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This documentary follows two Congolese refugees who settled in a Sicilian coastal town that holds an annual fest for San Calogero, the "Black Saint".

Delving into the relationship between Venice as a place and the people who move through it, J’adore Venise focuses on the phenomenon of disappearing bodies that result from both anthropogenic environmental degradation and the pervasive influence of surveillance capitalism.

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a harp accompany their multi-coloured joy. This short was made with children from a nursery school in Mantua. Playing with colours, the children seem to conquer the world.

Christ Among the Primitives is an 1953 Italian language short film directed by Vincenzo Lucci-Chiarissi. It examines primitive sculptures and traces the evolution of religious motives in early man. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.

"In the rolls of film shot by Dinz Rialto during his travels he searched for 'real' images, without filters, paradoxically finding them precisely where the act of filming is most evident. Those looks in the camera surprised me, intimidated me, just like those faces that appear amazed and shy in front of the camera: unaware actors of a frontal cinema, so direct as to push me to step aside and become a mirror in my turn, to move on to others those looks, isolated, free from any narrative. No story: just glances, held and slowed down to maintain the intensity."

Riccardo Corradini, a final-year medical student from Italy, makes headlines as the first international student to ever choose the Gaza Strip as destination for his Erasmus exchange program. While studying to become a war surgeon, he experiences first-hand the day-to-day life in the Strip (including Israeli bombings), makes life-long friends, and overcomes his anxiety about the future.

Two filmmakers set out for Nepal to find the exact spot from where legendary mountaineer and photographer Vittorio Sella captured the first images of Mount Everest 125 years ago.

Five of the most important and prestigious names in Italian cuisine gather to discuss their choices, their sense of time, and the future, free from prejudice and convention. One by one, they begin to speak, leading us on a journey through the different latitudes, flavors, and histories of our country. All under the banner, however, of one great shared spirit: love for the life to come. The fifth season that unites us all.

An Italian documentary.

On the night of April 10, 1991, off the coast of Livorno, the ferry Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker. 140 people died, and Captain Ugo Chessa was blamed. For 31 years, his children have been fighting to reveal the truth and erase years of lies.

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.

The second part of Giovanna Gagliardo's documentary recounts forty years of Italian history, and more, through film footage and photos from the 1960s to the present day.

In a delicate and humane manner, this film touches upon a very serious issue: how to stop fearing death while being in love with life. We talk (and laugh) about this subject with the protagonists of this film, modern geniuses and ordinary people from different parts of the world.

The ordinary life of a young woman growing up in Bologna, consisting of work, sports and evenings with friends, takes an unexpected and dramatic turn when her mother, Berta, is arrested. We follow not only the protagonist's family affairs, but also her complex social network. Romina's story could be repeated identically in any Western metropolis because it reflects a universal reality: the precariousness of suburban life today. Through Berta's imprisonment, the injustice of the prison system - a controversial aspect of our society - materializes. Romina offers a realistic portrait of urban life, made up of social fragility, precarity and prison.

Little Tony wasn’t just the guy with the wild quiff who brought rock ’n’ roll into Italian homes: he was an artist capable of uniting generations, a performer who knew how to blend the infectious rhythm of American music with Italian melodic sensibility, becoming one of the most beloved icons of our popular culture.

In the wake of cataclysmic regional change in the artist's homeland of Hong Kong, Simon Liu’s Cinema-Strobo-Scopic film features a laborious sequence of analogue darkroom practices and dense shrouds of video processing techniques which actively work to both conceal and reappraise approaches to personal expression in the face of censorship. Times ahead and behind collide - a new linearity is in need of; the glittering lore of the way things were, generations lost to resolution errors. Sifting through new realities of misinformation, digital consciousness, and cultural disappearance, "Single File" seeks new lexicons of disobedience through formal experimentation.

For more than one year, two filmmakers have been following a team of researchers from the University of Sassari assigned by the Veneto Region to monitor and facilitate the proactive management of a family of wolves through the use of experimental techniques never used before in the Italian Alps. The film shows one of the most innovative and pioneering proactive wolf management project.

After enduring the trauma of a brutal gang rape, young dancer Thea embarks on a profound journey of healing. Through her choreography, she confronts her pain step by step, gradually transforming her vulnerability into a quiet yet fierce bravery. With the unwavering support of her partner Thiago and the unconditional love of their dog Mandinga, Thea discovers a safe space to begin piecing together her shattered world. The birth of her son Monan further redefines her relationship with her body and sense of self. We follow Thea's most intimate struggles through her personal video diaries, intertwined with the tender lens of her childhood friend, filmmaker Felix, who uncovers the unspoken layers of her healing process.

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

In 2006 one of the most iconic mixtape sagas in the history of Italian rap made its appearance to teach Italy what rap was. 15 years later " Fastlife " returns to the scene, because it is necessary to remember that lesson with a new vigor.

The countryside around the Po delta is dotted with abandoned houses and farmhouses. The landscape appears desertic, almost humanless. Some people shares stories about their bond with the land while the italian writer Gianni Celati documents the tragedy and the loss of values in this new landscape of desolation, with a superb narrative style.

Four stories set between the 60s and the 70s in Italy. Four personal female adventures crossing the path of Italian history, the struggle for women rights, the liberation of the body, in a country without memory.

80s, Milan, Italy. The disappearance of the great groups from the 70s and the need of music different from the Sanremo commercial songs led to the creation of a new record company: "Vox Pop". One of the first recordings from the label was "Blues get off my shoulder” from Carnival of Fools, a band which revolved around the figure of Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi, already known in the underground scene.

"The ancient history of the two planets is similar in many ways, and it is very fascinating that in the course of evolution the two worlds have taken such different paths," explains astrobiology expert Amy Williams of the University of Florida. "If there really is no life on Mars, why isn't there? What has changed? What has happened? Why wouldn't there be? And, if there was in the past, what happened then?" Dictionary Click on a word to look it up.

Conversations on the Way of the Tarot follows a 2005 tour of Italian theaters. Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa start from the public reading of the Tarot, to heal" with their psychomagical advice and dispense ingenious tales that, through laughter, lead us toward deep reflection. For this is the atmosphere one breathes in the company of Jodorowsky, in the theater as well as in his home in Paris, where he tells us about himself in a long and intense interview-conversation. He talks to us about autobiographical memories, his relationship with other art forms and the Tarot de Marseille, which he personally helped restore, and about the profound and unique idea of Planetary Man, an idea that knowledge of the Tarot can help us develop. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

In the first few months of 2020, huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by a new virus. The town of Bergamo and its province was to become the epicentre of this pandemic.

"Her was shot as my contribution to a collective film of the Italian Film-makers' Cooperative, "Tutto, tutto nello stesso istante", which started out as a Dadaist protest against police brutality. I used a "Newsweek" cutting about the Chicago Convention riots, about a woman being beaten up, and isolated in every line a symbolic word, which returns in the second part with an extension of its original meaning. I remember showing it with an 8mm projector at the USIS Rome Library in winter 1970 as part of a concert of American music." Massimo Bacigalupo

In the mid 1700's, young Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni risked his career and rejected the conventions of traditional theatre and ushered in the era of modern drama we still enjoy today.

A short documentary about Homar Leuci, a great Italian free-diver attempting to set a new world record, a quest that reveals who he is as a man and as an athlete.

Documentary on a case of heretical worship that occurred within popular Catholicism in Serra d'Arce, in the province of Salerno, where Giuseppina Gonnella, a sort of mystical sorceress-exorcist, freed people from evil and spells and was sometimes possessed by the spirit of her nephew, who died in a car accident in the 1950s.

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This film about caving is not meant for cavers. It was made for all those people who stay outside and ask questions such as: " How can you breathe? ", “Aren’t you afraid of being trapped there?" "But...what do you do in there?"

A poor family struggles to create a small field to cultivate in the middle of a marsh, until nature takes its toll.

Developed with ten students from JFK in Monselice, drawn from their second and third year high school classes specializing in agricultural and computer science, Fuggiamo lontano (Let's Run Away) is a film based entirely on archive material that tells the story of a journey through four stories of teenagers who imagine going to the place of their dreams with a loved one by their side: their dog, their brother, their mother, and their friend. The voices of Sara, Matteo, Serena, and Alessandro intertwine with seemingly distant images, triggering a space-time collision in which feelings explode out of time.

The famous painter of “La Vucciria” analyzes the work of another artist, in this case David and his Dead Marat, emphasizing how many artists love the works of others and often draw them to study their composition, geometry, and profound beauty. This, says Guttuso, is a severe, austere painting, devoid of any rhetoric.

A young woman’s loneliness is reflected in the sea, which offers her peace from a life that is not her own. A journey that blends fairy tale and documentary cinema.

Ænigma: Lucio Fulci and the 80s takes a look into the twilight years of Lucio Fulci, one of Italian cinemas finest craftsmen; lovingly known as the 'Godfather of Gore' by his legion of fans.