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The magical Mole Antonelliana (the cavernous Museum of Cinema in Turin, Italy) is the setting for a very unlikely love story. One fateful evening the museum's timid night watchman, comes to the aid of an enchanting young fast-food cook on the run from the police. The museum's dreamy kingdom of silent movie characters becomes a sanctuary for her as she awaits rescue by her devilish boyfriend.

Wandering these rooms, hallways, salons is a lover, a collector and above all a reader of books: Umberto Eco in his private library.

A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.

"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?

Nel febbraio del 1945, Primo Levi, (1919-1987), e altri sopravvissuti ad Auschwitz partirono per casa. Il viaggio è durato più di otto mesi. Sessanta anni dopo, una troupe cinematografica ripercorre i passi di Levi.

In the world's most remote observatories, scientists and local communities alike look to the sky - searching for where we come from.

My family was at the head of a shoe store empire in Italy. The business is currently on the verge of bankruptcy and the family is burdened with debts. I have lived in Paris for eighteen years, where I work for television. I'm a reality TV director. Like the prodigal son, I decided to return to my home country to make my first film, a modern fable with a touch of Italian-style social tragicomedy. This is the story of my return to my roots. I was fortunate enough to be born and raised in a family of ordinary, colourful heroes who fight the destiny that tries to bind them to a life crushed by debt. To support them in this daily struggle, I did what I know best: I made this film.

A documentary tracing the unique story of a choir of twenty Italian women, today many in their eighties.

Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.

Faces and landscapes that change over time, hours and hours of interviews, bits of life in video 8 and other formats to recount Rino, a partisan, a communist, the childhood hero of Andrea, an important presence. But today Rino doesn't recognize him anymore, he doesn't remember. His illness has taken away his memory. Andrea will make a delicate and moving portrait of him.