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On July 11, 1982, Italy defeated West Germany 3-1 and unexpectedly won the World Cup. Paolo Rossi, better known as Pablito, described by Pele and Maradona as the greatest champion in football history, guided Italy towards the title. The fascinating parable of Paolo Rossi's life story, which culminated in the realization of his greatest dream: to become a world champion.
Carlo is an amateur boxer, who trains in a renowned gym in his neighborhood! A forge of champions. The young and immature boxer, fights every day against his opponents and against the prejudices of a bigoted society, which is still struggling to accept homosexuality. His training weighs twice as much and his achievements are worth the same, specially in manly environment like that of boxing, when for those like Carlo, maybe, there is still no place.
50 years later, Adriano Zecca returns with his whole family to revisit the Mentawai people in Siberut Island, Indonesia: a journey of discovery, through time and memory, but also a precious ethnographic testimony of a fading world.
The fourth generation in his family to be born intersex, Jewish Rabbi Levi was assigned the female gender at birth and grew up thinking he was sick and defective. "In the Image of God" tells the story of his struggles and transitions, culminating today in a life as a religious leader and an LGBTQI+ activist living happily in Los Angeles with his wife.
14 August, sunrise. In the south of Milan, the most international city of Italy, three figures wake up at dawn and are brought to work. They are the silent guardians of a great Italian agricultural tradition that has undergone profound changes in the last century.
Shortly before the premiere of the play, quarantine is announced and four actors: Chiara, Giorgio, Antonio and Valentino find themselves in isolation. In moments of despair, when they return to the mistakes of the past and test the strength of relationships, they may feel that madness is the only way out.
Nightmare Fuel presents - In Paris, a tourist gets kidnapped by a sadist scientist who plans to make her a test subject for his terrible experiments. Various human fears and obsessions unfold over six segments of pure madness. Welcome to the Theatre of Pain, Sin, Sexuality and Death, an experience dipped in the atmospheres of 80s gore and erotic, littered with violence, body horror and eroticism
How can a great painter live in a place where there is no other color than white? It is 1889 and Vincent Van Gogh's only desire is to leave the austere walls of the Saint Paul asylum. His first hope is placed in the unexpected visit of his brother Theo who had to take four trains and even a cart to go and see him ... Through the unpredictable metaphor of the temporary isolation in a mental asylum of Vincent Van Gogh
Color is an indicator of great importance in the general balance of nature, it is a concrete visual message that tells everything about the element it represents
The cat doesn't have a body, it is a body. It doesn't judge but inhabits the cinema with absolute elegance.
When a team of speleologists are attacked by creatures while exploring an uncharted WWII bomb shelter, a rescue team descends in the bunker to save them, unaware of the danger.
Starts from the Time lapse technique, to tell how nature changes everything using the longest time and how it has refined biodiversity, placing in some territories like Africa and Australia its best excesses.
For the first time, the story of a kidnapping that made history. Giorgio Calissoni, kidnapped with his mother Anna Bulgari, is part of that tragic story and relives the days of imprisonment, up to the brutal cut of the ear, faithfully retracing one of the most heinous kidnappings of the kidnapping season. This documentary is dedicated to Anna Bulgari, in which she reveals unpublished details in a providential way before her disappearance. Giorgio, through this docu-crime, talks one last time with his mother Anna, living again, moment by moment, that painful memory.
For doctors “MARASMA” was a diagnosis: a state of deep organic deterioration, total loss of strength. In mental hospitals, people did not die of mental illness, but of marasmus. This is what the medical records say, which today reveal the most difficult stories: those of the last among the weakest, children and women. Through their testimonies we can also give voice to those who do not know, who do not want or can not remember.
It all starts with the discovery of a severed head and a dead cat, and ends up with a journey into the bowels of dreams and nightmares.
Cinzia and Filippo meet for the first time after meeting in chat. A badly cooked dinner, some drinks, a constant alternation of attraction and embarrassment. The two discovering each other until Cinzia falls into her usual trap, the one triggered when she feels insecure.
In a world devastated by a pandemic virus and dictatorial governments, a couple of fugitives try to survive the "executors". When they arrive in an abandoned fortress , looking for food and repair, the worst part of their journey begins.
A guy suddenly swoops into the house looking for a certain biodeoxyribonucleic weapon
This documentary explores the partnership between the prolific singer-songwriter and pioneering rock band — and their historic 1979 Genoa concert.
Learn about the exciting game of chess in this fun and adventurous story.
A new game has created the STREAMY GAMES, but this time it will not be you who enter the game, but the game will enter you.
From her roots in Southern Italy to her landing in Bologna, the trans leader Porpora Marcasciano relives her self-discovery, from a negated identity to battles for human rights.
After suffering the loss of her husband, Sophie tries to pick up the pieces. discovering, through a chance meeting with a medium, that the wedding ring she bears may still have a connection to him or something far more sinister.
The film arose from an encounter with Mario Botta during the 2013 Architecture and Memory exhibit held at the Charlotte, North Carolina Bechtler Museum of Modern Art which was designed by the architect. The exhibit gathered and then proposed to the public the Swiss architect’s most significant projects spanning the gamut from his first single-family homes, original expressions of the School of Ticino, to his large public buildings, libraries, theatres, museums, churches and synagogues which have been built across the globe and features more than 90 works. The film is a dialogue on the themes which characterize Mario Botta’s vision and practice: his relationship with history and the territory, the designing of collective spaces, encounters with the leading protagonists of the 20th century. The interview, conducted in Mario Botta’s studio in Mendrisio, is replete with photographic materials, designs and sketches which document his “spaces of memory”.
A somewhat clumsy and simpleton policewoman comes into contact with an evil entity. The entity makes her dream of her heinous crimes before they are committed. Apparently bad dreams that will become more and more detailed and real until they turn into daytime visions. The entity hides itself in a cloak that takes possession of a person, transforming him into a murderer. Only at the end the twist, the policewoman will bravely face this entity's evil with a difficult choice to protect the one she loves.
This short film tells the story of a marginalized man who, in order to survive, collects old cassettes from shops and off the street and carries them on his shoulders to resell them for a few cents. A story of poverty and marginalization, but also of social redemption and solidarity, sketched by the director with a touch of poetry, passion, and disenchantment.
How to film war? «War and Peace» tells the story of the century-old relationship between cinema and war, from the time of their first encounter, way back in 1911 with the Italian invasion of Libya, up to the present day. Forging ahead from the images captured by the pioneers of cinema to today’s twitter feeds, following young soldiers as they are trained to film war, the alliance between cinema and war appears to be a powerful one.
The last three current creations of the author, one published years after the other two, follow Salvini through three very different short stories. Includes: Salvini oltre l'arcobaleno, Salvini va in Terronia, il pulcino pio spaccia la droga
All that you will see has really happened . Napoli Eden is an inspirational cinematic odyssey that highlights environmental protection through the theme of transforming recycled aluminum into works of art. Napoli Eden conveys a vision of redemption, social inclusion and the ethical and cultural rebirth for the city of Naples, Italy through the eyes of artist and filmmaker Annaluara di Luggo.
Before becoming a film critic, then a maker mainly of sharply engaged documentaries, usually in tandem with her late husband Lino Del Fra, Cécilia Mangini was a photographer. Taking pictures was something she did all her life, alongside whatever else she was working on. In 1965 Mangini and Del Fra went to war-torn Vietnam to make a film they never finished. More than half a century later, she returned to these images, moving and still, some of which she found again by accident.
Unreleased images of fables told and listened to by Gianni Rodari during a visit to a kindergarten school in Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 1972.
Cosimo, an impetuous and idealistic scion of an aristocratic family, has decided to leave his home and live alone in the woods, rejecting society and his parents, whom he deeply loathes. On Christmas Eve, his twin brother Biagio goes looking for him in the depths of the forest to convince him to return home, even if only for one night.
Producer and director Assonitis describes the difficulties in making his Beyond the Door.
The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about the fundamental value of making music together.
Carlo Salice, renowned chemist, creates a virus that destroys world agriculture. Thanks to the police, the virus is destroyed. Before this happened, however, a vial was stolen by a criminal organization to modify the virus making it lethal to humans. The artist Antonio Marini will be involved in the story that will put his life and the humanity's one in danger.
A filmmaker travels around time and space through the magic of montage, developing a conflict created by the gathering of different moving images he recorded with his girlfriend, making a love story given only by the love to cinema.
Margherita and Veronica are with their adoptive brother Diego in the house where their mother died: pending resolution of the inheritance they will discover a dark secret linked to their family.
The father is a complete stranger and the mother an alcoholic unable to raise a child. For this reason, Christian is forced to fill the role of parent for his younger brother Giulio. He wants to make sure Giulio goes to school every morning. Unfortunately, he also has to go to work at the same time. Thus the ordinary becomes extraordinary for the two brothers.
All the different identities of La Gioconda portrait are finally explained in a new compelling docufiction. Four women, four leads that we will follow to shed light on the real name of the figure that inspired Leonardo da Vinci. A journey through the Renaissance of Italy that will touch the four ladies’ hometowns: Florence, Milan, Urbino and finally Basilicata, the never-seen site of the Monalisa’s burial. With the support of historians and researchers, we will analize exclusive materials and recent excavations to sketch the features of the figure who still fascinates millions of people.
A boy looking for his cat to the edge of time, where who's dead disappears and who's alive let fly. Childhood illusions dissolve on the wheat field and make landscape.
Francesco resumes his world as if it were a sheet on which Hana can draw: a dialogue between friends in a movie game.
When a woman accepts the aid of her unpredictable brother to save her strip club, things quickly get out of hand as drama leads to violence.
A father starts to work as a driver for a criminal organization.
Dreaming about Venezia 77.
