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Fourth in the classic artists series: Jethro Tull, from being one of the hottest blues-rock bands of the late 60s to touring with Led Zep, to holding the record for the number of consecutive nights at the la forum, to the first live concert broadcast worldwide, to nearly bringing down the grammys, the life and times of legendary, indefinable rock band Jethro Tull has rarely been dull. Forty years, 2000 gigs, 19 albums, 25 members, 20 million sales & a sex change since a ramshackle group of spotty youths armed with nothing but a bunch of great tunes & a flute launched themselves onto an unsuspecting public at the marquee club in 1968, the key players in their long & illustrious history give for the first time, their side of a complex & intriguing story.

This remarcable film describes the struggles in the petrochemical complex of Porto Marghera between 1955 and 2004 - from the point of view of some militant workers. Together with students and intellectuals they formed a group that was active under different names between the early 1960 and the 1980ies. They fought against the bosses, but also against the destruction of the workers health and environmental contamination.

Short film by Antonio D’Agostino.

Steve Jansen's live performance in Tokyo Feb 29th 2008 - filmed in high definition.

In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.

The play rotates around three sisters, whose father was a general who died the previous year. They can't wait to move to Moscow, leaving behind the mediocre provincial life.

A journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.

Three small films for as many reflections on the senses and human knowledge. In the first episode, Emmer reviews with anthological and didactic intent the precepts of ancient philosophy, from Greek to Roman civilization; in the second, working as he did at the beginning of his career on a vast repertoire of pictorial and non-pictorial images, he analyzes the “history of the gaze” in the visual arts, from prehistoric graffiti to medieval altarpieces, from Impressionist and Cubist paintings to modern-day advertising posters; finally, in the third, recounting with irony and lightness a day of solitude in his mountain home, he reflects on the intellectual thinking of writers and great thinkers, relating to his own individual experience as much the words of oral tradition and popular culture as the writings of geniuses such as Shakespeare, Spinoza or Gogol.

An elderly man stands near a swimming pool, looking at a photo of two teenagers, with both tenderness and melancholy. His memories arise as a mixture of reality and dreams. The two young boys, who had served together during the Second World War, meet in a hotel many years later. Their meeting leads to the revival of a love that never died and is now renewed.

Through the testimonies of Israeli and Palestinian mothers living in a land torn apart by endless war, terrified that their children will not return home, the film shows the conflicts and private dramas that tell the story of history. A collection of testimonies of life, everyday moments, archive footage, and private video material to tell stories of pain and anger.

In the vast industrial spaces of the Pomodoro Foundation, Jannis Kounellis is preparing the installation for his "One-Act Play." A humble art, made of steel construction elements and animals, sacks of coal and piles of stones, grease, and fire. A small "film-shadowing," a "resonance of images that still linger in the memory as at the end of a beautiful journey."

It is a unusual documentary that mixes the music of famous opera composer Giuseppe Verdi with places, faces and voices from Piacenza, a nice place in the north of Italy where Verdi lived and composed his music. Probably it could have been more interesting if the musical part was not so preminent...recommended for Verdi's fans

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.

Fragments of what would've been Piero Natoli latest film before his untimely death.

The countryside around the Po delta is dotted with abandoned houses and farmhouses. The landscape appears desertic, almost humanless. Some people shares stories about their bond with the land while the italian writer Gianni Celati documents the tragedy and the loss of values in this new landscape of desolation, with a superb narrative style.

Documentary about the Etna volcano, located in Sicily, Italy.

In 1990, guitarist and vocalist John Martyn embarked on a series of concerts at London's Shaw Theatre, to promote his comeback album 'The Apprentice'. These concerts were filmed and then released on videocassette on the same album. Many years later, a DVD release is now available for the first time, much to the delight of fans of Martyn and his music; the performance is also notable for the presence, as a guest on guitar, of Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd.

Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart opera conducted by Gerard Korsten and directed by Giorgio Strehler.

A visionary voyage in a deserted land where the human race is a distant memory. This fusion of live footage, mirror photography and computer animation set to the pulse of electronic music of Lorenzo Brusci is a hauntingly beautiful elegy for humanity.

Marco Baliani, actor and theater director, writer, arrives in Kenya with the idea of ​​rehabilitating a group of street kids through theatre. The documentary recounts almost three years of this journey at the end of which the boys will leave Nairobi for the first time in their lives to represent their version of Pinocchio in the West.

A young girl witnesses her friend's murder. The killer realizes that he has been seen. A long hunt begins that will last all night, ending in an out of service hotel where the truth of what happened will be revealed.

A Donatello award nominated short comedy feature that takes place in the Italian summer of 1946. The war has ended but there are no signs of peace between fascist Paolo and socialist Luigi.

Compilation of GMM's works

Rome: Andrea Casadei is a young investigator specializing in audio interceptions. Is often encountered in Piazza Navona with his friend Gigi, street artist frustrated and obsessed with success at all costs.

The final interview with journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani. Following his cancer diagnosis, Tiziano Terzani recounts his journey through conventional medicine, alternative medicine and, ultimately, within himself.

Torn apart and enraged by ethnic conflict, Mostar is more like two "ghettos" divided by a big boulevard, than the joyful Montmartre of the Balkans that it was before the war.

Sergio and Angela are expecting a baby. He works in a shopping center in Genoa, while she, a Spanish woman devoted to the Virgin of Pilar, hopes for a miracle. Yes, because their unborn child has serious malformations, and the couple has decided to give birth anyway so that the baby's organs can be donated to other children...

Feature-length retrospective interview with Italian avant-garde filmmaker Paolo Gioli.

The texts of the poet, director, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, read by Toni Servillo and accompanied by archival images, reconstruct the history of Italy since the war through to the 70s: the love for the people, the hatred of the bourgeoisie, the difficult relationship with the youth protest.