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From the Archiginnasio Library in Bologna, a cultural journey celebrating Paolo Fresu's 60th birthday. Accompanying him will be the Alborada String Quartet, pianist Dino Rubino, bandoneon player Daniele di Bonaventura, and double bassist Marco Bardoscia, who will bring the story to life with the assistance of Alessandro Bergonzoni's voice.
Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composers lifetime the musics brittle energy, drama and eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third Symphony. The narrative focuses relentlessly on Renata, who is haunted by an angel who turns out to be the devil. Director Emma Dante describes the opera as an explosive mix of fantastical realism and endless confusion of nightmares, madness, sexual impulses and cultural clashes, and this Teatro dellOpera di Roma production was acclaimed as a presentation of Prokofievs masterpiece which sparkles in all its grotesque glory (operawire.com)
Cloe is a six-year-old girl with a great passion: Spiderman! And for the first day of school she could only choose the folder of her favorite character. But why when she shows off her new backpack, does everyone tell her that "it's for boys"? Chloe's journey begins with the discovery that there is a universe for males and another for females.
Mario, a lonely and nostalgic man, receives a wrong call in which he is mistaken for a child, so he finds himself listening to a story by Gianni Rodari. This episode will trigger a series of reflections on his past, fantasy and friendship
In a world abused by words, the characters decide not to speak and their crazy ideals will take over their lives.
A series of bloody murders bloodied the streets of Turin. Whose hand is it that is executing women and men with such precise choices and in such brutal ways? And what relationship do the murders have with the school where some kids are engaged in what is undoubtedly the most important and dangerous exam of their lives?
Twenties. A painter now in decline and shaded by an illness leaving no freedom or way out will get his chance.
For the first time, an unprecedented journey into the life of Marco Pantini. Set against the backdrop of his beloved Cesenatico, with public and private archive material and intimate conversations with family members and close friends. With tenderness, empathy and love, The Natural tells the story, from the inside, of the man and the sportsman.
Rome, 1944. An Italian cook meets a young American soldier with a mission: to set up a special meal for the Allied forces stationed in the city.
1943. A young clown falls in love with a Jewish girl and hides her in his circus to help her escape Nazi persecution.
Marisa feels useless, old and abandoned, until she finds a new reason to live.
Summer 2006. The World Cup final is upon us. In a wealthy suburb, Marcello, a handyman who is busy installing a satellite dish on a roof, notices a boy sunbathing in the garden nearby. Something clicks between them and they embark on an aimless journey. Between unexpected events and family reunions, the two protagonists will discover their confused identity.
Alessandro is a young immigrant of Italian origin, with a difficult past, who, after leaving his country of origin and moving permanently to Italy, finds himself in a complex existential dilemma when he is unable to converse with Pietro, his boyfriend, who has a vision of the world completely different from his. Thus a clash of different realities starts that can ruin everything. "Floating In The Liquid" is the first part of the "Trilogy of Work", written and directed by Vinicius Bellemo.
Underground Lovers is a story about love and obsession, with a dramatic end. Inspired by science fiction cinema and Japanese erotic culture, it has the structure of a real feature film condensed in just over 4 minutes. A man and a woman go through a night of excess until they lose control, among food, drugs, sex and the neon lights of Tokyo
Italy 1965. Marcello, a middle-class man, decides to spend the night with a prostitute. He gets in touch with a luxurious brothel managed by a very strict owner with draconian rules. Among multiple women introduced to him he chooses Bice, a young woman in her early twenties. After their sexual intercourse the bedroom’s phone rings.
Didier, a boy of sub-Saharan origin, dreams of building his own boat made of pizza boxes. His father Amir brings home a pizza every night to add a piece to his masterpiece. But one night a storm destroys Didier's boat.
Salento, today. Irene wants to sell the family villa, but the elderly housekeeper Ada has no intention of leaving. A friendship develops between the two women, based on shared insecurities and aspirations yet to be realized.
When the past re-emerges, it can prove to be uncontrollable and become another present, the here and now of a space that is contemporaneously clear-cut and indefinite, suspended within a frame of mind that can take your breath away. The movie is a journey inside this dimension, as it recounts what it means to cross this threshold and teeter between unexpected tears and sudden laughter. A reflection on old age and what you can discover by looking at yourself in this mirror, the film is the outcome of a long process of listening and dozens of lengthy encounters in five regions in Italy, in search of yesterday’s world, that sometimes seems very far away and sometimes strangely present.
Matteo has decided not to go to school anymore and stay at home instead.
From the novel of the same name by Andrea Cavaletto and Fulvio Gatti, BLUE SUNSET is the first Italian cyberpunk movie of the new millennium: science fiction here meets horror, in this nihilist tribute to the extreme Japanese film THE ANDROID OF NOTREDAME.
A man drives off in a car with a girl: it is only the beginning of a story that touches the deepest sensitivity and pushes us to look inside.
From the Rai “Arturo Toscanini” Auditorium, Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov, together with the Rai Orchestra's principal trumpet Roberto Rossi, performs Dmitri Shostakovich's Concerto in C minor for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings, Op. 26. Conducting is James Feddeck, who opens and closes the concert with two works by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: the Overture from the Concerto in B minor, Op. 26, “The Hebrides,” and Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the “Scottish.”
Terrible mountains is what Leonardo da Vinci called the peaks that surround the Valtellina. They take the leading role in this story, which is rendered with the help of spectacular film footage and the stories of local inhabitants. With its dry stone walls – a masterpiece that has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO – Valtellina is a land of traditions, contrasts and breathtaking landscapes. From the Stelvio National Park, with its imposing Forni glacier, to the peat bog of Pian Gembro, and from the mysterious crotti of Chiavenna to the terraced vineyards on the Rhaetian slope. In an attentive and intimate way, the film takes the audience on a journey along the river Adda that crosses the entire valley. It begins in winter until the following autumn according to the infinite cycle of nature, which is a stern but honest friend of the people living in this land located in the far north of Italy.
Attilio is a 50-year-old man who works as a gravedigger in a hospital. Deeply in love with a nurse, to whom he writes letters every day that he can never deliver.
The world of videogames in Italy told through the personal stories of those who create them, those who play them at a professional level, and those who talk about them on streaming platforms.
A journey of musical and personal discovery through Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, Op. 36, in Liszt’s transcription for solo piano. The Mascagni Conservatory of Livorno in all its facets, along with the city itself, featuring Filippo Tenisci as Virgil! A musical Livorno with an international flair.
Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps.
Laura is a girl like many others, a business woman with an exuberant appearance, vitality and full of commitments. One day by the sea fears, perplexities and insecurities emerge.
Documentary on climbing in the famous Verdon gorges, a mecca for world climbing. From Bernard Vaucher to Catherine Destivelle, from Bernard Gorgeon to Lionel Catsoyannis via Enzo Oddo and Fabien Ristori, relive the evolution of climbing in Verdon through testimonies and anecdotes from climbers from different generations. History, anecdotes and emotions from the early 60s to the present day, with an eye towards the future. Can we define ourselves as a climber without having visited the Verdon?
An entangled exploration of Sendai City (Marco Bolognesi's long life creation and obsession), as it is presented and as it really is. Or maybe not?
"A group of jazz musicians come to a recording studio to play a jam session together. Their improvisation is matched to the rhythm of a tape of freely available footage from security cameras around the world. People and animals, city and nature, joys and tragedies. In conjunction with music, the videos are stripped of their original surveillance function and become vague, abstract, liberated images." -Ji.hlava IDFF 2021
A famous Italian-American writer of horror novels goes to Italy to spend a few days in an old house on the coast. The history of the house begins to manifest itself with hallucinations, which the writer notes as ideas for his novel. He then meets some locals who tell him the story of a cult who came to the house in the 1970s to build a temple dedicated to Satan.
A fairy tale about two brothers and their little sister with Down syndrome, reminding us that there is no such thing as "different."
The fourth walk follows the course of a river; then it goes up towards a village, still and solitary, until a breath of wind.
In 2006 one of the most iconic mixtape sagas in the history of Italian rap made its appearance to teach Italy what rap was. 15 years later " Fastlife " returns to the scene, because it is necessary to remember that lesson with a new vigor.
Sara and Ivan. An eighteen-year-old girl from an upper class family and a middle aged volunteer locked inside a shelter together during a quarantine while outside a viral outbreak turns people into savage and irrational beasts. Apparently, in the safest place on earth, they will soon have to face an even worse danger: the girl is infected and she is slowly transforming. Now what? Kill her? Save her? And how will they survive if there is no way to escape?
The film tells Caselli’s story in her own words, as the artist herself shares anecdotes and reflections on her life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who has made her great passion—music—her entire life.
Somewhere, a war. Three soldiers walk along a river. They have lost contact with their platoon and are trying to catch up with it. They talk about life, dream of returning home, but danger still surrounds them: death and life are so close.
The tension is extreme in this area of the planet. Diversities are many, pressure here has a destructive potential. But not always.Yet tension can be creative, it can be both destructive and creative. This is the reason why every writer who travels through this place is fascinated by the power of these lands and these peoples. The Author doesn't want to just get off the train and then on again, he wants to carry a memory and a hope. Not only a memory, and not only a hope. Maybe it is possible to coexist with a past without giving up one's visions. Maybe it is possible to harbor a hope without disconnecting from the past. A train passes slow across the heart of the Balcans. This is a train that has a lot to tell.
An Italian documentary about the Monster of Florence.