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In a magic realistic world, troubled young Bernard seeks the closeness of his father Carlos, who refuses a life-saving operation. His approaching death causes Bernard to reevaluate his environment and himself.

The film was created in relation to a musical improvisation project in which Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, and Massimo Carrano participated. The work is based on abstract animations made with various techniques directly on 35mm cinema film that are interspersed with live action sections that creatively document the stages of the jam session.

Luca is a sweet and intelligent boy who tries to grow up and survive in a degraded family situation. His brutal father wants him to be more masculine. Only at his neighbors Luigi and Pietro's house, Luca feels appreciated. Will he be able to maintain his beautiful soul in a dark and limiting reality?

The first film of the trilogy dedicated to Palmaria island from the album The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

On the occasion of Christmas 2025, from the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, accompanied by the Guido Chigi Saracini Choir of Siena Cathedral.

Nanà, a slightly eccentric girl, spends her time investigating myths and unsolved cases in her town. One day, she discovers a symbol in the newspaper: a hand making the sign of the horns, and decides to follow the trail of the witch of the “ciorta,” who brings good or bad luck. Marking each discovery in her red notebook, she notices that she is being followed.

For eight years, Ferdinando has stopped speaking with people. In the solitude of his Milan apartment, he cooks, practices singing, and does an improbable form of gymnastics. He is paid to keep company to Genziana, a wealthy and cultured lady, who needs to connect with a deep soul akin to her own. Ferdinando reads her passages of literature. She narrates the happy fragments of her life, now vanished: she is a widow, her children are far away, the house is empty and silent. In his free time, Ferdinando visits modernist architecture and spiritual places. His isolation is interrupted by calls from Domenico, an eccentric who rambles about lofty subjects, aware that he cannot break his friend's mutism.

Stella, a former film star now in decline, proposes a surrogate pregnancy with Monica to her son Giovanni and his husband, Jonathan. Stella hides behind this proposal the plan to make a comeback.

Iris is a teenager like any other, but she has been hiding a disturbing ability since childhood: every time she begins to care about someone, that person dies. For this reason, her mother takes her to an isolated house in the countryside, so she can no longer hurt anyone. As Iris grows up and becomes aware of her condition, the help of Zaìra proves essential—a mysterious woman who seems to live on the other side of the woods and who will become her mentor.

Legendary opera house, La Scala is more than just a stage— it’s a dream factory. And this year, over the course of four intensive months, 900 people will work relentlessly to incarnate Verdi’s opera masterpiece, ‘‘The Force of Destiny”. Under the masterful eyes of director Léo Muscato, we will follow set designer Federica Parolini, as her sketches evolve into towering architectural marvels crafted by dedicated artisans. In the costume workshop, Silvia Peroni and her team weave magic with fabric and thread through their expert hands. Then, a stellar international cast of virtuosos arrives in Milan, ready to fill La Scala’s hallowed halls with their soaring voices. But with the clock ticking, and expectations going through the roof, tensions unfold like an opera of its own. As Milan holds its breath for the legendary Prima on the 7th of December, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Will they be ready in time for curtain rise?

The history of the Pilastro district begins in the '60s, with some council houses a few miles from the center of Bologna, built to meet the demand for housing for the growing number of immigrants in the post-war period. Under the shadow of the Virgolone, one of the largest residential buildings in the city, grows a neighborhood with almost 7000 inhabitants, often rising at the center of media attention for its crime sagas. Through the history of a neighborhood and its inhabitants, the film explores the relationship between city spaces and daily experiences, in a context where challenges and contradictions in urban development are evident.

Somewhere in time, in a nameless city, Mandillä (25) lives with Violetta (20), with whom he is madly in love. Mandillä suffers from insomnia and memory loss. At night, he collects debts for an unspecified criminal organization, an activity of which Violetta is unaware. The fragile balance of Mandillä's life is further jeopardized when one night he finds himself forced to collect debts from someone very close to Violetta...

Noemi is about to leave her hometown and she’s spending the last days of summer with Erica, her best friend. Their bond grows closer, and with the help of two strange confidants, they find the courage to make a d

De Gregori's last concert that flopped really hard.

In Lignan, a village of few souls in the Saint-Barthelemy Valley in the Aosta Valley, an Astronomical Observatory scans the skies every night. Like a bell tower or a lighthouse, the large telescope marks the time of the small mountain community. In autumn, the astrophysicist Paolo Calcidese moved into the structure as the sole custodian and inhabitant to carry out his scientific research and experiment with new technologies. Due to a technical accident, however, he will be forced to put aside the stars and solitude to dedicate himself to other forms of life not yet considered: human beings.

Tommaso and Luna crossed paths for just a few months, changing each other forever. She now studies whales in Patagonia, while he makes a living from his music. Two years later, on a late summer night, they meet by chance in a farmhouse suspended in time, discovering that their bond has never faded.

Every morning Roberto takes his son Gabriele to school. After giving him money for his snack, he says goodbye and leaves. Unbeknownst to his father, every day the boy gives up his snack and gives the money to Giobbe, a homeless man who lives on a bench in front of his school.

Paris, 1794. The crazy misadventures of the gay baronet Jean-Claude continue, amid the harassment of his despotic Mother and Aunt Genoveffa, who hatch a plan to kill him and get rid of Wonder Woman. This film was specially edited for the 11th edition of 'Il Cinema in Piazza', in Rome, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famous comedy series, bringing together the best episodes from the tenth to the thirteenth season.

Manuela chats online with a stranger, a man with a fetish for women in wheelchairs like her. After six years of anonymity on his part, she decides to meet him.

One evening, Alma comes home rather upset. She has experienced what happens to many teenagers in life: betrayal. The boy she is dating, Davide, who is a few years older than her, has cheated on her. Lucio and Anna Maria, Alma's parents, immediately take their daughter's side, trying to convince her that in the end it is for the best. Until Alma confesses that she has done something a little risky.

BORDERS ARE THRESHOLD LANDS To cross one is to stand at the dawn and at the dusk of a journey; is doubt and echo of a past that still clings to the skin. The two protagonists know this well, suspended in the weighty everydayness of transformation on the Italian-Slovenian border, an eternal place of travels and conflicts

An Italian cruise ship carrying passengers from all over the world is hijacked off the coast of Egypt by a Palestinian commando unit. It is the beginning of a three-day ordeal in 1985 that culminates in the murder of an American hostage and an armed clash between two NATO allies to capture his killers.

The film tells of a penniless young man who is forced to pretend to be a cancer patient in order not to be evicted from his house. The encounter with Claudia, a terminally ill girl, forces him to confront his castle of lies.

After many years, the two siblings Leo and Sara reunite for a final farewell dinner at the old family restaurant. One last chance to reflect on past memories before the restaurant is sold and closed for good.

Giulia Spizzichino, a Roman Jew marked by the Nazi extermination of her family, must face the ghosts of her past half a century later, when Erich Priebke, the perpetrator of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, is tracked down in Argentina.

A group of workers from the port of Genoa, organized under the autonomous acronym C.A.L.P. (Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori Portuali). They gather in an assembly to discuss the difficulties in dealing with the union, to denounce the passage of ships transporting weapons and explosives destined for war zones, and to reflect on the need to build networks and incorporate an intersectional approach into their political actions. Portuali is a film that tells the story of work and the union world from the inside, as well as the various forms of activism, laying the groundwork for a new narrative of class struggle.

As a boy, the director was sure about it: his uncle Massimo and Lucio Dalla were the same person. In the film he explores that impossible similarity, complicated and remarkable, which helped him understand his uncle’s disability. As he observes his daily life, Lucio Dalla comes back, singing of loneliness, anger, and freedom.

It’s a documentary about the life os a famous italian driver, who sadly passed away on the track.

You are in a bedroom observing a man quietly sleeping in his bed. His TV turns on and a strange figure shows up.

Little Cupid has the key that allows him to travel in dreams. When night falls, he visits young Chloé, who wakes up with a shiver. Without a doubt, this strange visit causes her to lose control of her body, which only seeks to experiment on its own.

Michele, a young boy, while playing football with a friend, stumbles upon a remarkable encounter.

Perennially hungry for life, Ferdinando Scianna is now a gentleman in his eighties, with a vibrant mind full of incredible stories. He even has had a few brushes with death. Being let into his life means retracing an existence marked by encounters with some of the giants of twentieth-century culture, interwoven with friendships and questions about the meaning of photography as a practice, the significance that producing images can still have today.

Massimo Bacigalupo, in his house in Rapallo, talks about his cinema, which passed through the festivals of the FEDIC circles and then in the lively and active Rome at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. Massimo talks about his films and recalls his encounters with Mekas and Markopoulos, the fundamental one with Tonino De Bernardi, Pia Epremian and the Turin group, the vicissitudes of independent cinema in Italy and the relationship with the USA.

A man, an actor. The man calls himself Zorro — he lives on the streets, dances at night, and spends his days following “normal” people to expose their hypocrisy and insecurity. And the actor? The actor is also a drifter, living like a wanderer, and night after night, theater after theater, the man’s words end up infecting his psyche — and that of those who listen, seated in the audience. The new work by Castellitto, ironically suspended between theater and life.

Confessions to AI or himself? Teo seeks the courage to come out, but does artificial intelligence know the way to freedom?

Trenque Lauquen's Ezequiel believes he is keeping on searching for Laura in the Argentine pampas, but the landscape confuses and disorients him, becoming increasingly jagged and disconnected: a radio that cannot definitively tune into a station. Editing cuts swallow up her world, bringing to the surface an archipelago of cinematic universes (from L’avventura to Stromboli and La terra trema), and they generate a fata morgana, capable of shortening distances between pampas and Mediterranean landscapes, between real and fictional vision, between the adult’s disorientation and the childhood’s innate and hilarious wisdom. Cinema as the art of disappearance that always leaves a trace, yet another indelible trace of one of the most important contemporary filmmakers.

As winter approaches and the seasonal drought hits his small business, Massimo - a lifelong farmer living with his 90-year-old mother on Villa Sirena’s farm - discovers in the newly found free time an opportunity to spend time with his family.

The documentary will feature interviews with contemporary theorists and practitioners who will share their insights on the concept of a chair.

The protagonist grapples with the void left by an important person, discovering that the pain does not fade away, but transforms into something she must learn to live with. Suspended between dream and reality, she feels the weight of an absence that, though invisible, is intense and palpable.