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Living the High Life

A journey through the customs and traditions of Eros around the world, both the more morally acceptable and the less talked about. On this tour, we'll visit nightclubs, brothels, swingers' clubs, and much more, satisfying your every curiosity and answering those questions you've never dared to ask.

In this documentary by a veteran Italian journalist Silvestro Montanaro some of the conspirators behind Sankara’s death are interviewed. The rise and fall of The Burkinabé Revolution is placed in the international context.

The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)

First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa. Performed for the first time at the Paris Opera, the production has been entrusted to the Italian director, Damiano Michieletto, who transports us directly to the sincerity and dramatic splendour at the heart of an apparently light‑hearted work.

A well-known 1930s’ actress seeks a cure for her nervous condition at a remote beach location, hoping to escape the bright lights and the anxiety caused by her amorous feelings, as yet unexpressed, for her lady’s maid.

The last year of life of the famous Italian poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, killed 11-2, 1975 by a political conspiracy.

Matilde is a woman who has already inherent insanity because she can't seem to find meaning in her husband's family anymore, since he doesn't respect her. All of this and the malicious insinuations, being subjected to the violent acts of her father in law, are getting her to fall into a state of great distress and instability.

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).

A vampiric Claudio Simonetti and a few of his fellow musicians sing and play in Dracula's castle.

THE SKY OVER KIBERA is an art film: it tells us about the "bringing to life" of the Divine Comedy in the immense slum of Nairobi, Kibera, where the director has worked with 150 children and adolescents, reinventing Dante's masterpiece in English and Swahili. And he does so with his poetic and visionary style, interweaving other images with the filming of the play, sequences shot specifically in the slum to carry out the alchemical operation of transforming theatre into cinema. Around them a chorus swarming with bodies recites the tumult of being both beasts and damned, thieves and murderers, devils and corrupt politicians and poets who indicate the ways of salvation: between songs and acting, frenetic races and wild dances, the 150 protagonists give life to a fresco full of moving poetry, further confirmation of the universality of Dante's masterpiece.

MILAN VIA PADOVA. A document that was born out of an excess of zeal in an investigation into the people who live on the street. The film tells of racism and intolerance through singing that shows the sweetness of a forgotten rhythm. The unusual reality reaches performative peaks when personal and social problems are intertwined. It is a film on the verge of becoming. It was born as a synthetic work but like the themes it deals with, it prolongs its life over time. After four years it became a feature film.

Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person.

A group of college students decide to make a documentary on the psychological causes which lead to an apparent demonic possession. Since they can not find a real case to show, they decide to include in the project a young girl with a perfect profile to play this role, but remain trapped in a dangerous game with unexpected events.

There is a B&B where every room is a city of the world. You can choose the room-city you want to go to and you'll live in its time zone. It's a training course for long distance relationships. Apparently.

A couple receives a letter of eviction: they must leave their home in Trento within 60 days. They are two political refugees: he is Afghan and she is of Iranian origin. They have a 10-year-old son, Sepanta, who grew up in Italy, and has no memory of his grandparents, either paternal or maternal. They decide to dedicate these 60 days to their son, to offer him a different idea of home, and thus undertake a journey to his mother's native country. But an unexpected event upsets the plans.

Don Giovanni prides itself in being a dramma giocoso. Not an easy expression to translate, given how starkly contradictory the terms would appear to be. But dig below the surface and you are plunged into a delightful swirl of ambiguities. Nothing here is set in stone: the libertinage is passionate, but couples meet and part. Fate plays tricks with masks, right up until the final challenge.

Italian documentary from director Marco Santarelli.

An Italian descendent inherited 5000 hectares of virgin forest in Chaco Paraguaio. He tries to stop deforestation to intensive farming and livestock, while advocating for native Guaraní Nandevas.

Lauro is a shy and awkward young photographer. He has a secret in his past that has affected his entire life, but he only knows the consequences and cannot identify the cause. However, an irresistible instinct leads him to search for his possible lost brother, the son of a relationship his father may have had with a neighbor. The woman, Margherita, has become a famous painter, and with the excuse of photographing her, Lauro travels to Zafferano, a small Sicilian village. What he discovers will be much more complex than he had imagined.

Memories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone"

Veronica is 17 years old and for a long time she has been spying from afar a life different from hers, and she chose it for herself. When she finally manages to approach Alessia, she immerses herself completely in this new world that appears to be the same and at the same time different from what she imagined.

Gianni wakes up, eats and wash himself. Gianni puts all himself to go on. Gianni repeats these actions like any human being. Gianni lives following a strict routine. Gianni: is he living his life freely like he thinks? Gianni doesn't know that.

Amidst the beauty and texture of the Italian countryside, Stefania and her husband celebrate her work as an accomplished writer.

Longtake short film

The composer's opera buffa transcends the spirit of Beaumarchais’ comedy and combines the absurd with a touch of satirical realism in a score where rhythm and virtuosity place the comic effects in an ongoing dramatic narration. As a result, the characters – Rosina in particular – gain a new degree of realism and break with the usual archetypes. Damiano Michieletto’s giddying production embraces this perpetual motion and carries in its wake the happy couple formed by Lawrence Brownlee and Pretty Yende.

A couple are going through a rough patch and sex becomes a lens through which we can explore and reflect on the delicate dynamics of a conscious relationship.

Davide is about to realize his lifelong dream: shooting a movie for the cinema. He has the actors, a crew, a production and a distribution. Taking his responsibilities lightly, Davide immediately finds himself having exceeded the pre-established budget and being behind schedule. The production blocks his set and threatens to sue him if he does not deliver the finished feature film within two weeks. Desperate, Davide decides, together with his two best friends, to set up a "band of Superheroes", who stops the thieves and robs them in order to collect the amount of money he needs to finish the film in the shortest possible time.

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.

An in-depth interview with Italian filmmaker Francesco Barilli about the Italian filmmakers Luigi and Camillo Bazzoni.

After a deadly car accident, a camera’s super zoom becomes the director’s eye, wandering through a summery Rome in search of his lover for a last goodbye.