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Three years of filming across Italy, from Mont Blanc to the island of Lampedusa, have resulted in this short film. The aim of this universal event is, first and foremost, to commit wealthy nations to guaranteeing food, water, and dignity to every human being according to a principle of justice that governs coexistence among the peoples of the Earth. Similarly, and just as with food, the peoples who have won the privilege of freedom through the sacrifice of their martyrs should be an example of democracy and civil coexistence.

Short documentary about the life and times of Italian filmmaker Sergio Pastore.

In 1992, the anti-Mafia magistrates Falcone and Borsellino were murdered in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. For a long time, the public believed in a story of revenge. Today, a lawsuit is challenging this hypothesis. With exclusive testimonies from judges, politicians, and witnesses under protection, this film reveals several decades of incestuous links between the State and the Mafia.

Eight hundred and fifty images from the film Accattone by Pier Paolo Pasolini, repainted and redrawn, the requiem of Pasolini's film which ends up coinciding with the ninth movement of Mozart's Requiem

Filming for a movie that will never be made, starring Gianni Celati and Roberto Freak Antoni of Skiantos, shot at Montagnola in Bologna in the winter of 1977.

Renato Nicolini is travelling along the Grande Raccordo Anulare. The traffic flows behind him like thoughts that have been triggered in a logic of free association. His story consists of memories and connections that span esoteric suggestions, city-planning considerations, and metropolitan legends.

Caltabellotta is a small town in the far south of Sicily. Born on the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Triokala, its name depends on the three gifts received from Mother Nature: the fertility of its countryside, the sweetness of the water and the ancient fortress on the lace of the mountain, which made the place impregnable, protecting the inhabitants from evil. Over the centuries, the traces of that knowledge somewhere between magic, religion and superstition have been lost in the fog. But you can still recognize the faces of its people, in their relationship with the animal and plant world, in many religious and pagan rituals, an ancient knowledge that marks, even today, the time and the relationship between man and nature.

In a declining West, the director creates his alter ego, Totò Cannibale, to confront fears and impulses, amidst technology and extreme individualism.

Today, sexual freedom and gender self-determination are punishable by arrest or death in several countries. This short film tells the story of Nelson and his escape to Italy after a violent assault. He was born 25 years ago in Benin City, one of the most unstable areas of Nigeria. In 2018, the territorial commission that examined his case found his testimony insufficiently credible and rejected his application for international protection. In 2021, Nelson appealed to the Venice Tribunal. While awaiting his verdict, which may take months, Nelson spends his days working, hanging out with friends and making music, hoping to one day become a great singer.

Aging fashion model Benedetta Barzini strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.

Assistant Director Lamberto Bava, screenwriter Roberto Natale, Roy Bava and Bava biographer Alberto Pezzotta discuss the making of both versions of the film 'Lisa and the Devil'.

A documentary from the RAI archives exploring the life, works, and political commitment of one of the greatest innovators of Italian neo-realist painting.

From a Calabrian river to a night in Catania where stray dogs roam the city aimlessly: between these two extremes "full of emptiness" is built Checosamanca , a collective work, born with the intention of talking about the present, preferring the action to the easy complaint about the absence of the state and of politics.

A horrific record of reckless acts by the US to the citizens of Fallujah.

A collection of video testimonials that chronicle a metaphysical journey beyond the boundaries of existence. This is a documentary that follows the artist Gammatrace, who, through his digital avatar, explores a unique metaphysical realm. In this void, matter and thought merge to give rise to “manifestations”: eternal forms that are consumed only by distance and fog. These manifestations can only be observed and understood, not interacted with. The documentary portrays this desolate yet comforting space as a deep stream of consciousness that branches off in unexpected directions.

The Colosseum Archaeological Park is a natural habitat for wildlife that has transformed it into a unique ecosystem in the world. Here, humans have disappeared, leaving their only trace in the gigantic ruins and the splendid monuments of their past glory. The new empire belongs to nature. The only humans who set foot here, when tourists depart, are biologists and naturalists who monitor the present species, some of which are particularly rare and difficult to spot.

After the Movieland adventure, the new group decides to go big. Thus begins an adventure filled with magic, laughter, and excitement, set in one of the most magical places on earth: Disneyland Paris.

Documents the 1974 Giro d'Italia, from the Pope's blessing of the riders to the record-tying finish.

A travel documentary on landscapes, which utilizes the phantom ride technique and which makes use of the momentum of shots taken with the camera mounted on moving vehicles. Each means of transport answers to differing rules in perceiving the scenario.

Inspired by the urban utopia of Arturo Soria y Mata, who with his "Ciudad Lineal" theorized an idea of universal, a priori urban expansion, infinitely repeatable and adaptable to all conditions, the film takes the form of a choral portrait of a city in transformation. The material that constitutes it, drawn from the Superottimisti Regional Archive, is the private and amateur film production of nine families who live there and who, holding the camera inside and outside their homes, trace heterogeneous itineraries in space and time, pursuing the loves , desires and dramatic experiences of their lives.

Reflections on the contemporary city, through quotations from José Ortega y Gasset, Oswald Spengler and Frank Lloyd Wright and images of Rome (in particular the EUR district, construction sites, walls covered with graffiti and torn posters, the Forum, the Altar of the Fatherland).

The story of a man from Verona countryside who devoted his life to his communist ideals to the point he challenged NATO. Along with him thousands of other people who tried to radically change Italy and the world during the 70s.

Cinecitta, the great movie studio built by Mussolini, became universally known as 'Hollywood on the Tiber' and as Fellini's second home. But in an interim period (1944-50) it served very different functions, quite unlike that of a dream factory. Under the Nazi occupation of Rome it was a transit camp for deportees, then following the liberation, it was transformed by the Allies into one of the largest displaced persons camps in Italy.

The laugh-out-loud adventures of a drug dealer and his customers struggling with a joint, filmed in the hippy commune of Terrasini, near Palermo.

A brief documentary about a theatrical project that involves an Italian jail's inmates.

A biographical documentary exploring the utopian ideas of Harald Szeemann, the man who revolutionized the art exhibitions world.

A documentary on how cinema and television influence each other and their close relationship.

Palazzo Vecchio: a history of art and power. Directed by Piero Messina, through a clever movement of the narration between past and present, makes a real journey into the beauty of an ancient place that still retains its undisputed charm.

The story of a process of destruction capable of eliminating 800 films a day, 250,000 a year, whose value is reduced to "two dollars a kilo".

Sixty years on from the disaster, the time has come to reveal the mysteries behind one of the worst marine incidents in history. Including new and exclusive images, finally the pieces of the puzzle can be put together to compile the whole truth about what actually happened to the Andrea Doria on that fateful day.

Filmed through a grainy zoom lens, a succession of intimate moments unfolds as approximately 70 couples engage in tender, playful, or passionately abandoned kisses, captured in slow motion within a tightly framed composition. The focus of each scene is on the negative space between the lovers’ profiles, creating a mesmerizing visual narrative.

Mario Soldati accompanies us in search of genuine food, this time to discover the culinary traditions of Christmas lunch, with Father Mariano, Cesare Zavattini, the shoemaker Angelo Gatto, the baroness Aurelia Michetti and the General Lorenzo De Grandi.

La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971, a trip made to conduct an interview-portrait of Salvador Allende, then actually carried out by the director of "Rome, Open City". October 28, 1971: Rossellini, back from Santiago, Chile, reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen. From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty. A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì, just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography.

A journey to Sardinia that through a series of interviews with people differing in gender, age, profession, social, economic, and cultural status, recounts the relationship that binds individuals to their land in these times of increasing homogenization, bewilderment, and perennial need to belong.

A docufilm that tells the life of Mahmood between Milan and Egypt, his dearest loved ones, the music, the victories in Sanremo, Eurovision, the European tour, the backstage of the his works. An inner journey that has music as its backbone and where love and absence find their way to coexist. Thanks to his music we explore Alessandro's world, his search for something, which led him to have more than he could dream of and which always accompanies his distant gaze, as if every time he had to go home from a trip or leave. for a new goal.

This documentary shows the construction of a high-altitude dam by the Sabbioni Glacier, and the daily struggles of the workers, now anxious for the outbreak of a mine, now silent for the nostalgia of the distant family.

Sisters Zaynab and Maryam are two Afghan soccer players who play for the Herat women's team. When the Taliban return to power in Afghanistan, they decide to flee the regime. Maryam manages to board a flight to Italy, while Zaynab is left behind. The film follows their parallel and separate lives between Afghanistan and Europe.

Editing and reworking of television, film, and photographic archive material relating to Paul VI's pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1964, carried out by Olmi when he was already planning to make E venne un uomo (And a Man Came), the film about Pope John XIII.

Between ancient traditions and new cultural and social changes, olive harvesting in Calabria.