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What could have happened – what should have happened – if two giants in film history, like Greta Garbo and Sergei Michajlovič Eisenstein, could have declared their love for each other? The world's most famous actress, an honorary Russian citizen of cinema for her many performances; the world's most radical director, who could have immortalized her face in one of his famous close-ups? Sphinx Garbo did not want to be alone: she just wanted to marry the great Sergei. Perhaps she could have played Trotsky or Pancho Villa in one of his films. Perhaps their friends Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney and Josef von Sternberg would have approved their love. Maybe they could have had a child together. Maybe all this could still have happened, in a Mark Rappaport film.

The life and adventures of the explorer Alex Bellini, who has traversed oceans, deserts, glaciers, and continents, pushing his limits, confronting his inner shadows, and seeking a path beyond the pitfalls of the human condition. The film chronicles Bellini's remarkable journey from his early years to his latest environmental explorations.

An isolated tale of alienation. The sounds are often disconnected from the context of the images. The images of the rooms alternate with those of the protagonist and his long walks at night.

A friend of Jodice, Martone recounts the story of the great Neapolitan photographer: a film made for the exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, Mimmo Jodice. Timeless.

Valentina Petrillo is a visually impaired transgender athlete. In 2019 she started a difficult battle, asking Italian sports federations to give her permission to compete in the female category. Today, after a long struggle, she is the first Italian transgender athlete competing internationally in the women's category. Her story was featured in hundreds of articles and tv appearances in Italy and abroad. Her choice to challenge unscripted societal rules is an inspiring example across continents. Despite all odds, her dream to participate in the Paralympic Games continues to drive her forward.

A sincere thought for all those people who always have too much to blame themselves. Free your mind for a moment. Breathe. The result is extraordinary.

A shocked mother must find peace with her son, a jihadist killed in the 2017 London Bridge attack, in this nuanced and humanizing portrait of a woman grappling with faith, loss and memory in the aftermath of tragedy.

In this previously unseen backstage documentary, Peter Greenaway responds with great generosity to the open-ended questions posed by an off-camera Gideon Bachmann about the process which led to the creation of one his most important films, The Belly of an Architect, giving contemporary audiences an insight into his ideas, the rigour of his reflections and the development of the project.

A true crime documentary shooting is overturned by the disappearance of a few troupe members...

An absorbed man, in an almost ecstatic state of catatonia, is the subject of a strange interview, and he responds to it with nonsensical and allusive sentences about the impending arrival of something.

Mångata is a reflection of the Moon’s light on a water surface which indicates the way to the Moon. This light also helps to rescue little Alya. She is the only one saved from a refugee boat that sunk in the Mediterranean. Many years later, as an astronaut on a pioneering mission, she will need this light again. Maja Costa takes the refugee subject, usually shown as a drama or bitter tragedy, into new territories. Under the attractive guise of science fiction she may concentrate not on what is going on nowadays but look into the future with hope and optimism challenging prejudice and stereotypes.

"BLOODY DATE" is a short film that delves into the life of Javier, a blue-collar worker with a secret life. By day, he's a mechanic dealing with the dirty grind of work, but by night, he's entangled in the world of drugs and danger. As financial troubles loom over his best friend, he finds himself owing a lot of money to some very wrong people. With a heart of gold and a tough exterior, Javier navigates a complex web of loyalty and betrayal. This thrilling narrative unfolds as Javier's past collides with his present. The film explores themes of friendship, sacrifice, and the consequences of choices made in the shadows.

In 1993, youngster Loris Riccardi is the art director of a night club destined to become the most transgressive in Italy: Cocoricò. He conceives the concept of night-club-theatre transforming the dance floor into a place of provocation.

A tribute to an artist who inspired great painters in a decisive way, by creating works of immortal beauty. His art straddles two worlds: on the one hand the architecture of Piero della Francesca and on the other the devotional painting. Perugino achieved in painting a perfect balance between human being and nature, reality and ideal. He invented compositions and iconographies that set the school, spread a new ideal of female beauty through his Madonnas, and conceived extraordinary fresco cycles as in the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia. A journey through Italy to discover his great masterpieces, from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the two rooms entirely dedicated to him in the National Gallery of Umbria.

An elderly fisherman dedicates his life to capturing a monster in the river, under the illusion that - once captured - his father may finally forgive him or even love him.

Exasperated repugnance, deep impatience, radical incompatibility. A silent film about the circle of life through the story of different people. Farmers works the land, a woman in a marriage crisis, a middle-aged man wants another life.

Phaethon asks to ride the sun chariot for a day. Helios tries to dissuade his son – but in vain. When the night ends, Phaethon mounts his father's precious sun chariot. The four horses race off but soon, control of the chariot is lost. Phaethon leaves the daily route between Heaven and Earth, triggering a catastrophe of universal proportions.

The immersion in a student's into a computer during the process of creating a short film for the animation exam.

Chiara works as a lighting technician in the staging of a dance theater show dedicated to Dionysus, who punishes humanity for not believing in his divine nature. When Vittorio, her father, comes into her life with an illness that seems like a divine punishment, Chiara must manage the most universal and atavistic reality that human beings of every part and time share.

Tessa is excited to visit Yellowstone National Park with her new boyfriend, Mark. However, when they arrive, Mark changes, and as his aggression and cruelty build, Tessa finds disturbing artifacts around the cabin. What begins as an idyllic winter weekend slowly becomes a nightmare as Tessa realizes she’s alone in the woods with a man she really doesn’t know at all.

Bologna is a bizarre place. However, outside is barbarism. The old city is besieged by a new savannah. Homeless, nomads, tourists, dropouts are only the vanguard of a new citizenship. The ancestors of future kings. This film is a back portrait, an out-of-focus, night-time appearance. We will carefully avoid showing great monuments, famous people and facts of proven historical significance. Instead It’s a portrait that goes for minor fragments, anonymous citizens, intruders. Lies.

While on a quest with their quirky leader Otto, the Puffins discover a mysterious ancient idol. To their surprise, they unleash its wild powers. The feathered heroes must embark on a hilarious quest to tame the chaos and restore harmony.

An intimate, ironic, and freewheeling portrait of Patrizia Cavalli.

Dissatisfied with his life and unable to come out to his dying mother, a queer artist flees to a remote villa in Sicily, where visits from a classical Muse drive him to absorb himself in his art and forsake his real-life responsibilities.

For a decade, environmental artist, Anne de Carbuccia has travelled the world, documenting drought, water shortage, plastic-filled oceans, endangered species and cultures through her camera. She states that she ‘wanted to maintain her artistic and sensitive stance as she photographed beautiful imagery, and create a film that is accessible as it attempts to encourage people to contemplate who they are and where they come from’. The filmmaker is inspired by dedicated ‘Earth Protectors’ she meets on the sites of climate disaster and sees a glimpse of hope for the environment.

The story of 70-year-old Maurizio Candidi, an old-style playboy who loves the high life and had more than one thousand women. Between myth and reality, clarity and voyeurism, the figure of a melancholic seducer emerges.

A Neapolitan cartoonist who lives with his beekeeper mother, creates with his friend Loris a graphic novel about Mileva, a heroine who in a post-apocalyptic future fights to save a queen bee in a world where nature has been destroyed.

Violante, a young woman who works in a playground, experiences an emotional and mental crisis following the abortion of what would have been her child. The short portrays the multiple conflicting emotions a woman experiences after the emotional trauma of an abortion, analyzing the reasons for such a choice.

The old Pavilion 17 in Rome has reopened its doors. For two years it has been a space for welcoming and assisting refugees and stateless people from all over the world, leaving behind its past as a detention center for women doubtfully diagnosed as “semi-disordered.” The building is now a space of life and liberation. The past and the present coexist in its corridors and rooms, where the passage of time continues to be visible and the light subtly fractures the gloom.

A girl will receive bad news from her boyfriend.

Franco Berardi Bifo talking with experimental editing

From the sumptuous setting of St. Mark's Square in Venice, the Orchestra and Choir of La Fenice tackle Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by maestro Juraj Valcuha.