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Hortence has been pregnant four times in her life and she is a mother of seven children. She takes good care of all of them, but four of them are wooden statuettes. According to voodoo, which counts as an official religion in Benin, twins dispose of a strange mystical power, which bestows on them almost a divine status.
Short by Antonino Valvo.
A gang of criminals kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman, only to shockingly realize that she is not what she seems.
May 2019. In the small town of Tromello, near Milan, Italy's first transgender mayor is elected. The documentary tells the campaign that led to this historic election. A story of friendship and courage against prejudice.
A documentary that immortalizes the attempt to stage a reinterpretation of a seventeenth-century collection of comic short stories.
The protagonist investigates the mystery of a suspicious individul after a cryptic message received from his femme fatale.
Il sangue e la parola (Blood and Words) “Not the sword but words illuminate the way” is a cantata by maestro Nicola Piovani with lyrics freely adapted from Aeschylus' The Eumenides. Performed by the orchestra and choir of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma with Andrea Pennacchi as narrator. The concert also includes performances of symphonic suites from La notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of San Lorenzo) and La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful).
A whale lies stranded on the beach, and a woman seeks closure through a simulacrum while human interlopers observe, collect, dissect and take selfies.
Naples, November 23, 1980. Bolero and Grand Hotel, two transvestite, are waiting for their boyfriends, two prisoners, met by correspondence. They have never seen each other before. Grand Hotel decides to use its divinatory art to discover the features of the two lovers but instead discovers something else. The moment of the meeting is getting closer and closer. It is 7:34 pm on November 23, 1980. One of the worst earthquakes is coming.
Dignity is a good reason to fight, or to walk away? Past and present issues on immigration, gender, and dignity in countries - Italy and Brazil - that share many similarities, starting from a biased relationship with their national memory.
"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.
Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, is enduring indiscriminate bombing. With Russian forces attempting to encircle the city, it's a time marked of both deep despair and deep defiance for the residents of Kyiv.
Marco was a fantastic father and husband until he lost his life in a tragic car accident that caused a sensation. Although three years have passed, his wife Claudia and daughter Nina have not yet overcome their mourning and Claudia in particular continues to see Marco next to her and to talk to him.
Apophenia is a horror film, a video essay and a travel documentary in which an urban legend becomes the starting point of a Lovecraftian tale in search of a disturbing unknown. The images emerge from the web intertwining and overlapping, showing themselves as symptoms of a collective schizophrenia to which the user slowly succumbs.
The true story of Fabrizio Toffolo, a central figure among the Lazio ultras and one of the historic leaders of the Curva Nord.
An old woman relives her life through words.
Shaking his head, Michele looks at the olives lying on the ground. Nobody collects them now. He once planted the olive trees. They were his pride and fed the family. Now he sits by the fireplace with his wife. Their hands show the years of hard field work. With a tender gaze, their grandson watches his grandparents cook, argue, take walks. Moving snapshots that coalesce into a life lived, a chronicle of the rural exodus in Italy.
A delicate, painful sentimental story between two men with very different pasts. The story of Michele and Francesco is, at first, all tinged with new colors, then refracting into an even more kaleidoscopic, multifaceted, and humanly rich portrait of Rome.
Bianca celebrates her 22nd birthday in a small flat in a brutalist neighbourhood on the outskirts of Moscow. To the digital world, Bianca is Electa, known on social media for her touching dance performances and her obsession with the colour white. She was born in Norilsk, Siberia, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and is part of the international group of young people who gravitate to Radio Esperanza Libre, a podcast channel founded by Anita Lopez, a young environmentalist speaker based in Argentina. Anita and Electa met by chance on the internet because, in addition to their shared interest in environmental issues, they share a curious date of birth: 29 February. Electa’s network of virtual connections becomes the only possible escape route for Bianca, at a time when climate change is unfortunately not the only urgency around her. The podcast of Monday 28 February 2022 is an opportunity for Electa to raise a cry for help.
One night Mia meets Rick and they decide to share the same Uber. They fall in love, but things don't go as planned.
A man loses his sanity due to alcohol while being stalked by the sinister figure of a black cat.
"A sad and lost boy thanks to an old acquaintance will find his way back."
A journey in which the power of music blends with the artists’ virtuosity, taking the listener from traditional tango to the jazz and avant-garde influences of Astor Piazzolla. Novafonic Quartet: Fabio Furia on bandoneon, Gianmaria Melis on violin, Marco Schirru on piano, Giovanni Chiaramonte on double bass.
Director and technicians go to Sicily to make a film about a real case of pedophilia. A film within a film.
A group of students from Milan, Italy decide to rebel against their principal, a strict and rigid man.
In 2022, for the first time in the history of the Venice Biennale, Italy will be represented by a single artist: Gian Maria Tosatti. Since 2018 Tosatti has concentrated all his practice on a project entitled "My Heart is a Void, the Void is a Mirror", an episodic visual novel, developed around the world with the aim of witnessing the state of crisis of democracy in the West. The Odessa Episode - which follows the stages of Catania, Riga and Cape Town - is the installation developed by the artist after a long period spent in Ukraine, in the most dramatic moment of the Covid-19 emergency, when the country was closed to foreigners. The film recounts the efforts made to carry out a powerfully visionary work in those difficult months.
A kid who lives in an African village receives via mail a snowflake - a magical object which comes from a distant and unknown place. This message will transform the kid’s world, changing the scorching African landscape into something new.
On the shores of Lake Como, an association for mental health meets once a week to write a periodical. Everyone brings their story, their ups and downs, their tragedies and solidarity.
The comic and harrowing story of Alfredo Beaumont, an ordinary man who, following an accident (which he caused, for which he feels responsible, and for which he will be acquitted), falls into a deep crisis and becomes a villain. Suddenly, society throws open all its doors to him: Alfredo advances in his career, women desire him, and he is healed of his ills and fears. Migliore is a story about our times, about people who build their success on ruthlessness, cynicism, and contempt for others. And about the paradox of the despised who, in the face of these people, bow their heads and fascinated let them pass.
