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A film in four episodes, each one describing a special love story in today’s Italy.

A brief look into the disruption of expectations and also jackets.

A monster stalks the corridors of an abandoned mansion, targeting those curious enough to find themselves inside. Two friends break in and discover that all exits have been sealed off. The creature that hunts them is growing hungry for their blood and there is no escape…

Sebastian Brody is a profiler who works for the FBI. When his wife is killed before his eyes by a serial killer who has escaped from prison, whom he had brought to justice some time before, he leaves everything behind and moves to Sicily. One night, due to a strong storm, the electricity goes out. Sebastian goes into the shed to try to start the generator but, in the darkness, he trips over a cable on the ground, pulling down a metal shelf. He discovers a hidden niche in the wall containing a box with six female scalps inside.The scalps belong to a serial killer who killed in the area twenty-five years earlier, nicknamed "the Hairdresser" by the press. The ones found by Sebastian would be his trophies. The killer was never caught and now seems to have returned to strike.

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.

Two men must struggle to travel to Prague for Champions League Football Final match.

Evelyn is the CEO of a Major fashion brand and is an honest and sweet woman. Evelyn loves his job and his company, but the global crisis is coming. What is it like going bankrupt? How it feels to be at the head of a family business? SFashion is an Horror-Drama about doing business in Europe.

Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the same show. Then Bella is fired, due to a drop in the ratings. She storms out of the TV studio and has a terrible car accident on the way home, leaving her disfigured. Yet what might well seem to be the coup de grace for Bella’s career turns out to be the perfect occasion to relaunch her own image...

The arduous story of a witness: Marco. His family is forced to live in the shadow, threatened by the executioners and with no protection from the government. The dream of a kid, Matteo, who asks his father to buy him a helicopter to play with. He wants to save a little man who is drowning in a sea of blue cloth. Will Marco succeed fulfilling that dream and save the man in the sea?

1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaking with traditional narrative structure. The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax' alter ego: as lovely as Louise Brooks, as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontana's slashed canvases, as knowing as Bob Dylan's lyrics, and as freewheeling as Charlie Parker's compositions.

Having escaped from Afghanistan when still a child, Ismail now lives in Europe with his brother Hassan. After several disturbing phone calls, Ismail will have to face the destiny of his family, counting the cost of the senselessness of war and the history of his people, the Hazaras.

Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.

Vivaldi's opera L'incoronazione di Dario staged by Teatro Regio di Torino, conducted by Ottavio Dantone

The portrait of eight young protagonists that have to deal with everyday female issues and those still to come. Eight different personalities confront each other and learn many lessons from their encounters. What keeps them united is the shadow of the night, intimate and mysterious, and the magical and invisible bond which unites all women.

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

Sicily, 1965. Franca is being forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community but she rebels against the established custom.

A glass in free fall. Have you ever thought if it is possible to calculate into how many pieces it can break into? After numerous experiments, a team of researchers succeeds in doing just this apparently impossible task. Attracted to their experiment, a mysterious professor invites the scientists in his isolated mansion to know more about their studies. However, when they arrive, they are not greeted by their host but they are faced with a strange model of the mansion, in which some absolutely normal but incredible actions are acted. The researchers will soon understand to be involved in a new experiment in which they'll have to play a very different role than usual: that of the glass in free fall.

“Why did you kill her?” Lou asks Philippe again. The life-odyssey of Joana, a modern-day Moll Flanders, continues as she moves through different times and places, like the stations of a personal via crucis, with occasional leaps into the present. From Paris to Rome and on to São Paulo. The body has lost every value, except the economic one.

Lucia and her 17-year-old son Gabriel only have each other. The father left the family when Gabriel's older sister Anna died of leukemia eight years ago. Now Lucia works in a hospice, where she befriends retired professor Redetti and other palliative care patients, who know nothing of Lucia's personal tragedy. Over time, they help her understand how to "live the unliveable."

A man and his two children are late for their flight. While they wait for the next flight something happens that changes his point of view about being a father.

After turning state's evidence against a gangster for whom he was laundering money, a corrupt and self-absorbed accountant finds redemption when he is forced to perform community service at a clinic for the disabled.

A short movie based on a true story; no dialogues, only sounds and images. In a construction site of an international airport, a migrant labourer works for a few money; suddenly he's disquieted by an annoying jangle who distracts him and forces him to a vital decision.

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer helping the inmates — however, like a modern-day Cinderella, every day he must leave and be back to his cell before midnight... will they manage to live happily ever after?

The short's main characters are Simone - a young and ambition-less unemployed man, and the titular Djinn - an ancient and powerful genie that is reduced to grant wishes in a small suburban office. The first of the two wishes for a job, whereas the second only wishes to steal as many wishes as possible to his "customer", to obtain as many years of life for himself. Both characters are running from a crisis: Simone from the economic depression, and the Djinn from a crisis of the imagination that is perhaps a direct consequence of the first.

In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome Film Festival.

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.

A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday.

Puccini s last and unfinished opera tells the tale of Turandot, the cruel daughter of the Chinese emperor, who demands that her suitors correctly answer three riddles. If they fail they are beheaded. Turandot does this in memory of a female ancestor who was brutally ravished and murdered by a marauding prince. Many have failed her test, the latest being the Prince of Persia who will be executed at moonrise. Watching is Calaf, son of the King of Tartary, who on seeing Turandot is captivated by her beauty and he takes up the challenge. With Rosario La Spina cast as Calaf, Susan Foster as the icy princess and Hyeseoung Kwon as the loyal slave girl Liù, the singing throughout is superlative. The choreography and direction of Graeme Murphy is visionary, add the set and costume designs of Kristian Fredrikson, and the lighting of John Drummond Montgomery and this production is glorious in its beauty.

From the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, maestro Ennio Morricone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with the choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the participation of Massimo Ranieri.

The story is about Eva, a Ukrainian girl who has come to Milan to work as a model. As soon as she arrives in Italy she attracts the attention of the male world. All of the men that she encounters seem to be solely interested in exploiting her beauty: and so we have Luke, the stalker, who never stops tormenting her with text messages and phone calls; Airoldi, the shady television producer, who offers her various jobs in exchange for her sexual favours, and lastly, Tom, a vile photographer, who has no scruples whatsoever. After being raped at a party by Tom and two of his colleagues, Eva is invited by Cindy, her flatmate, to a sort of Sabbath, attended solely by women, in a place outside Milan. From that moment on, the gateway to success in the fashion world opens before Eva and, at the same time, a tremendous vendetta begins against the violent male world.

The story of the day, from early morning to night, of Mary, a confused but dynamic woman who pursues her career as an actress, but is lost in the fragmentation of the Roman daily. A newspaper that revolves around what seems to be the only source of livelihood for the Eternal City: tourism. Let's see Maria run from the theaters to check-in at the tourists and from check-in to screening in a frenzy that will blur in comical and grueling situations.

On the evening of June 27, 1980, a DC9 of the private airline Itavia disappeared from radar screens without sending any emergency signal. The aircraft, stabilized in cruise at 7.600 meters above sea level, sank into the Tyrrhenian Trench, between Ponza and Ustica. 81 people lost their lives, including 14 children. There are three hypotheses about the disaster, but none has ever been proven, until the analysis of the findings and documentary material reveals a fourth, chilling possible cause of the disaster.

A drama film based on the life of Mario Mieli, a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s.

A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor street seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate.

Silvia is a 35-year-old taxi driver from Rome. She's an energetic, witty and indipendent woman but she still hasn't found her soulmate: any man she meets turns out to be a disappointment in the end.

This short film was made from strolls and spinning filmed in Super 8 as well as sound walks recorded in the city of Rome in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Crossing Rome, walking, filming, was looking for the a necessity which links geography to the intervals of the city, the movement of walking and the movement of images. A work literally in progress focused on the exercise of walking and the accumulation of video, sound and cinematographic traces: for Rome to emerge, perhaps...

A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable Nazi experiments on innocent people. Riddled with history, the demonically possessed castle overtakes the crew turning their nightmares into a terrifying reality.

Greg owes his girlfriend, Amy, a favor. It's time to clear out the home of her deceased grandparents: a dilapidated villa consumed by creeping ivy and the passage of time. But an unseen presence in the house wants to play a violent game with him. One of blood splatter, disappearance, and cardboard boxes.

With Roland Petit’s cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre-Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit’s deft condensation of Victor Hugo’s epic and tragic novel is now renewed by two stars of our own time, Roberto Bolle and Natalia Osipova: a stunning tribute to Petit’s genius after his death in 2011. Recorded live at Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 2013.

Songs and singers from Naples, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are the protagonists of a film that crosses one of the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world. An exceptional orchestra for a repertoire that speaks of love, sex, jealousy, immigration, protest.

Euripides' Heracles, a passionate tragedy of intense pathos, performed by an all-female cast and directed by Emma Dante at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.

In the shadow of earthquakes which have devastated several parts of Italy, this poignant tale is centered around the last remaining inhabitant of a town destroyed by this natural disaster. Elia (Sergio Rubini) has no intention of leaving his ghost town of Providence which was struck by an earthquake years earlier. While he spends his days in the company of the memories of his wife and his idyllic past life, the rest of the population has moved downstream into the new community housing. Every so often, someone comes to visit him: the local teacher, his friend Gesualdo, and the mayor. But it is a different and wholly unexpected presence which begins to turn Elia’s solitary life upside-down.