Riccardo Spagnol

Observes the mechanisms of construction and assimilation of gender in contemporary Italian society, through a kaleidoscopic mosaic of scenes of daily life: what are the choreographies of bodies, collective rituals, behaviors for each of the genres that condition our identities? Through paintings with a strong visual impact, Normal tells the story of normality making it alien to us, exploring the daily and collective staging of the male and female universe in which we all participate.

Italy, late 16th century, the Church, threatened by the Protestants, unleashes the Inquisition. Menocchio, an old, stubborn, self-educated miller oppose the new order. Accused of heresy, he ignores the pleadings and stands trial. The story of a man incapable of betraying his own principles.

The Making of a Dream is a cinematic essay on stories of dancers. It shows joys and pains from the first steps in an amateur school to the goal to become a principal dancer in a world known ballet company.

Two brothers, an exuberant father and an invisible mother. A family of farmers from an Alpine valley where life is rude, as well as manners. The younger son, Gim, is discovering his homosexuality, but the world around him, especially his father, just can't accept that. So the elder son Alex is stuck in the middle, on one hand encouraging Gim to overcome all his fears, on the other trying to continue the tradition of the fathers. In such an exasperated context is hard to recognize the love hidden behind. Will they be able to keep on living together?

Atual Sardenha. "Dal profondo" foi filmado, do início ao fim, 500 metros abaixo do nível do mar na mina de carvão de Nuraxi Figus. Patrizia, a única mineira italiana, nos guiará até os lugares mais impenetráveis da última mina de carvão na Itália e através das almas e histórias de seus colegas.

Sacro GRA acompanha as histórias daqueles que vivem ao redor do anel rodoviário de Roma: a Grande Raccordo Anulare.

A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.

In northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region, spirited, storied, and naturally beautiful.

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family – whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands – fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

A journey through Italian landscapes as seen through the windows of a long-distance express train.

Carlo partilha um apartamento em Roma com a sua mulher Silvia no bairro fino de Parioli: não esconde nada da sua relação com Lù, que alberga na sua casa de campo, e aceita que Silvia possa ser cortejada por outros homens. Quando se encontra no campo com Lù, Carlo tem como hábito falar longamente ao telefone com a sua mulher, e é no decurso de uma dessas conversas que descobrimos que um jovem rapaz procura seduzir Silvia. A aparição desta quarta personagem marca o ponto de partida da história: a de uma obsessão, cujos longos diálogos investigarão o mistério de Silvia, levando progressivamente Carlo à verdade.