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After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Sandro begins writing down his memories—incredible tales previously unknown to his family.

'Nothing is normal, everything is different'. A historical event takes place in Rome in May 2018. The first ever Pride parade unfolds in the campus of La Sapienza, the largest university in Europe. This is the story of the LGBTQI+ student collective that organized it: their lives, their ideals, their politics, their fight for a different, better world.

Short documentary focused on origins of the Mala, or Italian mob movie genre

An Italian short movie.

Valentina Petrillo is a visually impaired transgender athlete. In 2019 she started a difficult battle, asking Italian sports federations to give her permission to compete in the female category. Today, after a long struggle, she is the first Italian transgender athlete competing internationally in the women's category. Her story was featured in hundreds of articles and tv appearances in Italy and abroad. Her choice to challenge unscripted societal rules is an inspiring example across continents. Despite all odds, her dream to participate in the Paralympic Games continues to drive her forward.

Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.

A nonfiction, autobiographical film that seeks to explore the journey from both the sentimental and socio-political perspectives of a college student.

Documentary/interview with Tomas Milian as he returns to Cuba for the first time since he left in the 1950's.

"Peso morto" is a 2022 documentary film, directed by Francesco Del Grosso. The work deals with the experience of Angelo Massaro who, due to a judicial error, spent twenty-one years in prison unjustly, before being found innocent and acquitted for a murder he never committed.

A journey through Italian landscapes as seen through the windows of a long-distance express train.

Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu.

On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Portorotondo (1964 – 2024), the documentary tells the story of this locality established by two Venetian brothers, Nicolò and Luigino Donà dalle Rose. Enamored with Poltu Ridundu, they transformed a perfectly round body of water into one of the most renowned tourist destinations in the world. Through interviews with illustrious figures such as writer Marcello Fois, Nicola Pietrangeli, Enrico Vanzina, and Carolina Rosi, the documentary explores the social, economic, and cultural revolution that completely transformed Gallura during the years of the economic and tourist boom.

The green and the stone. Straub-Huillet in Buti.

Rapallo, Italy, summer 1998.

Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, this documentary gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their stories and to prominent women in culture, art and academia who were forced to leave their beloved country. They are a guiding force, able to explain through their individual, perilous and often tragic experiences, the drastic shift of a nation, caught between patriarchy, deep economic crisis, corruption, rigid religious and ideological beliefs.

Documentary about the night when Pier Paolo Pasolini died, trying to clarify what really happened back then.

A documentary about Josef Stalin.

Rapallo, 1990.

This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.

This documentary explores the role women play in the church, 30 years after John Paul II was the first pope to write a text addressed to women. (Netflix)

Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother. A family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude, as well as manners. The younger son, Gim, is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just can't accept that. So the elder son Alex is stuck in the middle, on one hand encouraging Gim to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

It's moving day for the Via Marsili 19th apartment in Bologna, Italy, a former hotbed of the Movement of 1977. While waiting for the movers to finish their job, cultural agitator Franco Bifo Berardi leads us through a decade-long trip down memory lane.

Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra, Cécilia Mangini was a photographer. Taking pictures was something she did all her life, alongside whatever else she was working on. In 1965 Mangini and Del Fra went to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never finished. More than half a century later, she returned to these images, moving and still, some of which she found again by accident.

For at least three generations of viewers, cinema has been like life: a motive for work, relationships, conflict, politics, and pleasure. The documentary, based on original interviews with critics active between the 1950s and the present day, evokes the places, rituals, professional routines, gender relations, and polemical and social dimensions of Italian film criticism. Not only a profession, but above all a discovery of the world through films, yesterday as today.

A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a false land."

A boy, alone in his room, watches archive videos and falls obsessively in love with the girl trapped in them, like an insect locked in a cage to be observed.

Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. Koons transforms mass-produced, everyday objects into the highest art forms.

An examination of the Olivetti store in Venice, Piazza San Marco -- a true icon of Italian architecture of the twentieth century restored in the 1950s by Carlo Scarpa.

This documentary explores the partnership between the prolific singer-songwriter and pioneering rock band — and their historic 1979 Genoa concert.

Pietro, a bricklayer and writer, reflects on the meaning of war and visits his sister after years of silence.

The Italian history of the last fifty years told by a man who lived it as a protagonist. The extraordinary story of a man at the forefront of the fight against terrorism and Mafia.

The human and professional figure of Carlo Urbani entrusted to the testimonies of relatives, friends and to the numerous images and archive footage that portray him in his most significant moments: from his trip to Cambodia, to his move to Vietnam, from the Nobel Prize awarded to Doctors Without Borders, of which he was president, to the commitment paid with his own life to prevent the worldwide spread of the terrible SARS virus. Twenty years after his tragic death, the documentary traces the life of Italian physician Carlo Urbani, who first identified SARS during the epidemic that broke out in Vietnam in 2003, stopping its spread.

The incredible story of Raffaele Minichiello, a life punctuated by earthquakes, attacks, wars, personal tragedies and troubles of all sorts, but always under the banner of an irreducible desire to live, or rather, to survive.

On August 5, 1989, the policeman Nino Agostino was brutally killed together with his wife Ida Castelluccio, who was two months pregnant. The documentary tells about Vincenzo Agostino, the man who, despite 31 years have passed since his son's death at the hands of the mafia, seeks justice and fights with great determination to discover the truth behind the murder.

A mondo documentary directed by Mino Loy.

Along the fragile border that separates and unites life and death, men and women cross the extreme landscapes of ending, searching in the silence of the contemporary world for one last fragment of meaning.

Toro is the tragicomic odyssey of Rocco and Angelo, two friends navigating the challenges of adulthood in their late thirties and the struggles faced by a new generation of young men.

The documentary explores the intimate and political story of the participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian and non-violent mission that in September 2025 attempted to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, amid the siege and genocide perpetrated by Israel. From the harbour to departure, the film recounts the preparation of the largest civilian humanitarian mission by sea organised for Palestine. Alongside the mission, the Italian mobilisations that emerged around the call “Blocchiamo tutto” (Let's block everything), launched by the dockworkers involved in the Flotilla, come to light. Amid drone attacks, demonstrations, rallies and institutional promises withdrawn when needed, the journey becomes a concrete metaphor for the will of peoples to overcome the limits and hypocrisies of the international community.