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Documentary about Franco Piavoli

Fatma, a 25 year old Turkish woman, moves to Italy to study photography, where she falls in love with David. In her family, marriages are always arranged, so she decides to go back to Turkey and obtain her father's approval before marrying David.

If Rome is the capital of the world, then Alberto Sordi is his true son. He absorbed all the vices and valor of his homeland. His whole life was connected with his beloved city. He owed his first success to another great Roman - Fellini, and Italian became the only obstacle in his international career. On stage, Alberto Sordi might have seemed uncontrollable and rude, but could have been charming and slightly ridiculous. He played scammers and victims, sweet losers and unsurpassed drunkards with the manners of great comedians. But, even jokingly, he always remained serious.

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

A school bus stops in the street. Behind the steamed up windows, among the children who are watching the rain, Giacomo surprises me with a look I know well, that of the photos of my childhood. In the distance separating us, the rain hides the tears and the smile, clouds faces. Past, present and future suddenly mingle. Time dilates, stretches like an elastic band linking us, that brings us closer and sends us further from each other.

Groups of young people participate in CAI (Italian Alpine Club) projects for rehabilitation-therapeutic purposes, tackling treks in the mountains to re-educate themselves about the environment.

Peer into the day-to-day tasks of those on the frontline working to rescue and provide humanitarian support to migrants fleeing to Italy's shores.

Bea, Enrico, Irene are crossing a forest that, step by step, turns into a tropical eco-system. In the course of this dreamlike exploration, the whole forest begins to play. At this point they understand that they are living a “grand rve Change the music, the three friends re - emerge-perhaps-from the dream, finally arrive at a beach. Will this be the place where liberation from all their anxieties will take place?

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.

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay made history as the first people to reach the top of Everest. Now, 50 years later, three sons of Everest's most celebrated climbers return to the mountain to challenge it again. Join their journey as they brave the elements and face death to climb 29,000 feet of wind-blasted rock and ice. And, relive the dramatic history of Everest from great triumphs to deadly tragedies, enduring rivalries and the unsung role of the Sherpa people—as National Geographic exposes the untold stories that lurk in the mountain's epic shadow and takes you on the ultimate Everest experience.

«Fulci for Fake» is the first biopic on Lucio Fulci. Lucio Fulci is an enigma. The mystery that surrounds Fulci is linked in part to his personal life. The director only rarely spoke about himself in interviews. But he did let his experience be reflected in his films. The setting of the film sees Nicola, a successful actor, agree to play the part of Lucio Fulci in a biopic on the director. Nicola will ask himself probing questions about the real nature of a man who, in his own lifetime, had already rewritten his biography.

Stories of Italian emigrants in Berlin declined without an ethic of sacrifice and goodism but through a sense of the ferocity necessary to wrest survival from the miserable life that capitalism has offered and continues to impose on us.

Promise and Ian are now 11 years old. Steve soo will announce to the group that three years after stopping, some of theme will be chosen for the European tour for their "Cirque du Soleil" style show, performing in many countries. Promise and Ian start to train even harder. Will they be selected?

A collective movie to tell a year of history, 2020. A city like no one had ever seen: Florence during the lockdown due to Covid told by those who lived it.

The summer adventures of a group of kids from Chioggia, their dreams and their expectations.

Two Italians documentarians follow the French Freedom Convoy from Nice to Brussels to witness the protesters' demands against the tyrannical laws imposed by governments during the pandemic. What they will see during this crazy attempt at revolution will go far beyond the boundary between reality and dream...

While Frigolandia (Frigidaire republic, a squatted place in Umbria hills) is on the verge of being evicted, the documentary recalls the story of the satiric (and controversial) magazines Frigidaire end Il Male, who were vital parts of the counterculture movement in 80s and 90s Italy.

A man walks in more or less familiar places, walks there as if crossing unknown lands, never encountered before. At each step, he observes the world before his eyes, forcing him to fix it and freeze it in an “other” space and time, on the celluloid of his old camera. This man is Kurt Diemberger, climber and filmmaker of high peaks and distant lands. He is 82 years old, but he lives in the "now" rather than the past, continually exploring the land beneath his feet, in places dear to him in Austria, Italy and the Dolomites, as if he continued his research through the eye of the camera he uses for the observer.

In Brasília, the modern capital of Brazil, an anteater is found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders across the suburbs, and foxes prowl vacant streets. Meanwhile, in the city zoo—home to hundreds of displaced and rescued wild species—the animals look back at us humans.

A personal diary that also acts as a sentimental journey. Will the man-child that emerges from behind the camera be able to glimpse something of himself before growing to maturity? One of Enrico Maisto’s most intimate and enlightening films.

We are in Marina Grande of Sorrento, following a dog named Rosy and listening to the stories of those who work there, between past and present.

The documentary explores the lives of six magistrates in six Italian courts, engaged in different roles and at different stages of their lives, analyzing the difficulties, hardships, and joys of this profession, with the aim of dismantling long-standing prejudices associated with their role and providing a more authentic view of the profession of justice.

Mario, a lonely and nostalgic man, receives a wrong call in which he is mistaken for a child, so he finds himself listening to a story by Gianni Rodari. This episode will trigger a series of reflections on his past, fantasy and friendship

Gian Piero Brunetta concisely outlines the principles and evolution of Italian Neorealist cinema.

Making of documentary of Bernardo Bertolucci's Io e Te.

My old friend Walter has been living in a truck with his Native dog for ten years. In this interview, he opens the doors of his four-wheeled house and tells stories from the life of a modern wanderer.

Marseille, boulevard d'Athènes, 26 April 2006. Lisbon, S.Mamede, 19 October 2007. Madrid, calle de Atocha, 13 May 2008. Three glances from hotel room windows, three days of unknown passers-by: the street and the bars, meetings and loneliness, loves and missed appointments.

Italian mondo documentary

A filmmaker travels around time and space through the magic of montage, developing a conflict created by the gathering of different moving images he recorded with his girlfriend, making a love story given only by the love to cinema.

After twelve years of disqualification for cocaine use, former Florentine prodigy Francesco Flachi returns to play - at forty-seven - in a team from his hometown.

"Bestiari, erbari, lapidari" was presented at the Venice Film Festival in September 2024, was screened in many Italian cities and won the Best Director award at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam. The directors present in this subsequent film some previously unseen sequences from this project.

In a village in West Africa where dreams play a key role, the hosts of local radio interpret the oniric visions of their listeners. The language of dreams is spoken here. The limits between the real and the fantastic blur, and time is suspended.

The documentary film tells about life and death of Gaetano Bresci, the Italian anarchist who came back from USA to Italy to kill king Umberto I, on July 29 1900, shooting him three revolver shots in Monza.

Over one thousand people of different nationalities live among rats and rubbish in shacks slapped together out of metal sheets and wood. It’s the platz, one of the largest shanty towns in Europe, on the banks of the river Stura in Turin. Many children, women and old people have been living here for years in what has become a practically invisible microcosm that will soon no longer exist.

Piscicelli made this piece for the programme *Cronaca* – an investigative feature whose protagonists are the same as those involved in social struggles – though he did not credit himself. The director filmed the latest carnival in Pomigliano d’Arco on 16mm, where tradition blends with workers’ struggles. We see Marcello Colasurdo and E’ Zezi again, who had previously starred in the medium-length film La canzone di Zeza, shot the previous year. Divided into two parts, it was never broadcast in full in 1977; in subsequent years, a 66-minute version was shown, corresponding to one of the two episodes.

Sarah, a 30-year-old French woman, becomes a mother and realises that she knows nothing about her father's past. During the Algerian war, her grandfather fought with the French against the independence of his people. When France lost, Sarah's family escaped to Marseille. But there, instead of being welcomed, they were locked-up in a camp. This is where Sarah’s journey begins...

A documentary focused on film critic Lino Micciché, as seen from the point of view of his friends and his son Francesco.

A training program of the Ministry of the Interior. The topics covered concerned assistance aimed at promoting equal access to health, prevention, and the treatment of diseases.