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"Der Viechmensch" (The Beastman/Animalman) is a documentary following a South Tyrolean farmer and his farmhand Karl who are isolated from most of the modern world.

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".

Since 2003 Italy and Europe have asked Libya to stop the African migrants. What are the Libyan police really doing? What do thousands of African men and women suffer? And why does everybody pretend they do not know about it?

Short animation by Donate Sansone

Blu animation takes a circular trip around a room

Francesco Maselli takes us by the hand through the events, and his own involvement with them, that have marked the culture and arts of the past century.

Experimental short by Sirio Luginbühl.

Three persons wander on bridges and roads.

Short by Magda Guidi.

30 scenes of Moscow's street life.

A journey into light and color through the layering of archetypal memories, belonging to the Sicilian-Greek world of the author (a statue of Proserpina on which shadows, water and mists pass, clocks and still life of skulls as allegories of the fragility of Time, the sudden emergence of chthonic divinities from a world of primordial darkness...), mixed with memories and personal, autobiographical places, relived through the filter of myth.

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

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s during a time of war between the Turks and Venetians, the work was commissioned by the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Della Valle based his libretto on his earlier play Anna Erizo. The name of the title character, Maometto II, refers to the real-life Ottoman Sultan and conqueror of Constantinople Mehmed II, who lived from 1432 to 1481.

Through interviews, archive footage and quotes from books and films by Pasolini, Laura Betti, friend, actress and collaborator of Pasolini, improvises as a director, making a feature film dreaming of Pier Paolo's words immersed in everything that has not involved him for a long time

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.

A voice that inhabits one night in Rome. A black light.

Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu.

Parents Reborn reveals the tender heart and soul of Italy—a stronghold of Catholicism and conventionality. While neighbouring countries such as Spain and Belgium recognize marriage equality and celebrate Pride, Italy has made little movement in the advancement of queer rights. What remains even more constant than homophobia is the critical role of family life. Blood runs thick in Italy. Large, closely-knit families are revered; parents are staunchly devoted to their children. Parents Reborn follows several families as they adjust to the news that their sons or daughters are homosexual. Director Claudio Cipelletti’s camera doesn’t shy away from raw emotions as parents cope with their crushed expectations and begin to accept their children for who they are. In turn, these parents experience their own transformation—or rebirth—as they forge renewed family bonds and approach traditional Italian life in progressive new ways.

Antonio Speller, a filmmaker, loses the desire to carry on with his films after finding his wife in bed with one of his actresses. The crisis also leads to an artistic change and a new commitment to only make "bad" movies.

Many years have passed since the 1980 earthquake devastated Irpinia. Subsequent reconstruction profoundly changed the topography, leaving the ruins to bear witness to the tragedy like open-air museums. Walking among these stones, immersed in a dull silence for some time, one experiences the embarrassing sensation of being observed. Stones that seem to claim their own soul, and which now seem horrified by an unexpected visit...

The crossroad of azure dreams, the meeting place of the pure and limpid soul.

This is not a short documentary on Rothko, but rather my reflection on his canvasses, that become so deeply assimilated with the screen, frames of film, the frame line. A film excavated from two books. A silent film that should be a sound film. The rhythms, the inter-pulsations of the frames of film make me think of a sound I do not know.

The religious traditions of a town in the province of Caserta, Italy.

In Made in Italy, the young filmmaker Fabio Wuytack discovers an old film which was shot more than 100 years ago in Carrara, Italy, by the inventors of cinema, the Lumière brothers. Fabio decides to bring the film back to the charming little marble city where even Michelangelo came to select marble for his sculptures. With the help of a sinister cinema owner, some rough mineworkers, an enthusiast old priest and other fascinating characters, he tries to find the mythical location where the Lumière brothers filmed. The result is an Italian journey full of commedia del'arte that brings Fabio closer to his roots than he could ever have imagined

Adapted from a short story by Juan José Millás, I-N is a touching tale of lost intimacy and unconventional friendship.

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.