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In the 1940s Italy, a ruined noble family agrees to hide a Jewish family from the Nazis in exchange for gold bars

A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

To celebrate the 100 years of the festival Arena di Verona and the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, two separate productions of Aida were staged. This modern version was staged by La Fura dels Baus.

A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

The fragile Lia suffers from a deep depression. Her relationship with her boyfriend Viktor is getting worse and worse and in the last desperate attempt to cure herself, Lia goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa.

Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

Naples. Home of the unbowed, of madmen and paupers. A city that refuses to lick anyone's boots, let alone stoop to pretense. This documentary bad trip takes us on a tour of the city's dismal suburbs and into the homes of the marginalized and rejected: a man, a girl, and a masked boxer - three protagonists yearning for something else, although they're not quite sure what. (Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019)

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio.

A 2016 film about the Cateissard, a mountain overlooking the Val di Susa near Turin, a laboratory of innovation and evolution in Italian climbing. From the Risveglio route opened by Grassi, Bonelli and Galante in 1974, in the heart of Nuovo Mattino, to Patrick Berhault's visit in 1980 and his legendary climbing demonstration on the Nani Verdi route, to the rediscovery of these rocks by Andrea Giorda who, with Marco Croce, Fabrizio Pennicino, Aldo Tirabeni and Claudio Battezzati, Marco Bernardi, Federica Mingolla, Carlo Giuliberti and others, opened 116 new single-pitch routes, graded from IV to 8b. The success of these climbing sites is undeniable; the cliffs of Profondo Rosso, Falchi Penne and Croci, Neverending Wall, Cateissoft, Sky Wall and Cateisstrong, opened by Giuliberti and Lotito, attract dozens of climbers, even from elsewhere.

Giovanni, known as "Banana" because of his mania for wearing a Brazil jersey, is a 14-year-old boy trying not to give up on his dreams in a world of frustrated, giving up and courageless people. Out of Competition "Sezione Cinema al parco" Giffoni 2015

A description of some parts of the world - explored, visited, documented, imagined. An abstract attempt at finding them again. The title refers to geographer and civil servant of the Republic of Venice Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485-1557).

Anna and her son Valerio run away from a husband and a father who has destroyed the love of their family with beatings and anger. They seek refuge in Turin, with Carla, a lifelong friend, an actress and a woman who lives against the grain, who welcomes them, and with the example of her own experience, will show them the way to a just and possible rebirth.

A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river – without wanting to disrupt the mystery of their relationship, between restrained sensuality and childhood games.

Italian comedy

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.

An insurance agent, in order to save his job, leaves with his family for the trendy Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh, where his boss will also spend the holidays.

Laura Rush, director of a luxury New York wine shop, has launched a campaign to buy Italian wineries to unify under her brand. Things become tangled when beautiful Anna Monti, a former top model, arrives in Italy.

Actress Liana Orfei and film historian Fabio Melelli talk about Il mulino delle donne di pietra

The orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is touring Moscow for the Rostropovich Festival. Pianist Francesco Piemontesi is the guest soloist with Maestro Antonio Pappano and his orchestra.

A daughter follows her mother with a camera on a personal journey, leading them both between the contradictions of family.

At the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, K. 543, and Rossini’s *Stabat Mater* will be performed to mark the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.

Pietro, Ivan and their friend Fabio, aka "Cosmic," live in the once-prosperous Po Valley. Post-crisis, this is a vast and alienating landscape of abandoned factories and petty crimes committed by the infamous Candelabra gang. The 19-year olds resist the authority of their parents and their teachers, and resign themselves to a listless fate of foreclosed opportunities. When news breaks of a large asteroid being monitored by the local astronomical station, the boys become convinced that it will collide with earth and destroy mankind.

A young insurance salesman takes advantage of the fact that a beautiful young woman he is attracted to is under house arrest, so cannot go anywhere to escape him.

To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.

Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four days. Vincenzo has to carry an important load to Bari and brings Salvo (nomen est omen) with him as insurance: a child is better than a gun, he says, because his presence in the event of a possible police detention can have a distracting effect . This however is not the only reason why Vincenzo wants Salvo with him, and the "Salv-atore" child will prove to be a potential vehicle of redemption for that messed up father, but not entirely devoid of feelings and attentions.

In a small mountain valley in Italy, the former criminal Cesare discovers the corpse of his nephew Fausto.

Mourning the death of her father, Giulia is contacted by him from the other dimension.

2013 Italian comedy

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love. However, just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are the progeny of two feuding families and do not have the right to love each other. Lucia, a magnificent flower shattered by the violence of a society of men, is embodied by South Africa’s Pretty Yende, a rising star of the opera stage, in this production by Andrei Serban, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

Kip is an intelligent and sensitive boy with a great passion for anthropology, thanks to his mother who is studying the glacier mummy Ötzi, displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano. When a tragic accident changes Kip’s life, he has to leave Bolzano and his best friends. On his last days in the city, Kip a final time goes to the museum to say goodbye to the mummy, as something magical happens and Ötzi wakes up ...

Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.

The Puppies live in Soffio, better known as the Land of Wind: a small town where everything runs on wind power. The evil Crow Witch wants to take possession of the "Whirling Windmill" that generates the wind, thus taking control of the town. Will her infernal machines be enough to defeat the Puppies?

One night Leonardo, a young concierge working in a suburban hotel, receives a visit from a mysterious couple looking for a place to stay. The boy will soon discover that love can hide a dark side.

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.

A young couple are building a life together in their new home. Andrea and Anna, whilst joking and fighting, plan their future. 'I have to tell you something...'. There are announcements that change everything and make bonds deeper, there are events however that destroy those bonds; like the loss of a child.

A committed environmentalist whose hyperfixation with everything that's wrong with the world is taking a toll on his marriage tries a pill that reduces human brain capacity from the usual 20% to a mere 2%. Which puts him on a par with your typical man on the street.

The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

Two brothers, Umberto and Stefano, have just moved into a new apartment, where they share the bedroom. Since their mother is away, Stefano is forced to look after his younger brother, who is craving for affection and contact.

The story of a 18-year-old, grown up without the love of a family, and his relationships with adult women, trying to get back to normal.

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.

EYES is a fictional short film (13' - genre: soft drama). It deals with a issue deeply connected with everyday life in present times: it denounces the daily frenzy of our lives and a spreading indifference. EYES strongly criticises our society, which is more and more prone to violence, inaction and consumerism. Is it still possible that people could hope in something better? In EYES, 30 actors played with eyes wide shout. This short film is dedicated to the memory of Niccolò Ciatti, and to all the other victims of Indifference.

In 1918 Cesare Magnozzi, a roman photographer, is drafted and together with Don Silvano they escort a soldier to the trench.

A small town in southern Italy is invested by one who will become one of the most important festival of Street Art of the world. Creating a myth through a course of improvisation, chaos and devotion.

Giulia is driving in her car in the dark, silent night. She's hiding a corpse in the trunk. What happened? How did we get to this? And why is Giulia so concerned about hiding the body of a girl with whom she spent a hot night after a crazy disco party? The answers will soon arrive... And so will the consequences of Giulia's acts during this strange night.

Naples, Trajan's district. Initially it was intended for the inhabitants of the shantytowns on the seafront of Naples, who were homeless after the war. But it soon became a kind of ghetto. Alessandro and Pietro are two teenagers who film with an iPhone to tell their difficult neighborhood, their daily life, the friendship that binds them.

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.