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George Eastman talking about "Absurd", the semi-sequel to the infamous "Antropophagus", as well as about him working with Joe D'Amato and Michele Soavi.
The Absurd Files
Three girls that live in the same apartment struggle with boys' relationships. They swear to not deal with boys for some time but a mysterious boy goes to live next to their house. Curiosity will make its way.
Il giorno della patata
Capossela denounces the impossibility for mankind to realize the Christian precept: "Love your neighbor as yourself". Thus Christ renounced his mission, made himself poor and ended up poor man. And now he is silent, while the man screams as loud as he can.
Vinicio Capossela: Il povero Cristo
Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mother Margherita. Everything changes when her very existence is overturned by the latter’s sudden and unexpected death.
In viaggio con Adele
MTV Storytellers: Edoardo Bennato
From the Rai Auditorium in Turin, the history of symphonic music told by the great quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Music by the Rai Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco Lanzillotta.
Allegro un po' troppo
Daniela is a confused and problematic girl. She realizes she doesn’t like her body. Maybe she wishes she were a man. As a result she changes identity on the web, posing as Daniele; she meets girls, tells her phantasies, which remain just virtual. Daniela goes into therapy. She tells her story to Doctor Romanini. She announces having met Roberta, a nice girls she has invited to a date, always hiding behind Daniele’s profile. The story between the two girls ends up with an unpredicted epilogue.
Bodyless
In a city where the boundaries have changed greatly, where to go in Slovenia identification, where the barriers (real or metaphorical that they need not even show) have crumbled over the years, where the famous wall of mental hospital was demolished in the seventies thanks to Basaglia revolution, there is a wall that still stands. The wall that separates at the beach "At Lantern" women and men, but commonly called by all Trieste "Pedocin", unique in Europe, the noisy quiet corner, a stone's throw from the city center.
The Last Resort
Ibi photographed and filmed her life in Italy for 10 years. This film is the result of her images, her creativity, and her energy. For the first time in Europe, a film based entirely on the direct and spontaneous self-narrative of a migrant woman, who tells her children in Africa about herself and her Europe. An intense and intimate journey into the difficult, lively, and colorful world of a still unknown visual artist.
Ibi
A Tirone - Da Franco Scaldati
Clash of civilization over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
The beauty transgender Erika arrives in an old house in the country during a stormy night. She is escaping from her violent boyfriend. At first Erika find peace, but day by day strange things begin to happen: voices, shadows - And a man of the nearest village says to Erika that the house is known in the village as "The house of murderers" since the Second World War.
The House of Murderers
Giant spider attack his owner!!!
Spider Danger
After a tragic event, two young sisters, Niki, a teenager, and Alice, only 8, end up at the social services. Determined to stick together, they run away and start a new life...
My Name Is Maya
A group of visionaries decide to take a baroque a statue of Christ where it was planned to be by its sculptor, Francesco Mochi. During the trip, Christ breaks the four-hundred years silence and speaks to John the Baptist.
Colossale sentimento
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Portrait Of My Father
Ice Scream
In 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
Darkside Witches
Milano 2, a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Milan. Built between 1970 and 1979 as a utopic city, it was Silvio Berlusconi’s first ambitious urban project. An area that today, at first glance could look like an anonymous suburb was once the laboratory for the imposition of a new lifestyle, which in the decades of “Berlusconism” spread at a national level and radically transformed the Italian culture.
Two
The representation of women in contemporary Italian media
Women's Bodies
In this new "Marriage of Figaro", Jérémie Rhorer revisits this composer and US film director James Gray makes his first foray into opera. This opera is recorded for broadcast by Louise Narboni.
Le Nozze di Figaro
In the 1940s Italy, a ruined noble family agrees to hide a Jewish family from the Nazis in exchange for gold bars
Nobili bugie
A bartender finds himself crushed by debt after his father's death and decides to repay it by hiding everything from his wife and son, who in the meantime are busy planning his father's wedding.
Uno, anzi due
A boy and girl, a hot July day, a railway station, an encounter.
Encounter
Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.
Antonia
Adele is suffering from a terrifying recurring dream; a dream that often borders on reality, and even enters it in the form of horrible visions which climax during an evening stroll in the center of Rome. The medical findings don't reveal anything noteworthy and her brother, who was with her that evening, is diagnosed with a simple seizure. Faced with a general skepticism, Adele has no other choice but to turn to the unconventional, so she decides to seek out Dylan Dog - a paranormal investigator
Dylan Dog: Victim Of Circumstances
Daydreaming
Three teenagers are involved in a savage and meaningless beating of a street artist
L'assoluto presente
From the Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani takes centre stage in his dual role as conductor and composer, alongside the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. The programme features soundtracks from films by the Taviani brothers, Roberto Benigni and Federico Fellini.
Nicola Piovani con l'Orchestra Rai
A young girl is getting ready to welcome a client at her apartment.The man, transposition of Don Quixote, following a precise ritual, devotes himself to the maniacal cleaning of four rooms. The girl, personification of Dulcinea, eats, reads, paints her nails and smokes. She dress up and she get undress as if Don Quixote is not present there and as if there is no relationship between them. The client, following a pathological scheme, steals some girl’s objects, he puts them in a plastic bag and than inside a small briefcase. Sometimes the objects he fetishizes are destroyed like victims of maniacal bursts. This mechanism leads to the repetition of a celibate and solitary rite.
Dulcinea
Tairo, a young lion-tamer, is unhappy. Losing his lucky charm gives him a reason to set off for a journey across Italy in search of Arthur Robin, a former Mister Universe, who gave him the charm a long time ago.
Mister Universo
Pagine nascoste
After the news of the death of Don Dino, who was transferred to Trentino, Donato leaves to attend the funeral. When he arrives at his destination, he discovers that he has been appointed his deputy in the parish.
Din Don: Il Ritorno
The night misadventures of Saba, a Georgian pizza holder, harnessed by a drifting humanity while his wife is about to give birth to their firstborn.
Pizza Boy
Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.
The First Rules
Saro
Il Segreto di Italia
Ghosts from the past and the present inhabit the old neighborhood of San Berillo, in Catania. It is 1958: while brothels are being shut down all over Italy, San Berillo is razed to the ground and its inhabitants are deported to the suburbs. A piece of the neighborhood, however, remains intact and thousands of prostitutes from all over Italy find shelter there, creating one of the biggest red light districts in the Mediterranean. Until 2000, when a police raid forces the neighborhood's inhabitants to abandon their homes once again.
The Ghosts of San Berillo
A young geologist, called by an architect, goes to a home where paranormal phenomena occur due to extreme thermal swings. One time Settled in the home, the researcher will find himself in a spiral of horror and delirium...
The Antithesis
Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.
Arianna
A community of monks lives isolated from the world, practicing martial arts and following the master’s strict rules. This film investigates their harsh life and the flow of Time in unique closed environment, to approach deep motivations of a radical choice, and the reasons that pushed the monks away from their affections.
Faith
Antonio and Giuseppe meet at the hospital, while awaiting the birth of their respective first children. The two leave together for a quick lunch, ending up involved against their will in an odyssey of amusing setbacks and bizarre characters.
Tutto molto bello
The Tuscan Giuseppe, after a lifetime spent working in a company in Biella, reaches the well-deserved retirement; but soon he is forced to confront the boredom of retired life.
Tutta colpa della musica
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio.
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts
Several figures associated with Cinico TV talk about its inception, its rise, and the context in which it took place.
Cinico in TV
The feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
Il sogno del maratoneta
Metamorphosis is a project created by Jacopo Giacomini and Roberto Gentile in which psychologists, psychotherapists, personal growth trainers, life teachers participate… Its purpose is not to document Fabrizio Corona's change, but to promote a vision of life through a journey of self-awareness and personal growth.
Metamorfosi
After finish his work Marchino finds the body of a teenager girl and goes to BarLume to call the police who don't believe him after his infamous past. Massimo goes to check and here starts a new story of BarLume.
I delitti del BarLume - La briscola in cinque
A pair of twisted tales from two filmmakers that are quickly emerging as the next generation of Italian Horror directors. Episode One: Celeste and her husband rent a country house for the holidays. An earthquake recently destroyed part of the small town, and the house seems to have been recently renovated ... but with much haste. Often alone in the house, Celeste begins to experience horrible visions that seem to emerge from the cracks in the walls. As her mind begins to slip away,she continues to see and hear things that can't be explained, especially to her skeptical husband. Episode Two: Yuri and Max have been friends for a lifetime, spending their evenings drinking and discussing their lives. But this particular evening will be their last.
Shock: My Abstraction Of Death
At an elementary school in Rome, a young substitute teacher begins to read chapters from the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to her new and very young pupils. Soon afterwards, bizarre things start to occur, as reality and dreams merge and the children themselves become characters in a new version of L. Frank Baum's original OZ fairy tale…
The Little Wizards of Oz
A Mozart opera at La Scala in Milan.
The Abduction from the Seraglio
Apollo Astronauts: Training NASA's Moon Men
In a German concentration camp in occupied Poland, a group of prisoners prepared a symbolic Olympic Games. The German Nazis discovered their plans and agree to face them in competitions to prove their racial superiority.
Hidden Olympics
Boia, maschere e segreti: l’horror italiano degli anni sessanta
Luca is a shy and insecure guy and is hard to get along with. He has a problem with gay people: he is always very uncomfortable with them. One night, in spite of himself, he will have to face the problem and confront once and for all with himself.
False Negative
The Italian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi performs Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances for Orchestra op.45.D
Rachmaninov: Danze Sinfoniche per orchestra Op.45
Milan is a Belarusian immigrant who arrived in Rome with the dream of being able to change his life but, unable to take advantage of his degree in engineering, he finds work as a fake centurion, in front of the Colosseum and dealing with the crowd of tourists with whom he has his photo taken. His employer is Sergio, a former stuntman and self-styled invalid who is busy with a thousand imaginative jobs just to make some money and who shares a house with his sister Maria, a hotline operator. As the competition in front of the Colosseum becomes increasingly tough, Milan devises a plan to defeat everyone and, using his university studies, builds a real chariot with which to attract as many customers as possible.
Benur: Un Gladiatore In Affitto