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Bologna I Love You - Quattro passi nella storia
Chiffonnette
The life of Attila the Hun told in six chapters.
Attila
The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is fond of music and mathematics, with whom he becomes close friends. Alfred goes to Switzerland, but one day he receives an anguished letter from the boy and rushes back to Florence where he learns some terrible news.
The Little Archimedes
His Home
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.
Romantic Guide to Lost Places
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
The Facts of Murder
Vita nova
After spending most of his life being defeated by his rival Ottone, meek Biagio tries to commit suicide – but in the hereafter he's offered a chance to come back to life for a week as Dennis, Ottone's trusted business partner.
Mi rifaccio vivo
Dissidia
Stanotte a Napoli
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
Woman of the River
A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it’s a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher invites him to sit, he was waiting for him. He is dark skinned. He comes from Mali. Well dressed, serene, ready for the “game” that the teacher is playing. It’s a puzzle game where one wins when completing a crossword. But there is a variable that makes this game impossible: guessing the solutions before the question is made. Nevertheless, the young man finishes the game. Or almost…
Pastime
Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist. Inside his empty armor is an echoing voice that reverberates through the metal. Nevertheless, he serves the army of a Christian king out of goodwill and faith in the holy cause.
The Nonexistent Knight
Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
Faust and the Devil
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Singing Café
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
House of Pleasure for Women
A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.
Quando la coppia scoppia
Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the meaning of an ancient parchment. The friends must free Princess Aura and bring peace back to the land in this high quality animated feature.
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Habitat
A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.
Ho ritrovato mio figlio
The Lunes are the guardians of Lasifer's magical sphere, which has always been suspended in the pyramid thanks to the energy of the moonlight. Woe betide if the moonlight were to fail: the sphere would fall, bringing terrible calamities upon the earth.
I Lunes e la sfera di Lasifer
A young busker goes around in Milan with his saxophone, whereby he always plays the same tune and he experiences surrealistic adventures throughout the big city. Meanwhile, a wealthy woman from the local "jet set" falls in love with him.
Saxofone
A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Johnny Banco
A young man, Andrea, from the bourgeoisie of Lugano, with power in high finance, falls in love with a beautiful pianist, Antonia. Antonia leaves his fabulous career for the love she feels for him. Soon the beautiful women leads him in a growing state of jealousy which leads to a murderous obsession. The young man tells his passion to an unknown, in an airport while waiting for a flight.
What Is Love?
1820s Naples: On his death bed, King Ferdinando I tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by recounting his youth, when he was allowed a life of frivolity. However, then he was obliged to marry Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary Theresa, in a political convention: unexpectedly, they became happy lovers, until court power games divide them, and a life-changing historical season arrived.
Ferdinando and Carolina
Alessio is a thirteen-year-old boy affected by Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD). Running away from home, he takes shelter in a place far from the city and the people: nature is the safest heaven.
Bone
In the 14th century, Genoa was torn apart by strife between the patricians and the plebeians. The sailor Simon Boccanegra and his lover Maria Fiesco bore the brunt of these internal conflicts: Maria’s father was none other than the city’s doge, the patrician Jacopo Fiesco. When he learnt that Maria had borne Simon a child, he placed his daughter under house arrest. The two lovers had entrusted their daughter to an elderly servant, but she died, and the child mysteriously disappeared. ‘Simon Boccanegra’ is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on a play by Antonio García Gutiérrez. The first version premiered on 12 March 1857 at La Fenice in Venice. A second version, with a libretto revised by Arrigo Boito, premiered 24 years later, on 24 March 1881, at La Scala in Milan. From the box set of 27 Verdi operas, “Tutto Verdi”. Recorded live at the Teatro Regio in Parma on 23, 25 and 28 March 2010.
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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.
The Bride
Inspired by a true story, the film begins with the arrest of a boy and a girl (Antonio and Elena) both in shock and stoned by a mix of drugs and alcohol. The two guys are admitted to hospital where they both confess the murder of their friend Angela. A brutal murder and devoid of logic that will lead investigators to suspect that the two killers were not alone. Investigators soon discover a reality completely unknown to them: that of Satanism.
In Nomine Satan
Found footage anti-war film comprising film documents of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian army on the Alpine front, and from first generation picture material by war-film pioneer Luca Comerio.
On the Heights All Is Peace
Maria lives with her 18-year-old sister, Caterina in a small apartment, tutors her at home, lets her out only for dance classes. Yet Maria sees no reason to hide her work as a prostitute from her sister. Men come in and out of the apartment constantly, and Caterina turns up the volume on her music to drown out the sounds from the next room. The film soon reveals that the sisters are in love with each other, a situation that cannot stand, but exactly what prompts the characters' behavior is rarely clear. Soon after Caterina's belated discovery of her heterosexuality, she is invited into the bedroom with Maria and a client.
Open My Heart
Therapist Olga runs an exclusive therapeutic community for people deeply marked by trauma in a remote countryside farmhouse. By her side is her son Lorenzo, fragile and troubled, bound to her by a deeply complex and intimate relationship, The arrival of enigmatic Tommaso, who seems to know long-buried and unspeakable secrets, disrupts the group’s fragile balance and profoundly undermines the bond between mother and son. As manipulation and guilt intensify, the line between healing and madness becomes increasingly blurred, leading to an inevitable reckoning.
Another Mother
An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there’s not going to be a family Christmas this year, she insists on everyone making it out for Christmas in August. Claire, in collusion with her grandfather, plan activities that are designed to re-unite her parents.
A Sudden Case of Christmas
The Salzburg Story
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.
The Viscount
Tartuca is the intimate and heartbreaking story of the bond between Alice, a fifteen-year-old girl, and her Congolese nanny, Lelo. After more than ten years spent in a suffocating bourgeois family unable to express love, Lelo decides to quit her job. Their separation opens a crack that reveals the family's emotional dysfunctions and the silent need for freedom, care, and genuine affection. It is a story of separation, but also of revelation: when healthy love becomes the only way out.
Tartuca
In the year 2037, a series of encrypted video journals begin surfacing across a collapsed digital network, documenting the final days before an unexplained global blackout changed civilization forever. As governments fall silent and entire cities disappear offline, a small group of survivors attempts to uncover the truth behind a classified experiment that may have triggered humanity’s downfall.
Cronache 2037
Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth.
The Blue Fleet
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
Devil's Ransom
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?
Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Straniero
In the flow of an energy and of a dream, an intermittent voice wanders in search of itself. Among mountains, accumulations, waterfalls, feral and human presences, borders and thresholds, suspended between a real world and a memorial, rarefied one, the firefly tries to recognize itself and to rediscover its own essence in a gaze
La Lucciola
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Web of the Spider
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Henry IV
Live from Bologna, a concert featuring the finalists of the 29th International Composition Competition, held in memory of the victims of all massacres. Maestro J. Santonja conducts the Teatro Comunale Orchestra in a performance of the three finalist pieces. This will be followed by G. Verdi’s Requiem Mass, conducted by Maestro D. Renzetti.
Concerto per il 2 agosto 2023
What should cinema be about? 27 years after its release, Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars Von Trier, offers an answer that remains stunning. Francesco M. P. Maccarone pays him homage in this short film, inspired by the style of the groundbreaking Danish director. With Clara Elig.
entre les vagues (un hommage)
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
We Free Kings
TUTTO BENE
Considerations on collage as a cognitive act in artists’ cinema. A pedagogical film adrift: 35mm photographs and other materials collected over the last fifteen years by artist Stefano Miraglia meet a text written by Baptiste Jopeck and the voice of Margaux Guillemard.
Collage
Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon.
The Kiss
An intense and passionate insight into the world of Atalanta, which comes about during the most important and decisive week: the impossible clash with the "invincibles" of Leverkusen.
Atalanta - Una vita da Dea
Rudi - Il Film
Luigi is a kid growing up in a socio-economically deprived family environment. He began dealing with Angelo, an non suspicious policeman, who seems to show a paternal attitude towards him, but he really has an ulterior motive turbid... He ends up abusing him. When Luigi tries to tell his mother what is happening, she does not want to believe him, his uncle gives helps. Luigi discovers his uncle had experienced the same kind of abuse.
Senza amore
Ce pensa mammà
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Carlo breaks up with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the house of Gigi and Alice Fumagalli, who has just left her job to be a homewife without telling her husband.
Finalmente a casa
Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...