In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
A woman escapes a group of bullies seeking to rape her and takes refuge with a seemingly kind couple who have a dark secret hidden in their quiet, secluded house.
A tough detective is on the trail of a dangerous new drug that is flooding the area. With a lot of nonchalance and a perfect wig, he gets closer and closer to the culprits, but doesn't miss out on regularly attending church services. He has to! The only problem is that the local priest turns out to be not so innocent in the drug case.
Six strangers wake up handcuffed in the back of a truck. Left in the woods with just a chest full of weapons and a military strategy book, they soon find out that someone is after them and have to choose whether to be prey or hunters. Rare unreleased low-budget horror film, starring CSC (Rome Film School) students.
Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.
Inspired by actual events in Naples, a night shift of three paramedics goes slowly by, deadly dull as ever. Blood and suffering always belonging to the "nobodies" - but an unexpected call is going to jeopardize their lives.
For trying to seduce the boss's wife, a young delinquent is punished by gangsters.
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.
Stop-motion short by Massimo Ottoni. Follows the story of some soldiers during the Great War in an Austrian trench on the Italian front.
An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination.
James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.
Marco is a shy courier instructed to deliver some jewels in a photo studio. Here he meets Giorgio, the photographer: handsome, gay, cheeky.
Actor, clown, archeologist and university researcher Alberto Musacchio took his own life in 2001. His death hurt many people who had been touched by his vitality. One of these was Stefano who, fourteen years later, goes on a journey looking for the emotional traces left by Alberto’s life and work. He visits Rome – Mostar, where together they had run theater workshops for children and youths traumatized by war – and Canada, where Alberto spent the last years of his life studying and teaching. And where he had also left a written request that his ashes should remain.
A David di Donatello-winning short film about a junkyard keeper, in love with the portrait of the Mona Lisa, who is charged with teaching a young Slavic girl the tools of a much less honourable trade...
