Benni Atria

After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter

After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter

Durante o boom econômico da década de 1960, o edifício mais alto da Europa está sendo construído no próspero norte da Itália. Do outro lado do país, jovens espeleólogos exploram a caverna mais profunda da Europa no intocado interior da Calábria. O fundo do Abismo Bifurto, 700 metros abaixo da Terra, é alcançado pela primeira vez. A aventura dos intrusos passa despercebida pelos habitantes de uma pequena aldeia vizinha, mas não pelo velho pastor do planalto de Pollino, cuja vida solitária começa a se entrelaçar com a jornada do grupo.

Durante o boom econômico da década de 1960, o edifício mais alto da Europa está sendo construído no próspero norte da Itália. Do outro lado do país, jovens espeleólogos exploram a caverna mais profunda da Europa no intocado interior da Calábria. O fundo do Abismo Bifurto, 700 metros abaixo da Terra, é alcançado pela primeira vez. A aventura dos intrusos passa despercebida pelos habitantes de uma pequena aldeia vizinha, mas não pelo velho pastor do planalto de Pollino, cuja vida solitária começa a se entrelaçar com a jornada do grupo.

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.

Os adolescentes Alessandro e Pietro são amigos inseparáveis em Nápoles. Eles aceitam a proposta do diretor de gravarem vídeos de si mesmos com um iPhone, comentando em tempo real suas próprias experiências diárias, sua grande amizade, o bairro em que vivem e uma tragédia em comum.

In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, high upon the rooftops framed by the Ilva steel factory, we meet Tonino a.k.a. “Barboncino” (poodle). Tonino has just committed a robbery and, in a moment of foolishness, fled from his accomplices, taking the entire loot for himself. He escapes upward, clambering from roof to roof, until he can go no further and must take refuge in an old water tank. Here he finds Renato, a strange and eccentric man who believes he is an American Indian from the Sioux tribe. Trapped with no other choice, Tonino is forced to team up with Renato. A strange and crazy friendship is formed, and Tonino learns to see things from a very different perspective.

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.

An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.

While her best friend Vale can afford to be a full-time performer, aspiring dancer Eli has an unemployed husband and four children to take care of, and works all day long in a cafe on the opposite side of the city, meaning she has to wake up before dawn and comes home late at night. Her kind and effervescent nature still manages to overcome this hardships.

In the feature documentary, Summer 82 - When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public disturbances and police intervention. Cuccia had a ticket to the concert but never made it. Thirty years later, collaborating with Zappa's family, he re-creates the events through a combination of rare concert and backstage footage; photographs; anecdotes from family, band members, and concertgoers; and insights from Zappa biographer and friend Massimo Bassoli. The story is also a personal one, as Cuccia interweaves the story of Zappa's trip to Sicily with his own memories from that summer.

Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn than the ferocity of the men who surround them. For, as in every duel, it is a question of life or death... It’s a Sunday afternoon. The sirocco is blowing pitilessly in Palermo when Rosa and Clara lose their way in the streets of the city and end up in a sort of alley: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car driven by Samira, crammed with members of the Calafiore family, arrives from the opposite direction and enters the same street.

Wrapping the audience in waves of sound, Alberi takes us on a circular journey through the Italian countryside. The marvelous natural music at the tops of the eponymous trees makes way for the rhythmic cadence of civilization—men baring axes and the natural clatter of daily life—before their unforgettable return home from the forest. The singular artistry of director Michelangelo Frammartino (Le quatro volte) is beautifully displayed in this mesmerizing homage to nature.

On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.

On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.

Diaz - Política e Violência reconstrói com brutal e chocante realismo os eventos acontecidos durante o último dia do encontro do G8 de 2001, em Gênova, quando mais de 300 policiais atacaram a escola Diaz, buscando ativistas em protesto. O resultado foi uma explosão de cruel e descontrolada violência.

Diaz - Política e Violência reconstrói com brutal e chocante realismo os eventos acontecidos durante o último dia do encontro do G8 de 2001, em Gênova, quando mais de 300 policiais atacaram a escola Diaz, buscando ativistas em protesto. O resultado foi uma explosão de cruel e descontrolada violência.

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.

A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero".

Em 1972, após um longo processo de adoecimento mental, Liseli Marazzi Hoepli se suicidou, deixando sua filha Alina, de apenas sete anos. Tempos depois, a menina já adulta vasculha velhos filmes caseiros, diários, cartas e contas médicas, numa tentativa devastadora de dar voz à mãe e as histórias dela que não pode conhecer.

Documentário sobre o diretor e roteirista italiano Vittorio de Seta.

Documentário sobre o diretor e roteirista italiano Vittorio de Seta.

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradual crumbling of his precious Soviet Union, Evilenko is a man who will live, die and kill as a communist.

Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night.

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, all while going out with the latter's former girlfriend.

An unemployed young man finds his life turned upside down when he falls in love with a beautiful actress.

Vito is a bartender from Pegognaga, a small apparently anti-tourist town that in winter is obliterated by the fog and in summer by the heat. As a joke between friends, he ends up getting stuck between two concrete columns placed in front of his bar. However, the joint is so perfect that no one is able to free it anymore. The mayor arrives with the brigade, then the ASL nurses, the firefighters, but there is nothing to be done: Ciccio gets stuck and demolition projects are even made that arouse the terror of the tenants of the building. The only possible evolution of the story is that Ciccio, now known by all as "Cicciocolonna", gets stuck between the columns and becomes "a coincidence". In fact, the TV that spreads the news arrives: Cicciocolonna becomes a point of reference for the whole country. A kind of living monument, but also a sort of essay to which people go to ask for advice and even the numbers to play the lottery.

Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his older brother Giovanni. While Giovanni is an illiterate worker, Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting the elder sibling to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his brother's academic pursuits.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Itália, o judeu Guido e seu filho Giosué são levados para um campo de concentração nazista. Afastado da mulher, ele tem que usar sua imaginação para fazer o menino acreditar que estão participando de uma grande brincadeira, com o intuito de protegê-lo do terror e da violência que os cercam.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Itália, o judeu Guido e seu filho Giosué são levados para um campo de concentração nazista. Afastado da mulher, ele tem que usar sua imaginação para fazer o menino acreditar que estão participando de uma grande brincadeira, com o intuito de protegê-lo do terror e da violência que os cercam.

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.

Após o suicídio de sua mãe uma jovem de 19 anos (Liv Tyler) viaja para a Itália, com o propósito aparente de reencontrar alguns amigos e ter seu retrato pintado, mas planeja rever especialmente um jovem com quem ela dera seu primeiro beijo, quatro anos antes. Simultaneamente pretende decifrar um enigma que foi encontrado no diário da sua mãe, mas gradativamente sua presença exuberante transforma a vida dos seus amigos.

Quando cai o comunismo na Albânia, dois italianos compram uma fábrica de sapatos, visando aproveitar o início de uma nova era para os negócios, mas cometem o erro de chamar um ex-preso político para assinar o contrato da empresa como testa-de-ferro.

In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine.