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Pasquale, an old crook who lost his fortune to gambling, organizes his last big heist and reunites The Wolves, a gang of North-Italian fairground operators who moonlight as thieves. The robbery of a money truck - transporting 12 million euros in cash - could be a good pension for everybody, and secure the legacy of their old-school craftsmanship.
Marion, an architect, while on the construction site of her new project learns that the construction manager is dead, by talking on the phone with the new one. This new acquaintance will complicate the woman’s relationship with her son.
A teenager walks in the woods while being overwhelmed by his emotions.
Maria is obsessed with the television industry while she lives a quiet provincial life with her son Daniel. When show girl Vale launches her new reality, Maria thinks her moment has come, but the world she craves chooses someone else instead.
Inspired by the novel "Tenebra" by David Pratelli, the film revolves around a mysterious killer who begins killing women and leaves a message: This is my revenge.
Maurizio Belli and Fulvio Giovannini set themselves a challenge : skiing over the Alaska during the winter. First, they wanted to cross from Fort Yukon to Anchorage for a 1300 kilometers journey. But they will quickly endure unexpected weather conditions. High temperatures, due to global warming, melt snow and permafrost, making their progression more and more difficult.
Even when Ivan Capelli was a teenager and still racing go-karts, his father followed him around with a camera. Thanks to a tinkering engineer, a Japanese investor and his talent, he made it to the Formula 1.
This is a video collage created using mash-up and split-screen techniques. It is linked to the idea of dance that allows the body to change shape and content in a grunge and punk surrealistic manner.
Thousands of undocumented migrants are illegally employed and exploited in the Italian crops to grow Italy's food. One Day One Day follows their lives from the inside of Italy's biggest slum.
The life and works of Maria Montessori have seen a renewed interest in recent years. This explores how the Montessori method, conceived almost a hundred years ago, continues to be crucial for an education that aims for the self-sufficiency of children.
At the end of the summer, while preparations for an air show are taking place in the sky, a man and a woman go to the water. But the arrival of a legendary aerobatic pilot will not be the event of the day for them.
Lorenzo is sixteen years old, he is a striker, he lives with his family in Piacenza and plays in the youth teams of a prestigious football team.
After entrusting his creation to a large number of performers (first Eugenio Allegri, for whom the monologue was written), Alessandro Baricco has chosen to give voice himself to his most iconic and beloved character: Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon Novecento.
Apollo doesn’t have a problem…
The portrait of an artist in action. The process of creation, as it happens, is emulated and experienced in the choice of shots and in the arrangement of the editing. The film is born from an unexpected meeting of sensitivity in the making, in constant search of the true entity of art. It is the second of a series dedicated to various artists’ work . The portrait is “temporal”, also referring to how the human condition can be represented.
A mysterious gate connects parallel universes and countless alternative versions of the same people; people who are meant to meet again in everchanging situations. Thriller, black humour, gore and splatter mix up together to beget an unfair and larger-than-life movie.
A young man walks despondently, evoking memories of a past that cannot return.
Claudia on her Venus way, showing and doing what erotic is starting with the Fall. And the Rosella with a killer dance, coming with laughter, heavy from Dante to opera ... a miracle of an actress.
Simone is a young boy who likes to hike among the bushes of the Trieste Karst, in his magical childhood world where he hides to feel free. He is a “ghost” to his peers who know him only for what they see: someone different, labelled by simplistic stereotypes. Sayid, on the other end, is a young migrant, one of the many teenagers who, like ghosts, leave traces on those same paths. These two creatures meet in a magical place and help each other make themselves less invisible in their own eyes, through a short journey through the woods towards the real world. On this journey, the two get to know each other and learn about the other’s fears and passions, realising they are not as different as they seem.
Scicli, a small Baroque gem in southern Sicily. With 33 days to go until Easter Sunday, the inhabitants are preparing to celebrate the holiday. "L'Uomo Vivo, il Gioia" (The Living Man, the Joy): words used by the people of Scicli to invoke the Risen Christ, a symbol that is part of the community's identity. An 18th-century statue created by Benedetto Civiletto. Peppe, Franco, Angelo, and Claudio are four bearers of the Gioia, whose friendship was born right under the "Vara." They can be considered the emblem of the bearers, that is, ordinary and simple lives that come together for a common passion, the Gioia, which is the main topic of their discussions every day. Peppe works with marble, Franco is a sales representative, Angelo is a farmer on the family farm, and Claudio is a truck driver who travels all over Italy. The film follows their daily lives about a month before the Easter holidays, showing the preparations for the festival and the meetings that precede the big day.
From the Gustav Mahler Cultural Center in Dobbiaco, Byzantine Concerto for cello and orchestra by Nicola Segatta. A dream suspended between East and West, dedicated to Sollima the Magnificent. Maestro Marcello Fera conducts the Piccola Orchestra Lumière, with Giovanni Sollima as cello soloist.
The unconventional life of Guido Panza, an independent pataphysical publisher, a traveling film print vendor, an organic winemaker, a CBD grower, and much more. Originally from Campania, but living in Bologna for thirty years, he escapes the chaos of the hills of Ozzano.
The ruthless war between a diabolical serial killer and the father of one of his victims, a fight that will drag many innocent souls into violence.
Follow explorer Reza Pakravan as he travels across eight countries in the Sahel region of Africa to learn about the people who live there.
Kenji Mizoguchi in 1925 has already directed more than 30 films, of quite disparate subjects, from contemporary films (gendai geki) to historical films (chambara), to educational films or films drawn from Western literature.
Elena decides to end her abusive relationship. One morning, she is murdered by her ex-partner outside her home. Her death triggers a journey which blends present and past memories, transforming her violent murder into a tranquil departure from life. Narrated via a visual stream of consciousness, Elena represents the destiny and voice of the many women like her who die from femicide every day.
“GUAZZABUGLIO” talks about the anxiety caused by media, fake news, sexual desire, interconnections and the deep meditation state.
Bea, Enrico, Irene are crossing a forest that, step by step, turns into a tropical eco-system. In the course of this dreamlike exploration, the whole forest begins to play. At this point they understand that they are living a “grand rve Change the music, the three friends re - emerge-perhaps-from the dream, finally arrive at a beach. Will this be the place where liberation from all their anxieties will take place?
A ten minutes short film that takes its inspiration from a real letter (from the collection “Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza italiana”) written during World War II’s Nazi-Fascist regime by Romolo Iacopini, a captured and life sentenced partisan by the German SS squadrons, to his mother Maria. Protagonist of the film, the woman in the fictional story takes on the task entrusted by the son in the heartfelt real letter: collecting the man’s wallet, held at a police department, and watch, left to a priest. Shaken by her loss, the woman is now deprived of the thing she holds most dear, but slowly realises it is somehow still living...
First-person story of Maria, fifty, wife, mother and worker, who through the encounter with today's feminist practices of the "Non Una Di Meno" movement in Milan, takes stock of being a woman today. Intrigued by the "global women's strike", proclaimed on March 8, 2017 by Non Una Di Meno, Maria participates in the Milanese demonstration. Here for the first time she hears about the "Feminist Plan Against Male Violence Against Women and Gender Violence" that the movement is writing. The plan describes the directions of a necessary change in several fields where a stereotypical and sexist perspective of genders and the power relations between them is replicated that is the basis of the violence that is intended to be overcome.
After his mother's death, Luca finds he has hit rock bottom. Living on the streets among the homeless, to somehow feel closer to her, he finally decides to go back home for his father's birthday where something magical just might happen.
Porpora is a journey on the road in the human adventure of Porpora Marcasciano, a transsexual who has lived as a protagonist in the feminist, communist and trans movements from the seventies to today. On a trip from Bologna to the south, to their hometown, they retrace an experience of battles that still lasts today with a younger travel companion. From the explosion of '77 to the crazy nights of Rome to political commitment, Porpora tells a new generation how individuality produces social change only by merging and realizing itself in multiplicity.
In the midst of the harsh Californian desert and on the shores of a toxic lake lies a land that time forgot. This once abandoned town is now home to a small community where art heals people in the most unexpected ways. A British matriarch, a retired bank robber, an evicted artist from LA and an Italian prince open the doors to a magical land, a living theater, perhaps a way to an alternative life.
Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis have been sending to Europe their children for decades, to show the world the injustice they suffer. A 2700 km long mined wall across the desert, and there's no mention of it even in UN resolutions on Western Sahara. This former spanish colony, just in front of Canary Islands, is occupied by Morocco since 1975. In 2011 I spent 5 weeks in the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, outer south-west of Algeria. This is where the Sahrawi's escape from their war-devastated land stopped, though none of them imagined they would stay there so long. When I met Salka, her foster italian mother Carmen and her mother Aisha, I had finally found what I had been looking for: state of rest began to take shape. Neither Salka nor I were born when it all began. Western Sahara has been occupied by Morocco and plundered by many others for over 40 years
The Mancuso family has practiced transhumant grazing for generations, moving the herd of Podolica cattle from the Marcedusa countryside to the large Sila forests.