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The title of this documentary short refers to its three important elements: the personal tone (subjective narration), a story about a family of Roma origin, and Woody Allen, a highly-reputed filmmaker from an earlier generation whose subjectivity, American Jewish origins and family-related themes are equally important in his works.

At the end of his latest film, Palabras, Corso Salani indicts against his own crew. A long monologue goes on, while the images of the casting, of the rehearsals, of the set, flow. Lead actress Paloma Calle and the whole crew are accused of destroying the deep artistic and personal bind between Salani and his actress. In doing so, they helped in making the two drift apart. The film is now over, but emotions and feelings felt don't seem to fade out. The frames become the background of a love letter which is violent and desperate, the sign of wasted time, of the bitterness of what is and what could have been.

A Donatello award nominated short film about two young Somali brothers living in Rome with completely different work ethics.

Made from fragments of a found porno film, where the frameline, which divides the images, becomes a mysterious plastic form, struggling in the center of the screen, vertically and horizontally. The blade of the shutter sections the bodies of eros, according to the desires of the film image and its frame.

Portrait-conversation with the writer Nathan Englander.

Experimental short filmed between 1987 and 2002.

A horrific record of reckless acts by the US to the citizens of Fallujah.

"Le storie cantante. Journey among the Cantastorie of Puglia" is a documentary that forms part of a broader research project developed by the authors, tracing the roots of Apulian musical tradition—both written and oral. The journey begins with the imagined arrival of Aeneas on the shores of Porto Badisco. The path is shaped by the testimonies of singers of Southern identity, from Uccio Aloisi to Tonino Zurlo, from Enzo Del Re to the choral ensemble Cantori di Carpino, concluding with Matteo Salvatore. Alongside these performer-authors—cantastorie who can be seen as forerunners of modern singer-songwriters (as in the case of Salvatore)—stand contributions from ethnomusicologist and musician Antonio Infantino, director, actor and writer Moni Ovadia, Neapolitan jazz musician Daniele Sepe, and director and actor Michele Placido.

J's idyll ends unexpectedly and in the most humiliating way: his pleasure-giving object moves to a different world, which J can never hope to be fully part of.

Uto Ughi talks about W. A. Mozart, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in A major for violin and orchestra K 219, with I Filarmonici di Roma; Sonata in A minor for violin and piano K 304, with Marco Grisanti; Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E-flat major K 364, with Dino Asciolla (2003).

A Donatello award nominated short drama about the intense friendship between a boy of nine and a twenty-four year old woman.

Live performance from the Teatro Comunale di Modena

The Attraction of Life Documentary from the Contemporary Circus Festival 2005, in collaboration with the Municipality of Brescia.

Reprise of the play of the same name staged by Carlo di Maio, loosely based on Thomas Migge's investigative book "Can Love Ever Be Sin?". It stages the confessions of some homosexual priests, their suffering and difficulty in living a "double" diversity.

ROMA is a hastily drawn together documentary/essay on Rome, drawn from a large amount of material collected over two or three years, and put together in haste for an Italian television commission. The material had all been done for myself, but this particular collection of material was drawn together under a deadline and time limitation set by others. As such I feel it is only partly my own expression, done under the gun for other interests, and to make some needed money. As such this work is compromised - while clearly my own in vision, it is not what I would really do with the material, to which I hope sometime to return. But in the meantime it provides a glimpse of Rome - its deep history, its opulent arts, and its sprawling contemporary urban reality.

Dedicated to Pasolini's death and his commemoration in the years following his passing.

Looks back at the Sciuscià, its success abroad, its influence on later filmmakers, its Oscar win, and the social conditions at the time of its production.

A Donatello award nominated short feature.

Stage recording of Leonardo Pieraccioni performing at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, his first stand-up comedy routine in 10 years.

In 2009 Lucio Dalla revised his repertoire in a symphonic-chord version: the result is a masterpiece where hits such as Caruso, Anna e Marco, Futura take a truly emotional form. In this live performance made in the splendid setting of the Greek Theater of Tindari, the Bolognese singer-songwriter in a unique experience with string quintet and piano.

A Donatello award nominated short feature that follows two elderly neighbours after one inherits a dog that kills his friend's beautiful white cat.

Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.

A video by Tonino De Bernardi

It was one of the bloodiest and most mysterious battles of the Second World War in Italy. In Ortona, a small seaside town in the Abruzzo region, Germans and Canadians literally fought street by street, house by house, even room by room. Why did everyone want to conquer Ortona in December 1943? What was so important about it? Why was it forgotten so quickly afterwards? And what secret does Ortona hide until this day? Amazing library footage, never before heard eyewitness accounts, documents that have remained secret until now, recently found German photographs and moving re-enactments help us to relive not only the political and military climate of the time, but take us back to the narrow alleys of the time, standing side-by-side with the soldiers to discover the embarrassing truth that has remained hidden for over half a century.

A film completely excavated by rephotographing rolls of 35mm negative containing images made with the photo-finish (slit scan) technique, the so-called foto-lunga which has no frame line and therefore no individual frames. This sort of proto-film was born not as a film, but as a photograph; I caused it to transmigrate—using a horizontal scanning motion of the filmstrip typical of photo-finish—into a film, thus betraying its natural verticality. I rephotographed the photofinish negative through the gate of an old 35mm moviecamera causing it to advance using the crank handle at a velocity interpolated between the crank handle [of the old 35mm moviecamera] and that of my own [16mm] movie camera. I was interested in seeing figures transformed which had been destined to remain motionless and to see them reanimated.

Peace, joy and pancakes! This is also the case in little Karichen's house. When little Karl meets his mother and his father Albert, a dealer, on Christmas Eve. When he sees the man who has just done the “big deal” having a quickie in the kitchen, he is overcome with anger! Spurred on by his father's white "snow", he mutates into a brutal, brain-dead killer!

A man prays before the moonlit sky, a silhouette in the blue night, on his knees. The gently moving trees, the mountains on the horizon.

The voyage of our catamaran Arawa continues, as we travel through the Indonesian archipelago, discovering hidden treasures and mesmerizing stories.

Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him in danger as the women he's betrayed -- and their suitors -- begin to seek revenge. A modern-day setting proves the timeless nature of Mozart's popular opera, performed with the Vienna Philharmonic as part of an epic presentation of all 22 of the composer's stage works at the 2006 Salzburg Festival, in honor of his 250th birthday.

A strange encounter with an unknown man from a story a harpist tells to his friend during a recording session.

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity.

"La posa infinita" puts on stage, yet again, the gap between mobile/immobile that emerges from the interface of cinema/photography, under the appearance of an ancient group portrait where the immortalized characters reacquire life artificially through minimal movements and an ambient sound that give the image crystallized in time, the feeling of something taking place “live”. An instant dilated to infinity represented by the waiting period before the snap.

Behind the scenes of "Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino.

Costume designer Piero Tosi discussing his involvement working on Death in Venice.

A tribute to the human and artistic greatness of a genius that continues to surprise us.