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A film commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, where the director captures moments of his daily life and of his relatives.

A lonely man works on the deep web to raise enough money to finally leave his hometown and his troubled lifestyle. His friend, a certifiably crazy criminal, brings him into the darkest places of the city where their minds become obsessed with the deep web and the ability to make money quickly. The road to financial success will be full of pain as the duo tries to find a way to escape from their enemies and the darkness of their new existence. What they don't realize is that a mysterious disfigured woman has been following them - and taking notes.

Oedipus is the son of Laius. Unknowingly, he killed his father, married his mother, and fathered four children, who are his siblings. A work by Sophocles, directed by Robert Carsen, dramaturgy by Ian Burton, translation by Francesco Morosi. The show was revived as part of the 57th season of the INDA Foundation at the Greek Theater in Syracuse.

Giovanni, a young man from Bologna, is looking for a house in Milan. After many troubles he meets Mattia, who moved in Milan to study. The two begin to live together, changing the course of their life forever.

THE MATTRESS MAN tells the story of Guerrino, a man who chose to live his life without ever getting out of bed. The story is set in the 1990s and is told using the style and graphics of interviews from that era, enhanced by footage shot in Betacam format.

Four stories set in the Sibillini mountains, in the heart of Italy

A man regains consciousness somewhere unknown and claustrophobic. Dazed and confused, he begins to wander its dark corridors, but a series of visions will force him to deal with a far worse reality.

History flows, the darkness wets our clothes. Inspired by the poem “Avevamo studiato per l’aldilà” by Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale, the film condenses iconic images of Italy’s political history into a narrative about this life and the hereafter.

In the 1970s, Italy was flooded with heroin. Carlo Rivolta, one of the most attentive journalists of his generation, is among the first to talk about the phenomenon from the columns of a new newspaper, "Repubblica".

An ambitious production in which a dystopian world is reproduced, where social differences are emphasized by choices of costumes and scenography. The theme is food, its reuse that generates wealth and conviviality, eliminating differences. The intent of the short is to metaphorically represent how waste, leftovers, can be reborn to new life.

A modern dance tragedy on Sicilian soil, about a search for common ground. This independent film is a Gesamtkunstwerk, inspired by the architectural installation 'The Forbidden Garden of Europe'.

In a beautiful garden, different characters move and tell their stories. They are adults but have the motions of children. Three of them: Michelle, Vincenzo and Francesca begin to talk as they walk through this magical place, they tell us their dreams. Moving from one place, to reach another where they will all gather together in a big circle we discover that these adults, so candid and clean, are nothing but unborn children who have taken on the human form of their dreams, of what they would be if they came into the world: a veterinarian, a manager, and an actress.

In one of Rome’s suburbs, a multiethnic and diverse neighborhood, a mother and her two sons are evicted from their home. The two brothers, convinced that it is being reassigned to an immigrant family, will decide to take justice into their own hands. They will do anything to take their home back.

Riccardo, Amir, Pietro and Massimo, four security guards, not particularly brilliant or courageous, are bound by an indissoluble friendship. When Amir, who has a large family to support, loses his job, the other three feel called to help him at any cost. Going from a bad idea to an impromptu criminal plan, the four friends will find themselves in a whirlwind of encounters, adventures and pitfalls, but also some surprises. Because our heroes still have more than one trick up their sleeve…

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to be hospitalized urgently.

Animated film inspired by the true story of little Enaiatollah Akbari, which tells the story of a child fleeing from the Taliban.

In this poetic portrayal of Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992), a master of contemporary photography, the director gives voice and, in particular the image, to the protagonist. The photographer takes the audience on a tour of the outskirts of daily life as seen from the corner of his eye, the area in between what is artificial and authentic or grand and small – the meso-scale.

Part of Zineb Sedira's art installation for the French Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. A piece where Sedira explores her passion for the militant cinema of the 60s and 70s.

A forgotten person faces the material disappearance of what it passed. Oblivion gradually consumes everything, destroying every possible illusion of eternity. In memory of those who no longer exist, neither as a face, nor in our memories, nor in a short film.

Follow along on a journey through the U.S. Virgin Islands, a lush archipelago immersed in the Antilles Sea. A wonderful tour of true paradise.

Aldo lives as a guest in an RSA. Every day he waits for his loved ones looking out the window of his room. On his birthday there will be a surprise to cut through his loneliness.

A head-on collision between two scooters on a remote road on the outskirts of Rome. It is June 2, a national holiday, and emergency responders are slow to arrive. The two men lying on the ground are anthropologically irreconcilable opposites, destined to hate one another.

Ciociaria, early ‘50s. A young farmhand is recruited to participate in Miss Italia selections, but her body measurements are not quite right for the contest. To undergo a terrible process of physical transformation seems to be the only way to be elected Reginetta.

Aleksia is a turbulent teenager of Russian origin, she has grown up with her mother and her little brother in the suburbs of Marghera. After confessing to her friend Angela that she is pregnant, she is pushed to steal a tablet to raise the money for an abortion. However, after the theft things turn bad and Aleksia is arrested by the police.

For Il Gabbiano, the first stage of the Chekhov Project, director Leonardo Lidi creates a simple stage setting in which he weaves together a sound box for the emotions that drive the characters, isolated on the shores of a large lake on a summer estate.

The incommunicability of today's young people through disturbing and decadent sounds.

During the months of the pandemic, the group of inmates and the theater company began an epistolary correspondence, in the course of which the text that was supposed to be their next performance, based on a fairy tale from Basile's collection Lo cunto de li cunti, became the fantastic echo of a slow and difficult transformation that affected everyone. Thus, the film is about metamorphosis and tried to do so by putting the world of fairy tale in constant dialogue with the world of reality.

If there is one thing that immediately jumps out at you even before you land, it is the color of Bali: it is so bright green that it looks like an immense golf course covering the entire surface of the island.

Short by Maurizio Braucci.

A series of Moving Images against the war in Ukraine. Make Art Not War. Peace for the People. Freedom!

Luce is a girl who lives with her father and who tries to face the normality of everyday life despite her existence has been upset by the premature loss of her mother. During his service as a volunteer palliative care assistant for the terminally ill, Luce meets Agata an elderly lady with a not very easy temper. Luce will see something in Agata that few others have been able to see and, as if to retrace the last moments with his mother, will give Agata what she needs most: "a ray of sunshine" in the darkness of illness.

Father Matteo Ricci, Jesuit, mathematician, geographer, and musician, chose to become a missionary in China. He was the first Westerner to whom the emperor granted permission to be buried on Chinese soil.

Two Italians documentarians follow the French Freedom Convoy from Nice to Brussels to witness the protesters' demands against the tyrannical laws imposed by governments during the pandemic. What they will see during this crazy attempt at revolution will go far beyond the boundary between reality and dream...

After spending 35 years in America, the film director Lamberto Morris returns to his native Italy to present his latest work. Lamberto is going through a crucial moment in his life: he broke up with his wife Wendy and feels dissatisfied with his professional career. Lamberto is received by his two childhood friends: Rogo and Valeria, who have organized a film festival for him in Castiglione del Lago, so that he can present his work, but his passion and obsession with cinema prevent him from thinking clearly. . Instead of feeling excited, he feels an enormous emptiness due to the absence of Wendy in his life. His friends notice Lamberto's sadness and will make him remember his roots and thus flourish again in life; speaking to him in the only language he understands... the language of cinema.

Luca is having lunch with his parents and his partner. During the goliardic atmosphere between embarrassments and smiles, Luca makes a very important confession at the table. The clarification with the parents and with the partner will put Luca in front of the awareness of being a victim of his imagination and of not having had the real courage to externalize the unspoken things.

Olympian gods and nymphs are celebrating Aurora's birth in the Vale of Tempe, crossed by the river Peneo. They praise her features in verse and song, comparing them to rivers and flowers. The text is anonymous and hints at a regal birth, probably Maria Theresa of Austria's in 1717.

In a room of the Cineteca di Milano, Giancarlo Consonni and Graziella Tonon observe old films that have just been digitized: they tell of the life and projects of the architect, urban planner, painter and photographer Piero Bottoni. The film follows the couple's research among the materials stored both in the film library and above all in the archive. They tell of a multifaceted and socially committed artist, who has dedicated his life and his work to the primary intent of instilling dream and enchantment into reality, making use of the contribution of all the arts. Through the multiplicity of materials at our disposal - drawings, films, photos, surveys, projects, voices - the film shows the realization of Piero Bottoni's most ambitious project: the construction of a mountain in Milan, Monte Stella, born from the rubble of the Second World War.

My old friend Walter has been living in a truck with his Native dog for ten years. In this interview, he opens the doors of his four-wheeled house and tells stories from the life of a modern wanderer.

The Piano, the Voice, and the Talent of a Young Artist. For the first time live, she will perform selections from her debut album, along with some unmissable classics.