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Portrait of Italian artist Iginio Iurilli.

The Son wants to become a fisherman and dreams of going to the sea. The Father is a mortician who does not understand his son's desire to leave their land. The Mother, seriously ill, wants to see her family happy.

A middle aged Italian man is lonely and misses his wife, who has left him. The cure for loneliness is as bizarre as it is practical. The result of the cure is poignant and hardcore.

The objects continually send in the space around them the images of themselves. These images, called “edola”, go into the eye – by the pupil – so that they can reveal themselves. The air is full of no material images that fly in every direction. The objects constantly send images of themselves, as the snakes lost their skin when they grow up. A sort of perpetual transformation seems to be the ultimate characteristic of the bodies. And the air is constantly crossed by these ghosts, thin transparent coverings”. Democrito

Story of a communist human.

High school clashes in the corridors are quite common. But in this school not far from Rome they extend outside the school following the scooter cruises. A tough guys group picks two boys' friendship as their new target - but everyone is overcome by fear and anxiety.

Jack starts the transition in order to let his body be what he has always felt to be: a man. Through a routine made of part-time jobs, bar friends and no hobbies, Jack starts asking himself about what being a man means, beside the body characteristics, and what kind of a man he should be, wondering about what kind of masculine models are offered by his valley.

On a fall afternoon, Viola, a cheerful 6 year old girl, is at the park with her father. She has just lost her baby teeth but she already has her own vision of the world, a vision that is opposite to her father's, which embodies the contradictions of a society that justifies violence and demonizes homosexual love.

J. hates how he looks so he spends his time on social networks, projecting his desires and sexual impulses in a world where nobody makes fun of him. However, the border between digital and real become thinner and thinner, dragging J. in a distorted digital reality that soon will become a nightmare.

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.

On the eve of her departure from Italy, filmmaker Chiara Cremaschi turns to her beloved cousins to face this turning point. An autobiographical journey is about to begin.

A documentary about the humanitarian tragedy of universal poverty and homelessness.

Life in the village of Mendrisio continues as usual: Palmira keeps an eye on everything that happens in the village; her husband Eugenio doesn't exert himself any more than necessary, except to drink an extra glass of wine; and her sister Miglieta, a sprightly 90-year-old with slight hearing loss, pursues her dream of being able to read the sacred scriptures in church. This pleasant routine is interrupted when Circus Beck and its hilarious director arrive in town, promising an unforgettable show... and so it will be, because soon the balance that holds Palmira's family together is broken, changing the destiny of each of them.

On the fascinating background of Rome, the strange story of Frank Amore, who sings in a night club directed by the mysterious owner Mr Altaj. Frank sings and can see the future, but he doesn't know who he is himself: he has no memory about his own past. He falls in love with the dancer who works in the night club and everything seems okay, until someone kills Mr Altaj and his beautiful niece, Alana, arrives from far. A lot of mysterious killings start and no one seems to be safe.

Luigi Atomico Zanuso, in the role of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, searches for man in a world of robots and dehumanized people.

The title is inspired by the campaign promoted by Queever and the Quore Association in Turin, a city symbolic of the GLBT movement, in favor of gay marriage: the sending of fifteen thousand postcards to Giorgio Napolitano so that he would take charge of the instance and symbolic marriage ceremonies between same-sex couples (and others) celebrated by institutional representatives during that year's Gay Pride. It is no coincidence that the documentary opens with the now distant, evocative images of the first event held in Italy (it was 1980) in which, in the public square, men and women were provocatively married. Plus: interviews at the PD party with Bersani, Bindi, and D'Alema, with some militants during a demonstration, with participants in the Turin and Viareggio parades, the testimonies of two couples (one gay and one lesbian), and speeches by Don Gallo and Paola Concia.

The short film that tells the city of Catanzaro through the eyes of a swallow, which travels through the riches of the city.

A feature-length documentary written by Elena Perazzini, that exlores a culturally updated version of the American Dream as it traces the journeys of six Italians who live in the United States.

The writer Lando Vivaldi makes his triumphal entrance in a world populated by ghosts, surreal hallucinations and crazy doctors, losing his mind in the labyrinth of these stories.

From the war-torn Ukraine to Milan's catwalks. This is a story of beauty and struggle. This is the story of young girls longing for a better life. A story of hope, fail, success. And of a man who can determine it.

Conversations with French director Paul Vecchiali at his home in France in 2010, not far from Saint Tropez, at Villa Mayerling. His entire life and career are covered film by film. The relationship with his parents, the nouvelle vague, his early films, his books and more in a friendly, uncensored way and with much sincerity.

The greek word “zauma” means the angst for the unpredictability of becoming. We often translate it into “wonder”, but this is an improper definition. To assert, like Aristotle did, that every knowledge and every technique come from the wonder is not enough. For Homer, zauma is Polyphemus eating the Odysseus’ comrades, that is to say that it means something more strong and negative than “wonder”. Homeric poems evoke an eerie monstrosity. As it has provoked the whole knowledge and philosophy, zauma is generally intended to be the anguished terror in front of world’s becoming. (E. Severino)

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

T presents details of the houses built in La Martella (near Matera, Italy) by architect Ludovico Quaroni and his collaborators in the 50s. In T the rationalist façades are shown by way of high-contrast abstract glimpses.

Alba, a passionate and ambitious woman, tries to remember when she started to stop believing in herself, to pursue her desires. Her partner ridiculed her aspirations for her, instilling in her the feeling that she would never make it. Without love, a violent everyday life invaded her life for years, until the tragic ending.

Italian independent filmaker Chiara Caterina and Venice based sound artist Nicola Di Croce spent together a long time photographing, filming, writing and recording in a deep exploration of Basilicata region, Southern Italy, “in search of its pieces of bitterness and wonder”. Il mondo di sotto is the result of this audiovisual inquiry that crosses landscapes, territories and elements from the high mountains of Pollino to the underground world of mines in the Val d’Agri area, 100 mt below the surface of the earth. They walked in the rain and sunshine, meeting people, experiencing desolate places and flourishing plateaus, water and ground, finding a sense of landscape animated by the magical, but aiming at exploring coexistences and divergences between modernity and traditions, past and present, artificial and natural, terrestrial and subterranean.

A postman walks through the desert, his life flows slowly as does the desert sand. He is the only link between the secluded villagers, however, this is about to change due to a small technological device.

In a surreal little town called Gemona, lives Mauri, a man with a strange personality, afflicted by a rare kind of syndrome, that force him to stay always at home and spy his neighbours. Pieri, his doctor and lover, after the last removal, because of Mauri's continues attentions for the previous neighbor, went to Auckand for a convention of a clinic study case of a Mauri's syndrome. Left alone, Mauri, start to think about his neighbors, and his thoughts bring the man to terrible, sharp and strange deductions...

Carmaux and Wan Stiller, Mimmo and Sussò fishermen from the Old City, are looking for the Lady of Ventimiglia, here Carmela. An elderly and visionary Morgan sent them among childhood memories, fears of new imprisonments and adverse destinies, chatter in an arcane and mysterious language. The (free) life of today's pirates in the beautiful city of Taranto. Inspired by Jolanda, the daughter of the Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari.

Diagnosed with total sterility by her doctor and friend, Greta, Ester’s desire to get pregnant becomes a growing obsession that leads her through a number of one-night stands, until Greta brings her face-to-face with a hidden world of horror.

Re-reading of the namesake anarchic pamphlet of Bob Black, according to the formula labour force-repetition-death. Intellectuals like going to the cinema to watch movies about workers, workers prefer watching successful businessmen more.

A man becomes obsessed by an art piece from Marcel Duchamp.

An anticupid turns a potential romance into something very different.

Humanity indulges at the lavish banquet of Mother Nature, where every gesture becomes a metaphor for the relentless struggle and insatiable greed that bleed our planet dry.

Shiny supermarkets stand next to dilapidated factory buildings in the Bulgarian city of Pernik, one of the Balkans once most important industrial areas. The film tells stories of intense historical transformations and economic crises, through the experiences of people who lived through an industrial rise and an industrial decline.

This recording was made at Venice's beautiful Teatro La Fenice. With his sharp and lively conducting, Fabrizio Maria Carminati puts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice entirely at the service of three exceptional singers, Sonia Ganassi an extraordinary performance Opera Today as Elisabetta, Fiorenza Cedolins colourful, nuanced, highly dramatic heroine - Frankfurter, Allgemeine Zeitung as Maria Stuarda, and Jose Bros as a passionate Leicester.