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I hate Kodak color negatives. I promised myself I'd never buy them, but in a batch of film I found two of these cartridges, so I decided to test myself. At first, I had the idea of using them only to capture a year's worth of sunsets edited in camera, but then I realized how pointless it was to limit myself. Two Rhine maidens debut in my prelude. The first (cartridge) is bitter, the second is much sweeter. Both are connected although for different reasons to my feature film "Shadow of the Valley." One introduces it, the other puts an end to it. It took me a little less than a year to finish filming this short, perhaps because I didn't believe in it at all.

Sora is a sleepy young worker who has to stay awake; her depressed father sleeps all the time. Sleep weighs heavily on both of them, especially when the man decides to sleep forever.

The body is a vessel, a cage that absorbs and reflects what it witnesses. It is the clamor of consciousness, a swarm of limbs and breath, a friction, a pressing — the rustle of souls, the chant of longing where the sense of emptiness rings clear. A lucid absence, quietly inhabiting the spaces we live in, turning them into thresholds: chaotic, in-between, suspended. Absence, here, is like a wave. It comes and recedes, only to return, feeding itself endlessly.

Feeling different because of his appearance, Eglefino sets off to explore a new planet with his friend J-Hoo in search of a place where he can feel loved, understood and well-liked.

An intimate portrait of Brunori Sas: amid crisis, doubts, and creative rebirth, the documentary follows the genesis of his latest album up to the stage at Sanremo.

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.

Haunted by their past, Giulia and Tommaso face a deadly truth as a killer frames him, leading to a shocking revelation.

A professional mourner goes to what seems just another job when she begins to suspect that the deceased might be tied to her forgotten past.

The difficulty and uncertainty of addressing such a delicate topic as consent in a sexual situation between a man and a woman is at the heart of the short film. These challenges and uncertainties are faced by the two police officers as they confront the accounts of both young people and a video capturing the incident.

Teatro alla Scala presents a new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece of unrequited love, drawn from Pushkin’s novel. Acclaimed soprano Aida Garifullina stars as Tatyana, the naïve young girl who grows into a sophisticated beauty. Baritone Alexey Markov sings the title role of the nobleman who lives to regret his blasé rejection of Tatyana’s love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend Lensky (Dmitry Korchak). The tender music is entrusted to the exciting Timur Zangiev, and staging is in the hands of prolific stage and film director Mario Martone, now in his tenth La Scala production.

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”.

Sardinia, the 1970s: Giaime was given custody of some turtledoves. His dog Miggia slipped into the cellar and knocked over the birds' cage. Now Giaime doesn't know how to tell Tommaso, who caught them, that the turtledoves have flown away.

A study of the concept of noise intended not only as an unpleasant sound but also as a visual artifact. The so-called high sensitivity in digital cameras allows us to see in the dark by adding an artificial grain to the video, sacrificing its quality. In these night shots, noise is not avoided but rather enhanced, thus creating abstract, hypnotic images that pulsate slowly.

In a bar, Sofia and Filippo—once in love, now strangers only on the surface—meet again for a drink that turns into a confession. Between irony and melancholy, the two retrace the past and the failures that have marked them, discovering how difficult it is to live with loneliness and with their own limitations. In the play of banter, memories, and still-open wounds, a subtle affection resurfaces—made of regrets and an intimacy that has survived time—leaving suspended the question of what remains when love ends but does not completely fade away.

Life and career, lights and shadows, successes and misfortunes of Angelo Cecchelin, the greatest comic actor Trieste has ever had. Who was Angelo Cecchelin? Rome had Petrolini, Naples had Totò. Trieste had Cecchelin.

A whole day in Adriano Aprà's temple-studio, for a conversation about the future of cinema, his fruitful life, and teaching utopia to young filmmakers eager to invent and experiment. This tribute to Adriano Aprà is a ceremony listening to his voice, through the film by three young people.

A documentary investigation into an absurd case: a voided marriage, a rock star, a supermarket trolley driver, and a dwarf in the woods.

In the modern history of Latin America, a direct line runs from the anti-Communist repression of the 1970s to the fight against land defenders and human rights activists today.

With ‘Origen. La semilla de los tiempos’, the Accademia del Piacere, the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and the Teatro de la Maestranza take audiences on a musical dance journey somewhere between tradition and the avant-garde. Baroque music enters into dialogue with flamenco, travelling through the history of Andalusia in a story that gives pride of place to emotion, memory and scenic beauty.

Modà is one of the most famous Italian bands of all time, especially thanks to their amazing leader Francesco Silvestre, known as Kekko. This is their story, but most importantly, his story... A documetary approved by Kekko Silvestre himself

Marco, a thirty-year-old who dreams of becoming an ophthalmologist, seeks alternatives to survive in a society that is sicker than he is.

In a tense waiting room, a group of young people receives a mysterious memory card tied to a forbidden project. When a goverment officer bursts in, old connections resurface and everyone is forced to choose between obedience and rebellion.

On the military road construction site, on the pastures of Lessinia, writer Carlo Stuparic wrote to his brother Giani. The film celebrates his memory.

Lupo is bored, frustrated, and restless. Meri tries to help him, but everything falls apart when he meets Tancredi: he feels inadequate. He knows he isn’t “normal”: normality isn’t a path he can take.

The film is an observation of the migrant experience; from crossing the Mediterranean Sea out of Libya to settling in Paris-based squats. In a view free from prejudice, we quickly see how the experiences of migrants vary in extremes during the different stages in their journey to a better life.

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

New film by Luca Barbareschi.

A man comes home at night and steps on a cockroach: it is the beginning of a long agony that influences the surrounding world, to the point of suspending the flow of time. A stop-motion animated short films inspired by Dino Buzzati, one of the main Italian writers from 20th Century.

On the 19th of August 1573, Francesco de Marchi climbed the impervious and rocky peak of the Corno Grande, the highest mountain of the Italian Appennin range, accomplishing an epic feat for his time: reaching a peak out of curiosity. He wrote his Chronicle anticipating by 213 years the ascent of Mont Blanc accomplished by Balmat and Paccard on 8 August 1786. 450 years after the feat, the film recounts the climb, narrated by Francesco De Marchi's own words, with spectacular images of the climb among the calcareous rocks of the Corno Grande.

Bagni di Lucca, June 1988.

Paolo, a thirty-year-old overwhelmed by responsibilities, visits his mother Lina. Between jokes and confidences, his desire to start a family with his girlfriend Laura emerges, despite work pressures. Meanwhile, in the heart of the same neighborhood, Marco lives a complicated relationship with Sara and is involved in increasingly shady dealings that, due to a case of mistaken identity, will also sweep Paolo into the chaos.

Mirco Santi, who carries on the Home Movies project/archive with Paolo Simoni, briefly recounts the cinema of Massimo Bacigalupo. Home Movies has restored a number of works by Bacigalupo, a filmmaker who brought amateur cinema to the status of an art form in Italy, and keeps a large part of his archive, in which Frammento catanese was recently found.

Matteo, the sole survivor of a twin birth, is trapped in a flat, unfulfilling life, unable to take a stand on anything, until a new figure enters his life and helps him fight for what he truly cares about.