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- The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- Follows the life of iconic singer Donna Summer.
- A personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
- A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS-leader Heinrich Himmler.
- Barletta, Italy, 2011: one hundred years after the 1911 Fire at the Triangle factory in New York, several textile workers die because of the collapse of the building in which they used to work as employees of an unauthorized knitwear factory. Mariella Fasanella is the only survivor among the women who worked there. Through her words we experience a century-long journey through the rise and fall of manual labour and industrialism in the Western world.
- The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.
- The mechanisms of the construction and assimilation of gender in contemporary Italian society will be observed through a kaleidoscopic mosaic of scenes of daily life: what are the choreographies of bodies, collective rituals and behaviors that determine our identities? In images with a strong visual impact, Normal tells the story of normality that makes it alien to us and explores the daily and collective staging of the male and female universe in which we all participate.
- The director documents his failure to make a film connecting the Mafia in Sicily and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- In the forties, Erich Priebke, a former Nazi SS commander hides in Bariloche, Argentina . The German community of Bariloche lives conditioned by the spirit of the Third Reich and supports Priebke despite knowing the crimes he has committed.
- This is a tribute to an artist whose songs told the story of Italy at a time of rapid social and cultural change. Thanks to the testimony of the singer's manager and friend Tobia Righi, and an effective and original use of archive material, Pietro Marcello retraces the life of Lucio Dalla, making him a spotlight through which Marcello sheds light on a country that rose from the ruins of the Second World War to sever its roots with peasant culture and move towards a future of factories, consumerism and mass car production. Not handsome or dashing like the other singers of his generation, Lucio Dalla embodied a different role model that was closer to ordinary people. For here was an artist capable of transposing the poetry of Roversi, who provided the lyrics for some of Dalla's most beautiful songs, into a musical arrangement that spoke to everyone. The director of Martin Eden returns to the documentary form with a film that pays tribute not only to a great singer but also to a notion of a people that has vanished with him.
- A cross documentary/fiction story set in southern Italy (Puglia) in the 70s. A TV program of today tells the former story of Sabino, a young boy fond of jazz music, who at the time emigrated to North, as many others.
- The True Story of Luisa Bonfanti is a particular film that moves on the border between the documentary and the fictional film. In fact, using the narrative mechanism of the "mockumentary", La Vera Storia by Luisa Bonfanti wants to tell the golden age of Italian cinema and a season of political struggles between the sixties and the early eighties. Luisa Bonfanti is a fictional character who wants to represent the many women who dreamed of success in the glittering world of film. In her path, Luisa meets some of the real protagonists of that unrepeatable season such as Ettore Scola and Citto Maselli. The film mixes original footage, with repertoire material from film archives to reach the truth of an era and an unforgettable character.
- An upside-down world where women are in power and men look after the family. Domenico retells his story to his daughter starting with a tender memory. In a letter he re-lives the joys of her birth, her childhood, the dreams of a happy family, but also of the painful sacrifices of a father and husband, sacrifices that suffocated his real aspirations and desires. Using found footage, In Her Shoes rewrites History: men united in a liberation movement. The images from our past no longer tell of who we were, but create a challenge. What would men have done if they found themselves in women's shoes?
- It's been twenty years since Genoa, 2001. Twenty years is the time in which a newborn becomes a person: nowadays there is an entire generation that is autonomous and present, yet which was not born at the time. Twenty years is the time in which a boy becomes an adult, and an adult becomes an elder. There are two generations who have gone through that experience, in one way or another, and twenty years later they cannot consider it closed. The dream of Genoa 2001 is not over, because the themes of those days - growing inequality, finance which concentrates resources in few hands and makes precarious or crushes the others, environment robbery, great migrations - are today's issues, only more urgent. And the violence of Genoa 2001 is not over, because that violence has been told many times, and counter-told, celebrated or condemned, but never understood or resolved. Now is the right time to talk about it: to start from Genoa to go beyond Genoa, and to understand what Genoa means.
- In the sixties in Rome 100 thousands families lived in shacks, hovels, caves, in dilapidated apartments, in promiscuity. People in need of housing were estimated at 300 to 400 thousands. The struggle of the movement for the right to housing began to radicalize since 1961 with the first occupations of public housing throughout the city.
- Giovanna Marini has been recounting history and stories with music her whole life. Since 1958, she has been recording and preserving folk songs, composing ballads, music for film, theater and opera. A surprising voice, out-the-box and unconventional, unremitting, for 60 years she has traversed places, struggles and movements throughout Italy with her guitar in her arms. A documentary about and featuring Giovanna Marini, conceived as a film of reflection on the use of the voice, a vehicle for seeking and acting on reality. Through the narration of crucial points in our collective history sung by Giovanna across her long career, we interrogate the memory and the soul of an entire country shared in the present beyond official history.
- Navigating through the images produced by the Italian Communist Party between the 1950s and the 1980s and meeting the gaze of Luciana Castellina, the author investigates the story of the Party. During the journey he rediscovers the meaning of a politics made of commitment and solidarity. Above all, he rediscovers the cinema of that political generation: a free, experimental, militant cinema.
- The film mixes images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two photographers and two filmmakers and photographers.
- Pop Art interiors, psychic drifting and the myths of mass tourism seen from the Rimini Skyscraper.
- A documentary on the life and works of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. It features archival interviews with the actor and also reminiscences from his family, friends and colleagues.
- The story of a journey to meet the latest republican voluntary fighters veterans of the Spanish Civil War.
- Liberi Nantes FC is a team formed by refugees and asylum-seekers who takes part in the third division of the Italian Football Regional League. As refugees they're not allowed to win the cup because they're not legal citizens.
- The story of 1960 strikes and demonstrations in Italy against the Tambroni government, supported by a post-fascist party.
- A biographic, artistic and human portrait of the great filmmaker Ettore Scola, realized with archive material, movie clips, backstage clips, photos from family albums, sketches and illustrations and an interview by Pierfrancesco Diliberto (Pif).
- Based on archival material, the movie tells the story of the young people that striked in Italy between 1967 and 1977 - mixing dreams and passion, with violence and injustice.
- Pozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; the oracles of the Sibilla Cumana; the young Christian martyr Artema, killed by his classmates; Maria 'the crazy', a warrior heroine who saved the city from enemies. But next to the past is the present. In the early seventies, the phenomena of bradyseism flare up in the gulf. The Gioia family, which lives on fishing, is forced to leave the house several times because of the risk of a sudden landslide. Repeated moves lead to the progressive disintegration of the family unit. The difficult relationships sentimental of the children, the opposition to the public force that orders the eviction, the death of the father are so many stages that mark painful generational and existential passages.
- A voice guides the soul of a writer in exile, Asli Erdogan, while writing a page. It tells her story, following the stages of her life. Through pieces of photos and excerpts of words she finds herself and finally manages to write.
- Portrait of Leonilde Lotti, Italian Communist who was the first woman president of her country's lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, where she served three terms.
- Yom Al Ard (2019) is a portrait about the fragmentation of the land, the experience, and the people of Palestine, showcasing the systematic efforts to disperse, fragment, and destroy the audiovisual memory and collective identity of Palestinians. It is composed of rare footage shot in the Galilee (Nazareth, Deir Hanna, and Sakhnin) in celebration of the 5th Land Day Anniversary on March 1981 that has recently been restored and digitized. The film pays homage to the transversal unity of the people, their collective energy in the defense of Palestinian identity- unimaginable today - and to their charismatic leader, the five times Mayor of Nazareth and poet Tawfik Zayyad.
- Few walls surround us Uncertain ground, immeasurable fissures. A multitude of archives within us. Among emperors and insolvents, slum dwellers and speculators, Communists, priests and popes, Women at war and gray cruel cities march to their own step in an archival, polyphonic and entangled demonstration into the arms of the charitable Low Income Housing Institute, or into its brimming absence.
- In a dystopian future in which the earth is on the verge of collapse, a boy, Afel, tells us, wandering the world, how aliens of human form have invaded the planet. Initially presented as liberators and bearers of innovations and technologies, they then imposed their dominion over humans by forcing them to slavery. The aliens, escaped from their destroyed world, were trying to recreate it on Earth regardless of the consequences. Taking full advantage of the resources offered by the planet they had destroyed the ecosystem. Afel, who had always kept away from the clashes, found himself unwillingly involved in the flow of events until he made the decision to fight for the salvation of humanity. His decision will lead him to face off against one of the aliens in a fight that will decide the fate of the human race.
- 1968 The Birds tells the story of a group of students that have been active in 1968 in Rome, during the year of the global youth protest. The happenings of the Birds were characterized by an overflowing creativity.
- Italy, late 1960s. Two strangers arrive in a village in the South: the first one has a movie camera, the second one has a gun. In this godforsaken land, they will have one opportunity to make history.
- Drawing from blurred VHS images and equally blurry childhood memories, Superheroes without Superpowers shows a journey in which the filmmaker processes some of the most important moments of her life and the relationship with her mother and her sickness, reconstructs the most intimate of narratives in order to find what she had lost.
- This documentary explores a lost true story set in Nazi-occupied Rome, when then-actor Vittorio De Sica was pulled from a set by Joseph Goebbels' men.
- Goffredo Fofi does not want to be considered an intellectual but he has spent his life founding magazines, writing books, reviewing movies. The film portrays his tireless political and cultural work and his encounters with famous figures such as Elsa Morante, Carmelo Bene, Danilo Dolci, Aldo Capitini, Totò, Luis Bunuel, Ada Gobetti, Raniero Panzieri, Pasolini, Fellini... People with whom "it was nice to fight" but, in certain cases, it was just as nice to make up with them. And then, 1968, the extra-parliamentary groups, ideological excesses, discovering new authors and directors. Social work as a political resource. The profile of a heretical intellectual and an extraordinary cultural organizer reveals a very critical view of Italian society, its power mechanisms, and the injustice that leaves a mark on it.
- About the Italian fascism's women's policy.