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An animated short narrating the origins of the "Palio dei Bracieri"

A kaleidoscope of monsters, animals and other strange creatures brought to life by the primitive and frenzied pace of Zu's music.

The story of Emeer - AKA B-boy Zulu Rema - a Tunisian teenager, who had both is leg amputated as a child, and of his passion for art and dance, that has helped him become a break dance champion at national level and a role model for young people all over the world.

"He and I" narrates the reflections of a woman in her role as wife and mother lived between imposition and choice. Through the editing of the shootings of a single filmmaker who portrays his wife and life, the woman narrates herself being in opposition to her husband’s world, a militant always far from home. A reworking of female status as a political act to tell that love is an act of acceptance of differences and that personal memories are part of the collective history.

A voyage to discover the painters of the 14th-century School of Rimini. These painters were students of Giotto, the greatest and most important Italian painter in the middle ages, who is even mentioned by Dante in the Divine Comedy.

In a post-apocalyptic future, the planet is devoured by disease. In order to survive, two brothers can only count on each other. They work as a team until one of them, K, gets seriously injured. R, the youngest, has to make significant decision for both of them.

Hear the words of Pope Francis and follow him on his travels through video footage and interviews.

Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playing with her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay at home to help with household chores. The distance between the two seems unbridgeable, but the discovery that Donato is much more fragile than it seems, will lead them to appreciate their time together.

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

Andrea visits deceased painter Arganti's house to investigate his cursed pantings of the crying kids, among them The Crying Boy.

In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his duty to a corrupt city. Jacopo Foscari, son of a 15th-century Doge of Venice, is convicted of murder and treason on a trumped-up charge. His wife Lucrezia is sure of his innocence. But the Doge, trapped by the machinations of the city, is forced to make a terrible decision.

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.

Over 8 years, a small fisherman puts himself, as 'David against Goliath', in the heart of the new reform of the Common Fisheries in Brussels, to try to understand and change the system that took everything from him.

Peer into the day-to-day tasks of those on the frontline working to rescue and provide humanitarian support to migrants fleeing to Italy's shores.

In 1998, four Italian filmmakers disappear in the Austrian Alps while shooting a documentary. Only now their footage has been made public.

In three symbolic places of a global production, "Spirits I've called" describes the impact of the mining and steel industry on the fragile natural balances and on the health of people living close to the production sites.

A documentary directed by Abel Ferrara for the series ‘BOATS – Based On A True Story’ about the Padre Pio di Pietrelcina.

A new interview with writer-director Gianfranco Parolini, who was a sprightly 94 years of age when this was filmed but sadly passed away in April of 2018. The director of If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death and the Sabata trilogy looks back at his life and film career.

Magnificent obsessions exceed and once again dart the maps to every memory and even the most vague map gives way to Laurel & Hardy.

“Principe Maurice #Tribute” is a documentary about the icon of the Night Theatre, and Master of Ceremonies of the Carnival of Venice, Maurizio Agosti. Known by his stage name of Principe Maurice, Agosti tells his story starting from the beginning of his carrier at the Cocoricò of Riccione to his recent work at Plastic of Milan and at the Carnival of Venice.

An underground fight is taking place in a painter's studio between the artist and the ten tyrants.

After their award winning documentary, 'Suddenly, Last Winter', Luca and Gustav are back. This time they have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already. Looking at some defining Italian icons, they go on a emotional trip on a old Fiat 500 through Italy, to look behind the cliches and to discover, what's left of the famous Italian way of life, confronting a glorious pas, a shaky present and an uncertain future.

This is a documentary about being in love, falling out of love and the fragility of human bonds. It is very intimate, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance.

There is no plan or a logic that designs our lives. It is increasingly exposed to the unpredictability, the contingency that, beyond our horizon of meaning, ends up instead to determine ourselves. Three episodes mysteriously linked together, three hypothetical "endings" for a movie never shooted.

The first doc-movie about women's basketball world and its protagonists, touching topics as combination of sport and femininity, the economic crisis of clubs, the 'homosexuality, the professionalism sports for women. The director Silvia Gottardi meets the strongest players of the basketball scene and the champions of the past, as well as basketball star USA, coaches, presidents and main personalities of other sports, in order to give a look on women's basketball.

The ‘joule’ is a unit of energy, work or heat. The term is adapted here as a sort of prayer, an exercise in devotion and the act of letting go. In the sequential frames of Joule, a daily practice manifests itself in the form of worship, of liturgy; an expression of tensions straddling the realms of the political and the sacred.

Denatality is making one town disappear. The Government is set pressing measures, not just psychological ones. Females who don't contribute to the demographic future of the country are seen as a problem to resolve, thus every year they are called to declare to a Government Office the reason why they haven't had any babies in the last twelve months. In an out of time world, that reminds us more with every passing day, Bianca and Vittoria are at the opposite angles of their fertility time. Their acquaintance forces them to choose in an instant the direction of their future: any choice will result in a radical change of their destiny.

From the Nazi 'super' cows that still roam the woods to CIA-trained killer dolphins, the work of some mad scientists has led to the birth of strange creatures.

A young woman wakes up inside the four walls of a garage. Inside the small space, a car exhales carbon dioxide. The one who locked her in the garage is a stranger who knows everything about her, about her past. And above all of what is most important in the world: her little daughter waiting for her at home. However, he does not reveal to her the reason why he imprisoned her but only the time she has available to save herself.

documentary on the play Infinities

A mysterious woman is in love with a girl who is kidnapped and taken to a prison where she will live an surreal experience through pleasure.

The "man who didn't change history" was a university professor: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, esteemed Italian scholar of Roman art and a founding father of modern archaeology. A figure that the Fascist regime could be proud of, in the 1930s, if it weren't for the fact that the professor was firmly anti-Fascist. Things came to a head over Hitler's famous journey to Italy in 1938, when Bandinelli was courteously invited to accompany Mussolini and the Führer, serving as tour guide and interpreter at the museums and archaeological sites. Now the dilemma arose: don the uniform and salute the two detested dictators, or compromise a lifetime of study, his career and even his personal safety? When the invitation turned into a peremptory order that Bandinelli couldn't refuse, he no longer had a choice.

22 people who live on the margins of our society read, one after the other, the 22 chapters of John's Revelation. Homeless, prisoners, AIDS patients and immigrants alternate in this surprising journey into the bleeding heart of the West, in which the sound and spirit of this writing resounds like a river flowing just below the glistening surface of the world, dominated by media conditioning and consumerism.

If Only I Were That Warrior is a feature documentary film focusing on the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini’s imperial ambitions. The stories of three characters, filmed in present day Ethiopia, Italy and the United States, take the audience on a journey through the living memories and the tangible remains of the Italian occupation of Ethiopia — a journey that crosses generations and continents to today, where this often overlooked legacy still ties the fates of two nations and their people.

A Dadaist collage that plays on the concept of identity, elaborated through impossible selfies taken by the protagonists of famous masterpieces in the history of portraiture and self-portrait. What do you hide under your skin, flayed by the toxic radiation of mobile phones? What would Leonardo da Vinci or Andy Warhol have done with this evil device?