Stefano Bari

Billie is a lively and intelligent little girl, but not very studious. Her father adores her, but because of his hard work, he sometimes fails to give her the attention she would like. One day, after yet another argument, Billie imprudently accepts an invitation from two strangers to a mysterious castle, full of sweets and toys. She soon discovers that it is the trap of a supervillain, who uses the anger and sadness of his captives as fuel for his maxi-cannon that is to destroy the entire world. It will be the Puffins who come to the rescue of young Billie, saving her from the evil villain’s clutches.

Dante Alighieri was a poet, philosopher and politician in 1300 Florence. The visionary author of "Inferno", the first book of the "Divine Comedy", he was both a direct witness and a narrator of his times and his poem is a remarkable geopolitical chronicle of a tumultuous period of the Middle Ages from 1300 to 1320, a time when Kings, Popes, rulers and warlords played a deadly chess game for the control of Europe. In this high end docudrama, some of the world's finest scholars will help provide historical context to the unfolding of events, making them accessible to a wide audience, and giving us a privileged viewpoint over one of the most eventful and funding chapters of European history.

It all begins with a childhood memory: that day when the father of the future filmmaker Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva forces him to listen to certain music that initially terrifies him; a distant echo from the past that leads him to follow the trail of his mysterious ancestor, the Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988), who claimed that his music was directly inspired by the gods.