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- Everything was ready for Luchino Visconti to start shooting a movie based on Marcel Proust's book "In Search of Lost Time". But all of a sudden he left the set and the project. This documentary features interviews with some of the filmmaker's closest collaborators, and follows the pre-production stages. The aim is trying to guess the reason of the unexpected giving up, as well as to figure out what the film would have turned out to be like. Besides, it tracks down the deep links that held together the work of the filmmaker and the great French writer Proust.
- The documentary talks about an Italian peacekeeping mission in Somalia in 1993.On July,2nd,1993 the Italian paratroopers were ambushed during a mock up,by the somali militia members.Here the survivors and the victims' relatives talk about their experience.
- Is a project born with the intention of telling slice of adolescent life in Italy, a documentary that intends to speak through the eyes of teenagers on a journey into their daily lives: in schools, in their hobby and the first contacts with the worldliness of discos and clubs, afternoons with friends, peer groups and interests, resulting in a path described by the boys themselves, will take us to the discovery of their hidden side, that misrepresented by the media , distorted and influenced by television and cinema, showing what are the aspirations, dreams, fears and hopes of the younger generation.
- An American football champion, the idol of crowds, who became a hero in the war against terrorism proclaimed by George Bush. This is the story of Patrick Tillman, a young 27-year-old man who used to earn $2-million a season and left the football field in order to volunteer with the U.S. Army and then ended up dying in Afghanistan. But his death during battle is a mystery that upsets the U.S.A. and troubles the White House. For weeks the Pentagon affirmed that he had died heroically, killed by an enemy Taliban attack. But then the truth came to light: Patrick Tillman was killed by his own fellow soldiers. So, how did he really die? His mother Mary Tillman, during an exclusive interview, states how she is trying to discover the truth behind her son
- A documentary produced by RAI (Italian TV) with a long interview that introduces the world of Capucci, from his first atelier, in Rome to the creation of his Fondazione and Museum in Florence.
- Moderna" is a 91 years old lady. She is a bright woman, full of energy, full of life and with a great story to tell. A century, the twentieth. The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (National Art Gallery) of Rome talks about itself: the evolution of figurative art in its historical context. A documentary of 30 minutes where the soul of this building takes shape into a body: the woman's body. Filmed inside the Gallery, the documentary begins with the steps of the entrance of Villa Borghese in front of the building: a seven year old girl walks down the steps, crosses Viale delle Belle Arti and walking up the steps, enters the building. Together with the child there is the voice of an old woman who talks about her life experience from 1911, year in which the Gallery was built. During the movie the shape of "Moderna" is the body of a child, of a girl, then of a woman and finally that of the elderly woman who narrates the story. The journey of the works of art starts from Canova, then moves to Hayez, Sartorio, Balla, Boccioni, Dottori, Wildt, to Burri and ends in front of the "Three Ages" of Gustav Klimt which is not only one of the most important works in the Gallery but also the Synthesis of our story.
- Roma Contemporary Art in Hungary became a political tool used to fight against the strong racist society, littered with threatening paramilitary xenophobic groups, linked to the far-right parties.
- Venice Lido, 6 August 1932, 9.15 pm: on the sea terrace of the Grand Hotel Excelsior a projector is switched on. An elegant and wealthy audience witnesses the birth of the Venice Film Festival. It is the outcome of a meeting between three characters: Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata, president of the Biennale and an important figure on the Italian industrial scene; Antonio Maraini, secretary of the Biennale and an art connoisseur; Luciano De Feo, president of the Istituto Internazionale per la Cinematografia Educativa, who manages to bring American majors and European productions to the Lido. The Dai nostri inviati project celebrates its third anniversary with a prequel, which aims to talk about the first twenty-one years of the festival from 1932 to 1953. Via a selection from the Luce and Rai archives the documentary examines the historic events of the festival: its "international" birth, the influences of the Fascist regime after the proclamation of the empire, the outbreak of World War II on the closing day of the 1939 festival, the three wartime festivals, Venice as the "cinecittà" of the Repubblica di Salò, the return of peace and democracy with the festival's re-launch in 1946 up until the sensational ex-aequo of six Silver Lions at the fourteenth festival in 1953.
- Just one hour away from New York by car, in the state of New Jersey, is Toms River, a very particular community. Its inhabitants have many things in common, but above all their age: they are all over 55 years old. Condicio sine qua non to be able to buy one of these houses. In fact, it is impossible for families whose members are under 19 years of age to live in Toms River. There are no children in Toms River. Salvatore Sciascia, an Italian immigrant who arrived in America at the age of 16, coordinator in charge of surveillance, will be our Virgil to discover the protagonists of this generational niche: Muriel, the wise woman; Phil, the tough guy; Al and Annette, the lovers; and Tony, the poet. It will be through their stories that we will manage to open a window onto their world.These communities, in fact, offer their inhabitants truly advantageous conditions: the only thing sacrificed is generational exchange. Here the el derly pay fewer taxes, receive fewer services than average citizens (a prime example is schools, which they certainly don't need), and enjoy numerous small privileges that make their lives much simpler. They have extremely efficient health care services. Shopping? Child's play: twice a week there's a shuttle bus that takes anyone who wants to go to the nearest shopping center, and then brings them back home again with their shopping bags. Urologists, cardiologists, and every kind of specialist are just a few yards away, and ambulances are free of charge. There are a swimming pool for the summer, a church, a reading room, a dancing school teaching all different styles, like country dancing - one of the most popular; its dress code says women must wear old-fashioned wide-skirted flouncy dresses and men wear string ties and cowboy boots. And there are also well-equipped clubs of all kinds of interests, which permit any type of leisure time activity, from carpentr y, where people can make or restore their own furniture, to the gaming table for hours of bridge and pinochle tournaments. An interesting, thought-provoking welfare experiment.