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A community of monks lives isolated from the world, practicing martial arts and following the master’s strict rules. This film investigates their harsh life and the flow of Time in unique closed environment, to approach deep motivations of a radical choice, and the reasons that pushed the monks away from their affections.
Ceraso, Cilento National Park. Four young friends decide to answer to a call for tender for the management of a hotel and make a change in their professional life. They ignore the aims of a odd businessman from Rome. The quiet local community will be completely shaken up by deceptions and solidarity, old passions and new loves, funny situations and deep emotions.
A guy in a depressive state is addicted to television and can no longer distinguish fact from fiction. One night he stumbles upon a bizarre red light channel...
Nello and Rufetto are two second-rate robbers, both in their forties and living in a suburban neighborhood of Rome. After serving four years in prison for a botched robbery, resuming their business, and more importantly, successfully completing it, is no easy feat.
Six people get trapped inside an elevator in a hot day of summer, while outside the building just a few steps away something tragic occurs. Are they lucky to be entrapped?...
During World War II, the Italian submarine Macalle was shipwrecked in the Red Sea, near the coast of Sudan. 45 crew members ended up on a deserted island. NCO Carlo Acefalo died on the island, being buried by his mates there. Nearly 80 years later, a team arrives at the site and rescues Carlo's remains, taking them back to his home village, Castiglione Falletto, for a funeral ceremony attended by almost the entire village.
Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is stronger than their conscience. Maria, a young mother of a family, lives with her husband Gerardo and her two children, Rocco e Carmela, on her father-in-law's farm: "grandpà" Giuseppe. Gerardo decides to emigrate to Austria to earn more money so as to allow a more comfortable life for the family. This absence will be the beginning of a nightmare that will lead Maria and her daughter to be victims of abuse of an unscrupulous ogre (monster).
The docudrama recounts the five years (from 1974 to 1979) in which lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli investigated the workings of a corrupt and lethal system, seen through the eyes of Finance Police Marshal Silvio Novembre and reconstructed by mixing fictional scenes, archive footage, and valuable testimonies.
It has been 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci. In "Being Leonardo da Vinci," Finazzer Flory gives viewers a captivating, unforgettable look into what makes and shapes the mind of a legend.
The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema.
A documentary-fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims of the Piazza Fontana massacre.
From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Juraj Valchua and featuring pianist Alexander Malofeev, performs works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.
Handbook of Movie Theaters’ History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future.
On her regular day at work, Paola starts to feel that she is missing out something exciting.
Alex feels like a girl trapped in the body of a man and, in 1933, she moves to Berlin, the capital of sexual freedom, hoping to find her place in the world. Thanks to an encounter with Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld, Alex becomes the first transsexual in history to undergo surgery. Unfortunately, this happens in parallel with the rise to power of National Socialism.
The night misadventures of Saba, a Georgian pizza holder, harnessed by a drifting humanity while his wife is about to give birth to their firstborn.
An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.
Alex, a guy who lives in a desolate country place. He's surrounded by rough and violent people and every day they don't miss an opportunity to torment him. But inside Alex there is something wrong, something that pushes to get out. Something that is bloodthirsty.
A spacious ballroom, a place outside of time, and the interlacing stories of its customers on a Saturday night.
Two young people, love and a wild and wonderful island populated only by deaf people. Paolo is a musician and he is totally in love with Claudia, a girl he has never actually met but with whom he texts a lot. In order to meet her, he will leave for the island where she lives and he will stand up for her and their love.
Luca is a guy of few words, who by choice remains alone in his family house by the sea, over a weekend. Cécile, a girl whose past and present are a little difficult, will change his linear routine. At the end of the two days, nothing will be as before.
A short film inspired by the work of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
When love can hurt and be dangerous, when men can be violent and become crazy, when women have no way to defend themself there is nothing left on earth. Osuba is a visual expression and emotional trip about this huge problem in the world. Violence, anger, obsession, fear, war all this can start easy and quick.
Marion, biologically a woman, becomes Marian, a man. From the !rst, fearful thoughts to the seldom portraited aftermath of a sex change the long term documentary becoming me follows its protagonist in great psychological depth. e !lmmaker uses her ex-lover’s transition to shine a light on the still mostly traditional society of South Tyrol. Will the beloved elementary school teacher be accepted as a man in the small provincial town of St. Michael, or will he lose his job, his family, his friends?
A young man leaves Avellino to go to the big city, Rome, to be a waiter. He looks for an opportunity, but only finds a drug courier for a criminal (Alessandro Haber) who uses his restaurant as a cover.
A mom needs to explain to her daughter the disappearing of her little chicken.
In a world ruled by violence and indifference, Death decides to try to live, experiencing the temporary transfer of their power.
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.
The story is set in an indefinite time. In a dungeon, five people fight for their survival: three women, Blonde, Black and Red; a theologian and a young doctor. Out of this hiding place reigns the APOCALISSE. Evil was generated by a zero patient and a group of ex-soldiers, called "Exterminators", crucifies any person you meet to find the origin of the evil. Are the five really safe in this place or is there something they don't know?
No to IUS SOLI. No to ETHNIC REPLACEMENT. No to this INVASION that will destroy our culture and our land.
A coming-of-age crime story about a young boy who plays and gets lost in the wood.
The story very freely echoes the vicissitudes of an expedition that really took place in the 19th century in the harsh and wild lands of the West.
From the Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, Maestro William Eddins conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in a collaboration with the remarkable percussionist Simone Rubino.
Maria and Sergio are schoolmates but they have never talked to each other. Coming back from the summer vacation Maria is noticed by Cristian, a boy of whom she is madly infatuated with. Cristian sends Sergio to talk to her asking if she wants to be with Christian. It is a very sharp proposal but the girl in front of her idol says yes, except that she has no sexual experience, has no idea about what will happen or what to do.
Three sisters. Laura, the eldest; Lucia, the middle one; Costanza, the younger. Costanza is wheelchair bound because of an accident caused by Laura. Costanza and Lucia are not aware of Laura's responsibility, but a strange being is: Carlo, who starts blackmailing Laura.
A man in crisis just doesn’t know how to fix things with his conscience.
When Ulderico and Raffaele, two frustrated precarious workers, discover a bound and gagged man in their storeroom, they decide to do only one thing: not call the police, because all the evidence would be against them. But handling the situation on their own is the beginning of a nightmare worse than their already miserable realities.
James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.
An operetta in three acts with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein. Starring: Anthony Michaels-Moore, Adriana Ferfecka, and Nadja Mchantaf; stage directed by Damiano Michieletto
A group of friends tell each other some jokes that suddenly turn into scenes of life against the backdrop of a surreal and hilarious world.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the L'Aquila earthquake, Nicola Piovani will conduct *The Symphony of the Seasons* for soloists, children’s choir, narrator and orchestra from the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio.
Eleonora is a serial killer of youtubers, fashion bloggers and general social media influencers. Whilst in the middle of kidnapping a particularly famous youtuber, two strange girls kidnap her father and want to arrange a swap.
Based on the novel Orlando: a biography by Virginia Woolf, the film portrays the writer as swept up in the emotions of her characters. Orlando, a beautiful androgynous nobleman, lives an extraordinarily long life, from the reign of Elizabeth I to modern times, while undergoing a mysterious change of sex and becoming a woman.
Sara is a young actress rehearsing a monologue from The Winter's tale by Shakespeare. The director blames her for not getting the character yet so she has an emotional brakedown a few hours from the show. Meanwhile, outside the theater, a mysterious woman seems to monitor Sara.
An old lady lets herself go with the stories of a sprightly old man, sitting next to her. But when she reveals that she is married, he waves her confused and goes away. The gentle goodbye she returns back reveals who is she actually married to.
A young samurai in search for a Ronin to challenge him to a duel and prove his worth.
In 1891 Gauguin left Marseille for the Pacific, marking the beginning of a journey towards the essence of life and art, and forging his destiny as one of the greatest modern painters who ever lived.