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From Rome's Parco della Musica auditorium, the Orchestra and Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform: A Tribute to the Melodramas of Bellini and Donizetti.

Ines and Rafik are twenty years old and have been working for ten. They have recently lived in the Parisian suburbs, have Tunisian origins but grew up in Sicily: their existence is a precarious movement of interruptions, changes and humiliations. In the house, one is the mirror of the other; here, time stops and the city becomes more distant. When I arrive, they proudly show me the way home: Rue Garibaldi.

Through the memory of the marble quarrymen, the inhabitants of the mountains, collectors and family members, the short film explores the mystery of the life and works of the Tuscan artist Filippo Dobrilla.

Something from a year that never existed.

A border inspection at Ventimiglia, between Italy and France, turns into a fantastical fairy tale narrated by a chorus of frogs, wherein a scientist experiments with rejuvenation techniques using monkey testicles. Dr. Voronoff was a real person, and was world-famous in the 1920s. His villa stands on the border where migrants try to cross. But it is as if they do not exist.

After twenty years of international competitions, the three times Ice Climbing World Champion Angelika Rainer is at a crossroad in her career. 'My upside down world', the first biopic documentary about the Italian climber's personal and professional life, will follow Angelika's path to self-discovery, as the first woman of her family to be fully in charge of her freedom and destiny.

The night is incoming and a couple sneaks into a sinister and peculiar villa moved by feelings of adventure and transgression. Among the ancient and unsettling statues, a blood-thirsty, mysterious figure awaits them.

At a time when everything has been stopped by the pandemic, reality seems to be infinitely dilated, forcing the protagonists of this film to find new tools to cope with everyday life. Taking inspiration from a lucid dream and a carefully studied turtle, Costanza decides to follow her girlfriend on an archaeological campaign on the island of Ustica. The first lockdown will force the couple to postpone their planned meeting and to analyse with different eyes the existential and physical emptiness, sanctioned by the new historical course. Through the excavations and the camera, we witness an attempt to find deeper connections with the past and the place of origin. A semi-fable about time and history, observed through the eyes of impatience.

A summer camp, a judo dojo, a theater workshop in a contemporary art museum. Relations between groups of children and adolescents and their adult guides; teaching methods and educational practices; materials and symbolic rules; relationships between the form of places and behaviors; the reverberation of what is learned in everyone's daily lives. An old super-eight projector, faded images on the wall, a puppet theater. The relationship between pupil and teacher, the transmission of knowledge, the experiences of a past that is only apparently distant in Naples, a city where school has never been the primary source of learning, nor has played a significant role in learning how to live.

The protagonist is called Daphne, a young woman determined to escape from the metropolitan greyness and its ghosts, to go for a run in the green among the woods. She chooses the Abruzzo region, which meets her expectations above all from a naturalistic point of view, but during an excursion she ends up getting lost in the woods of the Majella. From here starts the story of how you try to survive, completely alone, until the experience becomes something else for her, a moment of transformation and catharsis, triggered by the mythical and spiritual inspiration of the nature she is encountering, and it will forever change the way you perceive yourself and the world.

Sixty percent of our body is made up of water and we also come from the water in the womb. An elderly woman dives into the sea and recovers her deepest 'I': herself as a child.

It tells the story of Maryam (Duné Medros), a young Iranian director intent on shooting a documentary focusing on Anna (Paola Toscano), a woman who spends her life in the Roman alleys.

A female director explores the connection between the life and work of Federico Fellini and Jungian analytical psychology. Through Fellini's The Book of Dreams and other autobiographical texts, she weaves together the fragments of a dialogue between Fellini's feminine interior voice, the Anima, and the shadow of his unconscious, documenting Fellini's inner quest through the dark parts of his psyche.

A documentary 'on the road' with Christian, who has lost his pregnant girlfriend and decides to raise money for the scientific research against Cystic Fibrosis, and Davide, director of the movie and affected by the same disease. Loss and friendship as main themes of a long journey, walking side by side.

Elia, a young dreamer passionate about photography, while wandering around Milan to take pictures, runs into Andrea, a girl in a love crisis. The two will meet and Andrea will make Elia live the dream of a love affair, which is marked, however, by a rude awakening with a consequent return to reality.

A documentary about Raffaello.

Piave is consider as sacred river to Italy. The drammatic event of the war and the Vajont disaster left a permanent mark on Italian history. Along the path, past and present, sacred and profane coexist, a portrait of the river and the complex events of its inhabitants.

There are living people who can communicate directly with the dead by interacting with them. Reversal into its opposite and vice versa without solution of continuity. Memory and reversal are the keys to reading the film. A labyrinth that places an enigma at its center. enigma is revealed as the ball of memory unravels.

Tom's life changes when his soulmate leaves him. In a world where loneliness is a disease, meeting Alex could be Tom's way to find a cure.

In front of a closed restaurant there are three waiters in their forties. The restaurant has been closed since a week, but they haven't been paid for months and can't wait any longer. The owner has given them an appointment to pay a part, but he is late.

Enea and Maria have been living together for many years in their university apartment but find that their love is now just habit. The two are unable to resolve their relationship, so Enea begins an escape path from his pain by trying to commit suicide. An old man, searching for his own answers, will ask him why he decided to die.

A documentary about Tintoretto.

This documentary follows the Fort Apache Theatre Company through one year of intense work. All the members of Fort Apache have participated to the theatre workshops that were held at Rebibbia (the primary jail in Rome), and are now able to pursue their new passion for acting even outside of prison. Now, after many years of hard work and dedication, these ex-convicts are now part of the Fort Apache "family" under the lead of Valentina Esposito, who is the founder of the company as well as the screenwriter and director of all the plays.

Inspired by the true story of Stefano Lotumolo. The film narrates the ascent of a photographer who wants to achieve his dream: to communicate the beauty and importance of diversity to the world.

Matilde can't fall asleep. There's someone inside her closet. In a long night of terror, Matilde will have to face her monsters.

A comet brings water to a planet on a remote corner of the universe.

Gabriel is about to receive his education on how to get Christian, the boy he desires and is an aficionado of Asiatic BL which is being taught to him by a sensei who is his conscience and at one point references Star Wars.

Five years of work, a one-hour movie, two zines with more than a hundred coloured pages. Hand screen-printed cover, 350 numbered copies. These are the numbers of URAGANO NEGLI OCCHI, a true story (self)built in the sweaty and smoky corners of the illegal Milan of occupations and hardcore punk concerts. Dozens of voices, interviews, flyers, illustrations and photographs describe a heterogeneous community of individuals, squats and collectives that in recent years has experienced an explosion of vitality, moving with enthusiasm and determination in the contradictions of the metropolitan city of Milan, affirming an unprecedented approach to Do It Yourself practices. An entirely self-produced narrative and visual project, conceived, developed and finalized in our spare time, with a lot of unexpected events in between.

The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed human relationships. Archive material, 360° footage and artificially generated images are used to create a synaesthetic essay film about loneliness, insecurity and the increasing shift of our everyday life into the digital realm. Dystopic and anonymous stories merge in a collage of the disturbing social and political phenomena of our time.

A 25 year old boy is trying to find explanations between mysteries and tragic events that happened in the past when suddenly a strange written sheet appears between the books and he is forced to play the game "The Hangman" with a mysterious presence.

In Sicily, a small farming village survived in the area of Marineo, just 30 kilometres from Palermo. Over the course of the four seasons, life and traditions adapt to the changing crops and climates. This documentary tells the story of the people there who, with the crisis in cereal production and milk cow raising, are seeking to maintain the traditions of their ancestors, their fathers and grandparents. They are still using age-old tools to work the land and raise animal species that are disappearing due to industrial breeding.

On the beach where ancient poetry was saved with all its creatures, a romantic artist tries to convince the bourgeois public of the timelessness of the past.

A young man wakes up, goes to work, comes home, and goes to sleep.

Salvo has to walk through the deserted streets of his town in the middle of the night to find out what is stopping him from leaving

Sergeant Glenn Stark has been entrusted with a very specific mission: to eliminate the last remaining zombie in the world, making sure to record everything on camera so that he can leave behind a document of extraordinary importance for posterity. A seemingly simple goal, but one that will force him to confront himself and the true nature and meaning of the infected.

On a romantic sunny afternoon, a loving couple decides to spend time in the peaceful city park to create a painting together.

Robert Peroni founds The Red House, a refuge that helps the Inuit population.

Sainey will go blind in a few years due to a degenerative disease. He is determined to learn as many things as possible to prepare himself to live in the dark.

Najib, Manu and Jörg have been living in Berlin for many years and are still struggling with the nature of the city. While wandering around Kreuzberg at dawn, a curious camera follows the characters in their (un) likely encounters. A chaotic bubble of different perspectives, destinies, languages and cultures nevertheless float into the everyday life of Berlin at the edge of night and day.

The divine comedy from the point of view of Beatrice. How Dante, by the grace of Beatrice, will travel through all of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven where he will encounter the Supreme Being.

Red shoes tells the story of the activist Daniela Falanga, born Raffaele, first son of a Neapolitan Mafia boss. Her father is currently serving a life sentence in Rome for multiple homicides. Daniela's journey to become who she is now has been a struggle, against his criminal family and a sexist society. She is now the first trans woman to be President of Arcigay Naples and fights for LGBT rights. She has a boyfriend who is a transgender boy, Ilario, and they want to have a baby of their own.