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- Old woodcarver Geppetto's puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.
- A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.
- In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano. While there, a chance question reveals something deeper.
- The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.
- The life of male protagonist from the 1970s to the near future and the myriad relationships that have criss-crossed its path along the way.
- Two quite different women escape a mental institution to see Tuscany in a stolen car and get to know each other.
- In 1944, the residents of a small Italian town under Axis control flee their homes to seek out the liberating Allied forces.
- A painter recounts the life of Michelangelo.
- 10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
- An awkward teenage boy with phimosis deals with lack of confidence and sexual pressure from the outside world.
- Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.
- A young writer strikes up a relationship with his daughter's swimming instructor.
- Five friends sharing a house during college spend their last three university days together before they move on to their new lives, and feel forced to confront the ending of a carefree and vibrant era.
- While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.
- This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.
- Story of initiation to life, set in the late 19th century. Two brothers grew up in a small house in a valley of the Apennines, with a sweet mother and distant father.
- This intimate documentary follows an exceptionally talented female boxer who wants to hit peak performance, but also longs for the life of an ordinary 18-year-old.
- How to portray one of the most charismatic poets of the past decades. How to recount the human and artistic saga of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, to convey the complexity of a character who provokes contrasting emotions and opinions.
- Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).
- "I was born traveling. My first memories are connected to the scent of new places. Luggage just opened, mothballs, shoe polish and the particular scent that permeated my mother's dresses." The life experiences, and travel memoirs of one of the most fascinating witnesses of the XX century: Dacia Maraini, one of Italy's most famous writers, arguably the most translated Italian author in the world. This film is an intimate diary, narrated through unseen photos and film clips, revisiting her memories of legendary journeys around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and her close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. "During our journeys Alberto used to write articles for magazines, I would jot down notes for my novels and Pier Paolo scouted for movie locations. A journey back through Dacia Maraini's past, as well as a gripping portrait of the XX century shown through the historical events she lived through first hand that would deeply influence her work and artistic path. "I travel a lot so as to surpass the temptation of settling into a routine. Routine shortens the time we have , travel enlarges it."
- Coming of age attempts to give a voice to those who make up the school, to those who render it alive and who, at times, may suffer from it: the children. They are the main actors in this microcosm, alongside the adult teachers who support them. The film gives the school back to the children. It places the camera at their level, scrutinizing the looks, gestures, movements, the dreams and desires of a class in a small school in Florence, Pestalozzi City-School. It offers no comments, judgments or interpretation from adults.
- My quest on the trail of the German Consul Gerhard Wolf and his desperate fight to save Florence from the Nazi fury.
- Robotic surgery department. A surgeon performs an entire operation, controlling the robot's motions using a joystick.
- Sometimes a good story can save your life.
- Ten stories of prisoners and men who tell their stories in front of the camera, showing all their complexity. A reflection about life in the cells, beyond the cells. An escape from the most dangerous prison: prejudice.
- Story of Enrica Calabresi, Jewish scientist, a zoologist. Enrica graduated very young and worked first at the Specola and then at the agricultural university of Pisa. Born in the early 1900s, when there were very few women at university, she managed to become secretary of the Italian entomological society. An educated woman. He also publishes in English and knows French and German. Among her students also Margherita Hack who remembers her in her autobiography. But there are two wars to get in the way. The first where she loses her boyfriend, Giovanni De Gasperi, speleologist, botanist, explorer (land of fire) who, like her, frequents the Specola who died in 1916 and which will lead to the first crisis. Enrica leaves the university for two years and goes to work as a nurse at the front. And then the second with the racial laws. Thrown out of the university she will teach at the Jewish school in via Farini. She will always refuse to hide also because she does not want others to risk their life for her. He could have saved himself. He could have taken refuge in Switzerland as his brother did with his other sister but she remains in Florence. A brave woman. Alone and Jewish in Fascist and Nazi Florence. A dignified woman She is captured, taken to Santa Verdi and takes her own life by poisoning herself before leaving for Auschwitz. Enrica's life flows through period material, first in Ferrara then in Florence and Bologna where the Calabresi family home is still located today and where her beloved nephew Francesco, a precious and lucid witness, lives, now ninety years old.
- From a town of steelworkers in the wounded heart of postwar Europe to the lavish glamour of the jet set, HIT THE ROAD, GRANNY! tells an eccentric and incredible life story set in the world of international fashion.
- A winter journey of two girls discovering the beauty of Valdarno, a small region of Tuscany.
- A musical tour discovering the beauty of Mugello and Val di Sieve, North-East of Florence.
- The work has been designed as a travel reportage, across the Tuscan stages of the Via Francigena, from Pontremoli to Radicofani. The Via Francigena is the common name of an ancient road and pilgrim route running from France to Rome, though it is usually considered to have its starting point much further away, in the English cathedral city of Canterbury. As such, the route passes through England, France, Switzerland and Italy. The route was known in Italy as the "Via Francigena" ["the road that comes from France"]. In mediaeval times it was an important road and pilgrimage route for those wishing to visit the Holy See and the tombs of the apostles Peter and Paul.