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In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the U.S. Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted Western territories.

In an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, renowned documentarian Roberto Minervini opens a window to the abyss of today's America.

What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire is the story of a community of black people in the American South during the summer 2017, when a string of brutal killings of black men sent shockwaves throughout the country. A meditation on the state of race in America, this film is an intimate portrait into the lives of those who struggle for justice, dignity, and survival.

On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man remembers his first love. On May 6th 2012, in Paris, a man tells his baby daughter that he will never be a real father. During a wedding ceremony on September 3rd 1977 in Leipzig, the bride battles against a Wagner opera that she can't get out of her head. But where and when have these four poor devils begun searching for redemption?

Withdrawn from the world, a couple's carefully constructed fantasy life is jeopardized by an uninvited guest who brings forth a devastating revelation from their past, challenging their delicate reality.

During wartime, two Italian men escape from prison, seeking refuge in a strange forest. After enjoying somewhat momentary freedom, the pair end up succumbing to their destiny as soldiers.

A policeman in a small village in northern Italy whose boring days barely conceal a growing melancholy in the town a world whose contours are just barely discernible.

Nica, 21, drops out of her university course in agronomics and returns home to Apulia in southern Italy after three years away. She finds her father deep in debt, a polluted, devastated region, and olive trees destroyed by a parasite. Everyone seems to have given up in the face of the vast ecological disaster, while her father is obsessed with uprooting the olive grove to make money from the land. Nica fights with all her might to save the ancient trees. But the pollution has also contaminated people's minds, and she will have to face unexpected obstacles.

For the first time, a never-before-seen journey into the life of the great cyclist. Through public and private archive material and intimate and touching conversations with family members, the coach of his early days, and his closest friends, the film retraces the life of a great cyclist against the backdrop of his Cesenatico, a small town overlooking the Adriatic Sea, a town of the soul that has never ceased to believe that "one like this does not give up".

On the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia.

A live-in laboratory for freshly-graduated actors, in the Umbrian countryside between Gubbio and Perugia. This is "the space of liberty" of the Centro Teatrale Santacristina, founded by Luca Ronconi in a farmhouse surrounded by vegetation and far from any distractions. Three weeks of community life, readings and rehearsals. Ronconi comments, glosses, suggests, molds, indulges in confidences and memories. A unique opportunity for a close-up view of the great maestro and his work method.

Father Luigi Ciotti always travels with two books under his arm: the New Testament and the Italian Constitution. They are the instruments of the "revolution of consciences" which he practices every day. A constant, tireless toiling aimed at stitching and re-stitching together the healthy parts of Italy. A patchwork blanket of scraps, which unites and gives strength, reminding us that over-used, emptied-out, betrayed words such as justice, anti-mafia, institutions, welfare, ethics, morals, democracy or solidarity belong to us, and should have their original meaning restored to them. That it is possible, together, to rethink them and reclaim them. The consistency of his gestures over years of great political, social and anthropological change made him one of the most exposed, at-risk men in the country, a sensitive target, a rebel priest, a free, tireless, troublesome, heretic.

An unexpected call spoils the plans of Gaia and her dad. On a summer afternoon, the delivery of a parcel in the Lessinia mountains turns into a little adventure, where ordinary and extraordinary blend together.