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- La Cicciolina. Godmother of Scandal captures both with passion and a twinkle of irony, the phenomenon Ilona Staller in its multiple facets and places it in the wider context of Italy's political situation at the time.
- This audiovisual work is the narration of what the musical genre Italo-Disco represented in the 80s.
- This tragicomedy begins when a man wakes up with a low ringing sound in his ears and discovers a cryptic note on his fridge "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car."
- The European Capital of Culture has experienced all that makes Europe different, from art to epoch making changes. Yet here history was made by ordinary men who left a trace of themselves in an extraordinary place.
- Venice embodies the original and ideal idea of a city: a place of meeting, social life and exchange. The city has remained a village, with its small stores, narrow streets and hidden courtyards, places where it is still possible to meet the few remaining inhabitants. A village that is now ruled by the tourism industry, which doesn't seem to have eyes for the city's hidden treasures. The documentary tells of Venice beyond tourism and cliches, seen through the eyes of those who have been called "the last Venetian", artisans and historical inhabitants of the lagoon who live the city with passion, culture and memory.
- Irreverent, bohemian, iconoclastic, Daniele Kihlgren is the rebellious third child of a wealthy family of cement-industry magnates. In the late 90s on board his BMW R80 he visited Santo Stefano di Sessanio, a medieval village perched on the top Abruzzo's rugged mountains. It was love at first sight. He realises that this is the place to develop one of his old ideas: to authentically restore a dilapidated medieval town and turn the entire village into a hotel.The idea is to make profit from the conservation of the landscape rather than from its destruction, as all too often happens in Italy.
- A documentary that showcases an extraordinary place in the heart of Europe: The Stelvio Pass. Here, at 3,000 metres above sea-level in the middle of the Italian Alps, one finds an imposing natural treasure where the present meets the past and the visitor discovers a breath-taking landscape and mountain sports experience. Whereas the Stelvio alpine glacier is a big tourist attraction for summer skiing, the mountain road to the Pass, an engineering wonder built in 1825 by the Austrian Empire, hosts the most famous stage of the Giro d'Italia. But people once battled here not just for sporting reasons: One hundred years ago soldiers on those peaks experienced the so-called White War which took place on the highest and coldest battlefield of World War I. After one hundred years trenches, cans, bombs and weapons from that cruel war are still found in the snow by people like Mario Pasinetti, a hotel porter and former member of the Italian Alpine brigade, who collects war remains in his spare time. Through Mario's story the viewer meets the people that make the Stelvio a lively microcosm: Claudia, a female forest ranger; Gustav Thöni, a former world skiing champion; Pompa, an aficionado and pilot of vintage airplanes as well as inventor of Artic rescue tools which he tests personally on the glacier; and Lorenz, a shaman who lives at the foot of the Stelvio road. Through these people and other characters, along with the help of majestic mountain shoots (including helicams and wescam shoots), this documentary enables us to discover the unexpected power and magic of this alpine microcosm that has changed from a point of collision between hostile forces to a place of interchange and discovery, of encounters and leisure activities: a "crossroad of peace".
- Like a River presents a remarkable musical journey into the world of youth culture linked to Jamaican beats that will surprise the audience by breaking down the barriers of stereotypes and prejudices.
- Eight different life stories of Italians who, along with 600,000 fellow compatriots, made Germany their second home and were forgotten in Italy. A multi-voiced portrait of Italian immigration to the German regions of Munich and Bavaria.
- The Gerola Valley, a small side valley of the Valtellina, is known to be cool and offers its inhabitants ideal conditions to cope with the last seasonal efforts. The work in the valley is traditionally carried out quickly by the experienced hands of the inhabitants, who give the customs their own personal touch: baking bisciòle biscuits in the Castello oven, the search for sawn wood, the second hay cut, the search for boleti, the slippery jack mushrooms. Some customs remain the same, while others are renewed thanks to drastic life choices, such as those of Marco, the young university student who gave up his studies and now dedicates himself to running a mountain hut. Now, after a summer full of educational exchanges between maintenance work on cliffs and preparation of minestrone soups, Marco is thinking about his own future.
- The Val d'Isarco, in Alto Adige, starts from the source of the river, on the Brenner, and reaches its mouth in Bolzano. Dominating over all is the Sciliar massif, which with its 2,563 meters is the symbol of the entire region. The inhabitants of this area live fruits donated by a florid and majestic nature and some of them have developed a very rigorous idea of the relationship to be established with it. This is the case of Harald, whose multi-colored vegetable garden, where rare and often forgotten species are cultivated, is one of the hidden wonders of the place. In his kitchen Thomas combines the flavors of the Harald garden with those of local meats and fish, while Günther, who lives on the other side of the valley, which takes the name of Val di Funes, is dedicated to raising sheep with glasses from Val di Funes. From their mantle we obtain a precious wool that is used in the processing of boiled wool, typical of these areas. But the most well-known product of this land is the grape, from which, with the help of his family, Christian obtains a lovable and genuine wine, like the land that produces it.
- Shaded by the rough and yet delightful summits of the Valtellina lives a people who loves the land and its ancient traditions. Now it is in the process of rediscovering the value of organic farming and cultivation.
- Patrick,strives to reconstruct the ancient bonds that tie man to his environment, bonds which seem never to have snapped in the people of this region: the village of Mazzo in Valtellina (Italy).
- Avez del Prinzep was considered the largest and oldest spruce tree in the world, dating back to the second half of the 1700s. In November 2018, following a strong storm with unusual winds that were too sudden for these latitudes, the tree fell after 250 years in which it had seen and survived the Napoleonic wars, the Unification of Italy, the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War. In over two centuries, Avez has bequeathed to us the entire forest that surrounds it, made up of its "children", the other fir trees that it has grown around, and in which generations of inhabitants of the Cimbrian highlands have found refuge, sustenance and raw materials. With Avez wood, the inhabitants of these places on the border between Trentino and Veneto, the last to speak Cimbrian, an archaic and medieval Germanic language, have decided to create sculptures, tools and even a string quartet, after discovering Avez's latest gift. The wood from the tree, in fact, turned out to be resonance wood, suitable for the creation of stringed instruments, by the only local luthier. Through the eyes of some of them, such as the luthier himself or the only forest ranger on the plateau, but also a sculptor who moved to the area to work the wood, creating big sculpture, and a writer of poems and nursery rhymes in the Cimbrian language, who keeps its memory alive, we retrace, from the end of summer until late autumn with the arrival of the first snow, places, traditions, legends and roots of a place and its people who, like their trees, do not abandon their mysticism and their link with history.
- Clark loves singing so much that he has changed school to go to one where, in addition to studying normal subjects such as mathematics, geography and drawing, he also receives singing lessons in a choir. The choir in which Clark sings is the oldest in the world. It was founded almost 600 years ago by a pope and is called "Sistine Chapel Choir". It's still the Pope's personal choir. In addition to singing, Clark also has another passion: unlike most Italian children, he does not play football but plays rugby. This sport allows him to let loose and unleash all his energy, to then be able to concentrate again on singing. In fact, an important challenge awaits him: the concert in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, one of the most beautiful stages in the world. Clark will have to sing in front of important representatives of the Church of Rome. Thus begin an intense period of rehearsals in view of the great concert.
- In our imagination, Versilia is a worldly place, for crowded and agitated summer holidays with nightlife. But turning inland, less famous than the beaches, you can hear the many voices of the mountain that dominates the valley: from that of Cristina, who has formed a group of olive growers to protect the Quercetano olive tree, a native species, to that of Amapola, which grows Schiaccioni beans on the slopes of the Apuan Alps. From those of Simone and Francesco, who try to revitalize an economy around chestnuts that also protects the territory, to that of Meliton, a Peruvian sculptor who has rediscovered the landscapes and silences of the Andes here. Finally, there is Sirio, the carpenter who has worked a lifetime with chestnut wood and who now plants dozens of them in a wood not far from his workshop. The mountain speaks. You just need to know how to listen to it.
- We find ourselves in front of the Bernina, in the heart of Valmalenco, a valley that the narrow but impetuous currents of the Mallero river have cut deep into the western Rhaetian Alps. Here the Moira family is preparing for the transhumance, which will take them right under the Pizzo Scalino in the heart of the valley. Just below the mountain pasture of Moira Ladina, Simona and Arnaldo farm a native breed of goats, the frisa. Whereas Massimo and Barbara, who live at the entrance of the valley, have decided to settle in a mountain village almost entirely abandoned in order to find a more authentic relationship with nature, which even entails to cultivate their ground with plow and horse.
- Far from the most popular tourist itineraries, hidden among the most secret streets, we discover Venice through the eyes of those who live and work here. A visit in search of traditions and crafts handed down from generation to generation thanks to the passion and dedication of the latest artisans who fight every day to preserve the most authentic nature of this unique and fragile city.
- We are in the eastern part of the Val d'Aosta. The valley is dominated by a sea of perennial ice that covers the peaks of the largest mountain range in the Alpine chain, its ridge marking the natural border between Italy and Switzerland. In the shadow of this giant lies the Val di Lys, inscised into the sonty grounds by the torrent after which it is named, but also known as the Gressoney valley. The echo of the "high lands", the power of their appeal, seem to have a stronger impact especially on the younger population. This holds true for Federico and Federico. They are united by name and a common project: resuming ancient farming practices, adding a few technical innovations and thus recovering the great heritage of alpine horticulture. It holds true for Marta, a young shepherd from a small hamlet of Gressoney, who raises Rosset sheep, an ancient native breed form the Aosta valley, now on the verge of extinction. Nearby, in the Val d'Ayas, which runs parallel to the Val di Lys, the young Gondrand has decided to carry on the ancient tradition of the sabotiers, the artisans who make "sabots", the famous wooden clogs so typical for local craftsmanship.
- Traveling along the stretch of Piacenza area that runs along the Po, near the town of Monticelli d'Ongina, the Italian capital of garlic, you reach Serafini Island, the only inhabited island of the Great River. Here today a small community resists, determined to safeguard this natural heritage and its ancient traditions from abandonment and oblivion.
- Terrible mountains is what Leonardo da Vinci called the peaks that surround the Valtellina. They take the leading role in this story, which is rendered with the help of spectacular film footage and the stories of local inhabitants. With its dry stone walls - a masterpiece that has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO - Valtellina is a land of traditions, contrasts and breathtaking landscapes.From the Stelvio National Park, with its imposing Forni glacier, to the peat bog of Pian Gembro, and from the mysterious crotti of Chiavenna to the terraced vineyards on the Rhaetian slope. In an attentive and intimate way, the film takes the audience on a journey along the river Adda that crosses the entire valley. It begins in winter until the following autumn according to the infinite cycle of nature, which is a stern but honest friend of the people living in this land located in the far north of Italy.
- When Kruna picks up the violin, she prefers to be alone. Listeners make her nervous because she is afraid of not playing well enough. She therefore avoids public performances. Kruna is eleven years old and lives in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. She has been learning the violin for five years and wants to master the instrument perfectly. She has just started practising a new melody - an old Serbian song. One day, on her way to the violin lesson, Kruna meets a vegetable seller at the weekly market who suggests she play the violin there. This is a huge challenge for Kruna, but one she wants to accept. She hopes to get her stage fright under control. She assiduously practices the old Serbian melody with her violin teacher Ivana. She encourages Kruna to fight her fear of performing. Her family also lovingly strengthens her. Shortly before the performance, Kruna slips into an elegant costume from the 60s, which is like a protective suit for her against stage fright. Then she takes a deep breath, walks past the fruit and vegetable stalls, stands in the middle of a small square and begins to play.
- On a clear August day, the Monviso stands out clearly on the Piedmontese horizon and is a constant point of reference for the valleys that branch off at its feet. Its southern slopes are characterized by a historic carpentry culture, which young craftsmen try to interpret creatively. Starting from the quality of the plants to the wood chips, you will find carpenters, craftsmen, toy makers and musicians who work with wood of all different qualities. Each figure is characterized by a special feature: Cristiano is as robust as its beech structures, Valentina is creative with linden, René is as fast as a groove in the cedar, Celeste is as traditional as the stone pine - up to Roberta harmonious on her high pasture like a carpet of bistorta.