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The camera turns, slowly; we are near a hill, in a world where everything is absurd. The "voice actors" recite a banal script overlapping, in perfect synchrony, the actors' mouths and gestures. The setting and costumes have no relation to the scene. A voice actor recites Shakespeare instead of the script; the confusion continues when the scene ends.

Elia plays soccer on the beach and on the dirt fields of a remote village in Sicily, where one day Michele, a talent scout for Serie A, arrives. His target should be some boys from the local soccer school who are shown and recommended to him through more or less legitimate means, but his attention is immediately captured by the innate skill of 18-year-old Elia, who has the mind of a 12-year-old. It is the summer of 2006 when the two meet; Italian soccer is on one hand shaken by the Moggi scandal, and on the other hand exalted by the victory at the World Cup in Germany. The boy’s life could be ready for a change, but so could Michele’s, who despite his professional appearance, is not doing very well.

Stage director Emilio Sagi's production of the legendary Barber of Seville is enriched by a bright distribution. Maria Bayo returns to one of her signature role as Rosina, opposite Juan Diego Florez, the Rossini expert tenor. The title role is embodied by the Italian baritone Pietro Spagnoli, while Ruggero Raimondi and Bruno Pratico reconcile the audience with Don Basilio and Don Bartolo.

The friendly Nut-Nuts have to contend with the mischievous Mog-Mog population who have seen fit to steal their large supply of the mouth-watering chocolate cream. And as in any self-respecting fairy tale, the good guys prevail over the mischievous Mog-Mogs thanks to the help of a kindly Princess and the Great Sage. With a grand finale that will bring everyone together.

Doctor Zacchìa is the headmaster of a medicine and natural science school, where official subjects together with unusual disciplines are taught, for example, thanatology, apocryphal zoology and taxidermic sculpture. Zacchìa usually rents out an old house to some of his students he selects with particular care, considering their nature and ambitions. Among these students, there are Tadeusz and Berenice, a young couple obsessed with spontaneous generation and the creation of a human being from nothing; Nataniele, a researcher of angels who is grappling with an apple coming from the same tree that originated the sin; Cassandra, a young victim of a peculiar case of apparent death; Giona, an artist who is fond of collecting objects and creating a wunderkammer; and Rebecca, an old toys restorer. Doctor Zacchìa Follows the students' inclinations with great attention, trying to support them in their interests. But the doctor is a keeping a secret!

In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.

Nightfall. Marco, a politician, is murdered while he is going home. Also Luca, a gay man, is going home, where his partner Paolo is waiting. But he is on the killer's way, and he is shot. Paolo dashes to the hospital but the doctor doesn't want to tell him anything because Paolo isn't a "real" relative. Luca dies. Paolo starts walking in the streets of the town, where his loneliness will be ever misunderstood. A barman tries to comfort him supposing he was discharged by his girlfriend. Luca's mother orders Paolo to leave the house. A guy takes Paolo to him's, looking for a partner in the night. Paolo runs away from everybody, also from his friend Francesca: she says she is understanding but she can't. While the dawn is coming, Paolo reads about the murders on the newspapers, and realizes that what happened was reality.

A group of Indian illegal immigrants are unloaded from a truck in the Lazio countryside. Among them, a young man and an old man. The latter, exhausted, stops under a tree and asks the young man to bring him some water. Narada – the young man – goes down to the valley, where he comes across a girl on her scooter who has broken down.

Documentary about sustainable agriculture and food.

Brazil 1839. Aninha Ribeira da Silva, called Anita, is a bubbly and passionate 18-year girl, who dreams to leave the small town where she lives. All of the girl's dreams, however, fade away when Manuel, an aged craftsman who lives nearby, asks her to marry him and her mother persuades her to accept so that she can help support her family. While Anita sheds hot tears for that forced marriage a young Italian seaman, who had been sentenced to death by the Genoa martial court, lands in Rio de Janeiro.

"In the rolls of film shot by Dinz Rialto during his travels he searched for 'real' images, without filters, paradoxically finding them precisely where the act of filming is most evident. Those looks in the camera surprised me, intimidated me, just like those faces that appear amazed and shy in front of the camera: unaware actors of a frontal cinema, so direct as to push me to step aside and become a mirror in my turn, to move on to others those looks, isolated, free from any narrative. No story: just glances, held and slowed down to maintain the intensity."

A Donatello award nominated short film about a family who grow up and develop between 1952 and 2008.

Summer 1944. Rosa's dramatic passage into adulthood from childhood carried through her first love story.

A young Russian woman who is actually a vampire is being used by a prostitution ring. They are in fact supplying girls to be killed by rich and perverted clients. She finds the list of the clients involved in this traffic and starts her revenge.

In an Italian province of Calabria. Here we meet Marcello, his brother Paolo and their father, who have lost everything except hope of a better life on the other side of the Atlantic in America, where their uncle had emigrated to the year before last. Leaving their homeland and memories behind, Paolo and Giancarlo set sail for the New World. During their voyage, Marcello meets a daring orphan from Naples by the name of Antonia who will constantly lend him courage through thick and thin.

"Caravaggio, l'ultimo tempo" is a 2004 documentary directed by Mario Martone and based on the life of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

A Donatello award nominated short drama.

The film is an investigation that punctually reconstructs the story of the boss of bosses Bernardo Provenzano: from his rise to the top of the dome to the end of his very long fugitive life. An intense and painful road movie among disturbing testimonies, trial depositions, statements by judges, lawyers and investigators, punctuated by chase scenes reconstructed with the pace of a thriller. The Cosa Nostra chief's 40-year fugitance comes to an end on April 11, 2006, when Provenzano is arrested in a cottage near Corleone.

Documentary about Franco Piavoli

A Donatello award nominated short drama about some wartime children who are allowed to live in a derelict old factory so long as they loot other bombed-out buildings for the soldiers.

Koko, a rich and fascinating Japanese lady arrive in a small Italian village on the lake and shake all the people with his conduct. Giorgia, a young and chaste flower girl who live with her grim grandmother, destined to a religious life and to a marriage with a gross truck farmer, take a fancy to the beautiful Koko. Giorgia will get a sentimental education from Koko and she will start to understand what it means to be free and independent.

Alex, a young man who does dialysis treatment, struggles not to allow his health condition to take over his life.

This is the first volume of the true story of Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo in the Mondadori humorous series. This first cult object of the series contains two hours of laughter, provoked by the version of the show "I Corti", in the splendor of its complete remastering, and by an hour and twenty minutes of special content including unpublished sketches, interviews, comments and anecdotes behind the scenes.

Monsters and Pirates is an Italian animated series, about a pirate named Flinn and his crew, where piracy is taught at a school.

Documentary about the night when Pier Paolo Pasolini died, trying to clarify what really happened back then.

Oscar, an adorable and bizarre alien from Pianota, the planet of Music, is forced to land on Earth due to a malfunction in his spaceship. Here he befriends Tommy, a brave and charismatic 10-year-old boy who receives a series of ultra-technological gadgets for each mission from his inventor uncle, Prof. Leonard. The two, united by their passion for music and love for all races, experience exciting adventures together in every corner of the world, solving mysteries and saving people in danger.

A documentary on the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA (1969) features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew.

Two young film authors, Angelo and Lillo, the former a screenwriter, the latter a director, try in every way to present their works to Mr Piras, a successful producer now converted to television production. The faithful secretary filters all appointments, therefore for Angelo and Lillo it is impossible to make contact with the producer. Nothing is left to do but take up arms.

Inspired by the biblical story "The Golden Calf", the film evokes the history of this cult: a false divinity, a mask placed on the face of the true god by the idolatry of the people.

David McVicar’s production of Giulio Cesare manages to combine serious insight with entertainment, bringing Handel's masterpiece to life in a powerful, convincing and highly intelligent way. ln every line of the complex narrative the subtle nuances are apparent, reflecting perfectly the transparent and exquisite nature of Handel's musical expression. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound, the outstanding singing of the all-star cast, led superbly by Sarah Connolly, and the vivid playing of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under the energising baton of William Christie reveal the colour and dramatic character of Handel’s music in a most delightful manner.

In the past decades there was many UFO sights and abduction in nord Italy, and an old prophecy know only to Vatican high prelate talk of some "living being" that must come. In "31 april 2004" some spaceships arrive in Genoa, their pilots are part of a millions years old human species, that leave the Earth eones ago. After a brief period of friendship and cultural exchange the alien take control of the city during a big football match.

Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal story from its ancient Greek roots to the timeless present, where, he says, “the union of chorus and dancers feels inevitable and inseparable.” With costumes by Isaac Mizrahi and a set designed by Allen Moyer, this production surrounds the action with the superb Met chorus dressed as a crowd of historic characters who bear witness to the transformative power of love. Orfeo (Stephanie Blythe) is so consumed with grief at the death of his beloved Euridice (Danielle de Niese) that the gods (Heidi Grant Murphy as Amor) allow him to lead her back from the underworld—if he will not look at her on the way. Of course he can’t resist looking, but the gods are truly merciful.

A Donatello award nominated short animated feature based on a 17th century Neapolitan song of the sea.

A Donatello award nominated documentary about the renowned guitarist Henry Crolla.

A man finds out his friend is involved in strange occurrences.

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the Italian resistance movement, his later self-exile, acclaimed literary work and its relationship with dialect.

Van Morrison showcases tracks from albums including Keep It Simple, Magic Time and Vanlose Stairway, backed by a full band and joined by guests including guitarist Mick Green and organ maestro Georgie Fame.

Licu is born in Bangladesh and he's a 27 years old muslim living in Rome, in a rented house with eigth other people. He works in a warehouse in the morning and in a deli shop at night: 12 hours a day. One day he receives a photo from his family of the spouse they choose for him, so he must take four weeks of unpaid holidays to get back in Bangladesh and set up his marriage with a girl he doesn't know. But in his country things are about to get complicated.