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Gigliola discovers, during the trial of her boyfriend accused of theft, that she loves him more as a criminal.

A TV adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's play.

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

A rich, corrupt Southern family plots a nefarious business deal, whilst Regina debates murdering her husband.

The story of Luca, a young man with misguided ambitions, who wants to prove his abilities with a great feat, with a tragic gesture. Here, the story fits into and dissolves into that of Lee Oswald, who kills President Kennedy to go down in history. Brusati wants to portray a wayward youth driven by false heroic ideals.

A clandestine collection of testimonies by anti-Salazarist resistors and army deserters.

Pai Ching-jui traveled to Italy in 1960 and enrolled in the prestigious Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 1962, becoming the first Chinese student ever admitted to the institution. He graduated in 1963 with an experimental short film, Un Amore (鐘情者痴), which he wrote and directed himself — a playful work staging a "love scene" between an actor and a camera. He remains the first Taiwanese filmmaker to have studied cinema in Italy.

The life of the Lucan peasant faces not only atavistic poverty, but also the ferocity of nature. When bad weather rages, the hard-won shelters are at risk of being destroyed by landslides. The only thing to do is to leave home, hoping to find it intact on the way back.

A documentary analyzing how Italians enjoy themselves.

Naples between religion and superstition: pagan and Christian rituals intertwine in the Neapolitan city, with a particular cult for lottery numbers.

A documentary about Sicily and its peculiar customs, with an emphasis on religious rites and the clash of modernity versus traditional values.

To music by John Coltrane, the film mixes quick shots of common objects or still lifes and the fragments of a filmed diary showing some friends on vacation in Torcello, in the Venetian lagoon, walking around reading the newspaper, chatting during lunch, cutting vegetables, playing chess. The shots, taken without a tripod, have a decidedly impressive visual intensity: backlit silhouettes, bright portraits, fruit and shells reminiscent of still lifes. In a convulsive and irrepressible way, with the flow of visual assonances, The little boredom intertwines the pictorial formalism of the compositions with the scenes of everyday life.

A piece of reality, a roman square, observed in a way to achieve a more intense self-perception. –A. L.

Christmas 1963, cemetery of Fortogna, fraction of Longarone, where the victims of the Vajont disaster are buried (9 October 1963). The survivors spent Christmas here, watching over their dead and praying for them: the Christmas tree was brought to the graves. A certainty emerges from the interviews: what matters are the people, not the money.

The hard work of a family of farmers during hay-making season.

Images of the life of the Living, the material that composes it was originally shot for the film: "The Unconscious Rebels". The shots were re-edited following the rehearsals of Mysteries and Antigone.

The documentary moves around the amazing figure of Osiride Pevarello, a circus performer with a very long career in cinema, from Lattuada to Germi, from Ben-Hur to Fellini, up to Tinto Brass. In this exquisitely lively and unexpectedly dense short film, Osiride faces the world by showing off confident steps and assertive vocation, as if he had everything under control and it was not necessary to demand more. Until the beautiful ending, when the voices of the sleeping boys give shape to a desire: to have a home. Osiride, lying on the bed smoking his umpteenth cigarette, as always he cannot sleep before the return of his eighteen-year-old daughter, who works under mistress in a dartboard. We discover the melancholy of a man who would like to leave from there, to find four real walls for his family. The camera moves to let us glimpse the pope's image on the dresser; one should have faith in miracles

Two children are alone on the beach; the little girl plays while the older boy, Enzo, aged seven, collects firewood for the coming winter. Their parents are working, and the two children will have to grow up quickly.

The double point of view about a perfect murder in a short 8mm film, which glues the viewer to the screen while paying tribute to Hitchcock.

A happening that lasted 12 hours in the Feltrinelli bookshop in Rome. The soundtrack (background weaning) was put together by the crowd, recomposing, without listening to them, pieces of magnetic film that had been distributed around. There are almost all the painters, directors and actors of the Roman avant-garde.

In 1966, Luciano Emmer was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to shoot a promotional film for a movie about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston. When the deal with the Americans fell through, Emmer retrieved the footage and edited it into a documentary about Michelangelo the man, exploring the anxieties and fears revealed in his writings. The sound of the chisel on marble blends with that of a heartbeat. The skewed perspectives on Michelangelo’s sculpture reinforce this idea of the difficulty and effort from which the...

A film by Vittorio Cottafavi.

After his father's death in prison, a man hopes to start a new life with his pregnant wife.

A film by Gianfranco Mingozzi.

With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan.

An adaptation of Guglielmo Petroni's book.

Five teenagers decide to steal money from someone who could not accuse them of the theft. Panini, a well-known stockbroker who uses to illeg ally pass money from Italy to Switzerland, is the perfect victim.

A 1968 film by Guido Lombardi.

A very young Marco Melani is divided between reading cinema magazines and watching car racing on TV.

The life of Saint Anthony is intertwined with the seventh centenary of the discovery of his relics.

Written and directed by Sergio Pastore in 1969. Il diario proibito di Fanny is an anthology film starring Giovanna Lenzi as four different women, all named Fanny. The film touches upon all the hot-button issues of 1968: illegal immigrants from the Eastern bloc, the Prague Spring, the Italian star cult and even abortion.

Portrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini and his literary and cinematographic activity in the proletarian Rome.

A poor family struggles to create a small field to cultivate in the middle of a marsh, until nature takes its toll.

Performances by artists in 1968 Rome: Cesare Tacchi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Jannis Kounellis, Aldo Mondino and Nanni Cagnone redefine the boundaries of contemporary art by playing with heterogeneous materials, aluminum wheels, fish, kites, paper planes. The group from via Brunetti performs in piazza del Popolo, reviving the city traffic with by now bizarre means of transport, the velocipede and the tractor, on which, with an Indian scalp on his head, Gino De Dominicis whizzes by, immortalized by the camera before the cult of immortality delivered him to the logic of disappearance.

Graduation essay at the CSC. Torn between two men (Claudio Trionfi and Oddo Bracci) who would like to cage her in a bourgeois and respectable love, Delia Boccardo gives herself to one and the other, then abandons them to their fate.

Made in 1968, within the framework of the activities of the Cinemazero collective, Il balla balla could be regarded as Benvenuti’s own The Big Shave (1967, Martin Scorsese). Influenced by the manners of underground cinema, it provides a timeless indictment of the political and economical exploitation of youths.

All the small islands, even those measuring just a few square meters, that make up the Grado lagoon (province of Gorizia) are inhabited by fishermen. There is one hut per island, rarely two. Fishing is carried out using the ebb and flow of the tide, which exposes and floods vast areas of muddy shallows.

Short documentary focusing on the mountainous region of Belogradčick (north-west Bulgaria).

A machine that creates poetry causes problems.

A film by Gianfranco Baruchello

On a hot summer day, a group of boys of the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many rivers that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes them, approaches them, reveals the gestures and glances, wraps them in a sort of visual dance, while the words of the commentary (entrusted to the poetic sensibility of Pier Paolo Pasolini) narrate the stories, desires, dreams, the future.

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo Gregoretti looks in on a variety of social and ethnic situations throughout Italy. Sexual morés are contrasted, from the quaintly out-of-date courtship in Sicily to the sometimes uncomfortably explicit sexual references in the conversations of the youth at the opposite end of the country. Aside from these manners and morals, there is an examination of what happens when mechanized tools of production begin to take away from the human element at factories and in other industrial venues.

A look into the harsh life of a hard-working couple of terrace farmers in the Valley of Brenta.

Experimental short film by Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi.

The laboratory tests and complex work involved in constructing the dam in the Lei Valley are described in detail to give an idea of the complexity of building the Lei Rhine dam. Among double-curved arch dams, this one has the widest crest in the world. The construction of the dam is punctuated by the long speeches and anecdotes of an elderly master builder.

Between ancient traditions and new cultural and social changes, olive harvesting in Calabria.

The title - a formula, a fraction, a dialectical comparison therefore between two elements intimately united despite their separation.