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A strange doctor.

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up these scenes of Bohemian life, Puccini offers us a heart-breaking love story and some of the most beautiful music in the history of opera in the story of the poet Rodolfo and fragile Mimi. The staging of this new production has been entrusted to Claus Guth who sets the drama in a future devoid of hope in which love and art become the sole means of transcendence.

A young worker installs a screen door in an unfamiliar house. He thinks there is no one else but him and the owner, an older and very attractive woman. He is wrong.

A sensitive teenage boy is being harassed by peers in school because of his unwillingness to date girls.

A Donatello award nominated short film.

Between Bresso, Sesto San Giovanni and Milan, we immerse ourselves in the lives of Vash and Felce, who together make music, do heroin and share everything. Their reality is sometimes brutal, often comical, tragic and romantic.

A border town in the south of Switzerland is the backdrop for the most important summer in 15-year old Samuel’s young life. He is introverted, a loner and communicates through the world of comic drawings. Determined to overcome the doubts and memories that have long plagued him, he hires a former private detective. With him, he embarks on a daring adventure that will lead him to discover a painful family truth.

Rossini’s opera based on the fairy-tale Cinderella, filmed in real-life Italian locations in the ballrooms and gardens of some of Turin’s finest palaces. For this special production of the opera, the scenes were filmed at the same time of day as they occur in the story, with the famous ballroom scene filmed as the clock struck midnight

Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Macbeth" staged by Dario Argento, directed by Marco Scalfi.

In Abruzzo, Giulio, Veronica and their young son Marzio live a happy life. Giulio loves the countryside, Veronica enjoys the quiet life of the city and Marzio wants a little brother. Giulio, however, discovers that he is infertile. His friends are trying to keep the family together.

At night, in the dark recesses of the woods, a male cellist lures in viewers with a performance of Bach's "Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major." It stars Paul McCoy Drutz-Hannahs, a professional cellist with the Johns Hopkins University Orchestra.

A man is buried alive. Reality or nightmare?

Abed, a young Palestinian, enters Israel illegally by passing under the Wall, through the sewers. He works in a restaurant in the West of Jerusalem. On his day off, Abed decides to go home with a mysterious white box. It is the beginning of a long journey.

Laura Pausini stars in the Rai1 television event titled "Stasera... Laura! Ho credeva in un sogno", which will see her tell the public about her life in music, from the evocative setting of the Ancient Theatre of Taormina, with the help of friends, colleagues and surprise guests who will go on stage with her.

Video images shot on the ferry with which filmmakers Anna Lajolo and Guido Lombardi travelled to the island of Tristan da Cuhna, the subject of a documentary shot in 1992 for the Italian public television channel RAI.

A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in a way or another, will stay unscathed.

“La notte salva” (The night of nature) is a path of sensations that attempts to gather around its nature without revealing it, without opening itself to any human language. Rather, as an animal’s night call, it exists vanishing in its own closure and muteness. The film reestablishes itself onto its state of unsolved, lost and forgotten space, as a word without name, experiencing itself as a simple gesture, dreamily suspended through its own electric tension, far from any sort of destination, salvation, redemption.

Dylan Dog, the supernatural investigator created by Tiziano Sclavi, returns to the screen in the fan film Dylan Dog – La Morte puttana (2012) directed by Denis Frison.

Filming in her grandparents’ home near Padova in Italy, the director identifies a map of places belonging to their past. Antonio was born in Libya when it was an Italian colony, and he lived in Tripoli where he married Narcisa. They were suddenly forced to leave the country in 1970 just after Gaddafi’s coup. With the help of a young Libyan contacted on social media, Martina collects images of her grandparents’ “hometown” today. As they exchange pictures and chats, their relationship grows, the web allowing them to slowly overcome the physical and cultural boundaries that separate their lives, bringing the audience into a world the media has no access to.

Tutti a casa” is the real story of Maria Silvia Spolato, a university math teacher, activist, and lesbian in the 70s.She was photographed in a feminist demonstration with the "homosexual liberation" sign. She was fired and disowned by her family. She lived homeless for 40 years without ever asking anyone for anything, except sometimes a book to read.

Anna is coming: finally, a night together, a night awaited for so long, but the anticipation now makes her uneasy and scares her. Something is troubling her. The fear of breaking a taboo? Feelings of inadequacy? Her conscience? An undefined sense of guilt? All things that can kill. Literally.

Ancient esoteric artefact of Celtic origin, witnessed of the passing of the ages between the mountains and fulcrum of the articulated plot, the Gorchlach will lead the two protagonists Guglielmo Corsaris (Federico Mariotti) and Rachel Blackwood (Alice Lussiana Parente) into a journey that will take them to discover secrets hidden for centuries and only considered as legends.

The Man argues with the Merry Christmas Sign who messing up the words over in the Animated Christmas Card.

A portrait of Alda Merini, one of the most important and renowned literary figures of the twentieth century, realized with the inedited footage of a long conversation that the director Antonietta De Lillo had with her in 1995.

Pray to God you never meet him...

A racist, Lega Nord supporter from Veneto lashes out at people from Southern Italy, shouting his great truth at them.

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.

In this short film, screened and commissioned by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Gianikian and Ricci Lucchi revisit regions at war or in crisis through archive images of the 20th century.

Pietro Mascagni's opera recorded in 2009. Conductor Stefano Ranzani leads the orchestra and chorus of the Zurich Opera House, with performances by Argentinian tenor Jose Cura and soprano Pauletta Marrocu.

The collective Amanda Flor returns with a history of intolerance and revenge, which will unleash a real street war. The film is set in the increasingly degraded suburbs of Rome.

Two boys, two teenage sweethearts launched and overwhelmed in the great whirlwind of war. Dreams and hopes shattered: a story like many others - But he is the son of Benito Mussolini, she is the last family member to meet him in life. Exciting and dramatic stories told with the letters of the two young people including the one Mussolini wrote to his dead son.

This documentary tells the story of Rome's contemporary art scene, so far from the stereotypes that have represented it until now.

The story of this documentary unfolds between 1954 and 1975, years during which Vittorio Nisticò was the head editor of the newspaper L'ORA (The Hour). Nisticò's words, interpreted by Pippo Delbono, make up the body of the film: on one hand, the battles against the powers and interests intertwined between the mafia and the political world, during a historically transformative time for Sicily; on the other hand, the generation of intellectuals and artists, including characters such as Sciascia, Consolo, Dolci, Guttuso, Caruso, all taking on the struggle of becoming interpreters for this social and civil shift, and choosing this small, daily publication from Palermo as the main channel and instrument of this great challenge. In a few short years, the newspaper becomes a beacon in the fight against the "mafia mentality". Nisticò becomes a master of journalism, and L'Ora a great school, a "news factory”.