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Abacuc lives in a railway house, with a garden circumscribed by the train tracks. He doesn’t speak a word, but distant voices can be heard from the phone. He spends his days walking around the cemetery, the only comforting place that seems to shelter him from the city. The man wanders among the tombstones corroded by time, seeking long forgotten names that bring him back to a time forever gone. He’s “the last man,” maybe a survivor.

Ennio Zani, a former rider and mechanic, remembers in his workshop the story of the first motorcycle racing team ever in the Republic of San Marino, a little independent country located in the Italian peninsula. The story of his childhood, when he gets in touch with bikes and starts to work as a mechanic, is the previous part of a story that involves other riders and motorcycle lovers from the late 50s, like his brother Italo, Glauco Sansovini, Piergiovanni Volpinari, Glulio Manzaroli and Alfio Beccari. Through interviews, vintage photos and old videos, a lot of crazy anecdotes describe the spirit and the passion of the racing team. The protagonists explain how the first motorcycles were built (using old scrap parts), how they organized the first road races, how they built the first motocross track in San Marino, how they fought against rivals all around Italy, supported by their love for this sport but with no money at all.

In the aftermath of the death of Marcella Di Folco, which took place in 2010, Simone Cangelosi, director of the film, embarks on a journey that takes him from Bologna to Rome, Marcella hometown, to start a search to discover people, places and memories able to return to him the complexity of the figure of his friend. A Noble Revolution aims to decipher the historical dimension of one of the most prominent personality of the Italian political movement for civil rights of the last forty years, Marcella Di Folco, leader of the MIT (Transsexual Identity Movement). The reconstruction of the film, however, does not want to be objective, but done through the filter of an intimate relationship, that one between the director himself and protagonist.

The story of Judge Borsellino from childhood to the Via D’Amelio massacre, through the story of his brother Salvatore, the words of his son Manfredi and the memories of his work colleagues. The journalists Travaglio and Biondo reconstruct the negotiation between the State and the Mafia which is supposed to cause the judge's murder.

A film about silence and difficulty to tell a story, starting from an interview with the last two former Italian military internees of the German concentration camps, still living in the Cadore valley. Faithful to Italy and not to the Duce, after the fall of the Fascist State in 1943 they are captured by the German army and sent to the lagers. On their return they found a completely different country, which did not recognise them as part of an unarmed resistance, relegating them to silence.

A unique opera production, in which the stage and audience merge into a single, intimate space: the carriage of an imaginary underground subway train. Artists and audience embark on a journey into the underground world, together with Monteverdi's Orfeo, in a totally immersive experience.

A woman decides to enter the cosmetic surgery vortex to give her life a radical change. Once the change is completed she is still as unhappy as before. Life will surprisingly rush to her aid....

How many times can we change our life? How often are we willing to follow our nature to the fullest? To what extent do we know how to listen to ourselves and relate to others, different, but equal to us in depth? Simone (Simon in Italian) was born with female genitalia and he always felt himself as being male. He started questioning his gender since his childhood but as a teenager that conflict became unbearable. This journey led him to achieve a new, crucial stage: transitioning from woman to man. At the age of 40 Simone realizes that despite the sex change, still he does not feel happy at all. A reverse journey was needed from the inside. He quits a job that he didn't like and decides to move from his native Caserta in Southern Italy to the Umbria region, in Central Italy, in order to learn to love himself and get rid of his cages. Simone understands how to pursue his own freedom through a deep contact with Nature: his and that of others.

Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Cesare Lombroso was one of the most famous Italians in the world. He measured the shape and size of the skulls of many criminals, and drew the conclusion that their somatic features were reminiscent of the primitive man. He thus developed a new pseudoscience. Through some short docudrama reconstructions and the archive documents by the “Lombroso” Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, the film retraces some of the milestones in the life of the scientist who, to this day, still raises controversy and heated debates.

In the middle of the forest, a bingo game takes place in a medieval baptistery between a priest, country folk and some strange creatures.

Photographic animation and digital painting. This work presents itself as a study of the possibilities for comparison between human machines, exploring the different solutions offered by different aptitudes or physical characteristics within the human landscape

Warehouse employee by day, Elvis impersonator by night, Sandro's performance at a nightclub makes such a big impression, that an unlikely manager offers him a tour of China. Torn between the dream of a lifetime and his emasculating Neapolitan mother, Sandro will have to face the most difficult thing for him: making a choice.

A film about the 60s art scene in Rome. A unique moment in history, when in a flurry of cross-fertilization, painting, film and literature converged in pursuit of the "spirit" of the times. A sweeping portrait of a city that for a decade became one of the art capitals of the world.

This documentary explores the role women play in the church, 30 years after John Paul II was the first pope to write a text addressed to women. (Netflix)

From a remote village in Pakistan to the prestigious colleges of Cambridge, from the vibrant atmosphere of London to Trieste. The film tells the gripping story of the life of Abdus Salam, great scientist of the twentieth century and Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, creator of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste. Through the direct testimonies of the great protagonists of the international science, such as the Nobel Prize for Physics David Gross, Gerard 't Hooft, Steven Weinberg, the film retraces the most significant moments of one of the most creative and exciting periods in the history of physics: the dream of a unified theory of elementary particles and fundamental forces of Nature.

Short stop motion animation by Michela Donini and Katya Rinaldi

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

Yousef is a successful cook, the son of immigrants, who grew up in Italy. After a long wait he manages to obtain the Italian citizenship, a few days after the attacks at Macerata. Yousef's certainties start to falter, leading him to a real identity crisis. When you find yourself faced with a choice that until recently would have been obvious, you will not know what to do.

The month of May, the blackbird: they hide while they sing.

A documentary about the industrial, urbanistic and social aspects of the Società Anonima Lavorazione Pelli (S.A.L.P) factory located in Rivarolo Canavese, thirty kilometers north of Turin.

The pain and frustration of young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are shown through the prism of a parkour team.

In Montreal, Canada, an association of first- and second-generation Italian immigrants is organizing a celebration for the patron saint of their hometown: Larino, in Molise. Vincent is the association's president and has been working for years to keep the tradition alive. Claire recently discovered she is originally from Larino and is conducting genealogical research on her family. Franco and Pina live in a residential neighborhood and dream of one day returning to Italy. Meanwhile, in Larino, preparations for the feast of San Pardo are in step with the rhythms of nature.

A mixed media 2D animation illustrating the beautiful letter from Stefano Gabbana to Domenico Dolce.