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On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

The history of the Pilastro district begins in the '60s, with some council houses a few miles from the center of Bologna, built to meet the demand for housing for the growing number of immigrants in the post-war period. Under the shadow of the Virgolone, one of the largest residential buildings in the city, grows a neighborhood with almost 7000 inhabitants, often rising at the center of media attention for its crime sagas. Through the history of a neighborhood and its inhabitants, the film explores the relationship between city spaces and daily experiences, in a context where challenges and contradictions in urban development are evident.

Antonia Maria Iannicelli is serving a ten-year sentence. From the prison, she tells the tragic events that led to the death of her 3 years old son Nicola, called Cocò, killed together with her grandfather Giuseppe and her partner. A case famous for his brutality that shocked Italy and led Pope Bergoglio to excommunicate the Mafia people, responsible for the crime.

In the midst of a personal and work crisis, I begin to film everything obsessively: my parents, grandparents, children, friends and lovers, but also myself and psychotherapy. Some footage is consensual, some is “stolen.” This way my personal-intimate becomes narrative: the recent separation, the pain of my children’s being apart, my parents’ separation, my inadequacy as a mother. But in this autobiographical process of “coming out” I inevitably clash with the privacy of those close to me. The result is a kind of intimate diary that, in becoming public, is perhaps shameless and obscene. But where are the boundaries between what should remain private, offstage, and what can be made public and shared?

Turin Expo, 1st May 1898. Inauguration of the Italian National Exhibition in the presence of King Umberto I and Queen Margherita. The Parco del Valentino becomes a theater of evocative outdoor landscapes, a kind of city of wonders, of progress and innovation. The film is divided into three parts.

Videotape produced by Ferruccio Marotti for Roma's University theatre students. A presentation of Carmelo Bene's "Performative matrix": not a performance yet, but it's not just text or ideas. Essentially, a work-in-progress on his Macbeth.

Ėjzenštejn's unrealised dream was to make a film adaptation of The Capital. Mario Blaconà uses archives from the working-class world and the direct testimony of Vittorio Alfieri to recount the birth of the Red Brigades in Italy. We are no longer in Russia, we are no longer in the Winter Palace. A powerful historical testimony of a still obscure period in the history of our country.

Examines the life, work, and cultural significance of Gloria Anzaldúa, poet and visual artist, and those she inspired in women's Chicano art. The work highlights the struggle for women's and gay rights.

The story of Michelino, who enrolls in Edisonvolta's electrical engineering school and thus opens himself up to the future.

Franco scaldati - died in 2013 - was one of the most important autors of italian theatre plays, Maresco describes his role in the cultural and social field. Through his opera we can observe Italy from another point of view.

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

A Donatello Golden Plate winning documentary on the Appenines, and on the adventures of a young racoon.

"D" originates from and proceeds through the interpenetration of unreality and reality. The places subject to a long and silent violence are the small towns of eastern Liguria [...] The film is a poem about Liguria, where the critical description of the present contrasts with that of a balanced world like Virgil's.

Following the radios of the movement, this film appeared as a protest - one of the first demonstrations of an antagonistic self-managed communication over the entire territory of the nation that resulted in a debate and a collective work in many Italian cities dealing with counter-information and liberation of informatic technologies.

For me, places are people. Venice, tormented, fascinating, mysterious, is Giulio, his blue eyes, his disappearance, his ghost. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of the time his body was beside mine as we explored the island. Venice reawakens my memories with him and gives him back to me. Knowing that he has changed shape, that he no longer wears a human body, drives me to search for him everywhere. Yet I continue to believe in his desperate freedom, in his choice. The emptiness within me after his departure is a space I fill with what I encounter. I know only one way to combat pain: seek wonder. I will continue to do so, now also for him, now also with him.

A documentary following the lives of two baby YouTube influencers and their family. Sisters Marghe and Giulia, aged 9 and 12, are known as “Marghe Giulia Kawaii” by their over 300,000 followers and their videos have been viewed millions of times. The documentary examines the effects of their new found fame and explores its influence on their private lives, where daily habits and online sharing seem to constantly overlap.

Amidst the educational and material poverty consequent to the government’s negligence, the united community of Scampia, a district of the northern area of Naples, works daily to promote cultural growth and give the youth of the area the means and the freedom to be authors of their future.

May 2019. In the small town of Tromello, near Milan, Italy's first transgender mayor is elected. The documentary tells the campaign that led to this historic election. A story of friendship and courage against prejudice.

A mondo documentary directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.

Confidential report on designer Dino Gavina's showroom created by Carlo Scarpa between 1961 and 1963. Restoration details and stills from a 1985 film by Ellis Donda.

A Rai Storia special that rediscovers and re-examines the legendary events linked to the birth of Rome, comparing them with scientific data and archaeological discoveries, to understand and analyze the passages and reasons for the fortune of the Eternal City.

SinopsisAfrica ought to live, telling stories, Africa needs to love itself today, Africa has to resist and the best weapon is ist culture, ist identity. A film is like a lourney where meetings occur. From the land of the pharaos to the countries where ebony is hidden – storytellers.

Life and career, lights and shadows, successes and misfortunes of Angelo Cecchelin, the greatest comic actor Trieste has ever had. Who was Angelo Cecchelin? Rome had Petrolini, Naples had Totò. Trieste had Cecchelin.

A very lonely homeless man believes he is the new reincarnation of Christ, and goes around Trastevere (Rome) looking for his three disciples who will follow him in his sermons in search of change in the world.

Feature documentary, completed but unreleased.

At first glance, Brett Allen Smith’s memory worlds seem slightly otherworldly but peaceful. There is a little pug – curious, bouncy and, most importantly, alive, a harmless explorer of lawns and living rooms. At the same time, the director is driven by an inner fracture, an irritation to be illuminated by means of phone conversations with family members: How real are the memories that had such a tremendous impact on him? Like the hill towering in front of Smith’s inner eye under which two dogs lie buried. And there are sunflowers, imposing plants that are impossible to pick for his five-year old’s hands because their roots have bored so deeply into the soil.

A warehouse of the imaginary, a library of vision, a labyrinth of dreams: this, and much more, is the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. From the magic lanterns to the rotoscopes, from the archive footages of the Torino relics at the time of Pastrone, “Occhi che videro” reconstructs an atmosphere of magic and allure of the visual utopias before the Lumière brothers that any technologic marvel will ever be able reach. But the film is first of all an homage to the founder of the Museum: Maria Adriana Prolo.

"The Age of Genius" enters a place where form is mixed with lyricism and the magic of body movements and gazes. The eyes are filled with wonder and reveal themselves as a metaphor for a society that wishes to become children again. The protagonists' exercises lean towards theatricality and imagination. The walls of this space thus become witnesses of these gestures, of these endlessly repeated attempts to finally reach maturity.

The life and work of Arthur Penn, whose films like "Bonnie and Clyde" helped shape the conversation around violence in America and its movies.

Filmed chronicle by mountain filmmaker Mario Fantin, of the 1964-1965 expedition of the Italian mountaineer Guido Monzino to the summits of Hoggar in the Algerian Sahara with the ascents of Garet el Djenoun, Tizouyag Nord, Saouinan and Iharen. The mountain ranges of the Hoggar desert turn out to be more complex and interesting than most mountaineers suspected at the time.

Interview with film director Riccardo Freda.

A reworking of materials concerning the relationship between the artist and nature, including the garden as a collateral agent of the imaginative and reflective mind. This work was created on the occasion of the Garden Marathon held at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2011.

The new 16mm film Radiant Exposures—Facts Run on Light Beams These Days (the latter part of the title quotes from Donna Haraway) returns to Rosa Barba’s long-standing motif of the desert and its exploration of modern archives as a manifestation of human’s desire for progress. As in previous films, Radiant Exposures—Facts Run on Light Beams These Days appears to portray a site out of time and space—ethereal, timeless and unearthly. The predominant motif of the film is the human-made landscape with large expanses of rectangular panels reflecting the sun light. These reflective panels are in fact concentrating sunlight, creating and collecting energy. The presence of the sun is made palpable by the shimmering light and the and the blurring of the imagery.

A story of love, loss and redemption set on a train in 1943.

An immersive exploration of the incarceration spaces, inside the Turin prison. The film also captures the reactions of few inmates, while they watch scenes from life outside of prison, through VR headsets.

A tangle of stories in which aspirations and yearnings for freedom on the part of the white-collar worker are intertwined with those of Cristiano's personal and musical life in a discourse on our contemporary world.

This documentary film by Pierluca Rossi recounts a journey to the southern Algerian Sahara, near Amguid, a small Tuareg village renowned for its unusual nearby crater. In the Tefedest massif, with its mythical summit, Garet el Djenoun, on the slopes of a vast sand dune rising to over 400 meters, one can practice an unusual sport: sandboarding, a new technique to try. Surprising speeds can be reached, and participants can familiarize themselves with the equipment of this new sport, perhaps paving the way for new practices.