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A child of war, born to a Neapolitan girl and an American soldier after World War II, James Senese was raised in the outskirts of Naples, of which he witnessed the transformation from countryside to suburb. In a fifty-year-long career, he has searched for an identity in a changing world, pouring his conflicts into his music. The documentary paints a portrait of the man and the artist, tracing the beating heart of his trajectory back to the formation of the band Napoli Centrale in the early Seventies, and investigating the latest evolution of that musical endeavor.

Love happens when a romantic obsessed with astrology pretends to be going steady with a rational scientist, hoping that the parents will think everything is OK.

The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg.

A bunch of friends stuck in a mountain shelter during a snowstorm on a weekend. They will find out that the only way to be safe is to solve a disturbing mistery that involves all of them: finding out who in the past, has committed a terrible crime. Amid shocking and unexpected revelations, they will come to doubt each other.

Alberto Angela presents Stanotte con Caravaggio, the story of the life and works of one of the best known and loved artists of all time: Caravaggio. This unpublished episode of Raiuno is dedicated to him, to his story and to his immortal works, an extraordinary journey into art and the past.

Milan, western suburbs. In one of the nine districts ("zone") of the city, the students of the "Rosa Luxemburg" trade school meditate over the meaning of living in the suburbs. And they do so using their smartphones, filming their days and looking for a common thread among their lives. Crossing and mixing video-diaries, documentary shooting and fictional scenes, the project struggles to take a definite shape: every character and perspective channels the tale in a different direction, escaping from linear narrative lines and bringing us to some kind of archipelago.

When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, a lonely man finds himself caught up in a night of intrigue, where no one can be trusted.

On October 20th, 1959, producer Giuseppe Amato is alone in a screening room, watching Federico Fellini's most famous movie. The working print is more than four-hour long. Fellini would not allow any cut, and distributor Angelo Rizzoli wants to drop the movie. It is the hardest moment in Giuseppe Amato's long career.

With the continuous arrival of migrants to Palermo, a councilor becomes the legal guardian of hundreds of children while also dealing with her own family problems.

Giovanni has just moved with his mother in a new house - an old building they plan to renovate. But the place hides something dark. Something that now is calling from upstairs.

The king of a secret modern-time Medieval kingdom leaves his throne in inheritance to his son, who struggles to lead the kingdom in fight for its independence from the Italian state.

Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.

A detective gets hired to go mediate with an alien that has taken refuge at a hotel in northen Italy.

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sleepless nights and loud music, a noise-injected collage composed of diaristic footage, a found narrative (memories of a popular 60s band), original music and field recordings.

An account of the life of the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the first female artist to get international acclaim, recognized as a modern icon, due to her personality and her unyielding defense of her professional integrity.

Dj Steph is a young radio deejay on the rise, who gained a lot of popularity on social media and every evening hosts a radio show with a large following, during which he receives calls from his fans. One evening, a call chills him to the bone: a cold-blooded stranger announces on live radio that he plans to take his own life, making himself explode in the middle of the city.

A series of unforeseen accidents collide with a seemingly happy young couple and their dog, revealing devastating lies, betrayals and their true selves.

Irma, Eugenia, Miranda and Rina are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked by a deep and lasting knowledge over time, united and marked by their essential card games. When they decide to participate in a national buraco tournament and get out of their everyday life, they will suddenly find themselves with their cards exposed. Life always offers a second chance and love can go back to upsetting at any age. After all, it is the game of burraco that has taught him that a game must be played completely, to the end, and that no result is ever taken for granted.

An immigrant works in a laundry to buy a wedding suit. One day he is found stealing a suit from a sick groom who has just been left at the altar. To atone for his sins, he will have to avenge the robbed man.

Marino Faliero opened the sixth edition of "Donizetti Opera" in the restored Donizetti Theater in Bergamo. The orchestra and choir are on stage, while the action takes place in the stalls in an intricate maze of walkways and scaffolding. Riccardo Frizza conducts, with creative direction by Ricci/Forte and staging by Stefano Ricci.

Eduardo de Filippo narrated for the first time by his family. Through unreleased photos, videos, letters and stories of his grandchildren we discover the real Eduardo.

Marco Simon Puccioni rolls the camera into his own home to recount the daily life of his rainbow family, placing focus on the viewpoint of his children

A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.

7 Sins is divided into seven segments, each one unique in its voice, acting, story, and style. While the seven deadly sins are cemented in Catholic Theology and are always the same, the interpretation by any single person is always different, and this assemblage is no exception. This film uses the themes within its subtext and introduces, and then wildly perverts, the punishments associated with the 7 Deadly Sins. The overall atmosphere is one of uneasiness that, in addition to a fair amount of disturbing visuals, is amplified by its pulse-pounding soundtrack.

Even trash has a soul and deserves a second chance. This is what the legend of the Magic Pyramid promises: a legendary place where trash can have a second chance and become Carriers, useful objects once again. Slim, a cardboard box, has finally given up and no longer believes that people like him are given another chance, until an unexpected event changes his fate.

In a near future, a new technology makes us even more alienated and overconnected. Marco, crushed by a boring and monotonous life, is looking for his place in the world. When he meets Nico at a bar’s counter, he thinks he finally found it. But he will end up being just a piece of a bigger game, with disturbing implications.

After years of absence, Nica returns to her native village. Her grandmother’s olive trees are threatened by a bug infestation. Against her father’s will, she fights to preserve the trees and maintain family traditions.

While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obstacles as he tries to get closer to Maria. He has to find out that he is dealing with a supernatural competitor. However, Gregory is determined to take up the fight against the big enemy.

This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’s first foray into the media market, shown on television and in cinemas across Italy in 2016. It clearly had the funding. Emma Dante’s production will not have come cheap – Vanessa Sannino’s costumes are a particular feature – nor would the singers, given that this is as good a Cenerentola cast as any international house might currently muster.

Giacomo drags his son to a club for the selection of a musical talent. Will he be able to move his son out of his own insecurities?

A politician (a brilliant powerfull mayor, well-liked from his fellow citizens, running for elections at Parliament) clashes with a graduate, disappointed and against the current dancer.

The life of a community of mannequins, dealing with purely human activities, metaphor of the stereotypes of our culture. Breaking the rules and warming the hearts is the only truly "alive" presence: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

The vicissitudes and adventures of a group of youngsters, left to themselves while an apparently placid and sleepy life flows undisturbed.

Maria has always played the part of the caring mother and grandmother. Which is what everyone expected from her. A simple question opens her eyes, she realizes that she needs an authentic friendship. For the first time, she asks for help.

Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.

“Slow News” is a contemporary story, a look on reality. It is an analytical documentary film, with a “destruens part” and a “construens part”: arises from the awareness that digital is one of the concauses of the crisis of journalism. But at the same time, it is in the digital world that there are chances to get out of this crisis, because the web is an ecosystem and, like all ecosystems, contains prey and predators, problems and solutions. Because the digital world is real. Digital is part of reality and as we shouldn’t demonize it. Digital is a medium. Men and women acts. “Slow News” is a journey around the world, looking for all those journalistic realities that have chosen to slow down or be “viral responsibly”.

Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.

Antonia and Zeno struggle with their marriage during a surreal dinner - while a mysterious Aztec whistle seems to be influencing their actions.

XVIII century. Winter is upon a tiny and remote mountain community. Young Elk, son of the village chief, suffers from an apparently incurable illness. As the adults leave the village looking for a remedy, Elk and a few other kids remain alone. Only then, a sinister entity emerges from their people’s legends and begins to torment them. A menace only Elk is prepared to face.

New York, May 16, 1888. Visionary Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla is about to introduce an innovative AC asynchronous motor. Before the demonstration, wealthy businessman George Westinghouse meets Tesla privately to get him to sell him his patent and go into business with him. Tesla declines the offer but during the demonstration something happens that will change the world forever.

A remake of the 2005 film "Adam's Aebler." The criminal Adamos, serving his prison sentence in a social rehabilitation community, encounters the blind devotion of Father Ivan. A black comedy with confident sarcasm, cynicism, and irony.

a journey suspended between reality and fantasy during the Venice Film Festival.

Orlando is in his 40s and is "loser" until the 2012 earthquake makes him change his life.

In one of his last interviews, Italian cinema's last emperor retraces his poetic and familiar roots and his long successful career since its beginnings with Pasolini till the last masterpieces. The voice of the Maestro is accompanied by those of two artists and intellectuals very close to him professionally and personally, Roberto Perpignani and Mario Martone.

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

In a time of financial precariousness and descent into poverty, two brothers in Apulia lose everything they own.

Greta is forced to accompany her newly separated mother to a party. For the first time, she will see her as a lonely woman, rather than just a mother.

After a shipwreck, a Syrian girl arrives alone on a Sicilian island. A doctor sets out to find her origins and her mother.