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Part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Pesaro composer, Il Barbiere di Siviglia staged in Lugano, is the result of a virtuous collaboration that involved Swiss Radio and Television, LuganoInScena and LuganoMusica. The musical part was entrusted to Maestro Diego Fasolis who, together with his Barocchisti ensemble, was involved in the project from the very beginning. Internationally renowned soloists such as Edgardo Rocha (who embodies the Count of Almaviva), Riccardo Novaro (Bartolo), Lucia Cirillo (Rosina), Giorgio Caoduro (Figaro), Ugo Guagliardo (Basilio) and Alessandra Palomba (Berta) performed on stage.

During his long journey as an immigrant, before his tragic death, my great grandfather Angelo wrote fifty letters to his beloved wife Anna. After discovering these treasures, I've decided to follow his steps, back in time and space, to bring him back to life.

Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.

On a speech by Berlinguer, in 1981, in Turin, images of oceanic crowds, amateur films and faces with a propensity for the future unknown to us flow. That voice, which addresses the search for happiness and the moral question, has the strength and authority of a Politics so far from what we know today, to be, for us, touching and painful.

The main (super)hero of Beatrice Baldacci’s documentary is a person depicted as the sum of her memories. The story of the director and her family is told in the first person, with home VHS recordings that show both Beatrice’s mother and Beatrice as a child taking on the role of an agent of memory. Outdated technology transforms the events of twenty years ago into an archaeological object.

Three episodes revolving around the theme of funding promoted by the European Union. Lifeguard Walter, dancer Monica, and hotelier Rino must contend with the dark schemes of accountant Randazzi.

"Sinuaria" deals with Michele Murtas, an imprisoned young man in the Asinara's penitentiary at the end of the 70s. He has a talent for hairdressing, and all the women on the island love him for that.

Catania, 1960s. At the beach resort run by the charming Rozzo Finocchiaro, Stefano, a blind elderly man, observes and comments with ironic and acerbic commentary on the behavior of the people who frequent the beach and whose lives are intertwined. Passing under his scrutiny are the industrialist Alfredo Condorelli—married to the wealthy Maria Rita and engaged in a clandestine affair with his secretary Rosalba—the stifling Rosa—wife of the former playboy Alfredo—the four bigwigs Roberto, Michele, Armando, and Rocco; the musician Gregorio Alacci; the fallen boss Jano Suarez; the Lanzafame family; and Peppino Di Paternò—a fifty-year-old married to the statuesque Ulla.

A man throws a party for his last day before his planned suicide.

A cursed ring is discovered and the demon hidden within returns.

Catania, Sicily. In the heart of the working class neighborhood lies a vast and lawless territory where makeshift stables can be found. One of them is owned by Concetto aka 'il farmacista' a man respected and even feared by many, who built a reputation for himself in the small world of clandestine horse racing. Every day, before sunrise, his son Vittorio walks to the stables to get their horse, Vito Portanova, ready for training. In a few days, a clandestine race will take place on a desert street at the foot of the Etna...

Sea Dreaming Girls is a gorgeous, joyous and funny documentary about discovering new things and living carefree at any age, as it follows a lively group of nonnas who have never seen the sea. In the tiny Italian mountain village of Daone, a group of grandmothers led by the straight-talking Erminia begin planning a trip in honour of their Rododendro club’s 20th anniversary. They quickly agree on a trip to the sea, where many of their members have never ventured. But how will they raise enough money so that everyone can wiggle their toes in the surf? They sell pies and sweets and even boldly pose for a calendar but when this doesn’t get them the money they need, they have one last idea and it is this one that sends them viral, making them famous across Italy.

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love that slowly vanishes into the winter landscape

"The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is revisited through the music and the worldwide influences of the multi-ethnic Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio.

Marco is a shy courier instructed to deliver some jewels in a photo studio. Here he meets Giorgio, the photographer: handsome, gay, cheeky.

Loris is twenty years old, naive and in deep need for affection. He's waiting for someone he doesn't know. A HIV-positive man he met online is willing to transmit his disease to him. The virus becomes a powerful ally for Loris to gain a much desired symbiosis in his relationship with Valerio - his HIV - positive boyfriend.

Soft steps mark the snow. They follow a blackbird, then find the sea. The third walk gets lost in an echo of childhood games.

A Tunisian musician, his Italian wife and their marital crisis. A journey to his home village, for the first time with his children, instinctively in search of his origins and identity. La Vie de Marzouk is an intimate portrait of an attempt at integration, which can only be achieved through love.

Janet, a young woman who lives in a remote house in the Alps, is behaving strangely. Her mother is convinced that she is possessed by the devil, and requests that she be submitted to an exorcism. However, there are times when appearances can be deceptive...

A family moves into their new home, which proves to be evil, resulting in the possession of the teenage son by the ghost of the father.

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

Viktoria is a 10 years old girl just arrived in Italy. She doesn't speak Italian. She would like to make friends with new classmates, but little girls make fun of her, make jokes and put her photos on a social network.

The tragic story of Lucia Annibali, told in a TV movie starring actress Cristiana Capotondi. Annibali, a 35-year-old lawyer at the time, was attacked with acid by two men. The instigator was her ex-boyfriend, who could not accept that she had left him.

The plan of a rich criminal to avoid a trial by expatriating involves many characters.

South of Italy. Rosa is a woman with a troubled past. Gino, Rosa's lover, is a violent landowner engaged in dogfights. When Rosa meets Nathaniel, a french drifter, her life takes a new, unexpected turn.

The Count Di Luna believes that his younger brother was murdered years before by a vengeful gypsy but still hopes that he may be alive. When he attempts to court the beautiful Leonora, he is enraged to discover that she has a lover – the troubadour, Manrico. Manrico and the Count duel, and afterwards Manrico reveals to Azucena, the woman he believes to be his mother, that when he had the opportunity to kill the Count he felt something holding him back.

Ernest Hemingway is an almost mythical figure. In addition to being an author, he is literary work himself - a real rock star ante litteram. Much of his life has been an eternal holiday, minutely documented and continues to be a source of inspiration for himself. Wherever there are places that share their quotes: true or presumed. The pictures that portray him are thousands. Hemingway had built a fame as a captain of ventura, expressing a strong personality, man and myth, joining the life lived in the imagination of his characters.

Capitan Basilico must stop the wicked Bar-Man, ex-student of Superhero school. BarMan has a powerful weapon that can subdue everyone to his will. The Buio Pesto band put themselves in action to help Capitan Basilico to end Bar-Man's bad plan.

A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and man-about-town of the title. The lovely Isabel Leonard is Rosina, the clever young woman at the center of the story, and Lawrence Brownlee sings Count Almaviva, the man who loves her and—with Figaro’s help—rescues her from the house of her elderly and smitten guardian, Bartolo, played by Maurizio Muraro. Paata Burchuladze is the bumbling music master Basilio, and rising conductor and bel canto specialist Michele Mariotti leads the Met’s musical forces in Bartlett Sher’s lively production.

The two surviving members of a spacecraft’s crash find themselves on an uncharted planet made up entirely of sand which they remark as being similar to a beach. The planet’s mystery is revealed when a second spacecraft arrives to rescue them.

Four sixty-something disgraced comedians - who used to work together - find themselves in a retirement home. They'll join forces again, this time to save the place from bankruptcy.

An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Argentina in the 70’s, telling the disappearance, one by one, of the members of La Plata Rugby club. A tragic and compelling story where the passion for politics and sport is opposed to a fascist - military regime.

Maya lives in Argentina and works at Fernando's restaurant, the man who raised her like a daughter, along with her mother, Ramona, who died a few years ago. Maya often performs at the restaurant and is acclaimed by everyone for her beautiful voice. She has the opportunity to participate in an important singing festival in Italy, but this provokes a very negative reaction from Fernando. Maya's real father, whom she has never met, is Italian, and he was undoubtedly a source of suffering for Ramona and Fernando. However, Maya decides to leave anyway; she cares too much about her future as a singer and doesn't want to miss this opportunity. Thus conflicts erupt and old resentments surface.

The young Laura documents her life in the apartment she shares with her friend Marta. One day, while poking her nose into Marta's privacy, she discovers a disturbing secret.

EDO is a story about the end of summer, the season of downtime and the light-heartedness, which sits between spring and autumn and always takes us from one place to another, while making us "different" to what we used to be. It's Edoardo's last day of childhood, the end of the games. For the first time ever, life puts him in front of a problem. One he has to face by himself.

A documentary composed by home movies shot between 1959 and 1974 by the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono and his wife Nuria Schönberg

“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkish-Syrian border. On the one hand the ISIS, in the other Erdogan’s Turkey. In the middle the borders and one hope. This hope is called Rojava, only one point on the chart of a troubled region, a region of resistance and an example of grassroots democracy that speaks about gender equality, self-determination of peoples and peaceful coexistence.

A girl tries to attune her breathing to the movements of her bow, arrow after arrow. But her sporting talent hides her need to retrieve a primitive, violent instinct, an archetype.