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Chloe and Alessandro are two 30-year-old, longtime friends living together in a large apartment. Chloe works for a culinary recipe publisher, while Alessandro is an up-and-coming painter. Although their friendship is strong, they have very different approaches to relationships. Chloe is constantly searching for her Prince Charming, while Alessandro, living openly as a gay man in a small town, navigates life with maturity despite the challenges. Their dynamic shifts when Roberto enters their lives. The three become inseparable, each learning from the others: Roberto sheds his bigotry, Chloe finally finds happiness, and Alessandro is content seeing them both fulfilled. But their balance is tested when Chloe finds out she’s pregnant.

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?

On the evening of March 12, 1981, in the Rai Due studios, Marina Morgan announces that the program A.A.A Offresi, a film about prostitution, it will never be broadcast “at the formal invitation of the president of the parliamentary steering and oversight committee.” This time, however, his announcement is interrupted by a group of military men, wearing ski masks, who barged in the studio to read live on national tv the script of the censored film, convicted as the “body of evidence”.

The film tells the story of an organization that operates in the field of immigrant trafficking and male prostitution.

The last penal colonies in Europe are in Sardinia. Inmates serve their sentences by working the land, tending animals, and maintaining the prison.

In an attempt to tell the story of the Tree of Ténéré from a non-human perspective, we entrusted the narrative to an artificial intelligence, treating it as a species in its own right, capable of seeing beyond our anthropocentric view. But perhaps what it produces can never truly be neutral, as the images it generates are inevitably filtered through the human gaze. Can we really tell the world without ourselves in it?

The first recorded testimony of a group of Brazilian Catholic women who, in the 1970s, embraced the emerging movement of Liberation Theology — a force that reshaped the Church in Latin America by aligning faith with social justice and the struggles of the poor under authoritarian regimes. Pressured by the Brazilian dictatorship and in conflict with Church hierarchy, they broke with the institution, took a vow of anonymity, and fled into exile in Rome, escaping aboard cargo ships. Today, the fifteen women who remain from the original group agree, for the first time, to share their story.

Hazira survived Srebrenica. She saw the war, it corroded her life. She has been stuck in a refugee camp in her own country for 29 years, working hard and unceasingly to make ends meet and keep the trauma at bay.

Valerio is a man lost between what was and what could have been. Obsessed with the perfect idea, he tries to tell a story but ends up losing his own. Trapped in a cold, distant present, he takes refuge in the few memories he has left, reliving fragments of a past consumed by the search for meaning.

A journey through three distant cultures, retracing the steps that give rise to the breath of life: its primeval discovery, the circularity of breathing, the harmony of song, the colour of each single voice and the connection with the innermost part of the self.

Siblings Clara and Pietro aren't close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she's recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.

In the province of Lazio, two teenagers and their friends are desperately searching for Luca, a boy their age to whom they gave a small amount of money in advance without receiving the hashish they had requested. Filippo, one of the boys involved in the scam, must try to keep secret the violent plan devised by his friends to get revenge.

Anni Albers was a prominent member of the interwar Bauhaus art movement in Germany. After Hitler came to power, she left her native country and devoted herself to her work with unwavering passion in the USA. Weaving textile patterns was more than just an aesthetic activity for her; she saw the intertwining of threads as a tangible projection of the very fabric of reality.

A young man wakes up in a meadow to find a corpse beside him. He doesn’t know who it is, but he must uncover the body’s identity and how it died.

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.

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.

The key stages in the career of director and actor Maurizio Nichetti, following his return with the film Amichemai. The documentary recounts his unique career, between surreal comedy, visual experimentation and cinematic poetry, revealing the soul of an unconventional author capable of revolutionizing the language of cinema.

The film reimagines the life of a Miu Miu Wander bag as it moves between owners, places, and social realities. The bag becomes a silent witness to human experiences—love, loss, and reinvention.

Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Roma boxer in the world to win the title. He is famous for his dancing fighting style. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is imprisoned in Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he dies at the age of 37. He decides to die as a champion and fights with a Nazi kapo who challenges him. Rukeli, which means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and the entire apparatus of power.

Mattia, a talented basketball player, dreams of playing in the championship finals in front of his father, who is increasingly distant and absorbed in his work. Faced with yet another announced absence, Mattia will do anything to allow him to watch him play.

NUVOLA explores Lavazza's urban renewal project in Turin, centred on its headquarters and the surrounding Aurora district. Through eight chapters, it captures life within Nuvola's spaces - its museum, restaurant, garden square, and repurposed power plant - revealing how architecture and community shape one another over time.

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.

Vincenzina is a courageous woman, president of a charity association: her story is intertwined with that of Beatrice, a girl who lost a leg in an accident. When Beatrice's desperate mother turns to Vincenzina for help, the woman decides to intervene, triggering a journey of memories that leads her to confront her own painful past.

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.

Paolo Riva is sick with lies. He was once a successful pop singer, famous for his song “Spumante e cioccolatini” (Sparkling Wine and Chocolates), which he performed at the Sanremo Festival in 1984. Now, however, he lives in obscurity. With his manager and best friend, Tino, he tours the Italian provinces, which, thanks to their festivals and celebrations, are now the only place that guarantees Paolo's survival.

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.

Carlo is a bum who suffers from recurrent nightmares. He lives by the rule of the coin, tossing the very same coin over and over again to take every single decision of his life. Coin toss after coin toss, he arrives in L'Aquila, a city hit by an earthquake. Here he becomes involved in a gruesome murder case. With the help of Marta, an alcoholic woman he met on the road, he starts an investigation which will soon have a metaphysical perspective.

On the day of the apocalypse, a group of friends gathers in a house to party with drugs, alcohol, and love as they wait for the end.

Piuma, a failed cartoonist, lives in a small, dirty, and messy studio apartment with his dog, a German Shepherd named Piuma. The boy and his dog live practically in symbiosis, but after failing to pay the rent for over three months, they are evicted. Along the way, they meet Sophie, a very tense and pensive young woman.

After enduring the trauma of a brutal gang rape, young dancer Thea embarks on a profound journey of healing. Through her choreography, she confronts her pain step by step, gradually transforming her vulnerability into a quiet yet fierce bravery. With the unwavering support of her partner Thiago and the unconditional love of their dog Mandinga, Thea discovers a safe space to begin piecing together her shattered world. The birth of her son Monan further redefines her relationship with her body and sense of self. We follow Thea's most intimate struggles through her personal video diaries, intertwined with the tender lens of her childhood friend, filmmaker Felix, who uncovers the unspoken layers of her healing process.

Margherita Vicario talks about the making of “GLORIA!” Between departments, preparation, shooting and post-production, straight to the BERLIN 2024 festival. Dedicated to all the workers who contributed to making the film.

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.

In the 1990s, a child grows up surrounded by deep secrets. The men in his family, including his father, die too young, but he is not yet able to understand why. When he discovers that his last name is a well-known name in the city, he feels as if he is seeing his own life reflected in the gangster and horror films he loves, a mirror of the violence that has changed his life.

In a small town in Calabria, the arrival of an out-of-the-box mayor triggers a series of hilarious events.

In the heart of a Europe ravaged by the Black Death, Andruccio, a young fugitive, leaves behind his village of Coccorone and embarks on a desperate journey to Triora, the legendary 'village of witches,' in search of a cure. Along the way, a mysterious companion guides him through a world teetering between reality and nightmare, where the line between life and death grows increasingly blurred. In this desolate and unsettling landscape, Andruccio confronts his deepest fears and the legends that shape his destiny. His journey becomes a spiritual battle, a quest for salvation that is not merely physical but profoundly existential. In a crescendo of emotional and visual tension, Andruccio will discover that true redemption lies not in evading death but in mastering the art of accepting it. A powerful and visceral drama that delves into the struggle for survival, the resilience of hope, and the courage to face the inevitable.

With its lively dances, ghost scenes and touching arias, Hamlet was Ambroise Thomas’s single great success of the Paris Opera, remaining in its repertoire for decades after the 1868 premiere. On the opening night, the title role was sung by a baritone, as has become the custom ever since. With the rediscovery of the original score in recent years, it transpires that Thomas originally scored the role of Hamlet for a tenor. In this new production of Teatro Regio Torino, the tenor John Osborn is the tormented prince, singing the celebrated monologue “To be or not to be” (“Être ou ne pas être”). Sara Blanch sings Ophélie, whose pyrotechnic aria in the mad scene is a pièce de résistance for a coloratura soprano. Under the musical direction of Jérémie Rhorer, the production is directed by Jacopo Spirei.

Toro is the tragicomic odyssey of Rocco and Angelo, two friends navigating the challenges of adulthood in their late thirties and the struggles faced by a new generation of young men.

A winter sunset seen through the window of my tool shed. I wasn't satisfied with the result projected at standard speed, so I slowed it down with a special projector, then colored the original black-and-white footage red and bit into the emulsion, leaving instantaneous marks, flashes of light as if sunlight had hit the camera lens. This fragment was probably just over a meter long and survives only in this DIY transfer.

A young gravedigger decides to emigrate to Switzerland to pursue his dreams. The village madman urges him to stay: he will not find what he is looking for elsewhere.