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- Alex, an eight-year-old boy, seems to have a macabre fascination for violent images that he sees on television. After his two brothers are born, he feels lonely, and he makes up two imaginary friends. Hurt and betrayed, he blackmails his father to get a television for his room. Through television, he discovers the violence of wars, and he is left fascinated.
- A young woman awakens to find herself inside the four walls of a garage. Walls that appear innocuous like much of the places in a large metropolis, but which now separate her from everyone and everything. In this small space, an automobile emits carbon dioxide; a gas which one inhales without noticing every day when on the street. A gas that seems harmless, but inside this place, becomes deadly as it saturates the environment. The woman is no different from many others, affections, work, projects for the future, except for the fact that she is suddenly deprived of her freedom. Something which, up to now, has been unthinkable for her. Exactly at the moment she has decided to make a change in her life. The person who has closed her inside the garage is an unknown stranger who knows everything about her, and her past. Above all, the thing which is the most important to her in the world: a young daughter who is waiting for her at home. The reason for her imprisonment is not revealed. Only the amount of time available to her in order to save herself.
- Set in the south of France, Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. They haven't seen each other in a long time and Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it. According to Riki, he's had more than six hundred men and only four women. The brothers who grew up apart will have to get to know another again but both their lives change drastically when they witness a woman's death in a car crash.
- Operation Shingle, January 22, 1944, is the code name for the Allied amphibious landing at Anzio during World War II. The film, ideally set within the span of time between sunrise and sunset, was shot in 2017 in the towns of Anzio, Aprilia, and Nettuno, covering the most significant sites of the conflict. It vividly and meticulously reconstructs the sociopolitical context of the era. Numerous cameos enrich the narrative, which bears strong anthropological connotations. Among them, the testimony of Harry Shindler stands out-at the time, nearing one hundred years of age-a writer and former British soldier who landed at the beachhead in January 1944 with the 1st British Division. The film also features accounts from civilians who endured the war firsthand, such as Mrs. Wilma Fontana, born and raised in Anzio. She recounts unspeakable horrors, filtered through the kaleidoscopic memories of a childhood shaken by an unexpected cataclysm. In the mind of a five-year-old girl, the war appeared as an unusual and complex game, though not without its challenges and fears. However, there are also stories like that of the late Alfredo Rinaldi, whose family came from Villa Santa Lucia (FR), a town near the Gustav Line in Cassino. After the landing, he was "adopted" by an American soldier and, at the age of sixteen, found himself wearing a uniform. His unofficial service in the army of the overseas liberators began as a kitchen assistant, later as a mechanic's helper in a workshop, and eventually as a driver. He triumphantly entered Rome with the Allies in June 1944 but also shared their hardest moments - such as when he ended up in a minefield and was rescued by his comrades. His adventure, worthy of a Hollywood screenplay, ended the day after the Americans departed for France.
- Even as a child Elio Pandolfi amused family and friends by starring in his own home-made shows. As soon as the war was over, Pandolfi began a career that plunged him into the Italian entertainment world, allowing him to work with Visconti and Fellini, bringing him into regular contact with Mastroianni, Manfredi, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori, and leading to the formation of a regular duo with Antonella Steni. Pandolfi tells the story of these many partnerships with impressive detail, a touch of irony and above all the attention to detail of a true raconteur. His artistic career is in effect the history of 70 years of entertainment and the performing arts in Italy.
- An essayistic documentary about famous Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's love for Africa, and how his vision of that continent relates to today, 38 years after his death. In Pasolini's view, Africa extended into the poor neighborhoods of the European cities, meaning that this film also throws light on his vision of Europe and the place of foreigners in Europe. The suburbs around Rome, where Pasolini shot his first film Accattone, were in Pasolini's eyes then already part of Africa, owing to the countless immigrants living there. He had an idealized impression of Africa, believing that there was still an authenticity to be found, as well as a revolutionary potential that, in his view, had been lost in Europe. The documentary follows Pasolini's development through his films, but also through his life and encounters (for example, with Jean-Paul Sartre), resulting in an intriguing look at his 'prophecies' about life in Africa and Europe.
- A group of South African singers take on a modern version of Verdi's Macbeth. Interwoven with visually stunning scenes from the opera and life touring the world, the film focuses on the lives of the 3 principal singers and how they ended up choosing for a career in this dominantly European domain. We follow the journey of these artists from the bright lights of some of the world's most prestigious theaters, back to the daily grind of their lives in South Africa. Through interviews at home and abroad and 'behind the scenes' footage, these 3 inspiring singers dispel all stereotypes of the stuffy highbrow opera world as we know it. The featured opera is set in the context of present day Congo. The project is a collaboration between South African Theatre company Third World Bunfight / Brett Bailey, and the No Borders Orchestra made up of musicians from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia - together they tackle Shakespeare's classic tale of power and the abuse thereof. Dictators, multinational monopolies, illegal mining activities, child soldiers and refugees all make appearances in this tale of darkness, mayhem and murder. The film is an uplifting look at the power of an age old art in a fresh new form, and what this appropriation of Verdi means for the makers of this politically charged theatrical production.
- A tragicomic journey through history, via a long and tiring path towards Italian unity: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, Verdi - names that today seem far from us, but which are not so far after all. The "Risorgimento" was a revolution, welcomed as really and truly epic in the nineteenth century, but reduced in the following century by Italian "dark forces". Power, intellectuals and the people have made for a difficult relationship, often violent and not lacking cynicism, and which has obstructed the creation of a shared national feeling. The telling of this half epic is recounted via newsreels and documentaries, the Luce archive, from 1910 to the 1980s, which, not without rhetoric, span the history of the nation. A critical and bitter feeling, but also ironic, can be heard in the words of the writers and poets of different political and cultural backgrounds; and, in a true counter melody, in the sounds and expressions of the people, who sing their joy and pain in this rich and violent history. A country unable to begin to talk about itself, unable to work through its real grief, to look within, all reaching towards a false newness, which has ended up causing great tragedies born of foolish illusions. It's a country that you could pronounce dead, if it weren't for its extraordinary pages of literature and history and its unique anthropological heritage.
