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- In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
- The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
- Fausto and Nadine meet for the first time in a hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful French girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate.
- After accepting a job as a caregiver in Italy, a young woman meets a man depressed over the end of his recent relationship.
- The story of rising, fancy life and falling of Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, two of the stars of the Italian cinema during the Fascism period of Italy.
- A journey through the last ten years in the brief life of Italian poet Antonia Pozzi. This is the portrait of an artist and of her art set in 1930s Milan.
- Ugo (Luca Zingaretti) is a crooked banker with a shifty hand for finances. Rita (Valeria Golino) is a by-the-books finance officer determined to bring Ugo to justice.
- In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
- Tony Robinson examines the claims made in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code."
- A young girl with a difficult past runs away from Italy with her overweight girlfriend. An "on the road" story set in Europe in which the two girls, having joined a circus of young artists, are forced to see their dreams come true.
- Bruno has tried to forget, but he still carries the scars of his past, on his skin and under, hidden within the creases of his soul and body, like the illness that consumes him slowly. One day Bruno has the chance to go back where everything has began, a disused furnace that became the shelter of a man and his daughter. Neither of them recognizes the intruder, whose intentions appear increasingly more elusive and ambiguous. Bruno must find somebody to hold responsible in order to heal, he must look at the origin of his suffering straight into the eyes, search for traces, erase them, to try to stop the intruder within him.
- In an abandoned theater, French actress Marina Vlady recites from Borges' classic short story "The Immortal" - Japanese research scientist Shin Kubota sings praise to Turritopsis dorhnii, the jellyfish capable of incessantly rejuvenating itself - the workers of the 600-year-old association to maintain Milan's Duomo subject the cathedral's exquisite statues to perpetual regeneration - Swiss musician/inventors Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer persistently refine the Hang, their pitch-perfect steel percussion instrument - Native American community leaders Leola One Feather and Moses Brings Plenty preserve the centuries-old spiritual resistance of their Oglala Sioux tribe - Award-winning documentary filmmakers Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti present a mesmerizing tribute to humankind's aspirations for immortality by showing us a portrait of our efforts to overcome (or accept) our own limits. They share their fascinating discoveries in a visual symphony to the power and harmony of nature's elements: water, earth, air and fire. From Milan to Wounded Knee, USA, from Bern to Shirahama, Japan, the traces of the filmmakers' travels spiral wonderfully into a symbol of perfection and infinity: SPIRA MIRABILIS.
- A journey through the incredible story of Renato Zucchelli, the last travelling shepherd living in a metropolis, who conquered the city with only his sheep and the power of fantasy.
- Milan. Behind the windows of the city's buildings are private rooms and private lives. And a man, Inspector Monaco, weary of his job since his wife died three years ago. According to the rules for survival that he has set himself, he wants no further contact with other people or with the stench of violence; he just wants to do paperwork. This night, however, sees the arrival at police headquarters not just of the Ullrich murder case, but also of Monaco's daughter Linda, arrested for possession of a firearm. Dawn casts light on a new and grim reality, and the Inspector must decide how to face it: as policeman or father. Searching for himself, he will find Linda again, as well as a truth which is not what it seemed.
- The story is a psycho-drama full of turns of events right from the opening scene and well after the credits. Icaro, a man in his late thirties with a wife and a child he loves and a safe job in a bank, is all of a sudden reminded of his boyhood ambition when Ombra, an eerie creature belonging to his cradle-day memories, reappears in his life. With Ombra back, nothing can ever be the same. Ancient dreams and hidden skeletons plummet the protagonist into spiraling insanity as present and past collide.
- Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke for seducing his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them.
- After an incident, Francesco, with his daughter moves in a sprawling villa on Lake Iseo. Soon they start hearing a respirator to signal them the presence of another entity. But is this entity the only one they need to worry about?
- For the first time, a film about what's inside, behind, before, beneath and in the pockets of Italian animation legend Bruno Bozzetto.
- The first film dedicated to Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
- The poetic boxing parabola of the Italian Olympic gold medalist and two times WBO World Champion, Giovanni 'Flash' Parisi.
- In a dystopian society, humans are now born without being assigned to a specific gender even though they resemble archaic images of male and female. They acquire their official gender assignment after going through what is known as "completion." Rain, a young student on a field trip to aquarium, envies that the rare fish she encounters have the ability to decide with whom to mate in spite of their specific gender. This is a privilege Rain doesn't have, preventing her from returning any affection her classmate Sky gives her. What Rain doesn't know is that the field trip is actually a standardized test that challenges her on her commitment to conform to society's rules and whether she will risk being condemned to a life without freedom.
- An emotional and philosophical immersion in that precious period of one's life which is the end of life, through one year of meetings and conversations between the author and the protagonist, a man terminally ill with ALS. A journey into the human soul where present merges with past and future becoming a landscape background for a dialogue about love, pain and the need for freedom.
- Paolo, an energetic and fit young man in his thirties, alone in his room keeps on living over again the fatal car crash that caused him a partial sight loss. Despite his parent are overprotective to him, Paolo has found the strength to respond to his condition. On the other hand what really makes him feeling cripple and roughly reacting is other people's commiseration which he cannot bear. But Anna, a young painter, will be the one to remind him that he's not allowed to be rude to all the world just because he's blind. Paolo then agrees to take her challenge and wants Anna to try what being in a dark world means: she only has noises and sounds amplification to orient herself. they therefore hang around together in the streets to discover the beauties of Venice up to feel the liberating emotion of a run in a slightly one meter and a half narrow street. This experience represent a sort of rebirth for both of them, even thought she has to leave for Paris where a medical équipe is waiting for her. She will found out lately to have a glaucoma, a pathology that, if untreated, will bring her to blindness. Whatever is going to happen now, thanks to Paolo, Anna is no more afraid of the dark since she understood that the best way to keep on seeing is just dreaming.