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Italy is not qualified for the 2018 World Cup. In an Italian village, a small group decides to create their own competition.

A controversial stage director goes back to his birthplace to face his destiny.

Caterina Sordini, a young woman in 18th-century Italy, renounces her arranged marriage after a divine vision and enters a convent. There, she embraces a life of faith and founds a religious order devoted to the perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, enduring persecution and exile during the Napoleonic era.

A couple in love meets to eat every afternoon. Miscommunication and displeasure begin to be the main ingredients of their menu, and the dishes they eat are the slow warning of inevitable decay. Every desire transforms in the time it takes for dinner to be ready. All that remains is to taste a frantic and exhausting dessert.

Laura's face, in a moment of fleeting and eternal complicity.

The Captain, a veteran of war, lives in a mysterious forest with a young and odd squire. The sudden arrival of a soldier, who has lost his memory, triggers a series of unpredictable events.

A collection of amateur films about people going to the beach on holidays allows director Ermanno Cavazzoni to reflect on this historical custom of humanity.

A film-journey into the art of Wolfango, born in Bologna in 1926, "the greatest living Italian painter", as Eugenio Riccomini defined him, who first, in 1986, convinced him to exhibit his works. "Painting enters inside and speaks to the world; indeed, it speaks to the world". His production is based on this assumption, extraneous to contemporary artistic currents. The film is also a passionate chorus of those who have known and appreciated it in the last thirty years.

An upside-down world where women are in power and men look after the family. Domenico retells his story to his daughter starting with a tender memory. In a letter he re-lives the joys of her birth, her childhood, the dreams of a happy family, but also of the painful sacrifices of a father and husband, sacrifices that suffocated his real aspirations and desires.

Armed with a GoPro digital micro camera, a Canon 5D, and an iPhone, Gipi recounts his first ten days as a smoker who decided to quit. Filming himself throughout the day, he records first the amusing delirium of the beginning, then the side effects of withdrawal, and finally his reflections on the decision to poison himself, during a trip with some friends in search of the places where the desire for that first cigarette was born.

Elena and Pietro live in an isolated house. They live together but Pietro keeps a secret and when Elena knows it, he has to conquer her love again.

The Last Kilometer is a film totally dedicated to a passion, an emotion, a sport: Cycling. The movie follows the story and an entire cycling season of “the old” Davide Rebellin, 41 years old and still fighting in the peloton after many victories and scandals, and “the young” Ignazio Moser, promising 20 years old son of cycling champion Francesco Moser. The famous italian journalist Gianni Mura, Tour de France correspondent since 1967, helps us to discover what cycling was and what it has become today, after doping scandals, passion, epic, richness and decadence. Finally, a bit of madness and insane joy is brought into the movie by Didi Senft, better known as “El Diablo”, a living and metaphorical symbol of all cycling fans, with their passion and their enthusiasm. The Last Kilometer is a portrait of cycling.

Michele is a fourteen year old boy with a dream. He wants to dance like his idol Michael Jackson. Unluckily the same day he has his audition there is also a demonstration against his father's factory shut down. Michele has got an idea...

Visceral animation and shapeshifting movements are powerfully weaponized in this ode to the work and artistic lense of legendary photographer Cindy Sherman.

L'unione falla forse is a documentary film that intertwines the life of homogenitorial families with the bizarre theories of anti-LGBT exponents, in a single story. Two absolutely distant and distinct worlds that needed to be confronted directly, due to the exponential growth of proLife extremist Catholic movements and their political ascent, thanks to the exploit of the right-wing parties that welcomed them into their row (the Fontana family minister and Senator Pillon, both members of the Family Day, are a clear example). But also because of the growing need for legal recognition that homogenitorial families are clamoring for, to which sometimes only the magistracy grants approval, due to the gaps in the law on civil unions of 2016 caused by the cutting of the Stepchild Adoption and the obligation of loyalty among the partners. The result is a desecrating mix between the silent normality of these families and the bawling madness of their protesters.

Fabrizio, a poor thief from the Roman suburbs, finally has in his hands the man who ruined his life: James Bond.

In the stunning and starkly beautiful landscape of Western Sahara, Walter Bencini recounts his journey to meet the Saharawi people, uprooted from their lands for decades and confined to desert tent camps named after the Moroccan cities where they once lived. It's the solidarity journey of a group of people from Valdarno, delivering the money and medicines raised through various initiatives directly into the hands of the beneficiaries.

World War II has just come to an end. At a center for the identification of prisoners of war, Lieutenant Graziani is being falsely accused of having ordered the execution of ten civilians. German Hagermann, captured along with Graziani by partisans during the days of the massacre, is the only one able to clear him from the accusations, but a secret he promised to keep prevents him from telling the truth until the very last minute.

Art has always investigated nature and man's connection with the world. Several contemporary artists have questioned the issues of climate change and environmental sustainability and have tried to amplify our ecological consciousness. Through the testimonies of artists of different generations such as Olafur Eliasson, Christo, Michelangelo Pistoletto and the gaze of critics such as Germano Celant and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, we retrace some of the most significant works.

This documentary is designed to present the lives and activities of Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS - the super police created by Hitler as the main tool of oppression - until 1928) and Adolf Eichmann (head of the Department of Jewish Affairs of the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and head of operations in the deportation of 3 million Jews to extermination camps.

Gemma and Marcello are about to get married. They have been waiting for this moment for so long. The ceremony is about to begin and they are overwhelmed by emotions, their fears and expectations. Like every couple, they support and imagine their future together, they promise eternal love. But they are not like all the other couples about to get married: Gemma and Marcello are two sugar figurines on top of a wedding cake.

The documentary follows three couples of parents or aspiring parents grappling with the extremely difficult adoption process.

On total darkness and one after the another, a motorcycle, a bike and a man crosses the frame in slow motion. They are all sprinkled with tiny phosphorescent dots, it seems we’re looking into an abstract regression to the most primitive form of transportation. 16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'18"

In the early days of March 1991, a number of ships laden with people made their appearance on Italy's Adriatic shores, marking what would later be known as the 'Albanian Exodus'. Who were the people on the ships? Where were they fleeing from? And where are they today. This is the story of a journey, the story of the ships and of the people who fled on them.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

A lawyer prepares for his wedding while his brother becomes a funeral planner.

"I wanted to understand if it still made sense to have Italian soldiers in Kosovo," explains the director Andrea Bettinetti, who placed the NATO mission KFOR, which began on 1999 with the entry into the country of the Italian contingent, at the center of his documentary.

Live performance of Puccini's opera at the Salzburg Festival in Austria. Piotr Beczala stars as Rodolfo with Anna Netrebko as Mimi, Massimo Cavalletti as Marcello and Nino Machaidze as Musetta. Daniele Gatti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera Chorus and the Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children's Choir.

In Italian cinema, the figure of the homosexual has always been presented as a stereotype and in a deliberately offensive way, as if the only way to treat a subject that was to all intents and purposes a taboo was through parody or mockery. But it was in the cinema of the 70s, in all its various film types, from sexy comedies to detective stories, that we find gay characters constantly present in films, almost obsessively. Unfortunately, they were the butt of coarse, trivialising humour, which reflected the backward social attitudes and homophobia of the time. To understand the causes of this phenomenon, Andrea Meroni, a young director from Milan, met the leading actors and directors of that time (e.g. Lino Banfi, Enrico Vanzina and Leo Gullotta), as well as experts, critics and activists of the LGBTQI movement. The result? A surprisingly ironic documentary that talks about the way we were when we were 'froci' (fags).

Claudio Scimone and the Solisti Veneti in concert in Nairobi perform music by Vivaldi, Tartini, Rossini, Pasculli, Verdi, Arban, Monti and Morricone whose poignant version of “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” is heard.

Short film by Dario Imbrogno. OTTO is a video created with the intention to talk in a metaphorical and abstract way about the natural circle of events, which often switches the rules of the characters involved.

"Andrò a ritroso della nostra corsa" is a backwards journey through the seasons and the units of the language. To change the prose of the world, its intact clock. There is always a place more thoroughly, lost images in minimum intervals.