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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.
- A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
- The ultimate weapon which was meant to be safe for the mankind produces global side effects including time slides and disappearances.The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817's Switzerland.
- A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
- Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
- A popular television presenter is accused of killing a teenage girl in a park, who happens to be his daughter's best friend.
- Inspired by the extraordinary story of Elisa Girotto, the woman who moved the world by leaving 18 birthday gifts for her daughter when she discovered that she would have little time with her.
- Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things go terribly wrong.
- When newlywed Valentina returns from her honeymoon still a virgin, and her young but impotent husband Giovannino seems helpless, a solution must be found to remedy the embarrassing situation.
- Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
- A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
- A huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by a new virus.
- A movie resembling Bicycle Thieves (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.
- Leone Stella is a videogame billionaire who has lived an exciting life. Feeling close to death, he wants to leave the company to someone named as him, a man Leone Stella or a woman Stella Leone. A big number of contestants gather for a competition where they have to redo some of the adventures of the old man, the winner being the heir of the billionaire. Between them a radio host (L. S. DJ), a priest (Don Leone Stella), a killer (Leon Stella), a former strip-dancer, a young school teacher and a lucky Leone Stella carrying a space stone talisman owned by a Japanese gang.
- The hit series The Usual Idiots becomes a movie. Irreverent yet entertaining, the hilarious sketches of Fabrizio Biggio and Francesco Mandelli are now a cult hit and not only with younger people.
- Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as Pope John XXIII.
- A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
- Cristiana is a very nice and transgressive girl who loves to be always the center of attention. After leaving the boyfriend Cristiano, decides to get in touch with prof . Dario Marconi , a friend with whom she has a rather special relationship of love and hate since the time of adolescence . In reality, the two need each other, but both Cristiana and Dario fail to understand the true nature of their relationship that ultimately turns out to be only a maddening game of seduction . Meanwhile in Vallechiara , the village where they are living, a mysterious rapist terrorizing women living alone .
- Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
- The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
- A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
- A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on an epic scale. The two men's destiny intertwined, it is difficult to know who's real between the two and who belongs to the other's mind. This is a journey for both of them which Alphonse will continue, uncertain in the end, if his experiences were real or a dream.
- Three episodes about Italian husbands and those relationships in marriage.
- Dissatisfied with life and material that leads from the corrupt who attends, Raffaele decides to escape from his wife , from the lover and even from his daughter . After purchasing a painting depicting a sensual female figure, Raffaele disappears from real life to enter a world of indefinite done art , sensuality and mystery...
- The misadventures of Saverio Ravizzi, a Sicilian worker who escapes death during a demonstration and therefore finds a new job in a factory in Bergamo. The man begins to mobilize his fellow workers for better working conditions, unaware that his spontaneous activism is in fact used as part of a large financial system by the factory owner.
- A really strange office full of ideas that leave the viewer open-mouthed. More than an employment agency, it looks like a madhouse.
- Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.
- After 5 die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.
- An Italian soldier, a Kosovo War veteran, decides to move to a small mountain village with his daughter, but his past is coming back to haunt him.
- A horror atmosphere inspired by the parable " Shadow " by Edgar Allan Poe . The world is contaminated by " Evil" which manifests as the black shadow of a hooded figure and forcing the population of a small village to make sudden and brutal crimes . Three friends devoted to occultism can only partly counteract the evil . However a solution of the problem can be possible and help could come from the past ...
- Roberto Treviso, giovane geologo impiegato presso una potente e cinica multinazionale dell'edilizia, è incaricato di eseguire una perizia tecnica che spiani la strada alla costruzione di un devastante centro complesso turistico nella splendida ed incontaminata vallata dei Campelli, situata nel bergamasco comune di Scalve. I metodi eufemisticamente sbrigativi della multinazionale, l'armonia magica del luogo e l'amore per una giovane bellezza locale, convincono Roberto a passare dall'altra parte della barricata ed a fare di tutto per impedire l'inizio dei lavori. Vincendo la ritrosia dei sospettosi abitanti di Scalve, Roberto riesce ad organizzare una controffensiva degna del Piave, che si concluderà grazie ad una magica congiunzione astrale e soprattutto grazie a Å LA MUCCA MAGNETICA!
- The life of a high-society art curator in Turin ends both in a professional and personal downward spiral when she discovers that her fiancé has suddenly and inexplicably turned into an octopus.
- A season of blood marked by bombing, kidnapping and attempted coup d'Etat. The chronicle of ten years of fear, the most difficult time in the history of Italian democracy.
- During a holiday in Italy, a young German falls in love with an Icelandic actress. Until the happy ending, they have to go the wrong ways and detours, which are also related to the dreamlike "mission" of the acting group.
- Terrarium is an animated short film that takes an intimate look at the essential movements of nature in relation to water. A terrarium is typically an object that is used to contain and observe the growth of diverse plant and animal life. Through close observation into the habitat surrounding the Telaggio Valley, this film seeks to question the way in which all forms of life are bound together through the flow of water and currents of wind. The piece animates the interactions between moving waters, rocks, plants, clouds and rain; to create a unique interplay between all these various elements.
- Antonio Speller , a committed filmmaker , lose the desire to carry on with art films after finding his wife in bed with one of his actresses . The sentimental crisis it also leads to an artistic change and in fact since that time Antonio decides to make film "trash " only. In the same period he gets back closer to Paola , an ex - lover and a cult film magazine manageress . In his life come suddenly two young girls : Tosca , a screenwriter professionally determined and Mara , a young girl ready to do anything to get a part in a movie
- Labyrinthus "THE WAY OF NON-BEING Deductions 1) This is a film that was born and developed in the spirit and in the perspective of not paying duty to any genre, understood as a cliché, but we can say that recognizing in its plot a sort of sacrificial plant could approach (derivatively) the classic genre of tragedy (Euripides in particular, which shares a certain impiety, in addition to the marked philosophical warping). Closer to home, because of its sacrificial (tragic) structure, I would liken it as a "genre" to "The Seventh Seal" or "Meet Joe Black", in which death is, respectively, externalized and internalized, but still acts with the aim of obtaining the sacrifice due to it. 2) In our intentions it would be the first step of a dialectical trilogy (that's what I think we'll call it in the end), through which we represent the external life/death splitting. This would be followed by the inner splitting ("we are and we are not what we were before"), set in the era of COVID, and finally by a kermis in four distinct episodes (two realistic and two surreal), coagulated around the idea of a spectator unaware of the fact that he is, himself, an element of the "show" he is witnessing, and this last step would be understood as that of reunification, determined by a sort of aesthetic self-motion (the three films, precisely). 3) The film opens with a passage from Parmedides (from the "Poem on Nature"), and this is the source of its title. In our intentions, the film is also an open disavowal of Parmenides himself, in the sense that non-being (death, appearance) can at least be represented by drawing on an internal apperception. The sentence pronounced at the end of Riccardo's character (" If the living and the dead could meet, no one would believe in the existence of God") is not to be understood as a trivial hypothesis of denial of God himself (who can affirm or deny with certainty the existence? ) but it is nothing more than the transposition, in synthesis, of the synesthesia proposed by the film: that is, the contextual perception of life and death interacting with each other; and therefore should be understood in the sense that, if we admit to perceive and share a synesthetic reality (made of real plus unreal) it would no longer make sense to search for a unity external to thought. 4) The "Way of non-being" is the beginning of simultaneous perception (life/death, reality/appearance) or the synaesthetic way. It is also the way of critical consciousness that came out of Kantian irremediable dualism and landed in Hegel. On this path, it is possible to draw knowledge. On the other hand, understood in its aspect of "visual art", the film exhibits that imponderable which, not by chance, in impressionistic painting was externalized by light (the material source of cinema itself) and is now drawn within and represented as a gap in consciousness. 5) The structure of the film is at the same time a labyrinth and a red thread to get out of it (synesthesia also in this). The unknown of the sense is the enigma to be unveiled (the minotuar to be killed) and the labyrinthine structure is the result of a montage remade four times, always in a different way until the final one; the montage itself is the solution of the enigma, as a sort of its dialectical solution. In order to better understand it, we can compare the film to other works such as "The Cube" or "Saw-The Riddler", in which the labyrinth is all externalized, and the solution of the enigma is entrusted to the characters (most of whom succumb), with the difference that we have overturned exactly those scenic devices: the labyrinth is all interior, perceptive, or rather it is in the sole perception of the spectator or of the addressee, and not of the characters, because it is the spectator who is dispersed in rivulets and accesses that include images, dialogues and memories, all included in that ball that, as the narration proceeds, unravels little by little until the final solution, and the characters simply undergo that inexorable (tragic) unfolding. In other words: the film is a labyrinth that places at its center an enigma, its "minotaur", and the enigma is revealed as the ball of memory is unraveled. The title of the film was in fact "The final color of the soul", intended as the memory (the final color) that remains in the dead (hence the final reading of the passage from Plato's "Republic", and more precisely from the account of the myth of Er) but which is then diluted by drinking the water of the river Amelete to erase it and reincarnate. The editing of our film is the unraveling of that ball of yarn and thus resolves the labyrinthine enigma, that is, it erects the sense of the story, which is a search for the sense of death.
- "Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning "La strada di Levi", Ferrario sets off on a journey: this time, on the traces of the expedition of the Thousand. The aim: to verify the relationship between past and present, starting from Bergamo, formerly the "City of the Thousand" and today a bastion of Padania, and arriving at Teano. The voyage is full of surprises, meetings, reflections: a sweeping road movie through the history and geography of the country, seeking to answer a nagging question: why are Italians no longer able to imagine a future for themselves?
- With the present release of this Donizettian masterpiece, recorded live in 2001, Dynamic makes an historic move, becoming the first Italian label to produce a DVD opera. This very high quality production by Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo features, in the roles of the two queens, Carmela Remigio (Maria Stuarda) and Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), two great artists here making a fine display of their excellent vocal and acting skills. Francesco Esposito's direction and costumes, and Italo Grassi's sets are very effective and superbly highlighted by the filming.
- Giovanni is a man in his 40s who lives with his beloved grandmother who is over a hundred years old. After a stormy past, marked by cocaine addiction, he is constantly seeking his redemption. His mission is to save animals, but in the attempt to save Rosi, a calf destined for the slaughter, Giovanni stumbles upon his past, risking losing everything he has worked so hard to build.
- Omar, a Tango teacher, is forced, after years, to return to Buenos Aires, a changed city. He meets friends, family and Veronica sharing a difficult challenge. That is how Omar finds himself in Tango.