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A group of young people, who have set off for a holiday in the Calabrian countryside, find themselves grappling with disconcerting facts that happened twenty years earlier. A mysterious presence will upset their holiday to the point of turning it into a terrifying nightmare, turning them into sacrificial victims. One by one they will suffer the demonic wrath of that satanic presence that will not stop until it has killed them all…
A documentary about the rebirth of the Neapolitan neighborhood Rione Sanità
Piero Saggion is a teenager who lives in Marghera, Venice's industrial area known for its "Petrochemicals", plays rugby and spends much time with his friend Sergio. When Nestor, an Argentine worker in the small firm his father Antonio owns, remains badly burned at the end of a day's work with too much overtime, Piero's life takes an unexpected turn. The arrival of Maria, daughter of the Argentine Nestor, will make him discover the love and give him the strength to rebel against a world of lies and compromises.
It’s a model story, an extraordinary adventure, a tale of revolutionary practice and tension, among anarchy and irony, simplicity, curiosity and vitality throughout the whole of Europe, its wars and the social struggles of the 1900s. A tale on how to live all in one breath, responsibly, diving into contradictions, "getting one's hands dirty", and still keeping one's balance between theory and practice.˝
Love is a train running on endless tracks and it’s going to run you over unexpectedly.
On board a train on its last trip, five people know each other, collide, make friends and solve their personal issues finding out what's really important in life.
From the Rai Arturo Toscanini Auditorium in Turin, the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, with Andrea Lucchesini as piano soloist, performs works by Gesualdo da Venosa: *Six Madrigals* (orchestrated by Stanisław Skrowaczewski).
Two agents of a mysterious Ministry knock on a boy's door. They search his whole house and subject him to a dense series of questions about a past he seems to have left behind...
Sophia Loren's story told by Loren herself. The greatest Italian movie star of all time describes her life and career through a selection of the materials dating from between the fifties and the present day preserved in the archives of the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Rai. An exploration of the myth of a "unique" actor, relying exclusively on precious and sometimes rare archive footage, with a commentary in Loren's own words drawn from over half a century of interviews and firsthand accounts of the most important moments in her private life and her career. A documentary made to celebrate this great actor's eighty years and her immense charm and talent.
Mercurio is a kid who loves cycling. One day he is stopped by the Fascist regime and incarcerated in a transit camp, ready to be sent to a concentration camp. Forced to quickly become a man, he will try, fighting unarmed, to win against the horror of Fascism and gain absolute freedom.
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.
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.
A portrait of the life of St. Veronica Giuliani.
Academy Award winning director Paolo Sorrentino conveyed a seductive stillness of the volcanic islands of Lipari and Stromboli in Southern Italy in a short film for Giorgio Armani
Claudio and Riccardo are forced to share the same apartment and bedroom when their divorced parents decide to live together. But they soon find out that they can be more than brothers. By overcoming their fears and prejudice of the people, they will be free to live as they desire.
The Cores are a very special family. Christian was world champion in bouldering, Stella was Italian champion, and just over a year ago they became parents of twins, Lara and Ania. They live in a valley not far from Savona, Italy, but their story is inextricably linked to the woods overlooking Varazze. With other climbers from the area, they have sought, found and cleaned rocks to climb with more and more extreme difficulty, bringing to light a climbing spot now famous all over the world. In particular, they have discovered a rock and a problem thought to be the toughest in the world, which was named Gioia by Christian, the first to climb it.
Realized for the Telethon research awareness campaign. The protagonist is a researcher, a scholar who has spent her entire life looking for a possible cure to defeat thalassemia, in honor of a childhood friend.
148 Stefano: Mostri dell'inerzia is a documentary with a biographical and social background released in 2011, written and directed by Maurizio Cartolano, based on an idea by Giancarlo Castelli. It tells the tragic story of Stefano Cucchi, 31, who died on 22 October 2009 while in custody.
Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.
Two inexperienced young girls rob the man who gave them a lift... but him, Carlo, is not a person like anyone else.
An emotional and philosophical plunge into that invaluable period of life, which is life's own end. Through a year of encounters and conversations, between the filmmaker and the main character; terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease. A road movie about love, pain and the need for freedom.
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.
Jenny is a former Broadway star looking to revive her career one last time. When her rich uncle dies she leaves New York and goes to the south of Italy to claim her inheritance, only to find out that all that’s left are debts and a worthless self-portrait. In her quest for fame she decides to team up with the up and coming and shy young talent Carmelina.
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".
Tony is a Sicilian man whose job is to prepare bread with spleen. He undergoes a genetic mutation after being buried by a load of rubbish and his super-power consists in hitting the enemies with slices of spleen.
An old wooden house, surrounded by walls and guarded by angry soldiers, and a director, Micol Roubini, who tries to enter this place. It's not just any place for her. That house looks a lot like one he saw in an old photo from 1919: the one built by his grandfather, and then abandoned by him to escape persecution against Jews during World War II. We are in Jamna, a small country in the west of Ukraine that is now independent. The guards prevent anyone from passing, and no one knows why. And the inhabitants of the country are of almost no help.
Four girls, playing in a rock band, decide to shoot a self-produced video in a abandoned carpentry, where murders and tortures took place. Once they reach the location, they will realize they are not alone...
In 1992, the anti-Mafia magistrates Falcone and Borsellino were murdered in Palermo, the capital of Sicily. For a long time, the public believed in a story of revenge. Today, a lawsuit is challenging this hypothesis. With exclusive testimonies from judges, politicians, and witnesses under protection, this film reveals several decades of incestuous links between the State and the Mafia.
Lyon, a young autistic boy who is depressed by the death of his parents, runs away from the house where he is locked up and abused by his brother to spend a day in the mountains. He will meet Hans, a boy who will steal his first kiss in the green of the winter woods. But the two have not come to terms with the arrival of Lyon's homophobic brother, Stefan
Today, a special day for Luigi and Vincenzo, years of a love story in clandestine, for shame, fear, thinking do not have rights, no marriage, no family, neither walking hand in hand.... But this day, the same of the Napoli gay pride day, something changes.... Written by Giuseppe Bucci
Rosy has an important committee to do to get even with his childhood, a secret consumed in solitude, a secret that puts an end for ever to that Rosy had to endure so far.
A journalist intrigued by some unexplained events during Christmas time goes looking for Santa Claus.
Claudio Amerio works in a large factory near Florence. His life was recently turned upside down by the sudden death of his father caused by a heart attack. Claudio, who also lost his mother a few years ago, lives alone in the house that belonged to his parents. Between Claudio and the world now there is a wall, Claudio in fact lives holed up in this house where strange things have been happening for days: disturbing noises, falling paintings, sick energies that turn into nagging dreams...
An Italian short movie.
Set in a country church on a hot August day is an ironic and crude analysis and staging of the unwritten laws of prejudice and of meanness, in the society of appearance. In the perspective of "do it but do not say", the micro-stories of all the characters are alternated with the omnipresent co-protagonist of the story: the heat. The young bride, the greedy priest, the hedonist nun, the old women of the village, the femme fatale, the witnesses of the spouses, the relatives, the various guests and the groom himself tell with twists and sympathetic snapshots of almost Pirandellian humor timeless history where the clichés of a corrupt and indifferent society parade on the notes of the wedding march.
Have you ever participated in a seance? Eight paranormal researchers, including the medium Fulvio Rendhell, meet for seven days in the Abbey of San Giacomo (now called Sapientia and which in the distant past had been a tribunal of the Inquisition) to live an unforgettable mediumistic experience, captured through special and innovative video equipment by Al Festa, creator of the project.
Alessandro is a young director who is always broke and tries to make his short films by begging for favors from his fellow villagers. Suddenly he will understand what is the key to the art of DIY.
The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci's Western "Django," adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored territory of Italian — and by extension global — pop culture and its unique vitality.
