Author Roberto Curti on the mysterious life and career of Writer/Director Warren Kiefer.
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With “Opera in the Embassy,” a bridge between France and Italy, a new opera season begins. French and Italian arias will be performed by young artists from the Fabbrica-Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Académie-Opéra national de Paris in an exceptional concert at Palazzo Farnese and the Hôtel de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville.
L'Opera in Ambasciata a Roma e Parigi
An Italian middle-class family, during lunch, talks about the problems that afflict our nation.
Quasi ora
When three estranged friends are entrusted to scatter their friend's ashes in the mountains they met 30 years earlier; they must rediscover a past they've turned their back on, and remember what true female solidarity is all about.
40 & Climbing
Luca and Linda don't know each other but they have many things in common: both aspiring writers and both caged in a life that doesn't satisfy them either from a professional or emotional point of view. One day Linda will forget her diary in a pub and Luca will find it and start reading it and be fascinated by it. It will only be the beginning of a strong and unexpected bond.
Tra le righe
In-depth interview with George Eastman on his work (acting and screenplay) in Michele Lupo's western "Ben and Charlie".
The Ballad of Ben & Charlie
A curious investigation into the world of Pornography in Italy, behind the scenes of a little known and interesting reality. Franco Trentalance, former porn actor with a thousand of interests talks about his life experience starting from his career to the writing to sport passing through good food. He is the protagonist as well as the guide, of this trip.
I'll Be Frank
A possible journey that our imagination can make, as single moments of light in the depth of the night.
Psychedelic
While he is speaking on the phone with a member of his staff, Filippo has a severe headache and faints. As soon as he regains consciousness, he calls his friend Pippo for help and asks him to invite the group of old friends to join, too. Little by little the four friends remind him of happy moments shared in the past and Filippo gradually manages to remember with their help….But something unhappy comes back to their mind….
Back to the Present
Fiori
Stanotte a Napoli
The film recounts failure in a fun and constructive way, often experienced as an indelible shame and almost never as a precious opportunity for growth.
All'alba perderò
Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples, his hometown, and reflects on his youth in an exclusive tour of the locations of “The Hand of God”.
The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino
The extraordinary, complex, nuanced, restless, and rebellious personality of Walter Bonatti is recounted in a docufiction that traces the life of the greatest mountaineer of all time, without neglecting his overwhelming love story with movie star Rossana Podestà.
Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
This is the story of Leonardo and Federico, two students who have never accomplished anything in their lives... Maybe
PLACEBO
Il giudizio
Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…
Our Ghost
Oscar is a thirty years old man who has made his transpecies transition: he feels he is a dog (in the body of a human being). His mother Angela has decided to introduce her son to her partner Gianmarco. But how will he react?
Oscar
United by the dream of setting a new world record as a relay team, five competitive swimmers reveal their lives, hopes and histories.
Ultima gara
Esterno giorno
Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, doesn't fit in the town. Rebelion against authority and a forbidden love makes him to commit a crime accidentally. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.
The Tale of King Crab
Arturo, a placid forty-year-old, unexpectedly receives the visit of an Angel of Death: a sexy woman with a weakness for tequila and younger boys. The supernatural being, Angela, invites him to a quick departure. However, Arturo wants to make a pact with his incorrect escort: he will accept his Destiny only if she helps him take revenge on all those who have made fun of him. The bet is tough: if Arturo disappears from the Register of the Morituri, Angela will lose her immortality. Who between the two will be able to defeat Igli Hasani a second time?
Angela and I
Middle Ages, witch-hunt are out of control in Europe, a man accused of witchcraft desperately takes refuge in a forest, but the real danger to escape from is a sinister legend, more menacing than reality.
Witch's Heart
Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.
Lei mi parla ancora
Two previously unknown families see their lives turned upside down when a seemingly insignificant mistake leads them to a shocking discovery about their children's identities. The film is based on a true story.
Sisters Forever
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
The pianist Simone Soldati – who has devoted much of his attention over the years to the music of Luigi Boccherini – and the Quartetto della Scala (Francesco Manara and Daniele Pascoletti, violins; Simonide Braconi, viola; Massimo Polidori, cello) perform two of the Lucca-born composer’s quintets for piano and strings.
Quintetti per pianoforte e archi
Interview with actor George Eastman on his involvement in Joe D'Amato's action movie "Endgame".
After the Bomb
In Calvi, a small town in Umbria, a photographer meets a young woman. The spark of love immediately caught fire between them. They kiss passionately. A moment later, the woman disappears. He looks for her everywhere in the town but he finds her where he least expect it.
Un Amore
A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
A Girl Returned
A lone robber riding a maxi scooter, each time looking different, robs one bank and jewelry store after another, always managing to slip away through the streets of Rome. To solve the case, Commissioner Murena asks for help from a friend in Paris, known as the Frenchman, a former commissioner with a keen instinct. The solution will be surprising.
Blue Eyes
The protagonist, after years spent in war-torn Syria, decides to return to Italy, to finally put behind his terrible experiences, and regain his life. But in order to do so, he will have to pay a very high price.
Code: Karim
The film is about American serial killer Robert Hansen, known in the media as the “Butcher Baker”, who abducted, raped and murdered at least 17 women between 1971 and 1983.
La perdición
The Italian Banker
Digitare il codice segreto
A short by Matteo Garrone to present the Dior Spring Summer 2021 Haute Couture Collection.
The Castle of the Tarots
Under threat of eviction, an old man hides himself inside his flat, ready for anything - except the cruel twist of fate that will force him to reassess his whole life.
The Angel in the Wall
The documentary tells how Bonaparte's passion - sometimes Bonaparte's obsession - for art and knowledge, has changed the face of modern culture: from the birth of schools, libraries and public museums (including Brera and the Louvre) to foundation of Egyptology thanks to the Egyptian campaign, from the extraordinary archaeological discoveries to the looting of works of art, up to the paintings and sculptures dedicated to him. We will enter the mind of Napoleon and his literary predilections, his psychology, his immoderate passion for self-affirmation, which so much inspired men of power, intellectuals, dictators over the following centuries.
Napoleon: In the Name of Art
Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary.
Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano
The filmmaker spent a year at Atelier Colla, one of the world’s largest and oldest puppet theatres, which has existed for some 300 years and houses over 3,000 puppets. In reverse chronology, the film – which was written by an artificial neural network – depicts the rituals of the puppeteers.
Fingerpicking
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
The Hidden Child
Free - Liberi
Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a decent person at heart—and so when his father dies he's passed over in matters of succession. His pride wounded, he doesn't resign himself and tries to be his own boss, only managing to make a fool of himself. When he finds out that his daughter is dating to the son of the judge prosecuting the new boss, Tonino sees the opportunity to prove himself in front of his family and all of Naples.
Benvenuti in casa Esposito
Film fantasma
A comedy special and reuniun of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo.
Abbiamo fatto 30...
In Faenza, Italy, a dysfunctional family gathers for occasional dinners, and as untold truths are revealed, things gradually become rocky.
That's Fine
A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world. We are at the dawn of Argentina's most delirious decade, and the young immigrant feels that the vast promise of this country is within his grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
Hugo in Argentina
Mr. Imbruttito, a leading executive of a large multinational, lives the routine in his hectic Milan. Breaking this balance is Brusini, an eccentric entrepreneur at the head of an economic empire, who for an absurd reason blows up what for the Brutito is the business of life. For the first time, the Ugly one feels the pinch, falls into depression, can no longer find a reason to wake up in the morning. The turning point comes from Brera, a longtime friend, who proposes to the Bruttito the purchase of a Chiringuito in Sardinia, to do business in flip-flops and finally be able to say: "I quit everything and open a chiringuito!"
Mollo tutto e apro un chiringuito
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an entrepreneur. His business is women - because he sells them. The life of a women salesman is not an easy one, though. The meeting with Carla and a night in the town will change his life forever. Bravo will have to go through his painful past and fight the ultimate battle.
Notes from a Women Salesman
Old friends meet in an isolated house tucked away in a remote Sardinian valley. Defeated by their own lives, the men travel through their memories and escape the present moment by taking refuge in the past. As the present offers them no way forward, their only way out is through alcohol and drugs.
The Giants
A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.
Journey into the Twilight
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…
I Am Santa Claus
In an undefined place and time, the young Fadi flees from a country at war, taking with him a violin case that he never parts with. Accompanied by a group of other migrants, Fadi crosses deserts and seas on a journey fraught with obstacles. Along the way, he meets the mysterious Naila and a group of other young people who do not make his life easy. At the end of their journey, upon arriving at the long-awaited land of Spes, the travelers find themselves facing an insurmountable wall.
La custodia
Passionate for climbing, Allegra is victim of a terrorist attack, in which her friends lose their lives. She isolates herself after crushing fear towards people and a burning desire for revenge start devouring her. Her beloved ones are helpless. In order to be able to go back enjoying her life, she will have to face her inner struggles. In doing so, Arad – a young refugee from Middle East – crosses her path. Allegra’s greatest challenge will be regaining trust, especially when the element of diversity is involved.
Atlas
"The Man With The Golden Eye" tells the extraordinary figure of Marco Melani through a live projection of materials collected in over ten years of research. Found footage, unpublished interviews with cinema and television personalities, fragments of films, extracts from television programs, photographs, readings and interventions by the author, intertwine giving voice to a chorus of precious testimonies.
Marco Melani: The Man with the Golden Eye
Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hospitality, picks fruits, herds sheep: anything that keep his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.
My Body
From Orvieto Cathedral, the Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Zubin Mehta, featuring Eva Mei (soprano), Francesca Cucuzza (mezzo-soprano), Valentino Buzza (tenor) and Emiliano Cordaro (bass). Choirmaster: Lorenzo Fratini. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, K. 550, Coronation Mass, K. 137, and Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618.
Concerto di Pasqua dal Duomo di Orvieto 2021
A father and a daughter with the dream of becoming an influencer clash until they meet the famous webstar and idol of the girl.
Genitori vs influencer
In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a zoom lens, and a few meters of expired film.
Four Roads
Film inspired by the career of the Italian singer Nada.