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A soldier is sentenced to death for failing to “honor his superior.”

Two brothers. One dream. A sea in between.

Bari, summer 2013. In a city still in shock from the 2011 match-fixing scandal in football, the local team is preparing for a new Serie B season in a hugely precarious economic situation. The owners, the Matarrese family, have pulled back, yet the team will qualify for the playoffs matches despite the declared bankruptcy.

From the makers of "FantastiCozzi", a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato.

Varichina was the first openly out homosexual man in Bari in the ‘70s. Ugly, flashy and campy, he was well known for making coarse advances to every man he saw. He was gay, had nothing to hide, and lived a life of celebration! Funny and heartwarming, Varichina: The True Story of the Fake Life of Lorenzo de Santis is a documentary/fiction hybrid looking at someone who was WAY OUT, long before it was socially acceptable.

At The Gates - The Flames Of The End - Disc 1 'Under A Serpent Sun - The Story of At the Gates' Over 2 hours of brand new documentary detailing the band's entire career with exclusive interviews and footage, filmed and directed by guitarist Anders Bjorler.

Waves is inspired by a short novel of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-tide, written and published in 1894, the year of his untimely death (Stevenson was 44 years old).

Teatro Regio’s 2013 revival of their highly successful 2006 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo celebrates the 40th anniversary of the theatre’s reopening in 1973. With traditional staging and lavish costume design, the production garnered high acclaim in the national and international press, with GB Opera commending the ‘sumptuous’ setting and French online music magazine ResMusica praising director Hugo de Ana’s decision to revive the show ‘in all its splendour’. Shown here in the four-act version, Don Carlo is the fascinating tale of father-son power struggles, adultery and love that borders on incest. The cast – under the powerful baton of Gianandrea Noseda – is headed by renowned Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas, and also features Ludovic Tézier, who has been hailed as ‘one of the best Verdian singers of our time’

Earth to earth, water to water. The body weight of a newborn child is up to 85 percent water, but in adulthood, the ratio can be cut into half. In a way, people dry up as they grow older. In Claudia Tosi’s documentary, people drink water, watch the rain and wait for their death. The Perfect Circle depicts a man and a woman, Ivano and Meris, who spend their final days at a hospice in the hills of Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy. Their illnesses are in the terminal stage and they know that death is only a matter of time. But the ever-nearing end may fleetingly be forgotten, like when they close their eyes and get lost in the music – until the bodies being carried out next door once again remind them of the inevitable. Death also becomes a part of life for the patients’ loved ones, who want to spend the last available moments with the soon to be departed.

The Italian Painter Michele is forced by his rich girlfriend to move to a new house in Trieste, abandoning his privileged life. He finds himself in a new world full of extravagant neighbors and unusual situations that will eventually change his values and prospective of life.

This docufilm follows and documents the activity of the icon Robert Capucci of international high fashion. It is a triumph of colors and elegance thanks to the famous "sculpture dresses". The film encompasses great testimonials from people such as Anna Fendi, soprano Raina Kabaivanska, princess Maria Pace Odescalchi, directors of the major museums in the world.

In a post apocalyptic world, divided in small areas dominated by various local gangs, the most diffused job is the killer. The area 201 is governed by Oxon, for whom many killers work. Rexon, one of them, starts to work by his own so Oxon unleashes his killers to eliminate him.

Clemente is an old Sicilian fisherman who goes on working in spite of his late age. His life is disrupted the day he finds a young refugee’s dead body stuck in the fishing nets.

Documentary short about the small Apulian town of Adelfia which celebrates the Feast of St. Tryphon for three days with fireworks and music.

'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 "Ballad of the Homeless" is a poetic and surreal journey into the lands devastated by the earthquake in the Italian region of Emilia Romagna in 2012. We see the aftermath through the eyes of a child and his friend, a snail.

Apocalyptic battle among ravenous monsters, B-series saints, crooked friends, inept godheads, resuscitated punk rockers

It's Sunday morning. The Proud Man likes to visit the zoo. Rising early, he plots a persuasive plea to convince his wife that gardens are only glorious if graced by creatures. Produced by Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan.

What does the respective age mean for the individual, which topics are currently playing an important role and what are the expectations for the future? The two filmmakers Nancy Camaldo and Veronika Hafner show over 100 people between the ages of 0 and 100 in their everyday lives and also let some of them have their say. From the differences between the protagonists and their living situation, the impression of a complete life is formed, a closed circle of life from birth to death.

One year after the earthquake that devastated Abruzzo, Sangue e Cemento retraces recent causes and remote responsibilities of those who built poorly to save on materials and techniques, of those who had to control but did not, of the administrators who favored speculation at the expense of the safety of citizens, who paid a price of 299 victims. Interviews and testimonies to seismologists, geologists, territorial and construction technicians, lawyers and judges enrich this film-document that was made by Gruppo Zero, a collective of journalists, filmmakers and communicators who produce investigative documentaries for correct information and free from manipulation.

At the tip of Italy’s heel, lies la Vucca de lu puzzu, the gaping “mouth of the well”. Vucca (2016) is the intimate result of the artist’s field recordings inside the cave. Saline and pluvial water merge through an underwater tunnel, refracted sunlight challenges obscurity, while the rock stubbornly resists the passages of civilizations. The multilayered soundtrack and visuals echo the dizziness of the space.

Alice is going to have the most amazing holiday of her life. A dark fairytale to homage Lewis Carroll's book.

Bussenghi is a cross-border worker who is late to work every day because of Swiss border guard Bernasconi. In a twist of fate, the two nemeses will have to coexist 24 hours a day and, aside from teasing each other about the differences between Italy and Switzerland, they begin to understand and help each other, gradually realizing that they need each other to get out of the trouble they ended up in.

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.

Giancarlo Vitali, 88 years old painter. This film is a portrait of his daily "battles".

Short documentary about the life and times of Italian filmmaker Sergio Pastore.

A young Romanian factory worker sells everything she owns and leaves for Italy, where she is welcomed by another Italian factory worker.

Materia oscura tells the story of a war zone in peacetime. The film location is the Salto di Quirra test range (Sardinia, Italy) where, for over fifty years, governments around the world have tested 'new weapons' and where the Italian government has carried out controlled explosions of old weapon stocks, inexorably endangering the territory.

the po valley as place of the absurd. architectural stratifications and building failures. palms, urban voids, urban fullness and neon palms. pools built up in 5 days. neo-gothic villages reconstructed. the external meaning of this consumption is the same internal failure of its flesh puppets. words stolen by a recorder, in secret. the masquerade of reality as simulacrum of the truth, humans and their artifacts are put on stage.

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the Mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian documentary makers. His masterpiece, "The last punch of Earth", will be analyzed and debated, a film which examined Italian change and European reflection.

A. is obsessed with his image. Like a post-modern Narcissus, he projects himself in the endless choices that social media devices offer him. Riccardo Giacconi creates a disquieting film about a teenager who gets lost in the maze of the never-ending reproductions of his Dorian Grayesque portrait. Taking to new and yet unexplored extremes, the fixation with the digital screens in their many guises, the film works like an almost endless fall – without any kind of parachute – through the network of images hidden behind and inside other images.

A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.

The story of a dream that turns into an adventure: a theater company made up of five actors with Down syndrome and one with autism wants to accomplish a "normal" feat: putting on a great show and bringing it to the most prestigious theaters in Italy.

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.

Maria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.

Green Gold was developed during a period of ten weeks, the title refers to the importance of forestry in the economic system of Finland.

The Rostom is an overnight shelter for the homeless, located on the outskirts of Bologna. It appears like a ghostly moon base in the middle of the countryside, where beams of neon light draw the profiles of insomniacs, who in the middle of the night get up and go out for a smoke or a chat. Weaving the threads of their stories is David, an Englishman who has been wandering the world for seven years and has landed at Rostom exhausted and eager to get back on his feet and tell his story

A public and private portrait of Marcelo Burlon, one of the most fascinating and influential personalities on the current fashion scene, a figure who is both loved and hated at the same time.