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The Via Emilia changes and becomes an open-air museum: hidden installations - although architecturally majestic - invite us to shift our perspective, to rethink the journeys that we thought we knew by heart.

Lucy is a 95-year-old lady. In her apartment, photos turned yellow by the passing time tell the adolescence of a boy who at the time was called Luciano and who was going to live the most terrible period of his life. Lucy is the oldest transsexual woman in Italy. She is among the few survivors of Dachau's concentration camp. Lucy's story tells us the story of the 1900s. The events of her turbulent life become a metaphor for a humanity that does not give up and that treasures the most important gift in history, memory, as a unique and irreplaceable starting point.

Rome, Italy, June 1993. Antonietta De Lillo and Marcello Garofalo interview legendary Italian film director Lucio Fulci (1927-96).

Piero Maccarinelli directs the student actors of the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in a play by Luigi Sturzo performed in 1900, which sheds light on the murky and persistent link between politics and crime.

A visionary journey, the rise and decline of clubbing Italy, told by the protagonists of this story, between nights on the highway and afterhours that devour the day. Four generations who want to be "put on the list" to enter these places of aggregation and perdition, where it does not matter what you do during the day, but only who you interpret during the night. Forty years in which the disco has produced culture, art, music and fashion.

Made by young people for young people, La Sindrome di Eva is a tale of adventure and erotica that tries to create a new point of view and helps the discussion on sexual themes and sexual education. Five contemporary young adults run away from a party with no boundaries after the arrival of the police. They run through the woods until they find refuge in a strange house that seems to belong to the sexual revolution of the ’70s. Erotic objects and portraits, a mysterious diary and a long-forgotten family secret are just the beginning of a journey of self-discovery.

Laura Rogora is a special person: the strongest female climber in the world and she’s only 19. Now she is on the way to the Olympics Tokyo 2021 for the first time ever.

In a provincial northern town, Nina, a shy and insecure young gymnast secretly adores Gio, another popular and easy-going girl from the town. When Gio notices Nina's awe of him, he decides to make an adept of her, in an ambiguous and abusive game, disorienting Nina, who, subjugated, finds herself at the mercy of Gio's manipulations and whims, which will bring her to a point of no return, from which she will never be able to free herself, even by changing her life and town.

How to survive the city of tormorrow? An Italian reporter in Beijing, Alessandro lives with his child and wife, alienated by the megalopolis. As he experiences the works of emerging local artists, Alessandro discovers unexpected views on the city, enhancing his own. Myjing is a storytelling in progress, a diary of this experience offering a unique in-depth perspective on today’s China.

Ferrania is a place, a factory, a brand known all over the world which, for decades, made the history of the still and moving image in Italy. but Ferrania, today, is a wasteland where numerous former workers of the facility live, in search of a new direction.

The story of one of the most controversial characters in art collecting whose name continues to provoke and divide. Francesco Conz tried to exceed the border between art and life. An entrepreneur from Veneto, in the mid-1970s he decided to give up everything he had to devote himself with great determination to his devouring passion for the artistic avant-gardes of the second half of the twentieth century, which would turn into a real obsession until the tragic ending.

"Tonino De Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro" is a film about the duel between two friends who are very different from one another. Two different approaches, two characters, two views that only seem antithetical meet and then open up in front of a camera. Or, more precisely, in front of the cameras. On the one hand, the eye of Daniele Segre. On the other hand, Tonino's, which almost taints the film's aesthetics. The film's development conveys a sense of immediacy, which is a fundamental principle for both directors. Daniele films Tonino and Tonino films Daniele, and this takes place in a play of associations, and in the space of an encounter. The two directors have seized this opportunity to swap views and experiences.

Investigating the last years of the famous filmmaker in Rome, combining the history of Italian cinema with new production techniques and going behind the scenes on the filmmaking process.

Francesco and his mother live together in an apartment behind the Pavía cathedral. The son looks after his mother who's been in a wheelchair for a few years. All days are the same, but Francesco's dreams start merging with quotidianly to transcend the rooms and hallways that have become his whole world.

Sarò Messina is a baby who refuses to be born and barricates himself in the maternal womb. A mockumentary about the contradictions of today's society.

Between the late 17th and early 18th centuries, some of the greatest bass singers on the European stage emerged in Naples, among whom Antonio Manna stands out. The pages chronicling his vocal career reflect a virtuosity that fits perfectly into the operatic landscape of that era, when the symbiosis between performer and composer was absolute.

Between nightmare and reality, spanning various film genres, the director tells the story of a desperate actor who puts on the role of a "drag queen" in order to survive. This role destroys him because it causes him melancholy, bitterness, frustration. However, the man cannot get rid of it, and despair brings him to the brink of suicide. His father's gun, however, does not help him; it jams. He then resorts to an ad found by chance in the newspaper, "A Friendly Voice," which offers to help those who have come to the point of taking their own lives.

On a rainy day, driving a burgundy car, a woman decides to face her destiny.

A documentary that restores to the world, five hundred years after his death, the universal and sensitive genius of one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: Raphael Sanzio. Guided by the art historian Luca Tomìo, we decided to start our journey from the Renaissance atmosphere of Raphael’s birthplace, the Duchy of Urbino, to retrace, from the very beginning, Raphael's artistic education. From a young age, he found himself confronted with giants of the Renaissance art such as Piero della Francesca and Antonio del Pollaiolo, in the workshop of his father Giovanni Santi, also an excellent painter of the Urbino court.

Ettore, owner of a funeral home, meets Marilena, the only woman he has ever loved, who has just lost her husband.

A collective movie to tell a year of history, 2020. A city like no one had ever seen: Florence during the lockdown due to Covid told by those who lived it.

Evocation of the artistic and cinematic expression of 1960s and 1970s’ public television in Italy. It is the early age of public broadcasting, during which cinema also questions its relation to reality and video art emerges as an experimental answer. The character, a young female viewer, committed to exploring and trying out a new medium, carries us through time. Blurring the lines between document and creation, the film places the viewer between the early age period of television and the period of time she spends in the room, between memory and imagination, utopia and experimentation.

An impassioned documentary on the resistance of the largest population in the world without a state. Their identity perennially denied, told through dramatic unreleased footage filmed by a Kurdish journalist during the siege of Cizre in the Kurdistan that was yet never born

Confidential report on designer Dino Gavina's showroom created by Carlo Scarpa between 1961 and 1963. Restoration details and stills from a 1985 film by Ellis Donda.

A film freely inspired by the true story of Randy Steven Kraft, the American serial killer who murdered sixteen young men between 1972 and 1983. He is also believed to have committed the rape and murder of up to fifty-one other boys and young men. Kraft is currently incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California. He became known as the “Scorecard Killer” because, inside his car trunk, investigators found a ring binder containing a hand-written list of 61 coded notations about his victims and more than 50 photographs of young men (dead or asleep) in pornographic poses beneath the carpet. He was also known the “Freeway Killer” because many of his victims’ bodies were discovered near freeways.

A tangle of stories in which aspirations and yearnings for freedom on the part of the white-collar worker are intertwined with those of Cristiano's personal and musical life in a discourse on our contemporary world.

A theatrical film about the staging of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto in July 2020. It was the first live show after the Covid-19 lockdown, which is why various anti-virus measures were imposed on the show: the actors performed on a 1500 m² stage, while the action on stage could be watched on a huge screen, thanks to the use of steadycams positioned on the stage.

Giusy is tired of living in the community where she grew up, in the indifference of the older ones and the hostility of her companions. She decides to cut the ties that force her and ventures out alone on the streets of a gray and aggressive Palermo. Her courage makes her come to the rescue of an old wandering poet who, however, disappears at dusk in the belly of a mountain. Giusy will find a new road.

After a night at the club, a man tries to enter his car but is blocked by the software running it, because of his alcohol level. The man and the car discuss like a couple until his physical and verbal violence grows unexpectedly.

Solitude tells a dream. Two souls meet, an anomalous place for a gaze-proposal. The intentions meet and from there, fluid like drops of bubble bath, an accomplice energy starts flowing between precious rooms. Dance is the expression of an ardent passion that precedes a carnal encounter. But we will never know if this will have a sequel. After an escape, loneliness.

The house as the abode of human interiority, the space of the house and the natural elements that surround it are inextricably united with the soul of the protagonist who is overwhelmed by the power of an environment now in stark contrast to everyday life, a childhood that has now disappeared over time it resurfaces. D O M is also dedicated to the memory of Sara Iommi, researcher and theorist of cinema at the D.a.m.s of Bologna who died prematurely in 2016

A long time ago lived a king named Lenoire. One day he was granted one of the greatest gifts that man can ever receive and, instead of accepting this gift, he refused it, sealing it in the darkest meanders of the wood.

On June 4, 2021, the renowned Dutch organist Ton Koopman gave a concert at the Basilica of San Bernardino, performing on the organ built by Feliciano Fedeli (1726) of the Marche region, which had recently been restored by Riccardo Lorenzini. The instrument had sustained significant damage in the 2009 earthquake.

Returning from a dinner party with friends, a young couple finds themselves locked outside their house, and have to deal with the remains of their relationship.

Alex and Claire have something in common, between recurring nightmares and restless memories, only time will allow them to understand what is happening or has happened. The truth is hidden in a time that the two protagonists do not even imagine.

A modern fantasy tale: Anna, a young girl on a mountain holiday with her family, will have to solve the mystery of a crime that happened in the distant past.

Rome, October 27th 2021. The DDL Zan, a law against homotransphobia didn't passed and the politicians started to applause and scream of joy for what happened. APPLAUSI is a short movie, ninety seconds of faces and stories in defense of those who were trampled on by the Italian Senators in the exultation of the stadium following the dropping of the law against homotransphobia.

The children are ancient tribal creatures who mysteriously became extinct in just a few years. All that remains of them are images: photographs and film clips from all over the world that immortalize them as they conduct incomprehensible rites. A scholar inherits the diary of a colleague who went to the Amazon, convinced that, in the forest, he would find the last tribe of children still remaining on earth.

Through the 8mm films and audio reels bequeathed to her cousin, it's reconstructed the story of Ignazio Fiocchi Nicolai, great creator of puzzles and lover of shooting in 8mm film and super 8. They retrace themselves the fabulous 60s starting from his first film filmed in 1959 until arriving at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico City. In the background Rome and personal and "historical" events that characterized those years. Puzzles separate the chapters.