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A retired bricklayer wants his grandson, who lives hundreds of miles away, to stay with him. Will he convince the young man despite the lack of opportunities in the country?

After twelve years of disqualification for cocaine use, former Florentine prodigy Francesco Flachi returns to play - at forty-seven - in a team from his hometown.

Riccardo Calimani, writer and historian, during a walk in the Venice ghetto, encounters two teenagers to whom he recounts the story of his parents in a journey through time across the years of Fascism and the Shoah. The two young people on a trip to the lagoon listen today to the experiences of two very young people who, many years earlier, were forced to flee their city like leaves in the wind in order to save their lives.

Era Roma is about a magic moment in the city’s history – from 1963, with the founding of Gruppo ’63, and 1979, when the Poets’ Festival was held at Castelporziano – when the Italian capital exerted a magnetic pull on artists who were independent, underground, and freewheeling. It would not come around again. They were artists who sought each other out and used politics to engage with society and change lives, in a season that started with the post-war economic boom and ended in a reaction against the upheaval of the 1968 protests. Stock footage, film clips, and interviews with the leading figures of the day, all collected over the years, make Era Roma the distillation of an amazing, turbulent era when the arts blurred the borders with real life and tried to turn reality into a work of art.

The adventure of 12 autistic youngsters and their psychiatrist who walk 200 kilometers along the via Francigena. We will delve into their stories, to tear apart the prejudices that wrongly surround them.

Several European underground directors turn the ancient rules of mankind inside out in this shocking and gore-soaked interpretation of God's laws for man from the Bible. The world is ending, and the 10 commandments are dying.

Opera in three acts (1926) New Production! Celebrated contemporary artist Ai Weiwei makes his operatic debut with a new reading of Puccini’s fairy tale of misdirected love, exile and rule by decree. It’s a fitting project for Weiwei, famous for geopolitical installations, sculptures and photography that question authority and champion human rights and expression. From the ominous opening five notes, the score plunges audiences into an uncertain, violent world, seeped in bloodshed and despotism, where the cruel, seductive princess, Turandot (Ukrainian soprano Oksana Dyka), is pursued by a brave suitor (American tenor Michael Fabiano, in a role debut). This staging is performed without the ending added by Puccini's contemporary, Franco Alfano. The brilliant Oksana Lyniv conducts.

An experimental short analog horror story with lovecraftian vibes, inspired by the Jonestown Massacre true story.

A film commissioned by architects Vitangelo Ardito and Nicoletta Faccitondo (Polytechnic University of Bari) as a companion piece to the book 'Umberto Riva. Perciò è sempre una sorpresa - 19 conversazioni'.

"Peso morto" is a 2022 documentary film, directed by Francesco Del Grosso. The work deals with the experience of Angelo Massaro who, due to a judicial error, spent twenty-one years in prison unjustly, before being found innocent and acquitted for a murder he never committed.

Ascanio's lonely life goes unstable when he accepts to meet an attractive man known on a gay dating app.

The city of Vukovar, covered during the 90’s with rubble and corpses crammed on the streets, today is a controversial place of memory and symbol of the sufferings for Croatia’s independence. The film reflects on the silence of history.

Gabriele is faced with a choice, to go and live in another city with his boyfriend Giorgio, and face his fears, or remain tied to his reality that is wearing him down.

Trapped in a transparent cage, four characters perform their empty, ritualistic actions, staging an endless hunt, synonymous with feelings that are now dead. Michele, the puppet son of a declining nobility, manipulates and commands his fictitious bourgeois friends, Ettore and Leo, to avenge the love of Mariagrazia, which has now faded away. In this eternal hunt, each character pursues their own authentic existence, which eludes them with terrifying ease. Thus, their entire lives become empty, similar to that of objects. Only a cruel glimmer of honesty can shake the golden cage, whose walls have been too thick to be demolished until now.

The Talafì is a fishing boat that cannot fish. A place crushed by the unstoppable noise of its engine, of its work. On board, three sailors seek space for their desires. But on the Talafì, humanity does not exist, there are only those who abuse and those who are abused.

From beneath the surface of the water, memories of an unspoken past emerge. There are bonds that leave an eternal trace. To find meaning, Alex has to go home.

In Wolof, ‘Goor-Jigeen’ means male/female, by generalization ‘gay’ and akin to an insult. In Senegal, being homosexual is punishable by law and could mean five years of imprisonment. This documentary tells the story of people for whom the journey to Europe is the only choice.

On the night of April 10, 1991, off the coast of Livorno, the ferry Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker. 140 people died, and Captain Ugo Chessa was blamed. For 31 years, his children have been fighting to reveal the truth and erase years of lies.

A guide to learn about the new italian musical languages loved by the new generations. An "explanation" given by the artists themselves regarding concepts embedded in their songs that turns the spotlight on the importance of dialogue on themes such as love, death, sex, success, nostalgia, democracy and money.

For the aesthetic elegance of digital animation with which he infuses plasticity and three-dimensionality to Pasolini's faces, glimpses and shots accompanied by the imaginative lyricism of the virtuosic cinema of his poetic texts and his prose.

A witch is killed and wrapped in a shroud. Now a sect wants to take possession of the cursed shroud. A nun, raped for not having delivered the shroud, will enact her revenge.

An experimental short about an unexplicable miracle happened, apparently, because of the Will of the Saints.

Two young trappers are home with their hedgeog and receive unexpected visits that upset the night and their lifes.

Alfredo is a policeman, he lives with his three sons and his wife Donatella in a small apartment. The family is waiting for the fourth son. The job, the arrival of the baby and the small and big problems of life are oppressing him. An emergency call for an armed robbery will change his vision of life.

The 1990s. Four kids and a sunny summer afternoon spent conquering the mirage of pocket pornography. Will they be able to satisfy this new obsession?

Autumn 2024: the pandemic and the lockdown are now a distant memory. Claudio, a 23-year-old boy, is in therapy with a psychologist, Clara Talise. Entering one of their sessions, we see Claudio telling about his mother's death caused by the virus and his difficulty in being able to establishing relationships with people.

2052. A car is driving on an empty road during the night. Inside there's a Middle Eastern family and the daughter's Italian boyfriend. A policeman follows the car, and then decides to stop it and ask for papers.

Alfredo Arias is an Argentinian artist whose nephew decides to follow him around through one year of work to study his creations and make this documentary.

Ale, a boy from Verona, sells drugs to his peers, forced by a drug lord from whom he cannot separate. But when he is discovered by a private investigator who is investigating a man's death, he is forced to pretend to be someone else. After all, he wanted to be an actor.

A pink slammed in the face that has nothing glamorous. A mistreated reality in which Regina Rosenberg lives passively. She is a young psychologist with a promising career ahead of her and a study started with its numerous patients hanging on her lips, or rather, on her pink lipstick.

A Venetian fantasy inspired by Panthesilea.

Anthropologist Ernesto De Martino in “Il Mondo Magico” traces an analysis of what he referred to as "subaltern popular world", that is, those social realities that were marked by the strong presence of a whole series of practical and pragmatic methods, handed down from generation to generation (from word of mouth to actual rituals), which were performed by people so that it would be easier to deal with everything that presented itself as uncontrollable and unknown, identified as “the loss of being-there”.

Summer is ending, and the harvest has begun in rural Transylvania. As Nicusor aspires toward adulthood, he looks for a way to contribute. Faced with rejection, he explores his natural surroundings to imagine a place for himself.

Due to an environmental catastrophe, the population has been forbidden to speak, as it consumes too much oxygen. Those who violate the rules will be punished with cancellation by the government. The population was forced to develop a new language system based on LIS (sign language). These changes have led to a new form of attraction to sound and noise. People are no longer words or thoughts, but sounds. Tosca lives locked up in the house with her family. She dreams of freedom and is willing to do anything to get it. To give the world a voice And you? What noise are you?