Festivals

Jocelyn is desperate to reclaim her rightful title as the greatest and sexiest pop diva in America after a nervous breakdown disrupted her most recent tour after Tedros, a notorious nightclub entrepreneur, reignites her passions.

Named after a Malevich piece, Black Square shows avant garde art suppressed during the post Stalin era: "unofficial" painters go underground, Khruschev castigates a 1963 show,an exhibit in Izmailovsky Park in 1976 is bulldozed.

This film is realized in the summer of '86 during the shooting of "Cronoca di uno morte onnuncioto" directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a portrait of Rosi with the participation of Alain Cuny, Ornella Muti, Irene Papas, Silverio Blasi, Pascalina de Santis, Andrea Crisonti, Caroline Lang, Anthony Delon etc.

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting

A documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.

The father of a son living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fools game, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened.

A documentary film about the career, life and achievements of Pelé, narrated by himself.

An exiled priest tries to escape his demons while living in a remote village in Spain.

A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.

In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.

Scena del Crimine shows seven views of Naples, the Italian coastal city that has been dominated by the mafia for decades. Soberly, the film creates an oppressive image of an underworld that is as elusive as it is nearby.

A tragicomic journey through history, via a long and tiring path towards Italian unity: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, Verdi - names that today seem far from us, but which are not so far after all. The "Risorgimento" was a revolution, welcomed as really and truly epic in the nineteenth century, but reduced in the following century by Italian "dark forces". Power, intellectuals and the people have made for a difficult relationship, often violent and not lacking cynicism, and which has obstructed the creation of a shared national feeling. The telling of this half epic is recounted via newsreels and documentaries, the Luce archive, from 1910 to the 1980s, which, not without rhetoric, span the history of the nation. A critical and bitter feeling, but also ironic, can be heard in the words of the writers and poets of different political and cultural backgrounds; and, in a true counter melody, in the sounds and expressions of the people, who sing their joy and pain in this rich and violent history. A country unable to begin to talk about itself, unable to work through its real grief, to look within, all reaching towards a false newness, which has ended up causing great tragedies born of foolish illusions. It's a country that you could pronounce dead, if it weren't for its extraordinary pages of literature and history and its unique anthropological heritage.

Philippe, a fashion photographer hired for a shoot in the Algerian Sahara, and his team land in Tamanrasset.

A secret war has been waged in Italy. The first victims are the spectators. And film directors.

A drama centered on an old man scamming for a living on the outskirts of Tehran.

Three stories set among ordinary people. 1) "Francesca". One day on the beach for Francesca, a four-year-old little girl. She spends this particular day on the sand, in the dunes, in the water, in the water, in the sun and in the middle of normal people. 2) "Anna". A wedding meal : an exceptional event for unexceptional people. 3) "Lucia". A group of young rich idlers spends the night in a fishermen's village. Gradually, being in contact with poor but sane, sober people changes their point of view. Which is in particular Anna's case. Pregnant, she had been contemplating abortion. But she now considers facing maternity with joy and confidence.

"What can we do theater people?" The mortification of not being able to plead, in times like this, any appropriate gesture, faced with the painful helplessness of the theater, or art more broadly, given the violence and madness, the artist can only try to continue to do their work well. This reflection by Strehler, written on the occasion of the massacre of Piazza Fontana started the idea of this film on the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, whose story is completed by the events of the host city. He always says that the theater is full of ectoplasm, but there, between the holes in Fontana, these are visible and bring us extraordinary memoirs.