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A seven-minute long sequence, shot with a handheld camera. In front of the camera a girl with her tongue out and eyes open.

Industrialized food systems, increasing livestock production, deforestation, climate and biodiversity emergencies, health and food crises: "Everything is connected" according to this feature documentary about the loss of balance of our One and only Earth.

One month before her wedding, a young woman discovers a sudden sexual attraction for her female cousin.

Marco and Vittoria are a couple of university students. She is tied and attracted to the elderly Professor V and accepts his dinner invitation.

The director follows the workshop "Educarsi alla libertà" (Educating oneself to freedom) by playwright and theater director Mimmo Sorrentino in the maximum security section of the Vigevano prison. The protagonists are women convicted of crimes related to organized crime.

On the phone with a rich man whose son he has kidnapped, with whom he hasn't had contact for fifteen years, the kidnapper gives him the chance to save his son's life and rebuild their relationship.

It is possible to grow the number of your own followers in an "ethical" way? Can you become a "Good Influencer"?

Victoria Fiore’s astonishing feature documentary debut is a surreal journey of a young boy’s final days of freedom before he is taken away from his family.

A delivery man has to deliver a package to an island, but when he arrives on the spot he is forced to deal with a disturbing and threatening scenario, a place populated by an ambiguous and alienated humanity. Nevertheless, the delivery man will do everything to get the job done, prompted by the incessant alarm coming from the technological device he wears on his wrist, ready to remind him that "the delivery is late".

During their office break, Rich and his colleagues joke about a new female colleague by commenting on some of her photos with macho allusions and jokes. A pink smoke bomb launched by some feminist protesters enters the office window and hits Rich, who is thus catapulted into a deep and hellish dream.

A mother and daughter in a quiet city flat. The sound of a coffee machine marks the passing of time on a quiet evening. Everything seems normal - but it is only the beginning and afterwards nothing will be the same as before. Open your eyes and go.

"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.

Interview with Peter Del Monte conducted by Luca Guadagnino.

"La Biennale di Venezia: il cinema al tempo del Covid" is a video diary, produced by the Venice Biennale in collaboration with Rai Cinema and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, of what went on "backstage" at the 2020 Venice Film Festival, held under the restrictions imposed by the safety protocols required by the covid-19 pandemic.

A day like any other, Verona. Anna, 25, a university student, spends her day studying and doing Catholic volunteer work in a soup kitchen. In the evening she works as a rider, a chore like any other, to supplement a bit. In a factory in the suburbs, Bruno is finishing his shift as a metalworker, even today passed to suffer the harassment of his boss. He can't wait to meet up with his friends, all militant far-right, to hang out, drink, have fun. Even Carlo, a second generation immigrant, and his girlfriend Diana, a university student and political activist, after a day at home, decide to go out for a walk downtown. The four meet, despite themselves, at Porta Leoni.

The true story of a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease. A cathartic journey through the loss of self.

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.

Iraqi Kurdistan. What happens to war zones after the lights go out? Where do their children go? The last war against Isis left 1.6 million people in need. Half of them are under the age of 18. Disordered elements of a post-traumatic stress syndrome demand to get away from the tragedies of war. It's a frenetic, explosive and totally unexpected euphoria, the struggle to finally find a normal life made of simple things. War is Over is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and its enduring hopes.

Gaia sells her body over the internet. After a live show, something sinister threatens her integrity.

A destructive sequence with infinite consequences.

Bruno is a teenager who makes the decision to participate to his high school's talent show with an out of ordinary performance. Moments before the show, his choice turns out to be more difficult than expected.

What would happen if everything stopped? If the engine gears of the economy jammed for good? The Japanese island of Ikeshima is a place that seems to be ahead of its time, showing us a possible future. The few remaining inhabitants live in a surreal setting, clinging firmly to a normality that seems however to escape them. A dreamlike journey, which forces us to think about our relationship with the planet but also about social isolation and loneliness.

THE ZONE At age 50 from the fall of a mysterious and unidentified object, there are many urban legends and myths about the Zone, the area of 10 square kilometers located in northern Italy, from which no one has ever been back: no man, no machine, no robot. Inside the Zone every instrument instantly ceases to function and every attempt to solve the mysteries has failed miserably. No technological and biological creature has been able to find out what lies within it. On this important anniversary, 4 people unknown to each other are about to access to the Zone, accompanied by a guide able to circumvent the security systems.

"L'impresario delle Canarie" is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Pietro Metastasio, written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of his opera seria "Didone abbandonata". Dorina, an opera singer, waits impatiently for the visit of a foreign impresario, Nibbio.

Two friends looking for a missing girl.

Ophelia is 92 years old, and her foggy memories continue to fade. The only way to slow down the unstoppable action of time is to document the present and rediscover the past in old Super 8s.

A study on surveillance videos showing the last sighting of missing people. The film is structured as a long walk through the city in which the exit from the scene corresponds to the total disappearance of the person. Sometimes the subject is more evident, other times it mingles in the crowd or appears in a few pixels in the distance. The edges of the picture are also the limits of the image, which can be easily crossed but which, in the case of these videos, become openings to the unknown.

Noyz Narcos, born Emanuele Frasca, the most important rapper ever to come out of Rome. The author of unforgettable bars and street hits that become gold records. But also the eye behind the camera of hundreds of Mini dv cassettes, published for the first time, with which he documented his artistic career spanning over 20 years.

Trek IT tells the story of Italian Star Trek fans. The documentary chronicles how a small group of friends grew and went on to launch magazines, conventions attended by thousands of people, and much more.

L’Isola del Cinema Festival visited Silvano Agosti in his historic hall in the Prati district of Rome. The meeting with the author, director, poet and philosopher, famous in the artistic world for his stubborn independence, with the young writer Stefano Scanu, gave rise to a long conversation about cinema, about life, about our future, about some of his films chosen as a tribute to the festival. This short film acquires a further value due to the sad coincidence of the definitive closure of the Azzurro Scipioni theatre a few days later, a mourning for all passionate and romantic Romans.

Emma is a young woman who's yet to find herself. In the meantime, she has to deal with the high expectations that society has set for women.

Summering with his mother in his grandma’s small village, five-year-old Giulio spends time in front of the house while the other children play in town in the alleys. Jokingly mistaking the daily behavior of an elderly neighbor, Giulio decides to imitate him, leading him to make unexpected new discoveries and friends.

Imola, April 29, 1994: Ayrton Senna is at zero points in the Drivers' World Championship. In his team Team, Williams, someone is already beginning to be perplexed. Perhaps, believing that it is no longer the Ayrton Senna that everyone knows. The Brazilian had understood these sensations, presenting himself at Imola with the utmost determination of his career. The Documentary traces the three days that changed the future of Formula 1 forever, having the Senna Judge and the mechanic who dismantled Ayrton's crashed car speak for the first time, inside a hangar at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack.

Thousands of years after the extinction of the human race on Earth, an astronaut named Gladia lands on the now uninhabited planet. Gladia comes from a distant planet where the last inhabitants of Earth found refuge, before forgetting their home planet forever. She finds an inhabitant, a robot that has inherited all of man's knowledge to evolve and develop consciousness. The two will first fight each other but then realize that they are more similar than they thought.