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A man is buried alive. Reality or nightmare?

Segment from the film "Dead Butterfly - The Prophecy Of Suffering Bible" in an alternate version, in color.

Paolo and Andrea meet after long time, but their night of fun goes horribly wrong. In order to get rid of a corpse, the two friends will fight evil creatures from the woods and demons of the mind.

Refugees in Algeria since 1975, the Saharawi have had to forge another life path, fighting to return home. Their children, a generation born in exile to parents born in exile, tell the story and struggle of their people, the Saharawi, through their dreams, hopes, and strength.

The artist returns to his studio, at night. Fantasies, anxieties, and memories overlap and come to life, until dawn, when the world resumes its daily routine.

Sixty years of the David di Donatello awards represent a long history of successes, of famous actors and award-winning directors, of box-office hits and other films that have distinguished the history and identity of Italian cinema. A journey into Italian film-making creativity.

14Reels is a collective film in Super 8, where 14 directors in 14 cities around the world have filmed and edited in camera one reel each on the theme of the city.

Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son

Classical superstar Ludovico Einaudi took to the Royal Albert Hall stage on March 2, 2010 and immortalized the evening with his concert, The Royal Albert Hall Concert. Ludovico Einaudi’s work has become such a fundamental part of our current musical landscape, shaping young and old listeners alike. He’s the most streamed classical performer in the world and we particularly love listening to his Royal Albert Hall performance!

Giulio Lo Magro, a nationally renowned criminologist, returns for the first time in forty years to Ragusa, his hometown. There, he learns of a series of murders that seem to be connected to the murder of his parents.

Seventies in Italy. In Sardinia a group of criminals kidnaps a well-known public figure in search of redemption. For Giovanni, the leader of a small but determined local gang, known for his long kidnappings on the inland hills, will be an opportunity to confront a wiser and more informed person than he is. Inspired by the true story of Fabrizio De Andrè.

A memorial to lost love that is based on the true love story of my mentor Gianpaolo Barbieri and his partner Evar, who died a quarter of a century ago.

Franchina, Meri, Marcella, Santo, Totino and Wonder are transsexuals who have been prostituting themselves for decades in the San Berillo district of Catania, among them there is also a woman, Alessia. The neighborhood has been left to decay for 50 years and today, more than ever, its parts are contended by increasingly pressing economic interests. Invited by the politician on duty to imagine a different future, shemales call into play desires and fears by attending a course for caregivers. This novelty infiltrates their lives but does not change the rhythms of the particular community of San Berillo in which time is marked by the feasts dedicated to saints and Madonnas rather than the seasons. Between religious faith, love and dreams for a better future the prostitutes of San Berillo recount and claim their rights, present the intimacy of their families and their solitude in front of the door waiting for customers.

A meek middle-aged man takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to feel useful and keep his dignity—until something shakes his inexhaustible optimism.

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.

Elena and Pietro live in an isolated house. They live together but Pietro keeps a secret and when Elena knows it, he has to conquer her love again.

New production of Rigoletto at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, co-produced with the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opéra de Wallonie Liège, and the Shaanxi Opera House. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

Socially progressive, strict with corruption in the Vatican and with the amorality of cardinals, bishops and priests, Pope Francis has managed to transform the reality of an institution with 2,000 years of history.

A mysterious killer roams the streets of Venice, spreading terror throughout the lagoon. And all this while a miscarriage of justice leads to the beginning of a morbid and delirious story of love and death!

At the end of 2018 Colle Der Fomento, the most enduring italian hip hop group, were about to release “Adversus”, a full album after more than a decade since their previous classic “Anima e Ghiaccio”, for this movie the group (along with the producer Dj Craim) opened the doors of their rehearsal room to the cameras and released an in-depth interview about the development “Adversus” and the themes of each track.

Imaginative young Stella learns the peril of landing in the real world after her mission in space is misdirected for her own growth and safety.

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.

Tobia is a "special" child of our day who in a fantastic dimension, suspended between reality and dream (which also leads to a nightmare tinged with hallucination) lives an adventure full of elements and situations on the edge of reality; Going beyond the limits of his own fervent imagination, Tobia faces incredible and multifaceted pitfalls and obstacles with the aim of stopping time that passes by for all inexorable and unstoppable.

In a world ruled by violence and indifference, Death decides to try to live, experiencing the temporary transfer of their power.

Notice to those present on the conditions of mutation of the world.

Experimental short movie by Branco Pacitto

The rocks and the sea while on vacation in the Aeolian islands, the suspended time of the Apulian countryside, the faraway perspective of a girl following her image on the social networks, the closeup perspective of a black immigrant welcomed into a home. After L’uomo doppio, an intimate diary written by Terlizzi as he films everyday, existential glimpses of life, as though they were the heart of a labyrinth without walls, in which the observer pauses, serene and slightly amazed.

A London Times reporter and his inseparable photographer and friend are investigating a number of mysterious cases only to find themselves involved in a bloody mission full of mysteries, plots, and paranormal phenomena.

A Bolu is a choral tale, a journey through Sardinia, aimed at discovering one of the most authentic cultures of the island, pastoralism, which finds a synthesis and a genuine expression in tenor singing. The stories of the characters begin with their most important gathering: the film starts with a flashforward scene that anticipates the ending: a huge townfolk party. The facts about the faces, the voices that the viewer discovers in that celebration are explored in the journey, encounter after encounter, step by step, which ends in the great community celebration.

The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".

Jim Morrison considered himself first a Poet, and subsequently a Rock Star and sex symbol. “ROCK POET” tells his story. He was far more than the hell-raiser, infamous for his arrest in Miami for exposing himself on stage, another rock casualty- dead by the age of just 27. “Classic Artists” meets with legendary Beat Poets Michael Horovitz, Michael McClure, Pete Brown of “Cream” fame, about the movement and what it meant to the burgeoning tide of Rock and Roll, more specifically, to Jim Morrison, and finds the admiration and respect for his talent as a poet and writer amongst his Beat Poet predecessors and also contemporaries to be unquestionable. This film includes revelations from those that were present in the final days and final hours of Jim Morrison, including an eye witness . A vigorously captivating insight of a time in rock history , a time in the life of the man, both rock star and poet.

With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination that seems to go with it.

Carlo, a mediocre writer, is happily married to Sabrina and has a beautiful 9-year-old daughter. At one point, he manages to fulfill his dream of publishing a book. But things take a turn for the worse when he is invited to Florence for the presentation of his novel. Carlo falls in love with Giovanna, the publisher, to the point of asking his wife for a divorce as soon as he returns home.

Franco scaldati - died in 2013 - was one of the most important autors of italian theatre plays, Maresco describes his role in the cultural and social field. Through his opera we can observe Italy from another point of view.

Are Italians good people? debatable. But ours are, without any doubt, not warlike people, also because the millenary history of the country has seen too many wars, violence and pestilences. starting from this particular historical condition, Scherza con i fanti wants to be a universal hymn to peace, but above all it presents itself as a journey that passes through recent Italian history, exploring the difficult and even ironic relationship of the population with the military world and, in general, with power through four war diaries.

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.

Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer.

Hear the words of Pope Francis and follow him on his travels through video footage and interviews.

Stonecarvers, masons, carpenters, smiths, electricians, woodworkers, restorers, goldsmiths: the extraordinary, never-ending saga of the fabrication of Milan Cathedral is portrayed in the light of the sacredness of a building that lives through times, rhythms, calendars and aspirations that merge with and transcend the labor of men and women. The anonymous, humble, painstaking everyday care required by a structure such as the Cathedral, over the years and still today, reveals the magnificence of human action that spans time and generations, holding within itself a grand humanist sentiment.

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.

'Pan Play Decadence' tells the story of the poignant lives of people united by their passion for 'transgression'. Felico, a hockey champ in a wheelchair, Kraian, a school teacher fond of S & M, Federicona, a romantic fifty year old transsexual that works in the streets, still in love with the man with whom she was engaged to twenty years ago. These are just some of the stories that intersect in this living fresco: 'Pan Play Decadence' is a film in the making, a document of a contemporary world, ranging from little-known instances of collective and individual needs, the search for touching paths of intimate salvation.

The film revolves around the wedding of Alice and her friends.

Braciola is a clown unable to make people laugh. Tonino, the meanest man in town, blackmails Braciola's girlfriend Gioia and forces her to marry him. The clown interrupts the ceremony, wreaks havoc in the church, with the help of his pet rat, and runs away with Gioia. Many adventures, and yes, laughs, await ahead for our heroes.

What makes me a Sikh? That question posed by nine-year-old Zara Garcha starts a family’s journey to learn about their religion. The Garcha family explores Sikhism by visiting diverse Sikh communities around the world: meeting with a Maharaja, cheesemakers, fashionistas, farmers, and scholars to glean a better understanding of the world’s fifth largest religion. Their journey begins in Parma where they meet Sikhs who have a hand in creating Italy’s iconic Parmesan cheese. From there, the Garcha’s head east traveling to India to visit The Golden Temple, and learn about the historical foundations of the religion. As their travels continue their lived experience blends with academic insight and we see how the religion and culture has manifested itself throughout the world.

In Greek mythology Ananke is the goddess that represents the personification or power of fate. After a long wandering, a man and a woman find shelter in an isolated house in the mountains, far from society. They hope to save themselves by adapting to an essential, almost primitive life, free of neurosis and technological contamination.

In suburban Rome, a kid is intrigued by a mannequin abandoned in a field. The fascination for this lifeless body, will mark the discovery of a new world, made of impulses, dreams and desires.