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De Sica, Fellini, Loren, Benigni, Sorrentino. Many Italians have won an Academy Award®. But who was the first ever?

After her father's death, Aida returns to her Arbëreshë village and grapples with complicated feelings about her origin.

Pietro is a 14-year-old dragged by his parents to a small town in Calabria for summer vacation, where he develops a crush on Luce. She is his opposite, a young environmental activist who loves the planet and hates tourists.

The documentary series that describes Basilicata and South Italy for a duration of four years, starting in 2015, for the occasion of the international event that has proclaimed the Città dei Sassi (literary "City of Rocks") as the European Capital of Culture 2019.

Vergassano Mountains, spring 1998. Elderly couple brutally murdered in their home. One hand behind the gesture. Self-confessed the murders, the 24-year old Eva Molli, the killed couple's daughter. Over 16 years of Eva's imprisonment, Guido Fermi - psychiatrist and TV character to the fore - is entrusted with the task of publicly investigate the reasons behind the gesture. He chooses to do so through his Saturday night show, 'Psyche & Crimes.' Now that Eva has finished serving his sentence and is preparing to return to the only place she knows - the closed off family house in the mountain village theater of the terrible act of violence - the fate of the woman and Fermi will surely cross again. For one last time.

Alice is tormented from a recurring nightmare that nightly brings her back a trauma, never gotten over, of a suffered violence. Shout down, Alice stopped talking and starts to communicate with the whole world only with short sentences written in some colored post-it notes. One day, in a little and run-down video store, she meets Marco. With him she shares the love from the cinema world and for the 80s' movies.

A young innocent and naive girl, who comes from a distant and poor country, finds comfort in her days in the company of an older man. This man is dedicated to the prostitution's business. Between the two characters will born a love and hate relationship that will lead them to the research and the discovery of a renegade past and redemption.

Amidst the beauty and texture of the Italian countryside, Stefania and her husband celebrate her work as an accomplished writer.

Lina was born in the Sassi di Matera, her husband Vito came back home after having been an expat in Germany, running away from the poverty and recession of the 1950s. Lina took care of a family of three children and six nephews, while Vito tried to pursuing his dream of becoming a Hollywood actor, working on several movies shot in Matera such as "Il Demonio" by Brunello Rondi. Together they are The Volpes, a family from Matera that decided to come back and stay in that city that was once called "the shame of Italy", but which today has become the hope for a south Italy that is looking for a redemption. These are the protagonists of Episode I. Their daily routine overlaps with enthusiasm with the background of the celebrations for the 627th Madonna della Bruna which brings to Matera an incredible number of tourists, together with the thoughts on personalities and institutions linked to the history of Basilicata and the proclamation of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019.