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- A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
- A lone rider comes across a dying soldier, who gives him a paper authorizing the payment of $150,000 to the U.S. Army. The rider gathers some colleagues who disguise themselves as soldiers and who take the paper to a bank.
- An agricultural estate owner in northern Italy awakens from a five-year coma to discover the life he knew turned upside down, and to learn that he is suspected of a murder of which he has no memory.
- Follows the Italian soccer team's road to succes at the 2020 European Championship.
- Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll...
- An insurance investigator looks into the death of a man who drove his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. After looking into the incident, the investigator begins to suspect it may not have been suicide after all.
- The plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country, where the locals try to build an asphalt road in spite of careless attitude of the Government. The story follows the adventures in their self-reliant mission that lasts a whole year.
- A progressive teacher tries to help four working class Palermo teenagers, during their last year at middle school.
- Martina is a 14-year old prostitute in a Roman suburb. Her dad hasn't ever acknowledged paternity, mom's a prostitute, and she also has a younger sister. Martina becomes friends with a slightly older boy, Sciu, and a fellow petty criminal. Eventually, a young police officer becomes interested in them and defending them to her superiors. When Martina refuses to become a police informant, tensions explode.
- "La Mia Strada-My Road" is a feature-length documentary on ethnicity and tradition as it links the "ancient traturro" and contemporary Italian culture with its Italian-American counterpart. It's a discovery of how fragile the bonds are that connect a family from generation to generation, from country to country. "I find myself like the shepherds the (Pastore), traveling along iconic trails. These traturri serve as the umbilical cord linking my past to my present. The people I met along this trail, are an extension with those connected by threads of common origin. This compelling story crosses inter-generational lines that are faithful to the disapora of all ethnic groups who have been distanced by space and time from their native lands." Michael DiLauro, Filmmaker.
- An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw when she imagines to be some kind of modern-day Robin Hood. Through local contacts and friends, she arranges a meeting and finds that her "robin-hood'" is just a hood, hoodlum and ruthless criminal. The police are about to capture him but he uses her as an hostage to make his escape but they are marooned for a night in a country farm house. It becomes a harrowing night for her and the poor farmers.
- In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.
- 1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.
- Milan. A few of the objects belonging to the list of goods that my family carried out of the Soviet Union in 1957, while emigrating to Italy, and a photograph from 1919 portraying the house where my grandfather was born. In the village of Yamna, in Ukraine, a wide area, patrolled by armed guardians. Inside the few remaining buildings of an abandoned sanatorium and an old wooden house, which looks exactly like the one my family owned. The further the inquiry proceeds, the more the inhabitants of the village will be entangled in the voids of their collective memory. The help of two of them will be crucial: Petro, the oldest partisan in the area, and Yura, the taxi-driver. The confessions will shed light on the fate of the house, just before the whole village will be buried again in its silent secrets.
- Documentary about the Danube, focusing on old captain Pop, a man who has been crossing its waters for forty years in his little boat.
- A woman will face the ghosts of her past in a black and white journey between the roads of a Turin by night that will last a lifetime. During this pilgrimage, the protagonist will relive all the most important moments of her life, from her birth to the fall.
- In 1956, Italy is trying to cheer up after the World War Two devastation. Fedele Cova, freeway society engineer, has a dream: build a long highway that link Milan and Naples. The challenge is extremely hard and for 8 years a lot of men work strongly, building a 755 kilometers highway, with 113 viaducts, 525 flyovers and 38 tunnels.
- As his father and his grandfather before him, Nicola sells potatoes on a little country road, while just above his head a brand new highway is about to be completed. His life will be shaken up by an unexpected encounter, who is gonna make him find the courage to to take some risks, like - speeding up and changing.
- In a palazzo in the center of Naples, a nobleman on the verge of death entrusts the faithful concierge with the responsibility of taking care of his illegitimate daughter. This one keeps its promise. Later, a family of industrialists comes to settle, whose young son falls in love with the girl.
- The story of Michelangelo, Antonio and Giulia. Three lives interrupted facing pain and death, which helping each other with subtle pressures, will intertwine, finding a way back to life.
- From mountains to sea, water's journey is majestic. Cascading from glaciers, it navigates gorges, transforms among valley rocks. Approaching cities, under bridges, it calms, merging with the sea, soothing shores, guiding sailors.
- The eventful history of the Carara quarrymen is told in simple and reserved images.
- These are stories of 'frontier' priests in Naples, from its ancient historic centre to its deepest outskirts, of a Church working among the people, putting into practice the words of Pope Francis. These are stories of priests who have entirely dedicated their lives to the less fortunate; stories of a Church waiting only to be told.
- A man, Emilio, wakes up in a woodland. Looking for a way out to return home to his family, he runs into a boy who seems to be hiding something.
- A child walks around the silent streets of his town. He meets neighbours who greet him and ask after his family. The boy picks up his mother's shopping at the butcher, but when he goes back into the street, something has upset the peaceful atmosphere.
- It is a journey to Palestine through its Bedouin and refugee camps, the villages of the West Bank and the alleys of Jerusalem.
- We are in the years of the economic crisis. Margherita is a young student from a wealthy family from Milan. Her father, a business entrepreneur, runs the family in a very authoritarian way, imposing himself on the choices of his children. Margherita is forced to study at Bocconi, but she has a big dream that she is hiding from everyone. Attending University weighs heavily on her and she often gets distracted in cultivating her true talent instead of concentrating on her studies. But no one expects what is about to happen, which will question all the certainties of the family and the future of Margherita.
- "La Dolce Vita", "Eight and a half", "The Godfather"... Nino Rota has given the cinema some of his most famous themes. With a new creation, Richard Galliano takes up Nino Rota's most beautiful film music and celebrates in his own way the centenary of the birth of the Milanese composer born on December 3, 1911. A quintet that the winds of the British saxophonist John Surman and the American trumpeter Dave Douglas will take to dreamy lands. While keeping the essence of this music of Rota, "very joyful with a background of drama" as Galliano describes it. An event that will be recorded on November 16 at the Salle Pleyel (Paris)