Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-50 of 54
- A coming-of-age fairy tale set between modern-day Italy and an imaginary realm just beyond, Wonderwell follows Violet, a naive and inquisitive 12 year-old-girl, on a thrilling journey that transforms her world forever.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- Fabrizio Bracconeri, a real "glory" of Italian TV from the 1980s, tries to tell about himself to his severely autistic son Emanuele.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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."
- A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.