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- Karate and K1 champion, Claudio Del Falco is ready for his last fight, a memorable event, followed live worldwide, with a prize money of 10 million euros. The enormous sum is tempting to Apha, the boss of a criminal organization who, while Claudio is busy fighting, breaks into his villa with his cruel and ferocious men to take his second wife, Camila, hostage, unaware that in the villa there is also the 14-year-old daughter Sara. When Claudio learns that Alpha is responsible for the death of his first wife, he secures Sara and decides to face the entire organization alone to take his revenge.
- Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
- Teo, a student in Astrophysics, shares an apartment with his girlfriend, Carla, who is also a student. One evening, while he is absent-mindedly crossing the road, he is knocked down by a car. At the wheel of the car is Mavi, a girl originally from Spalato, who came to Italy with her father when she was a little girl. Teo is lying on the ground, injured, and Mavi helps him, before disappearing without a trace. The two characters meet again by chance some time later and a strong and deep bond forms between them.
- Anita (Mother of War) is propelled by an invigorating encounter between Brazilian-gaucho guerrilla fighter Anita Garibaldi and outspoken American journalist Margaret Fuller in a battered Rome under siege. The film - a historical fiction interpretation rooted in the 19th century revolutions of South America and Italy -- probes the motivations of historic figures, including Anita's famed husband Giuseppe Garibaldi, determined to fight for social justice. Anita Garibaldi, a fearless woman of action, and Margaret Fuller, a tormented woman of letters, asserted themselves at a time when women had limited options in life. Over the course of their meeting, both women come to better understand their place in the world.
- Marta is a former professional diver. An injury forces her to renounce her career and return to her family home in Matera, a Medieval town surrounded by wild nature. There, she must face the death of her artist father. In the village also lives another artist, Sebastian, and his Japanese model who loves to portray in extreme poses that inevitably attract Marta's attention. She remains so impressed by these works that she opens the doors of her home to the model and begins a symbiotic and sometimes disturbing relationship with her.
- A young Italian mother is living a life of part-time prostitution in Austria, unbeknownst to her friends and family. Everything seems to be going well until her secret is discovered.
- Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man's world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. The two protagonists who have never met, meet at Bus stop in the middle of nowhere. The Bus arrives but doesn't stop, it was the Bus that was going to GODOT, the God which manifested itself through a musical sound on the other side of the mountain. So Freak and Jajà decide to look for him on foot, in this way embarking on a journey that will have them meet the bizarre characters living on this land. Unfortunately Freak and Jaja at the end of their journey.. will meet up with death before reaching their God.
- Stromboli, Sicily. Kristin Linklater (voice teacher and text coach) leads an international group of actors through an exploration of their own voices and several tales from Ted Hughes' contemporary adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- The documentary follows facts and people since the 'Racial Laws' were issued (1938) until Italian Jews were deported (1943-1945). For the first time not only persecuted Jews talk, but also persecutors together with a remarkable number of people who neither promoted antisemitism in Italy, nor stood against it. Almost 80 years after these infamous Laws, this is the last chance to record the voices of the eye witnesses. The project aims at explaining the real consequences of the Racial Laws like nobody has dared to do so far, because Italy wanted to remove this chapter from its history.
- A major European city. Today. John Higgins is a renowned Professor of philosophy at the American University in Rome. It's the end of the Spring semester and he plans to celebrate taking his favorite students out to dinner to a most exclusive place. The five meet up in the parking lot of a building in the heart of the city. They take the elevator up to the main floor and find the exit. The doors are locked. It's the only way out, so they venture back to the elevator and press button down to the parking lot. The elevator doesn't move. It's the beginning of a long night that will bring them face-to-face with the every essence of evil. A powerful enemy who plans to kill them all. Five lives. One destiny. Only one is to survive. As so is the rule of Pandora. A selected ensemble of very wealthy people bets on the lives of those trapped inside the building through a dark web called BLUE OYSTER. No one knows who runs the site. The players "assemble" their product just like in any online store, by choosing how the victim must die and uploading a soundtrack that is to play during the "a la carte" executions. The players make use of a mysterious figure the site refers to as The Wizard. The Wizard is their tool. Their angel of death. His role is that to terminate the unaware participants. If and when The Wizard turns out to be no longer productive to the Pandora, he is to be "recycled". Eliminated. BLUE OYSTER is his story.
- Lando Buzzanca, crossed from the far 1959 with a small role in William Wyler's Ben Hur, the entire production of industrial cinema Italian. More than 150 films were shown in the 60s, 70s and 80s large part of the sex comedy, creating a wide audience of aficionados all over the world. Lando Buzzanca was an accomplished actor who has worked in those years, with authors such as: Pietro Germi, Alberto Lattuada, Antonio Pietrangeli, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Luciano Salce, Luigi Magni. He played at least a dozen films that evade the boundaries of the genre. "Lando Buzzanca.Uno Nobody hundred thousand" traces through the testimony fun of himself, the Istituto Luce archive material, the participation of Tatti Sanguineti and actions of directors, actors and journalists who have crossed his activities, this bumpy ride but overtime that led him, as a result, the theater of Eduardo, Pirandello, Moliere, Shakespeare, and popular radio and television series.
- Southeast Asia Cinema: When the Rooster Crows is a voice of diversity reaching for change. Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Garin Nugroho, and Pen Ek Ratanaruang give voice to a region rich with traditions, ethnic groups, languages, politics, and religions. It is cinema at its purest form, fighting for freedom of expression, documenting real lives of ordinary people, giving voice to the underdogs and the outcasts. The amalgamation of these aspects gives birth to an ultra-neo-realistic cinema language currently unique to films from this region.
- This film is a journey into the unknown, along with Pippo Delbono and his actors, during the rehearsals of 'Orchids' which starts without any text, where all the actors, through free improvisation, become the authors of their own vision of reality, of their true life. Some performances of these rehearsals will be in the show, some others will only last in the memory of this film.
- This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau
- Fabrizio Bracconeri, a real "glory" of Italian TV from the 1980s, tries to tell about himself to his severely autistic son Emanuele.
- The story of Michelangelo, Antonio and Giulia. Three lives interrupted facing pain and death, which helping each other with subtle pressures, will intertwine, finding a way back to life.
- Dignity is a good reason to fight, or to walk away? Past and present issues on immigration, gender, and dignity in countries - Italy and Brazil - that share many similarities, starting from a biased relationship with their national memory.
- "Something still burns", as one of his most successful songs, wants to be the cinematic opportunity to retrace the story of Mario Venuti, one of the most important contemporary Sicilian singer-songwriters.
- An exploration of the conditions and experiences of immigrants to Italy.
- Discover the roots of Korean cinema. A cinema who surprised by the success recorded in the major international festivals. Interviews to five famous Korean directors, to get to know closely the evolution of Korean cinema. Through their words, their pictures and their stories. The Korean cinema has tendency to describe both the society, the past and the modern. The world of west cinema knows these directors through the journey of some of their movies. What do we know about their thoughts, their life, their culture and their way of working? The documentary focus on it.
- REX, the most famous and legendary liner of the Italian merchant navy. A symbol of Italy in the fascist era, Blue Riband winner for the fastest Atlantic crossing, Rex revolutionized the way to travel by sea, opening the way to the modern concept of cruising. We tell its story by direct testimonies, experts' and enthusiasts' contributions, to reconstruct the history and the legend regard the short life of the ship, from the first trip in 1932 to the sinking in 1944, after an allied bombing, until the echoes of its myth, that still emerge in Italian industry and society.
- At once a classic road movie, a contemporary noir mystery and a surreal, acid-infused comedy. At the center of the story, we find an ordinary guy named Balti, toiling away for a strange corporation, suddenly relegated from computer programming in order to take care of delivering packages whose content he ignores. Once he enters the eponymous motel, his life is changed forever... On the premises, Balti meets an unusual array of characters, ranging from Dustin (a male prostitute fond of being stabbed) to Laura, who wanders without purpose ever since comatose daughter died. And there are many more strange encounters ahead...
- Pietro is an attractive 45 year old architect, after being married to Roberta for 20 years, realizes he is unsatisfied with his emotional and professional life. He is also politically frustrated, feeling abandoned by a left wing.
- The Jewish Community of Rome, the oldest in the Western world, told through three witnesses that representing many generations: David, John and Michael. The elder and indomitable David thanks to the business of which is the seventh generation, knows very well his Rome. John, who is forty years old, has decided to invest on Jewish food and wine, cultivates a strong religious feeling, in which eating kosher( that is in accordance with the laws of God) such as respect for the shabat and holidays Jewish, also become rediscovery of identity. Micaela, mother thirties, is tourist guide in the Ghetto of Rome.But first of all in these three persons is proud to be a part of Jewish culture in the heart of Rome.
- Four girlfriends, Silvana, Rita, Lucia and Elvira find themselves, for a strange fate, altogether at the end of long relationships. They resolve to take care one another at home, reading, chatting and cooking. Silvana is still in love with Niki, a painter with which were involved heart and soul. In order to eradicate from Silvana's heart the love for Niki, her friends decide to put her through a psycho-magic rite, following the instructions of an Alejandro Jodorowski's book.
- The short film tells the daily life and the dreams of two fraternal twins from Naples in Marghera, Gaetano and Vincenzo, of the blonde, very Venetian, son of Gaetano and of the colorful world around them. It is an opportunity to play on gender, social and cultural stereotypes and for an affectionate reflection on the richness of the differences between human beings.
- Le vin de Zucco was a famous wine, produced in Sicily in 1854 by one of the richest men in the world. The Duke Henri D'Aumale, son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, lived his exile at Orleans House in England and at the Zucco in Sicily, collecting books and works of art. He put together in Chantilly, France, the second largest collection of paintings after the Louvre. He gave work to 4,000 farmers of Montelepre in Sicily. He loved his wine and his estate of Zucco so much that he went back there to die. Today, the Zucco farm still exudes the charm of this incredible adventure. Pietro, organic farmer, returned to the place of his childhood following a mysterious voice ... The appeal of Zucco beyond the time barrier ... In the film, the historian Salvo Di Matteo, Ennio Palmigiano and the last appearances of Vittorio Umiltà, founder of Salvare Palermo, and Enzo Sellerio, the great Sicilian photographer and publisher. The director Lidia Rizzo: "I could never imagine that where the great chef Vatel guarded the secret of Chantilly cream I would find the secret of the vin de Zucco produced in Sicily. A natural wine."
- Hong, answered an ad for a room from Doris, arrives in Rome to start her life in Europe. It's her first time outside China. Everything is new. Doris helps her acclimatize. Despite age and cultural differences, both women develop a friendship. One day, Hong invited Doris to visit China.
- Sul Fiume (On the River) is a story of The Tiber. Rome's river. A snapshot of a place and its environment, its nature, and of the people who make the river their home. It is a journey through the eyes of three friends. Choosing the river of Romulus and Remus as a way to connect to a world past. They sail, with an open mind, from the country through the city, to the sea. Using the river as a mirror to the modern world. Equal parts objective documentary and Twainian adventure story, Sul Fiume, Maldi's first feature, continues the wave of young Italian cinema bursting onto the international scene.
- La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971, a trip made to conduct an interview-portrait of Salvador Allende, then actually carried out by the director of "Rome, Open City". October 28, 1971: Rossellini, back from Santiago, Chile, reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen. From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty. A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì, just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography.
- A contemporary Don Quixote wanders into nature with his trustworthy fellow, Sancho Panza. Suddenly, his motorbike breaks down and stop by a wind farm in the middle of nowhere. Is the windmill an enemy? Maybe not, you cannot be evil if wind feeds you. From a distance, they see a beautiful lady dancing to electronic music. Strangely enough, the woman is wired to the windmill with a large electric cable: she gathers her energy from the wind. The rhythm won't stop as the two start dancing with her, but little can they do against the power of wind, naturally feeding the tireless dancer.