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13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different generations and origins, these eminent filmmakers offer many singular styles and visions. François Schuiten, famous Belgian comic book artist (Cities of the Fantastic) imagined animated cartoon links in between these films, a metaphoric transposition in his graphically luxuriant world of the emblematic bridges of the city of Sarajevo.

Documentary about the practice of exorcism and people's issues of everyday life: the contrasts between ancient traditions and modern habits.

The movie follows from 1209 to 1226 Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of S. Francis.

Elisabetta Ballarin is held in prison with a sentence of 23 years for the murder of Mariangela Pezzotta, which took place - in competition with her boyfriend at the time - when she was just over eighteen.

It was back in 1985 when Guido and Mario, good buddies, decided to take their first trip together. Thirty years later, the memories of that period overlap with their present life, for both marked by a long struggle against cancer. Nonetheless they decide to embark on a new adventure, a journey at once intimate and off the rails, rife with questions and considerations about their friendship, the meaning of life and sickness. From the windows of the conveyances which the twosome uses to hurtle through this sweet 'road movie,' the images of a changed Italy file by: the unexpected beach of their childhood at Sabaudia; the Perugia of an impromptu concert out on the streets during the Umbria Jazz Festival; the "Forest of the Introspective Spirits" at Borgotaro. And then Milan and Rome, the present domiciles of one and the other. Dressed in tuxedos, aboard a vintage Mini rented for the occasion and then speeding along on Italian Intercity trains, they plan an improbable meeting with Agent 007, James Bond, their erstwhile superhero: invincible, unbeatable, immortal. Naturally we are referring to their one and only Bond, namely Sean Connery. The two friends have a special question they wish to ask him, the question of two grown-up kids: how do you become immortal? After a lucky tip from the first Italian Bond Girl, the ever-alluring and mysterious Daniela Bianchi, Guido and Mario get on the phone and seek out Sean to set an appointment that will sure clarify and illuminate. But one fine dawn of a new summer day, along the shore of an extraterrestrial sea, inside a cramped pup tent unused since 1985, comes the the long awaited response from Sir Connery...

Celebrated for her eccentric outfits, and an intimate friend of designers Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, de Castelbajac, and Manolo Blahnik, Anna Piaggi was the living testament to the connections between art, society, and culture. She changed fashion and helped grow her passion on a global scale. Here is the story of an amazing journalist.

In Rome's most multi-ethnic neighborhood, Fernando - a young man brought up by his aunt, a housemaid who's nostalgic for a neo-fascist party from her youth - and Shince - his best friend, a DOC Roman from an Indian family - fight for the survival of the Piazza Vittorio Cricket Club. From the time they first met as little boys, the camera follows them grow up. After their first games in their neighborhood's parks, and after the international under-18 tournaments, their team falls apart and they make heroic efforts to put it back together. On and off the field, mingling laughter and despair, nights out drinking and rude awakenings, the two twenty-years-old struggle to make way in a city that has no room for them. Sometimes attractive, sometimes repulsive, the reality that surrounds them doesn't give them much of a foothold to pursue their dream: becoming stars in the world of cricket. They fight to keep their friendship alive while coming of age in a world that has always less to offer.

Two African children disembark during the night in the coast of south Italy and meet a strange character dressed up as Santa Claus. Something poetic and wonderful will born from this encounter of social outcasts.

Milan, 17th February 2003, Guerzoni street. The Islamic preacher Abu Omar was speaking with an Italian man and after little time, he disappeared in a white van which drives on double quick for five hours, since an American base at Aviano. Here Abu Omar has been interrogated, subjected of violence and transferred to Cairo. He told that just there, in the base of secret service, they proposed him to work as infiltrate. He would have been sent back in Italy within 48 hours ... otherwise he would have assumed his responsibility for the deny. Abu Omar denied.