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Taking inspiration from Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, Enrico Caria reflects at length on his native country—on the Camorra and the possible existence of the so-called "two cities"—giving life, color, and words to the documentary film Vedi Napoli e poi muori (See Naples and then die). The title is deliberately provocative because it uses the famous saying to denounce the countless murders committed by the Camorra, which reigns supreme in Naples and its surroundings.

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

A recollection of a night spent walking the streets of the Eternal City, following the steps of two young boys: Vlad, a modern Romanian boy of life, and Cosimo who has just moved to the city. Both cross the city from head to toe in search of redemption, liberation or perhaps a place to hide. To find it they will go as far as the sea, as far as the body of a young prostitute, but they will find it, perhaps, only in the feeling that brings them together and binds them.

This documentary tells the stories of eight Palestinian families in Jerusalem who were turned into refugees in their own city. After 40 years, they remember the events that happened in the Mughrabi neighborhood of Jerusalem during the 1967 war. Each family goes to see their home that was occupied in 1948. The houses are located in the Baqa'a, Talbiyeh, Qatamon and Mosrarah neighborhoods of what is now West Jerusalem. Some of the families enter their former homes and have a discussion with the Israelis currently occupying their homes.

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

Eight sailors, four Egyptians and four Indonesians, are locked inside the huge motor ship Kawkab, abandoned in Porto Marghera by an unscrupulous shipowner.

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

Demetrio Stratos from pop charts to extreme radical voice experiments.

Anna’s portrait

“A film of glimpses of ordinary persecution or exploitation, fragments of a love speech, that is, from different states of ordinary injustice. A film wandering from one latitude to another in the rejection of a definition. The spring for filming disparity and exploitation, social and not only, plus the irrepressible personal desire to film, testify, and overflow." – Tonino De Bernardi

A short animation by Blu

Fragment from Adaghietto from 5th Symphonie by Gustav Mahler.

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

Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in D major, Op. 35, for violin and orchestra, with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra; and “Meditation,” with Marco Grisanti on piano.

Machomask confronts Super Sadico Loco in the free-wrestling ring. In the fight, one of their pricks is ripped off. Or is it only the bad dream of a sad kid who is given a blow job by a fat bald man?

Lineup: Avishai Cohen Trio Avishai Cohen, bass; Shai Maestro, piano Mark Guiliana, drums Bohuslän Big Band Tracklist: Madrid (A Cohen/J Borgström) Shuffle (A Cohen/S Maestro) Song For My Brother (A Cohen/C Olofsson) Handsonit (A Cohen/N Rydh) To the Bird (A Cohen), text Chaim Bialik Shalom (A Cohen) Remembering (A Cohen)

Stop motion animation by Ericailcane

This centenary performance of Umberto Giordano' Marcella was prepared from the composer' manuscript, the score and parts having been destroyed during World War II.

This documentary focuses on a story that is at the same time all stories: that of Eva, daughter of Juan Carlos Arroyo, one of the 30,000 disappeared detainees of the last dictatorship. Eva is one of the strongest activists in the H.I.J.O.S. organization, and through her and her sister's and mother's stories, the film addresses human rights, clandestinity, uprooting, and exile. The film recovers the dreams of a generation, which resurface in the activism of their sons and daughters, central participants in the demands for memory, truth, and justice—demands that articulate with new social struggles.

Alessandro Corbelli takes the title role in Annabel Arden's whirlwind production of Puccini's compact opera, in which the scheming Gianni Schicchi retrieves for himself the spoils of a disinherited family to pave the way for his daughter to marry her love.

The story of a central European family whose ranks include the names of some of leading historical figures of the last two centuries (Marx, Heine, Mendelssohn, Husserl, etc.). In a study that interweaves past and present, the narrator relives the memories and human dramas that enabled him to understand "what it means to really belong to the human community of the living and the dead".

Filmed mostly in close-ups, the film documents a personal conversation that the two film directors had with each other. Delbono addresses a wide range of different topics: death and life, love, politics and religion, even private things, such as moving and diets.

A maniac. A dead girl. The crazy monologue that he has with her. A sadistic game in which the victim is forced to "listen" to the horror stories that the psycho-killer likes to tell. Stories of blood, death and madness.

This digital video arose from the idea of trying to transfer to film all the photographic images I had created with the so-called “photo-finish” technique. While in the process of completing it, I used single frame digital animation to shoot the faces and their sudden transformations when subjected to the photo-finish technique, transferring them, then imparting motion to them in a single animated sequence on the computer. This agitation, torn from photographic fixity [is] subjected, in turn, to distortion by its intersection with objects texture-mapped with those same faces. The passage from motionless quiet to paroxysmal interference; the animating startle of Bach’s cello.

This portrait of a remarkable woman and her unusual environment seems to have a very profound effect on nearly everyone who sees it. The film further strengthens the reputation of veteran documentarian Schreiner, who's quietly and steadily established himself among Europe's most respected practitioners of non-fiction cinema. But the film is by no means an example of an ‘auteur’ imposing his individual vision upon the world. Instead it's a remarkable example of intense collaboration between artist and subject, one so close that such traditional distinctions and labels seem inappropriate.

About the strange case of the headless woman.

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.

Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries. Six-year-old Murtaza took a landmine home to play with and it blew up in his hand, a familiar story in Afghanistan where one child is killed or injured every day by unexploded munitions. Fifteen-year-old Yagoub suffers from rheumatic heart disease, which if left untreated is life-threatening. Refugees from Sudan's 20 years of unrest, his family are unable to pay for treatment at the local hospital, giving him little more than six months to live. This moving film follows the stories of these two resilient boys and the efforts of the remarkable Italian NGO Emergency to give them back their futures. (Storyville)

Examines the life, work, and cultural significance of Gloria Anzaldúa, poet and visual artist, and those she inspired in women's Chicano art. The work highlights the struggle for women's and gay rights.

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.

Landscape’s contemplation makes the time perceptible.

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

This documentary travels back to the World War II period, with archival footage of the workers that demonstrates how the women lived from day to day (driving trucks and tractors, bathing in streams, et cetera - always singing to keep their spirits up); director Andrea Zambelli then interviews those among the women who are still living (now in their 70s and 80s). As the film unfurls, it reveals an astonishing and colorful truth: a number of the women subsequently formed a singing ensemble during their golden years, and decided to tour Italy in that outfit, regularly performing the folks songs of their youth that majestically re-evoke that time. As the women congregate and talk on-camera, revealing their colorful, magnetic personalities, they tell detailed and evocative tales of the past and of the emotions they initially experienced.

The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.

Teodoro, Martin, Justin, and Steve are African men who have lived in Italy for over thirty years without obtaining citizenship. They arrived in the 1970s to study and have since built lives in Italy, forming a band, playing soccer, and raising Italian-feeling children. Despite their integration, they face racism and are not considered Italian. Puccioni highlights Italy’s struggle with integration and racism, affecting a second generation of immigrants.

Short by Magda Guidi.

A mockumentary on the life of the Argentine singer, Tony Vilar, who came from Southern Italy to Argentina as a child and became one of the most successful South American singers of the 1960s.

A Donatello award nominated short drama concluding a trilogy of films about a young Chinese girl living clandestinely in Italy.

Following the steps of the painter Antonio Ligabue, the documentary discovers the works of many naif painters from the Bassa Padania who live along the banks of the river Po.