Sonia Bergamasco

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.

In a stirring blend of archival footage, fictional recreations, interviews, and animation, the film delves into the story of Italy’s ‘Unknown Soldier’. November 4, 2021, in fact, is the hundredth anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria in Rome. Thanks to a collaboration with the Ministry of Defense, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the city of Aquileia, and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, this film reconstructs the events that led up to that event in 1921

Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.

A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

The actor Gøril Mauseth goes on a 11.000 kilometer travel with the Trans-Siberian to play Anna Karenina in a new language in Leo Tolstoj's Russia, discovering the language, and the reasons Tolstoj wrote what he wrote, changing her forever.

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

Checco é um homem que tem a vida que sempre desejou. Nascido em uma família rica, ele nunca sentiu falta de nada na vida e, já adulto, conseguiu um emprego como funcionário público que lhe demanda muito pouco. No entanto, cortes nos gastos do Governo fazem com que a vida de Checco seja virada de cabeça para baixo quando ele precisa decidir entre abandonar o seu sagrado emprego ou ser transferido para o Pólo Norte.

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, a considerable number of directors, actors, screenwriters and set designers were born in Parma who have made their way internationally, testifying to the fact that in this small city in Northern Italy there was a decidedly cinematic air. Red armchairs takes up the thread of this story, wondering why, unique among the Italian provincial cities, Parma has given so much to the cinema, accompanying the viewer on a journey backwards that from the first projections of the Lumière cinema reaches the ultramodern experience of new multiplexes. During this journey we will meet the characters who created the conditions for this diffusion of cinematographic culture in Parma.

Baseado no romance homônimo de Niccolo Ammaniti, o filme conta a história de Lorenzo, um garoto de 14 anos que, para evitar mais aborrecimentos com seus pais, mente que vai para uma viagem com sua turma e se fecha no porão de casa. Lá, porém, ele descobre uma jornada diferente, quando se aproxima de sua meia-irmã, muito mais velha, Olivia, viciada em heroína.

Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia.

Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli.

Uma mensagem de amor, misericórdia e bondade. O ano é 1948 e Aurora Martin chega ao convento de Canossian aonde Bakhita acabou de morrer e acaba recordando a incrível vida e mulher que cuidou dela quando menina. Nascida em uma vila no Sudão, sequestrada por traficantes e vendida a Frederico Martin, um mercador italiano. De volta à Itália, Bahkita se torna babá de Aurora, que perdeu sua mãe no nascimento. Mesmo com uma violenta oposição dos camponeses e moradores locais, Bakhita abraça a fé católica graças ao Padre Antonio. Contrariado, Frederico Martin não aceita, pois a considera sua propriedade, e agora vai caçá-la a fim de trazê-la de volta. No ano de 2000 ela foi declarada Santa pelo Papa João Paulo II.

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

The story of two renowned actors of Fascist cinema, Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, who were supporters of the regime until the very end. Accused of collaborationism and torture, they were summarily executed by Partisans during the Liberation.

Elena, a young trainee psychiatrist, dreams of bringing "mad" people back to a normal life; she makes them talk, she provokes and incites them in the hope of finding the distinguishing signs of normality. Fausto is a boy judged "mad", who has been hospitalized against his will several times, an extrovert musician, he shows clear signs of normality.

Os irmãos Nicola e Matteo tem as vidas transformadas após tentarem resgatar uma jovem que sofria torturas em um manicômio na década de 60. O filme conta desde então os acontecimentos da vida dos dois rapazes até os dias atuais.

An inexperienced journalist tries to discover who murdered her friend.

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also some passages from the Moral Operettas, as well as the unfinished Project for a hymn at Ahrimane, follow one another with deep and moving simplicity, with a quiet immediacy that causes the void of every other voice: therefore the listenere is ensnared in the pauses, bewitched by the unexpected descents of silence. The voice assumes a dark and ancestral tone in which the words seem to find their original nuances.