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In July 1944, the Germans discover a link between a small country barracks of the Arma dei Carabinieri Reali and the Resistance and one of the carabinieri, Sebastiano Pandolfo, and a young partisan are shot. Three other carabinieri (Alberto La Rocca, Vittorio Marandola, and Fulvio Sbarretti) manage to escape and try to join the Resistance, but the Germans take ten civilians hostage and threaten to kill them if the carabinieri do not surrender. Upon hearing the news, just before they reach the partisans, the three carabinieri choose to surrender to honor the role of the carabinieri as guarantors of legality and justice, thus saving the lives of the ten hostages.

Thomas believes that only the knowledge of our identity can defeat death and give immortality to those who own it. This is the great gift of love that he has planned for Teresa, the girl he has always secretly loved. Everything is ready in the big abandoned hotel. He is waiting for her, smiling, illuminated by the light of the sunset. But for Teresa the knowledge and discovery of her identity will be frightening, distressing, painful.

Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playing with her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay at home to help with household chores. The distance between the two seems unbridgeable, but the discovery that Donato is much more fragile than it seems, will lead them to appreciate their time together.

This is the story of two poor, hungry young people, as well as their desire for social reward in Italy in the early twentieth century. This is the story of the passion for the cycling that joined them, and the adventurous events that shared them forever. The two boys were called Constant Girardengo and Sante Pollastri. But for all, they were the "Campionissimo" and "Bandito Numero 1".

An Indian woman is looking for vengeance.

Riccardo is a truck driver in his late fifties who illegally transports immigrants on his long journeys for a criminal organization. The organization entrusts him with Maisha, an African girl, for a few days, and she immediately establishes a good relationship with Riccardo's family, who has a ten-year-old daughter. When the organization demands that he return Maisha, he faces a difficult decision.

The locker room of a swimming pool. Chiara and Futura are like two peas in a pod: they wear the same costume, the same eye-shadow on their adolescent faces. What they are about to face is no normal competition. They're growing up and the pool isn't big enough for the both of them.

A day like any other in Federico and Francesco's video store until a mysterious man shows up with an impossible request: a movie that has never been released. The two obviously can't satisfy the man's request, who flies into a rage and orders a handful of mercenaries to break in and destroy the store. The time has come for the two to defend themselves, protect the store and their lives.

Set during the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Flamingos tells the story of Alice, a nine year old girl who spends one last day in the park with her father. The story develops around the delicate and uneasy relationship between a lost father and a daughter on the verge of understanding the difficult dynamics of her family. Flamingos is a story about the loss of innocence and the moment when we realize we are fundamentally alone on our journey through life.

A boy must face his sister's infection during a zombie apocalypse

In a delicate and humane manner, this film touches upon a very serious issue: how to stop fearing death while being in love with life. We talk (and laugh) about this subject with the protagonists of this film, modern geniuses and ordinary people from different parts of the world.

Flavio is a courier and transports drugs, but his love for her makes him change his life. However, a strange event that repeats itself in an apparently random way, alters the path of his existence and forces him to live a series of adventures where, crime, murders, love, all mix together seasoned with flash and a whirlwind of constantly changing events and things.

A new staging of the opera curated by the Modenese theater in coproduction with I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, directed by Cristina Pezzoli, the scenes by Giacomo Andrico, the costumes by Andrea Grazia and the lights by Mauro Panizza. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts at the helm of the Filarmonica of the Italian Opera Bruno Bartoletti and the choir of the Coro Lirico Association of Città di Piacenza - Teatro Comunale di Modena. Le Villi was the first work for the theater composed by Giacomo Puccini and constituted the decisive step towards his glory as an international opera artist. The opera, which lasts an hour and a half, was performed for the first time at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on 31 May 1884. The Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana is based on the story Les Willis that Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr developed his turn from the ballet Giselle, music by Adolphe Adam on text by Théophile Gautier (1841).

Ciro, Marco and Ettore are three friends who dream of becoming big shots in the world of organized crime. Actually what they are looking for is a permanent employment rather than non-stop gun action, extortion and dealing. Daddone, on the other side, is totally frustrated with the outcome of his criminal career and dreams of a coup that would make him the godfather of the gangs in town. Unfortunately, no one takes him seriously, least of all his own wife who treats him like a cheap small time hustler and she always sends him on errands.

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.

Aging fashion model Benedetta Barzini strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.

An evocative exploration of a mother/daughter relationship.

Recovering from a severe nervous breakdown and a great fan of thriller films, twenty-two-year-old Niccolò decides to go to the cinema with his dearest friend Viola. They are joined by their friends Ambra, Valerio, Matteo and Clelia, with whom they go to the largest multiplex in their city, a place at the center of several sinister urban legends. When, at the end of the film, the group decides to spend the night inside the cinema to make fun of the maniacal and ambiguous guard, the six will find themselves grappling with a macabre secret.

An elderly dancer puts together his young students and his former partners to win an international dance competition and prevent his school from being closed.

L 38 known as Laurentino 38, tells the story of four criminals: the Chechen, the Jesus, Rug and Pimp, that shoot snuff movies for their boss "Sergio il Pappa". When the Chechen receives the visit of the a mysterious man the level of blood and violence rises.

Poet and writer Antonio Veneziani, the youngest representative of the Scuola Romana literary current, which was championed by Pasolini and Moravia and included counter-culture artists such as Dario Bellezza and Renzo Paris, is writing a book of interviews with transsexual people. As he meets with people from varied and sometimes contrasting paths of life, he also begins a quest to find where his late friend Vinicio Diamanti, a well known actor who has often performed in drag, has been buried. A meditation on Life, Death and the need for a new law in Italy through the prism of the trans-gender experience.

By what name was I signori del silenzio (2018) officially released in Canada in English?

Portrait of love in our times through a mosaic of looks, faces, stories collected by numerous authors around Italy. The result is a multifaceted image, capable of representing the most elusive of feelings and making people reflect with lightness and irony.

Palazzo Vecchio: a history of art and power. Directed by Piero Messina, through a clever movement of the narration between past and present, makes a real journey into the beauty of an ancient place that still retains its undisputed charm.

Cesare is an old and solitary man. One evening his neighbor asks him to look after his son Kadim for the night.

Three children force a classmate to a test of courage to get into their group. During the test, which consists in finding a skull in an abandoned church, the child is swallowed by a chasm that opens on the church floor. The other kids, who had stayed out, rush in the church, look in the deep hole, call their friend, but don't receive answers. The little sister of one of them, who followed them, bursts into the church and lets herself down by a rope, but falls into the abyss, dragging the other kids. All five children find themselves into old caves in search of a way out, helped by Grotto, a creature alike a stalagmite.

In a post-apocalyptic future, the planet is devoured by disease. In order to survive, two brothers can only count on each other. They work as a team until one of them, K, gets seriously injured. R, the youngest, has to make significant decision for both of them.

Andrea, despite being over thirty, still lives at home with his mother and his visually impaired grandmother. His family doesn’t know but he has a part time job.

From the Nazi 'super' cows that still roam the woods to CIA-trained killer dolphins, the work of some mad scientists has led to the birth of strange creatures.

Italian comedian Edoardo Ferrario riffs on life at 30 and unpacks the peculiarities of global travel, social media and people who like craft beer.

Experimental animation meets Disney iconography. A failing attempt to create the best Pluto ever.

The true story of the most serious train accident Italian.

A subtle and atmospheric designed-nature film, following a beetle traversing through its newly found home, intertwined with and supplemental to the free electro-acoustic jazz album of the same name, by Cristiano Calcagnile. Complex and accessible from and in many directions, it in-cludes its elements and their displacement along the elusive boundaries of a penetrating dance, that you soon give up wanting to define, and entrusts its appeal to complexity and countless perspectives.

It's February 14, every lover's day. Red roses, biscuits and lots of smiles to celebrate a truly unforgettable anniversary. So, happy Valentine's Day.

“Principe Maurice #Tribute” is a documentary about the icon of the Night Theatre, and Master of Ceremonies of the Carnival of Venice, Maurizio Agosti. Known by his stage name of Principe Maurice, Agosti tells his story starting from the beginning of his carrier at the Cocoricò of Riccione to his recent work at Plastic of Milan and at the Carnival of Venice.

Fine is the story of birth, life and death of a soldier, represented on a hand (mine, for instance). The movie is inspired by the concept of handpainting and the finger videos movement. Dedicated transitions created with the technique of the shuft pan has been used to create a true cinematografic editing through the hand. both the initial and final soundtrack, as well as the military salute of the last scene are a hommage to Jiri Trnka’s masterpiece “The Hand”.

This documentary follows the daily life of a family of artisans who work with soapstone, or steatite, in the mountains of Valtellina, Italy.

La Merda is a poetic stream of consciousness where it is unleashed the bulimic and revolting public confidence of a "young" and "ugly" woman as she struggles with obstinacy, resistance and courage for her own celebrity breakthrough in the society of Thighs and Liberty. La Merda is driven by a desperate attempt to pull ourselves out of the mud, the latest products of the cultural genocide aptly described by Pier Paolo Pasolini since the modern consumer society began taking form. A totalitarianism, according to Pasolini, even more repressive than the one of the Fascist era, for capable of crushing us softly.

Sofia is 28 years old and a transgender woman. After hiding her body and her nature for many years, she makes the courageous choice to make her personal journey public and to share her questions with her family and friends.

Set in the late 1960s, the film explores the issues of immigration, community values and family devotion through the eyes of a young girl, Lucia, who is left behind with her grandmother while her parents emigrate to France to find work. Lucia pains to be with her family as she struggles to learn her role in the tiny, traditional village under the watchful guidance of her stern grandmother.

Georgia, Lorena, Elena, and Jessica are four different women who all faced marginalization and didn't turn away. They stayed where they felt they belonged.