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Documentary about the movie theaters of Milan.

A married couple decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin, but the romantic journey will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness.

An icon of music history is announced at the Avo Sessions Basel. A small choir and three musicians were Mavis Staples on the side, but the bubbly 73-year-old presented with her powerful voice all in shadow. Their music contrasted with Nick Lowe's often melancholy songs-"cheerful gospel," which came from the heart. Since this kind of music can never have enough votes, Mr. Lowe came for two songs back on stage to support Mavis and his band. The music was accompanied by atmospheric, subtle and colorful lighting.

Director Luigi Di Gianni returns to film in San Cataldo, the town where he made “Nascita e morte nel Meridione” (Birth and Death in the South) in 1959. Lucania persa alternates between testimonies from San Cataldo residents, archive footage (excerpts from the 1959 documentary and photographic material from the director's archive) and commentary by Di Gianni himself.

The film tells the story of a reunion of four old friends on the occasion of a pre-Christmas football quadrangular. The four decide to rent a house in the countryside and spend a weekend reminiscing about the good times and discussing football. But old grudges emerge, new tensions are generated in the blink of an eye and what was a reunion between friends becomes a game of massacre

This film about caving is not meant for cavers. It was made for all those people who stay outside and ask questions such as: " How can you breathe? ", “Aren’t you afraid of being trapped there?" "But...what do you do in there?"

Graham Vick devises a version of La Bohème set in modern-day Athens, transporting Puccini’s beloved opera from 19th century Paris to 21st century Exarchia. The faces of the four ambitious young artists and their camaraderie are known to all. Their problems, concerns, jokes were run of the mill back then; they remain so even today. Rodolfo’s ill-fated love for Mimi assumes an unexpected tragic dimension given that their tale could be played out in the apartment right next door; right among us.

Tu' Mader, the Nostronzo shipboard computer is activated and awakened by the crew, because it received a message from the planet LI0586. Once landed, the astronauts will discover that the message is a threat ...

In the near future, the Earth has become a desert. Milos is a teenager committed to environmentalism, dreaming of saving the planet from destruction. He feels strange, different, to the point of believing he's an alien on Earth on a mysterious mission. But is Milos really an alien, or is he simply crazy?

Agnes is an old woman, half paralized due to a ictus who lives in her memories: fetishes that are protected by plastic canvas because nothing, even time, can hurt them. Joanna, her caretaker, has arrived in Italy from Russia, the dream of a better life broken by the overwhelming reality that relegated her to the most humble of the works. The two live as strangers, but an unexpected event will break their fragile equilibrium and Agnes will have to face her limits and loneliness.

The movie tells the story of Alfredo Cohen, a man who left a trace by bending the forms of expression that he associated with, by shading the borders between sexes and sexualities, between italian and dialect, between high and popular theatre, between life and art. The existential path of a figure that’ s central for political and creative significance is what can fertilize our present and make it reverberate with voices that can make us rediscover the importance of imagination.

In the suburb of Rome a musician is looking for something original to complete his musical production. A girl is trying to work as a second-hand dealer recovering old objects. One step at a time their passions will bring them together.

A container for stories, between cinema and reality, memories of the past, dreams, and journeys on an eleven-day trip around the world. Piazza Grande, the undisputed symbolic location for the Locarno Festival. Stories experienced firsthand by those who frequent, inhabit, and experience Piazza Grande during the Festival period. Emotions felt for a moment, as ethereal as cinema itself: this is the flamboyant and mysterious magic that is perpetuated every year in this extraordinary place.

A modern adaptation of 'The Cherry Orchard' by Anton Chekhov

Director Claudio Fragasso and writer Rossella Drudi talk about the making of the infamous Italian zombie flick Hell of the Living Dead.

"Orgy or the small daily agonies" - Loosely based on the theatrical tragedy of Pier Paolo Pasolini, which tells of the sadomasochistic relationship between a Man and a Woman, both victims and executioners who move within separate worlds of solitude.

"Ophelia did not drown” is a performance art film produced in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà. The movie integrates heterogeneous languages seemingly incompatible: the sociological national repertoire and original performance art specifically designed for this project. At the center the movie is an Ophelia who is different from any literary tradition: not the fragile teenager in love with Hamlet, but many women of different colors, features and ages. A modern contemporary Ophelia, very sweet but also cynical. Our Ophelia is not lost in the woods of Denmark, but in the countryside of Lazio, from the Gazometro to the junkyard in Cisterna di Latina, from the arid limestone caves of Riano Flaminio to the wonderful futuristic Villa Perugini in Fregene, passing through another thrilling scenic ride on a tourist bus in Rome. our Ophelia eventually does not drown, renouncing her destiny of romantic heroine to become a "normal person".

British director Phelim McDermott offers the audience a new take on the culture of the people of Ancient Egypt in Aida, one that allows us also to question the world in which we live. This new perspective entails a number of bold creative choices that do not make use of the traditional staging imagery associated with Aida. Aida’s command to Radames — “Ritorna vincitor!” — comes at a price. The triumphal march of the victorious Egyptians is a procession for the coffins of the heroes fallen in battle, the chorus are their grieving kinsfolk. McDermott’s staging resonates keenly with the images of so many civilian and military funerals that crowd our newsfeeds. Here is a triumphal march that does not seek to hide the true, lethal and disastrous nature of war, whatever side you are on.

Extraordinary connection between rare ancient 6,000 year old Sumerian symbols from the mysterious Mayan calendar, and a group of amazing signs and symbols found among Crop Circle formations.

The mysteries and drama behind the tournament that saw the hosts triumph, but also the disappearance of over 30,000 political opponents. Interviews, exclusive documents, a long and in-depth investigation into a World Cup that—40 years later—still searches for the final truth.

Recorded at Bayerische Staatsoper on March 3-9, 2016.

three granddaughters with the same mechanical voice write a letter to their “dear grandpa”. maybe they are twins, surely they resemble each other like sisters. they find themselves in different countries, yet in the same place. they confess their miserable and paralyzed lives to their octogenarian despot, asking him the reason for his resentment for goethe, calvino and wallace and the reason for his unmentioned and unmentionable love-hate for stravinsky. the appearance of the grandfather will clarify all doubts.

Michele, Emanuele and Ornella. Three lives that cross for an existential void that they try to fill with addictions: some from drugs and from Botox, some from their mother and from the disastrous family context and those from their sexual impulses perhaps never really explicit. Each of these figures seeks their own place in the world by asking to be loved.

Two conversations, two cities, the question: is the only revolutionary thought of today, to let the dreamer sleeping?
 Die Ordnung der Träume is a film that revolves around the (e) motion of human beings, their resistance, their mental activity and the imagination of their worlds. Two people who search for each other, but miss to find, and yet remain in common. Two doubting figures whose conversation is characterized by the different perceptions and the skepticism on the other. In constant presence, a voice sinking into the thoughts of the figures; A traveler, a flaneur, a critical gaze that raises questions itself. An exploration and contemplation of the world; a gaze points at the magician and its deceptions, the faithful and their self-flagellation, the workers who build cities, and children who play young gods.

"Where Are You From?" - A city of the south in expansion that evicts from his historical center the old inhabitants to entertain others of it wealthier. Three boys threatened by one of these evictions. It will be to them to try to understand from what it departs the justice it is and from what it departs they are them.

"Greta Garbo" is a man who possesses the secret of a recipe, or an actor/actress who insists and hopes to always be a muse for someone. The illusion, the power that this creates, its allure, but also its sense of loneliness and insecurity that grips, and finally chooses vanity as a possible substitute for love. A project for Damir Todorovic - artist, actor and performer.

Tormented pencil-drawn creatures and shapes try to escape their canvas.

"In Rome, the author says, hidden among the little streets of the Pigneto and Tor Pignattara districts, an underground scene made up of strong women has developed. A scene full of passionate women who dedicate their lives to experimentation and free art expression(…) When I discovered their world I immediately felt involved, and I decided to make this documentary." The result is a generous choral documentary about the female music/performance scene in the eastern area of Rome. A documentary about love for music and art, about freedom to be what we really want to be, trying to discover our true identity, beyond the stereotypical roles imposed by contemporary society. A documentary about choosing to follow the talents and desires that are essential for life, our life's blood (linfa), and that give meaning to our existence. It is a story of female artistic activism that becomes political demonstrating that it is possible to oppose the ordinary and banal with alternative creative worlds.

Curzio and Marzio are two picaroons who represent two sides of the same coin: the first one with moustaches, the second one with hats. Unknowingly dead, the picaroons meet in the first act and, after the introductions, they understand they are both looking for S. Alessio. At whatever time Curzio and Marzio appear, they change moustaches and hats. In the second act, the picaroons understand they are dead, and meeting S. Alessio they will discover he has their same face. A fanfare, instead of a funeral march, will end the work and their existence.

Franchina, Meri, Marcella, Santo, Totino and Wonder are transsexuals who have been prostituting themselves for decades in the San Berillo district of Catania, among them there is also a woman, Alessia. The neighborhood has been left to decay for 50 years and today, more than ever, its parts are contended by increasingly pressing economic interests. Invited by the politician on duty to imagine a different future, shemales call into play desires and fears by attending a course for caregivers. This novelty infiltrates their lives but does not change the rhythms of the particular community of San Berillo in which time is marked by the feasts dedicated to saints and Madonnas rather than the seasons. Between religious faith, love and dreams for a better future the prostitutes of San Berillo recount and claim their rights, present the intimacy of their families and their solitude in front of the door waiting for customers.

Nils Landgren Funk Unit & NDR Bigband - Jazz Baltica 2010

A young boy is riding his bike on a burning asphalt track, killing his time and heat with less and less funny, clever and playful pastimes. Challenge to boredom gets more and more dangerous and dull. Bad omens are coming out as the boy’s fate meets that one of a mysterious man, who’s driving his car on the same asphalt track. Boredom and loneliness have chosen their victim and torturer. It’s a challenge where cards rest covered until fate chooses only one. A fate that is as ordinary as summer heat and evil in a soul can be.

A dialogue between director Ermanno Olmi and film critic Federico Pontiggia about Olmi's cinema and poetry.

"My name is Pier Felice Filippi. It was 1978, I was 23. I was kidnapped and kept by the Mafia for ransom. I was locked and tied up with an iron chain. I escaped. I wanted to make sure my kidnappers were arrested. And I did it'.

Marco is a model student and leader of a group of guys who are adrift. He hides a terrible secret: he's a champion in clandestine fights managed by a cruel trafficker.