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Through the anecdotes and stories of actors, directors, critics and experts, this documentary traces the career of Lamberto Bava, from his first steps in cinema with his father Mario to his 1980 debut with "Macabro" to his collaborations with Dario Argento to the big TV series successes of "Fantaghirò," "Desideria" and "Sorellina."

Children’s drawings made during complicated visits to their parents. For them San Vittore is a castle. San Vittore is an episode of the series The Roots of Violence which is also composed by: San Siro (2014) San Giorgio (2019)

Imagine you had ten seconds more in your day. What would you change about your life?

Antonio is seventeen years old and has a dream: to be a footballer in a great team. He lives in a small village in the province of Campania, a place where getting away is not always that easy. What makes the situation even more complex is the wonderful Miriam, a kind and gentle, but highly problematical mother, who Antonio loves more than any other person in the world. On top of this there is Carlo, Antonio's father who abandoned them when he was very young, and Miriam is obsessed with the idea of rebuilding her family. All of a sudden life seems to present Antonio and Miriam with a real opportunity: a talent scout looking for promising youngsters to take to the Parma team’s Primavera. But there is a high price to pay for every dream.

The Turin factory, another in a series of closures, shuts down, leaving workers jobless and uncertain. Salvatore, a worker, climbs the tower in protest or rage, threatening to jump. Giorgio, a shop steward with opposing political beliefs, saves him. The third worker, a visually impaired and autistic keeper, joins them, climbing the tower to keep them company. Abandoned by everyone, they wait for journalists to arrive. These diverse perspectives reflect the past thirty years of life in the country, marked by wasted opportunities, betrayed hopes, crimes, massacres, and political power struggles. We watch through archive footage, contrasting this wicked dance of events with the simple common sense of three people with no power, hanging on a tower, building a friendship without realising it.

A documentary about Gian Lorenzo Bernini, creator of the Baroque sculptural style. It shows more than 60 masterpieces exhibited in Villa Borghese, Rome. These prestigious masterpieces are explained and analyzed in detail.

Many years ago, in a nearly deserted town at the foot of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and his son Giovanni. The mountain rises up like a wall blocking out the sun that never reaches their fields below, now reduced to just stones and underbrush. Agostino, even though everything suggests him to leave, decides that the destiny of his family is there, among the peaks. He is not only driven by stubbornness, but by the certainty that our roots cannot betray us and that with the help of our spirit we can bring the sun on every destiny.

Laura is a 45 year old married woman, with a teenage daughter. Laura starts to express a feeling of discomfort both at home and work, due to a sexual abuse. A new director, Stefania, comes to the company where Laura is working, and the two women eventually become friends. Laura will find the strength to open herself up to Stefania and agree to go to a Center for women against violence, following the advice of her new friend.

Agata receives a visit from Florence, an old woman who wants to contact her dead husband to prove to her son that his ghost exists and that their house cannot be sold. Terrified by her encounter with the ghost, Agata decides to help the old woman with the help of her daughter Milla and a listless Ulisse, who will not believe in the ghost's existence until the very end.

The film explores the fate of ISIS orphans in post-war Mosul, Iraq, questioning whether the country will accept them for reconciliation or seek vengeance. These children, trained to fight, may still have hope for a better future if Iraq avoids perpetuating hatred.

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.

A boy, metaphor of today's youth, reflects, waits and contracts in front of the inexorable progress of capitalism. The youth of today is called early to be mature, to have the illusion that the world is small, dependent on technology and finally to an extreme competition. Faced with such a view, a large part of today's youth, is often tending to apathy, waiting without purpose, to a life without goals. It 's a phenomenon that the world doesn't know? But from the ashes comes a new life. So the young man is called to be aware of his existence to a new form of youth, where he doesn't fun anymore running among wheat fields, but he is oriented to sit on the subway playing with the smartphone.

Maria Silvestri desperately tries to escape a man who is chasing her. The man is faster, he grabs her, drags her to the ground and is on top of her. Then, the darkness. Shortly afterwards two boys discover Maria's body. Leaning over her is a young man with a disturbing appearance: black clothes, disheveled hair, pale, dark-tinted lips. The boy flees but is captured shortly after, his name is Daniel Crawford. He is Maria's American cousin and for some months he had been living with the girl and her father, Bruno Silvestri.

"The one hundred tables of "Il Fatto" are part of a project for animated cinema conceived and designed by Tullio Ghiandoni in 1970. The film was born from Tullio's desire to see his drawings 'animated', the reason for this gift he gave me in 2002 and promise finally fulfilled…"

John and Beatrice are a Fresh young wedding couple: he aims a brilliant career in the hotel A dove Works Company, she leads with ease of Success A radio transmission. Their Dream of Having a baby is realized very soon, but it carries with it considerable troubles: mood swings, hormonal upheavals, inevitable intrufolamenti Parenti, worries about the future. Everything is Changing. The Physical and psychological changes of torque, the power supply, Fears, EXPENSES, sex, continuous visits, clothing. What should fare? The newlyweds will face New Condition Spaesati In "comedy" that this happy event genres.

21 years after the collapse of the Communist regime, Albania experiences democracy with it's many contradictions. An exclusive insider perspective given by three young protagonists.

Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husband; Valbona, a lesbian; Rosa Maria herself; and, to crown it all, two eccentric workers accompanied by a little girl... After a period of chaos, this small world gradually discovers that unity makes strength.

Carlo is just a regular guy who keeps a secret world hidden inside his closet. Will his newfound love for shy office colleague Anita, mean the end of the world for the closet mini planet?

In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.

In this fifth episode of the series, La torta di Guglielmo, Rossini, is “interviewed” by Gaia de Bernardis, presenting, this time, the cake that gives the clip its title: an apple pie, with cream, sugar, flour and butter. Together with the composer, musicologist Alberto Simoncini and the ever-present Stendhal. Of course, it follows from the title that the opera presented along with the dessert is William Tell, whose libretto was taken from the play of the same name (1804) by Friedrich Schiller, later elaborated by Victor-Joseph-Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis. Its first performance took place at the Paris Opéra on August 3, 1829.

This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.

A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic.

An experimental l6mm feature, A Shape of Error is based on the life of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley— writers whose lives forecast the modern in their concern for women, free love and labor.

“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."

A woman gives voice to a few collected fragments of her life on the shores of Sardinia.

Child soldiers in Naples, known as the “paranza dei bambini,” have been involved in a violent gang war using Kalashnikovs, resulting in over 60 deaths. These young rebels have established a new Camorra law to control the drug market, operating in areas like Forcella, Decumani, Tribunali, and Porta Capuana, where tourists and locals coexist during the day, but drug dealing thrives at night.

Luca is a 12-year-old boy from San Giovanni Rotondo. One day, coming back home after visiting the little church and museum of Padre Pio, Luca tells his parents about his project of interviewing the local personalities who knew the Saint.

Director Alessandro Comodin recounts for Fuori Orario the genesis of his two films, "Summer of Giacomo" and "Happy times will come soon" and reflects on his own conception of cinema: the need for escape and movement, the adolescence of moving bodies and the perception of passing time, the importance of locations and immersion in nature, the technical practice during filming, the approach to the cinematographic medium as a way to see better and to establish a relationship of sensory capture of reality, the relationship with the actors. With references to his favorite filmmakers, from Bresson and Monteiro to Wang Bing, and to the recurring images of his films: the hole and the labyrinth, the loop of time and epilogues, the fairy tale and metamorphosis.

Experimental short film about composer Felix Mendelssohn travelling to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.

Stefano, a solitary killer with a dark past, works as a bouncer in a nightclub to cover up his real occupation. He avoids hanging out with friends and relatives and his only human contact is with young Filippo, who is enrolled in the same gym where he trains. His passion for Chinese food and the Orient leads him to meet Lee Ang, a girl who works in the family restaurant and who, a victim of her father's overbearing severity, begins to secretly date him until he falls in love with her and questions his life and future.

A musical fairy tale for children, Op. 67 by Sergei Prokofiev, conducted by Wayne Marshall, featuring Arturo Brachetti.

After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone started to produce documentary films and moved from Palermo to Rome, the city of film.

From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.

First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in 1846, Verdi’s ninth opera, Attila, returns to the stage of La Scala on December 7th. Following the inauguration of the 2015-2016 Season with Giovanna d’Arco and in anticipation of Macbeth, with Attila Musical Director Riccardo Chailly continues his study of Verdi’s early works, renewing a successful collaboration with creative director Davide Livermore that began with his acclaimed production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale for La Scala. In this complex opera Verdi experiments with fresh perspectives, featuring spectacular historical settings, introspective angles and moral uncertainties. Attila demands of its performers not only passion and confidence, but also the ability to find subtle accents and psychological nuances.

It's the story of Caterina, a young and well-known psychologist with a perfect life. One day something happen and everything is going to change. She will have to start a new life, in-between troubles, friendship, news, disasters, parties. A deeply different life from the one she's always defended and loved.

In a particular moment of his life, the journalist Clara (Margherita Buy) thinks to her love life, always put after the work life. And so, in her house, too big and empty, she lives a sort of process animated by the people and the characters of her past...

The film is composed of six episodes focused on job insecurity and unemployment.

School registers are made to record the students' absences and grades. But not all students are equal, not all of them are given the same opportunities. In this journey lasting over a century, teachers, children, parents from every part of Italy reconstruct the history of compulsory schooling, and their personal experiences, great expectations and deeply-felt disappointments.

Antonio Florio, conducting the Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro Regio, tackles Claudio Monteverdi's rich score. The cast includes Roberta Invernizzi, Mauro Borgioni, Francesca Boncompagni, Monica Bacelli, Luigi De Donato, and Luca Tittoto, internationally renowned soloists and recognized experts in the field of Baroque opera.