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Feature length documentary on the making of 1993's Skiheads.

The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid soccer fans. The film follows them during the Las Leonas Trophy matches and shares with us their private lives, jobs, perspectives, hopes, and expectations over the course of their very busy days.

A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity.

At the end of the winter, Flaminio, a resistant shepherd, prepares materially and spiritually for the arrival of the spring through daily rituals, using the tools he built for himself: he moves and sows the ground, shears the sheep and makes a woolen suit for the new season. The communities of the valley chase the winter away with cowbells and bonfires through the ritual of Scasada dol Zenerù, which is inserted into the story of the shepherd’s life as a dreamlike element that draws on an ancestral memory. Flaminio’s sensitivity, strongly connected to Nature, allows him to perceive when it is time to call the community to act, starting the ritual.

Italian director Enzo Milioni reminisces about his career and his 1978 giallo "The Sister of Ursula".

Documentary about the actress who was Federico Fellini's wife and frequent collaborator.

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts

"Interno giorno" is a journey through cinema, via the auditions of aspiring young actors and actresses who, from the Second World War era to 1968, tried for admission into Europe’s oldest film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.

A small town in southern Italy is invested by one who will become one of the most important festival of Street Art of the world. Creating a myth through a course of improvisation, chaos and devotion.

An account of Italian film director Luchino Visconti's travels in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice (1912).

A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.

Constantin is a Moldovan young man who emigrated to Italy when he was only a child. Right before his marriage, he decides to go back to Moldova to discover more about his cultural roots and understand about his identity. He found a different country, with a danger of an impending war and where he feel as a stranger.

It tells the charm of two cities that for different reasons have made the history of one of the most “musical” states in the United States. A documentary poised between country music, blues, and history.

The film documentary by Daniele Ceccarini and Francesco Tassara tells the prolific career of the Italian director Sergio Martino.

Italian mondo documentary

Documentary about Medici con l'Africa CUAMM, one of Italy's foremost humanitarian NGOs to operate in Africa.

Valentina creates roses out of wool while her father tends to the plants, which are now wilting. They are surrounded by “MUOSters” that intrude into their lives. One day, the young woman realizes that thanks to her ability to create beauty, she is able to change her destiny.

Rosa, alone in her house in southern Italy which she built herself. Her children and grandchildren still live in Germany. This is not the way she thought it would be. Must she let go of her legacy?

A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.

Great encounter in Rome with filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky where he develops some of his major ideas on artistic creation and in particular the importance of the temporal dimension in his conception of cinema. Tarkovsky also comments on excerpts from film directors that inspired him like Kurosawa, Buñuel and Antonioni. The "prologue" at the beginning is a quote from Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev.

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

The film reconstructs the mysterious story of the 1942 Patagonia World Soccer championship, never acknowledged by the official sports organizations, and which for decades have remained shrouded in legend without the winner ever being known.

"In Search of Marcel Proust" is a 1962 literary documentary directed by the Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci. It serves as a biographical and critical journey into the world of Marcel Proust, blending readings from his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, with rare filmed testimonies from those who knew him personally, including his housekeeper Céleste Albaret and friends like Jean Cocteau and François Mauriac.

The film chronicles 2 years in the life of Amos Oz as he meets readers in Israel and around the world, working to promote the Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political history of Italy under Mussolini's leadership.

A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.

Dressed in a wedding gown, the Milanese artist Pippa Bacca leaves her native city in direction of Jerusalem. Accompanied by fellow artist Silvia Moro, both women hitchhike their way across the Balkans with a clear aspiration: opening themselves towards ‘the Other’. As their travel-performance unfolds, the artists decide to take two different paths and Pippa is later found dead in Turkey. The film embarked on a journey in quest of her memories.

Alberto Angela takes viewers on a journey through the Archaeological Park of Pompei, revealing a preview of unexplored areas and finds newly discovered by archaeologists.

A year along the Italian cableway on the Mont Blanc massif. The machine, the workers, and the users are represented as the main actors. While depicting the everyday routines and the behavior of the sightseers, the film explores the relationship between technology, tourism and mountaineering, cities and modernity, observation and image, representation and experience.

Documentary on Italian genre cinema.

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.

An invaluable imprint of the world tour of the play Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs, starring Monica Bellucci as the great opera diva. Through the chronicle of the tour, which lasted from November 2019 to January 2023, we observe and compare two different eras (the current one and the one in which Callas reached the apex of fame), while at the same time, we partake to and witness an essential dialogue between the great contemporary Italian actress and the voice that marked the 20th century: two women who, despite their different background, meet in retrospect due to their love of art.

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.

During the second half of an away game, Nick, an undercover cop, films the violent action in the stands with a microcamera. For two years, he's been tracking Griso, an arms dealer and ultra leader. When he's discovered, the camera continues recording.

The documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in sexual education in an European country; a travelling through the rooms of a museum of erotism in Germany, the window shopping of prostitutes in Amsterdams red district, a public bath for both sexes in an unhinibited Scandinavian country, the headquarters of an association that is against keeping ones virginity, a marriage ceremony of two homosexuals, and the effects of drugs on addict people.

The film recounts the "First International Festival of Poets" held on the beach at Castelporziano in 1979, intertwining the event with symbolic and disturbing events in Italy in the late 1970s, such as the proximity to the site of Pasolini's murder and an oil spill offshore coinciding with the event.

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

A documentary about the Italian singer Ben.

Achille Lauro comes back with a new documentary "Ragazzi Madre: L'iliade". Ten years of career, an iliad of battles in the streets which led Achille to his consecration, from the hopeless and violent Roman suburbs to international stages and representing Italian Music at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily La Stampa, was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of other people's lives, and journeys back to the cell where he found himself sharing the fate of the people he writes about. His words, the narrative fabric of the film, turn into action: we follow him first along the Donbass front and then on his return journey, to the place "where it all began and where it all ended:" Syria. Because "it's not about going home; it's about coming back here."

This is the story of Alessandro Cavallini, a fourteen-year-old boy who fought a long battle against stage 4 neuroblastoma. The young man was a memorable example of resilience.

The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts with history. There is a young leftist idealist, a city councilperson who is fighting real estate speculation. This is the portrait of Latina and its inhabitants. This province is certainly an anomaly, but is not so far from the present-day times that all of Italy is going through now.

A journey through history

A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues.

A newly edited 1993 interview with Italian filmmaker Massimo Pupillo.