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After Sarah’s husband Albert dies in a domestic accident, she is given the freedom to move forward with her other lover Max. Soon Max finds something disturbing in Sarah's behaviour, and he begins to question if Sarah isn't the person she says she is? Max then mysteriously disappears, and Sarah’s orderly life is brought into chaos.
Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.
The story of the Italian national tennis team that won the Davis Cup in ’76 and reached the final three more times in the following years.
From the Rai ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Auditorium in Turin, conductor Ion Marin and Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená pay tribute to the Italian composer Luciano Berio with his *Folk Songs* for voice and orchestra, followed by *Rendering*, based on Schubert’s sketches for an unfinished Tenth Symphony. Between the two pieces by Luciano Berio, Ion Marin presents Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.
A special night dedicated to Franco Battiato, who passed away on 18th May 2021 at 76 years old. The title catches on the affectionate tone Pif will use as he narrates a journey through the singer-songwriter's life - from Mount Etna to Milan - through the Verona Arena where a concert was held in loving memory.
As the Christmas holidays approach, Don Donato, now a cardinal, is called back from Rome to assist his uncle the bishop. The latter, in fact, requires constant care.
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, after his brother Michele was murdered he joined forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and put at his service his fury and his amazing aim, becoming a highly feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths, the peace of Aggius arrives. At first, Bastiano finds peace in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. Thus, he chooses to confront his own destiny.
Daniele is a young man from Sant’Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon. He lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino (motorboat). This obsession focuses on the building of ever more powerful engines to transform the little lagoon launches into dangerously fast racing boats. Daniele too dreams of a record-breaking barchino, one that will take him to the top of the leader board, but everything he does to further his dream and win respect from the others turns out to be tragically counterproductive. The decline that erodes the relationships, environment and habits of a rootless generation is observed from the timeless perspective of the Venetian landscape and its island outskirts: the point of no return is a foolish, vestigial tale of male initiation. Violent and destined to fail, it explodes dragging the ghost city along on a psychedelic shipwreck.
There is no painter in the world both more famous and less known than Edvard Munch. The debt contemporary culture has towards Munch is impressive, from Andy Warhol to Ingmar Bergman, from Marina Abramovich to Jasper Johns. If his painting has become a symbol and at the same time an omen of the tragedies of the twentieth century, his art has travelled new and experimental roads of extraordinary modernity. Today, however, it is his city, Oslo, which sets a turning point for the knowledge of Munch: the birth of a new museum opened in Fall 2021. The documentary will start from there to shed light on a man and an artist with singular charm, a precursor and a master.
Roberto Benigni presents us with the most intimate and authentic portrait of Saint Francis: a surprising journey that culminates in the Canticle of the Creatures, a hymn of love that still strikes us today with the modernity of its message of peace and brotherhood.
Malaysia has two countries in one, divided by the South China Sea. Nestled between India and China, Malaysia is the most multiracial country on earth.
A documentary recounting the stories that have characterized the personal and artistic lives of Sergio Martino and Ruggero Deodato, two filmmakers who have represented Italian genre cinema in the world, loved by directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Tim Burton, etc. All this takes place in the setting of a typical Roman restaurant, where the two directors meet for a lunch based on "spaghetti alla carbonara". Pasta is a determining element in Italian culture and, like the spaghetti western, it will characterize our story.
During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Based on reports, letters and diary excerpts, filmmaker Luzia Schmid sketches a personal portrait of three fearless women and their unique attempts to report on the war.
Anastasia is 13 and her sister Diana is 11. The two sisters live in a Latvian orphanage. When they find out that an American family is ready to adopt them, Diana cannot wait to move to the States, while Anastasia is less excited about the idea of leaving her home.
At the end of their sabbatical year backpacking around the world, four backpackers find themselves adding an unexpected stop among palm trees and snow-capped alpine peaks on a tropical island in the middle of a Swiss lake.
It's Serena's wedding day. The girl is worried about the absence of Nicola, her brother. Turns out she doesn't know that this day, which is so important to Serena, is probably not so joyful for Nicola.
Short by Leo Cernic.
Flavio Bretagna has the most important business meeting of his life. Between client calls, his secretary's voicemails, and his ex-wife's calls, Flavio drives toward the opportunity he's been waiting for. Caught up in a barrage of phone calls, he doesn't realize he's taken the wrong turn and stops at a small rest stop. Still on the phone, frantically distracted, he goes to the bathroom, but when he tries to leave, the door is locked. He screams for help, but no one answers. There's not a soul around. Flavio Bretagna is alone, locked in the bathroom of a remote rest stop, and has no idea where he is. Outside, his life goes on without him: the job opportunity he's been waiting for, his daughter's birthday, with whom he's trying to rekindle his relationship. Time passes, but the situation remains unchanged. Will Flavio manage not to lose everything?
When Leo saves Tom from an attack, he begins a journey through the night throughout Milan that will bring Leo face to face with his past.
Sacred is what exists in silence and solitude. A very intimate and personal experimental short film about the suffering felt after years of loving another without being reciprocated. Nothing seems more real, one is led to live a life in solitude, from which however it is possible to purify oneself precisely through solitude.
A seventeen-year-old girl hasn’t left her room in an indefinite amount of time. Those like her call them hikikomori, they are teenagers who decide to build themselves a little prison, leaving the outside world outside the door. Her routine is broken when, online, she meets Dev, a boy ten years older. The two fall in love immediately.For her it is the first love. In order to meet Dev, she must leave that cage. But there is someone willing to do anything to prevent her from getting out of there.
The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.
Gigi is a rural policeman who works in a place where nothing ever happens… until a young woman commits suicide by throwing herself onto the tracks as a train passes.
A healer with extraordinary powers suffers the worst of curses: he can't save his sick wife. But close to him there's his beloved granddaughter, who doesn't give up.
The story of a famous middle-aged writer and a college graduate who embark on a road trip that becomes a cross-generational counterpoint.
A boy and a girl, bound in their past, cannot live in the present.
A short film based on the poem by Charles Bukowski.
One family’s life goes haywire at the start of the pandemic as the matriarch—now without her steady housekeeper income—encounters a new kind of fame and celebrity when she begins teaching cooking lessons over the internet.
The story of a family living in the middle of a valley. The father, mother, and son are uneducated, distrustful, and on edge. They hurl accusations at each other, argue, pray, and hate one another. Yet a truce is needed because an unexpected guest is arriving who could change their future. Everything is perfect, but the truce won’t last.
It's New Year's Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.
Perennial university student Eva, who is still having difficulties at adjusting to big city life, takes up a job as dog sitter. After visiting the owner, she finds out the dog—Spotty—is actually Matteo, an introverted young man who copes with modern life by dressing up as a giant puppy.
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.
Rome, historic center. Daniele, Lisa and two children: Sveva, a teenage girl, and Paolo, a seven-year old boy. A perfect family and a life that seems perfect. But it is not. One day Daniele empties his side of the wardrobe and leaves.
Life in suburban Palermo can be tough: Salvo is a young father who struggles between makeshift jobs and criminal-grotesque affairs to support his son. When the spiral of violence turns against him, he runs into Ciurè, a transgender dancer who helps him, opening doors to a kaleidoscopic gay night club where she performs every night. Will Salvo be able to overcome his prejudices against the "wanderers of the night" and put on new clothes, to the point of reinventing himself in a new body
Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for his "freeze-dried tart" to finish ...getting ready - but his return to home is hindered by many bizarre, violent and out of the ordinary characters who one after another involve him in their delusions, making him run far and wide.
Astolfo, a retired professor evicted from his apartment, decides to move into an old noble but decrepit palace, the last remnant of his family patrimony in a remote village of Abruzzo, where he hasn't been for decades. Soon enough, as a newcomer, he befriends a vagabond, a retired chef and a young handyman. A group of four live harmoniously at his place when he comes across Stefania, a charming and generous woman of his age. Astolfo falls in love and struggles with feelings he thought belonged to the past. Encouraged by his loyal group, Astolfo makes a brave step and learns delightedly that it's never too late to fall in love.
On the evening of 21 November 1974, the Provisional Irish Republic of Army carried out a terrorist attack in Birmingham (UK). It was recognised as the bloodiest attack in the Troubles England. This short film tells the “behind the scenes” of this attack, which hides a series of mistakes, delays and frictions within the same terrorist cell responsible for it.
Santa Claus went on vacation, and this year his replacement is a girl: Santa Belle. It is she who welcomes the two best children in the world who are given the opportunity to visit the kingdom of Santa Claus. By mistake, the machine teleports Tony and Frank a couple of middle-aged thieves into the castle. Elves who live hundreds of years don't realize the difference. Only Sam, Belle's assistant suspects something is wrong. Meanwhile, the two funny thieves take it into their heads to steal the elves' gold, but to open the safe that contains it they will have to find the clues contained within the Puffins cartoons and face Johnny Puff.
During the 2020 lockdown in Anzio, Jacopo plays the piano while sipping coffee. From his balcony, he notices Greta arguing on the phone: her relationship has ended. To comfort her, Jacopo plays for her, but Greta shuts herself inside, destroying the memories of her ex. Discouraged, he gradually stops playing. One day, while hanging out the laundry, Greta comes outside: they exchange a timid greeting. Struck by his smile, Greta begins to return to the balcony more and more often, hoping to see him again and hear his music.
The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
Klaus Burg and his 18-year-old daughter Alina live in the witness protection program and have built up a new, modest existence in a remote fishing village in Iceland.
Summer 2008. Three friends have the chance of a lifetime: opening for their favourite punk hardcore band. At the very last moment, the concert falls through but Edo, Iac and Miche don’t give up. To them punk is more than music, it’s a lifestyle. In a blink, they decide to bring the gig to Grosseto, the silent and conservative city where they live. Nevertheless, all the difficulties and problems they face on their way risk to blow up their lives and their friendship.
A businessman swims away from time and reality...
