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Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

An Italian partisan torn between the resistance movement and his obsession with a young woman during World War II.

A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front.

Ever since, at the age of six, Dario Cavalieri saw live images of the first moon landing, he has never stopped wanting to go there. Mario Cavalieri runs a neighborhood hardware store in Rome, until the day his existence is upset by the phone ring. His brother Dario is in prison. Mario finds himself being the only one who can take care of that brother he has seen only once in his life. The two brothers, as physically similar as they are different in character, will find themselves alone in the face of an impossible undertaking.

A look at the life of the famous Italian friar from his entry in the convent at age 15 to his death in 1968. His first inclination to mysticism and his faith journey leading to the controversial stigmata gave him an incredible popularity.

A young recruit to the Carabinieri (the national police of Italy) is assigned to a remote village in the mountains of Sardinia, where he encounters a world that is different from anything he has experienced.

In a moment of madness Clara has killed her baby. Found not bearing liability for her acts by the court, she is sent to a carceral psychiatric hospital. There, she shares a room with young women who, like her, committed an act from which there is no going back. Clara and her roommates try to go on living with the weight of their sins on their shoulders. Words are exchanged. Friendships ties are established. But consolation flees their minds...

Little Maicol's night journey on the subway, through a Milan asleep and deserted.

Giosue is murdered after witnessing a horse theft. While seeking vengeance for her son, the mother faces all kinds of problems with the police.

"There are five reasons for drinking: a friend's arrival, the excellence of the wine, present and future thirst, and whatever else you care to add". Ermanno Olmi has returned to documentary filmmaking and makes a journey through valleys, living rocks and the culture of the Valtellina hillsides.

An adaptation of the novel Dervish and Death by prominent Serbian Muslim writer Mesha Selimovic.

A journalist of a local television in the Triveneto decides to carry out an in-depth analysis of a story that has particularly shaken him: an attempted robbery carried out by two uncensored people, with their faces covered by two masks: that of an Old Man and that of a Chinese. Under these two masks, the journalist discovers the face and life of the two protagonists: Michele, a mechanic about to marry a Russian girl, and Lucio, a traveling florist who runs the business with his sister without particular enthusiasm.