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Like his father and grandfather before him, Nicola works on a field along an old mountain road. He sells potatoes grown by his family to passing motorists, while work on the "new road" is about to end. An unexpected encounter will give him the courage to take risks and ... change gears.
Documentary on the changes that social medias have brought on the Italian comic books scene.
Twelve young actors, a poetess, and a director spend together three months in a theater in the middle of woods. Every day the poet Mariangela Gualtieri writes poetry drawing inspiration from the girls and guys themselves.The group of actors is trained by the director Cesare Ronconi to become a chorus, a unique body compact on stage. At the same time every actor is pushed to fathom their own solitude. The winter wood around the theater becomes the labyrinth to face where everyone looses themselves.
Elsa is seventy and has five empty hives. The bees are gone like her husband. One morning he finds Amin, a sixteen-year-old boy who has escaped from an immigration center, hiding in the garage. The police are looking for him. Elsa hosts him in exchange for help.
Twenty-four hours in the life of Loris Daitona. He is a former best-selling author, who had published his only novel when he was only sixteen.
Innocenzo is a 39 years old cistercenses monk, ceramist and singer for the abbey he lives in, but new obligations arise as the parson of the village is transfered. He finds himself face to face with the complexity of community life and starts to question his identity as a person and man of faith.
An uncensored look into the artistic process and personal relationships of Christo, an artist known for his large-scale installations. For the first time since the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize, The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before.
A documentary about how the concept beauty influences the new generations.
A brief look into the disruption of expectations and also jackets.
In 1959, Cesare Maestri and Toni Egger are said to have been the first to climb the more than 3,000-metre-high granite needle of Cerro Torre. Egger had a fatal accident on the descent and Maestri was unable to prove that they had reached the summit. Reinhold Messner searches for the truth in this documentary.
Il Volo celebrates ten years of its career with a great concert in Matera broadcast today, Tuesday 19 November, on channel 5.
In a post office 5 people are kidnapped by a crazy woman. They have to confess their crimes and sins and find a way to escape . Good Film, a must see.
Simona is a single mother in her early ‘40s who is wholly devoted to her son, Filippo. To get over her insecurities as a parent and make her son happy on his eighth birthday, she decides to throw him a birthday party in their small flat and invite over his school friends and their parents. For Simona, this birthday is about to pose quite the surprising dilemma between allowing her son to embrace his true self and a mother’s fierce desire to protect her child from their potentially cruel surroundings. This is the last conundrum she was expecting to have to face on a day that is already rife with anxiety.
In Ballarò, a historic district in Palermo, five artists paint murals on the walls of dilapidated buildings and reflect the community around them.
Walter is an unpleasant man, dirty, a small-time middleman, a third class swindler. He lives in an old station wagon full of dirt and scraps of a lifetime. In that car, Walter eats, sleeps, receives young customers to whom he promises to break into the show business, as long as they are willing to do anything and in exchange for a bribe. His bodyguard is always by his side, he's too old and smells. He's own faithful life companion: A Rottweiler named Blackie and he's dying.
A collective of fifteen emerging directors, guided by Tarr, each present a unique short segment reimagining the city and landscapes around Locarno—city streets, cable cars, the Val Bavona valleys, and Corippo—through varied cinematic lenses.
From the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Maestro Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Hector Berlioz’s *Grande Messe des Morts*, composed in 1837.
Set in the late 1960s, the film explores the issues of immigration, community values and family devotion through the eyes of a young girl, Lucia, who is left behind with her grandmother while her parents emigrate to France to find work. Lucia pains to be with her family as she struggles to learn her role in the tiny, traditional village under the watchful guidance of her stern grandmother.
Life and Death of Oriana Fallaci: the greatest Italian journalist of all time who made men of power tremble with her interviews and her sharp writing.
LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW - is a feature-length comedy made up of several short movies that are all based on the same theme of characters who are living in a moment where they feel like they have no future.
Italian comedian Edoardo Ferrario riffs on life at 30 and unpacks the peculiarities of global travel, social media and people who like craft beer.
From the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, a comic-fantasy opera in four acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Jakov Polonsky based on Nikolai Gogol’s "A Christmas Eve", and music by Tchaikovsky.
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.
The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works with porcelain and Thomas is an angelic child. However, when Thomas bites one of his friends at school, the cracks of a context that is anything but perfect begin to surface.
You are in the countryside. Just you and your girlfriend. You hope that with the silence of an isolated house in the woods you will find inspiration to write your next book. There is something wrong. You don't like this place. It tortures you. It's not just in your head.
Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the American South tries to cope with the lingering effects of the past and navigate their place in a country that is not on their side. Meanwhile, the Black Panthers prepare a large-scale protest against police brutality.
The film follows a community of non-professional climbers for six months and sees the participation of the writer Erri De Luca.
L 38 known as Laurentino 38, tells the story of four criminals: the Chechen, the Jesus, Rug and Pimp, that shoot snuff movies for their boss "Sergio il Pappa". When the Chechen receives the visit of the a mysterious man the level of blood and violence rises.
‘Cavalleria Rusticana nei Sassi’ is an immersive and participatory opera, set against the striking natural backdrop of the Sassi of Matera.
A documentary in which Luca Ragazzi and Gustav Hofer research the origins of sexism in the west and in Italy, the land of Berlusconi, Mussolini and Casanova, a nation with 887 words to say "penis".
Biagio, the cute red puppet from the children's program Sunday Club, is the protagonist of this documentary about his life. Intentioned to build a reputation as a drama director - and shedding the label of television entertainer for the little ones - he directs a movie about drug addiction and life in the suburbs, but the audience doesn't take him seriously.
Thought about stones in a small Italian town. Workshop film made in Saint Angello Le Fratte, from 8th to 12th of July 2019.
The beauty transgender Erika arrives in an old house in the country during a stormy night. She is escaping from her violent boyfriend. At first Erika find peace, but day by day strange things begin to happen: voices, shadows - And a man of the nearest village says to Erika that the house is known in the village as "The house of murderers" since the Second World War.
In the place of forgiveness, the confessional, a man will make a shocking revelation to his confessor.
Laura is a 45 year old married woman, with a teenage daughter. Laura starts to express a feeling of discomfort both at home and work, due to a sexual abuse. A new director, Stefania, comes to the company where Laura is working, and the two women eventually become friends. Laura will find the strength to open herself up to Stefania and agree to go to a Center for women against violence, following the advice of her new friend.
At 24, Leo lives an empty and emotionless life. The only way for him to bond with people is physical.
Bartholomeo, sports attorney, lives on gimmicks and little tricks. Over the years he has wasted the many opportunities he has had, the vice of gambling has made him lose money and family and now he spends his days in the suburbs hoping to find the new Maradona. Always looking for a stroke of luck, one day he receives a phone call: in Uruguay there is a young boy, Pablito, who is a real phenomenon…
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!
Aging fashion model Benedetta Barzini strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son’s determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera’s gaze.
A family moves into their new home, which proves to be evil, resulting in the possession of the teenage son by the ghost of the father.
A young graphic designer struggles to accept his lack of popularity on social media. To turn things around, he turns to a fortune teller.
What drives people all over the world to hunt animals, often driving them towards extinction? How does hunting affect our relationship with nature and impact fragile ecosystems? And how do hunting lobbies influence law makers and the media? Through the personal story of one ex-hunter, ’On The Wild Side’ unites the global anti-hunting movement, while also providing an overview of hunting throughout history. Featuring interviews with activists, politicians and organisations all over the world, this documentary sheds light on the psychology of hunting and the methods of the saboteurs. Is it possible to end hunting forever?
The opening work of the 2019-2020 season of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma was Verdi's grand opera based on a historical uprising Sicily in 1282. Conducted by Daniele Gatti and directed by Valentina Carrasco. Given in the original French version as "Les Vêpres Siciliennes.”