1993 fled and survived the siege of Sarajevo, the longest war in 20th century history, to find refuge in Italy, in Turin. In their life experience, past and present come together to give voice to friendship and hope, reflecting on war, prejudice, tolerance and acceptance.

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in winter.

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects of the 'Piano di Rinascita della Sardegna' (Sardinia's Rebirth Plan), the film instead shows an island still 'standing still in time', barely affected by the painful oxymoron of the inevitable changes taking place.

The film tells Caselli’s story in her own words, as the artist herself shares anecdotes and reflections on her life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who has made her great passion—music—her entire life.

A quiet man who practices a violent sport and who faces his life difficulties with tenderness and silent tenacity, like a true champion.

A personal take on the Italian economic growth of the 60s and contemporary economic growth of Kazakhstan.

What does the respective age mean for the individual, which topics are currently playing an important role and what are the expectations for the future? The two filmmakers Nancy Camaldo and Veronika Hafner show over 100 people between the ages of 0 and 100 in their everyday lives and also let some of them have their say. From the differences between the protagonists and their living situation, the impression of a complete life is formed, a closed circle of life from birth to death.

Obscure Italian mondo film never released in it's home country, only receiving a home video run in Japan and a theatrical release in Hong Kong. Featuring the usual 70's mondo juxtaposition of sex, violence and cultural curiosities.

When is a war over? Souvenirs of War offers an essayistic tour to Bosnia, more than two decades after the last armed conflict in Europe, when many sites of sorrow have become tourist attractions. A journey along the fine line between dark travel and empathetic memory, where some enjoy playing combat games on authentic battlefields, while others still struggle to make their traumatic legacy become an opportunity.

In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.

That of the Gran Sasso and Laga mountains, in the heart of the Abruzzo Apennines, is a particular story. Exploited beyond all limits for grazing, they have now returned to repopulate with plants and animals, thanks to the National Park and its care for the territory. Let's go and discover their new life.

"Urbs Picta - Giotto e il sogno del Rinascimento", a documentary about the development of painting in Veneto during the XIV century, begun with Giotto arriving in Padova.

Piave is consider as sacred river to Italy. The drammatic event of the war and the Vajont disaster left a permanent mark on Italian history. Along the path, past and present, sacred and profane coexist, a portrait of the river and the complex events of its inhabitants.

An encounter between two women: Sonia confesses to Elena that she would like to escape her town and her friend promises to help her.

The film highlights the relationship between women’s growing social empowerment and the rise in sexual abuse by men – a trend that was the opposite of what was largely expected to happen. The film revolves around Marina Valcarenghi, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst with a forty-five-year career in clinical work that has allowed her to observe the persistence of women’s insecurity, despite the economic and social independence they have gradually achieved, and understand why. Valcarenghi was the first to introduce psychoanalysis in prisons, starting with the Opera and Bollate penitentiaries. For twelve years she worked with male inmates held in solitary confinement; most of them had been convicted of sexual violence.

A documentary showing workmen erecting one of the pylons and stringing up three cables which will eventually reach to Milan.

A documentary about Tonino Delli Colli, a man of cinema and cinematography, and one of the greatest performers of the Arte della Luce and of photography in movement.

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following the trail of the lost movie.

Electricity is used in every field and demand is constantly increasing. The electricity supplied by AEM in Milan (now A2A) originates in the mountains, in the Adda dams. A river of light that runs to the city to illuminate it and give it the energy it needs to progress.

Pierluca Rossi's Lungo La Pista Dei Contrabbandieri (1990) is an adventure documentary about a mountain bike crossing of the 700 km between the towns of Tamarasset and Djanet in the southern Algerian Sahara, from the Hoggar mountain range to the Tassili n'Ajjer. This crossing, supported by a 4x4 truck and a motorcycle, and never before undertaken by bicycle, emphasizes the rediscovered dimension of slowness, similar to the caravans of the Tuareg, in contrast to the unnatural speed of mechanized desert travel in the 1990s, which was considered the norm at the time due to the distorted image provided by the Paris-Dakar Rally and other similar events.

What is home? What traces do we leave behind as human beings? In Bolzano, Stanze follows in the footsteps of a young man who once lived in two pillars beneath the highway. The mementos of a life and the bond between two people who never met, presented as a poetic essay.

April 1939. Fascist Italy occupies Albania. Thousands of Italian workers, settlers and technicians are transferred to the country. November 1944, Albania is liberated. The new Communist government closes the borders and places dozens of conditions on Italy for the repatriation of its citizens. In 1945 27,000 Italian veterans and civilians were still held in Albania. Among them there is a cameraman, Alfredo C. An operator of the Fascist propaganda effort, he has been traveling around Albania with his movie camera for five years. Before that, for almost two decades, he had immortalised the great machine of the regime. Now, by a twist of fate, being the only cameraman around, Alfredo has been asked to work on behalf of Communist propaganda. Shut up in his storeroom, surrounded by thousands of reels of film, Alfredo watches what he has shot again on an old Moviola. It is his film that we are watching. And perhaps, not his alone.

A feature documentary following Antonio de Benedetto, an Italian chef on a quest to change the world with food. His apprentices are aspiring chefs with Down syndrome, who travel from across Italy to train and work in hospitality and take their place at the table of life and find their pathway to freedom and independence.

"Into The Outside" is a meditation on the nocturnal world of Campania in South Italy. Nature is there in the fireflies, bats, frogs, crabs, running water and plants but there are also the huge industrial structures of the wind turbines: each individual mast flashes a red light and seen en masse the fans resemble a constellation brought to earth. The atmosphere is presided over by a rising full moon viewed from different locations.

In 1926 the remains of two ships built by the Emperor Caligula were found at the bottom of Lake Nemi, near Rome. Mussolini had the lake drained and established a museum as a celebration of the imperial origins of Fascism, but the museum and ships were destroyed by fleeing Nazis in 1944. The film commemorates these events. - MoMA

An Italian documentary.

It illustrates the operation of a large bird catcher (uccellanda) with a net and bait, characteristic of northern Italy and in particular the Veneto region. Preparations for bird-catching nets, training to call numerous birds, laboriously prepared tricks to deceive migratory birds and catch them in the net.