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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.

Seventy short films about cinema and its future.

The life of Antonio Vivaldi, the great Italian composer and musician of the 17th century.

The director documents his failure to make a film connecting the Mafia in Sicily and Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.

Carrara, city of marble and cradle of international anarchism. An editor, university professor, sculptor, historian and a typographer discuss Italian anarchism from 1894, the Spanish Revolution of '36, the anti-fascist partisan struggle and the end of WWII, and the local, national and global struggles of the present day. Umanità Nova publisher and printer Alfonso Nicolazzi (1942-2005) - an outstanding figure in the contemporary Italian anarchist movement (and a good friend), Professor Gigi Di Lembo, sculptor Dominique Stroobant, historian Massimiliano Giorgi and typographer Donato Landini contribute to this documentary, discussing a variety of cultural subjects as well as anarchism and violence, anarchism and society, and anarchy and utopia. It took Antonio Morabito two years and 40 hours of filming (with only a digital camera and a microphone) to make this 75-minute film. The first part, a 'confession interview', opens a discussion among the five interviewees about the fundamental values of anarchism.

Eighty years of life and activity of the Experimental Center of Cinematography (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) through the eyes of those who attended the school over the years. From Fascism to the Second World War, from the Economic Miracle to the Protests of 1968, from the 80s till today, the documentary passes though the imaginary of a whole country, Italy, thanks to the exclusive use of archive materials from Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce.

There's always someone who ends more last than the others, but in the chart of those who end as last one, Manrico is certainly on top. Manrico is a 30 year old guy, suffering from muscular dystrophy, who can only move one hand and his head. Having lost both his parents, he lives with his grandmother, who's now unable to take care of him, and he's totally dependent on social operators and charitable organizations. Manrico is an ex wheelchair roller hockey player, a former Robocop, a singer who can't really carry a tune, a real social network devotee. Manrico is sarcastic, biting, full of sexual drive, angry, ironic, smiling, always ready to laugh. Manrico is not only that. Seven days like every other for Manrico and his social operator, Stefano, spent in the heart of Rome, in the summer, riding his electric chair, zig-zagging between the cars, climbing on cluttered sidewalks, stopping by Borgo Pio's bars, Chinese restaurants, St. Peter's square, among street musicians in Campo de' Fiori, trying to face up, in his own home ,to that wild river known as his grandma, going to watch a wheelchair hockey match, for the first time only as a spectator, among many other Manricos. But Manrico is not only this. What's a Manrico?

Emigrating can also turn into an extraordinary adventure. They have made a radical decision. They have chosen to leave their "bitter land", as just under 30 million Italians have done in the last 100 years. They have packed their bags, crossed borders and crossed the ocean. Of all the American lands, they have chosen Quebec, an enclave with a Mediterranean flavour, where the French language is spoken, a province rooted in the Catholic tradition, always open to crossbreeding. They are men and women of great courage and resilience, inspired by a "nomadic spirit": they have preferred to be masters of their time rather than fighting, among brothers, to defend a small patch of bitter land. Some of them, going to the mining districts of the icy north, have discovered (thanks to culinary and musical "contaminations") a special complicity with the Innu "natives", who lived there well before the first waves of migration. Following the path of the Stea family from Sannicandro di Bari, who emigrated to Belgium to work in the mines, before moving to Toronto and Montreal, where they found casual jobs, and finally to the iron mines of Schefferville in the Canadian Great North, the film offers portraits of nine "economic migrants" and their children who have been able to adapt to a new life, planting new roots without losing their links with the Italian spirit.