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- Hendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
- Annabì, by facing her fear of planes, deals with the greatest fear in her own life.
- Simona is a single mom with a son, Filippo, who has reached his eighth birthday. A party must be organized and Simona dedicates body and soul to the task of hosting a handful of rowdy kids together with their respective parents.
- A young girl with a difficult past runs away from Italy with her overweight girlfriend. An "on the road" story set in Europe in which the two girls, having joined a circus of young artists, are forced to see their dreams come true.
- A modern day thriller set in the bleak underworld of the Hungarian and Italian human trafficking business.
- "Leonardo da Vinci. The Genius in Milan" is a docufilm by Luca Lucini and Nico Malaspina. Through scenes of fiction and interviews with the greatest Leonardo da Vinci world experts, the docufilm explores the years that the artist spent in Milan at the court of Ludovico il Moro and reveals some of Leonardo's greatest works.
- Eccentric, solitary, a "bear of the mountains" able to deeply feel the magnetic power of the Alps but the pulsating energy encased in the big cities of the nineteenth century as well. Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) was one of the greatest Italian pointillist, an extraordinary painter with a wild and rough character yet being poetical, graceful and thorough. Born in Arco di Trento of humble origins and with a tortuous life path, Segantini will be one of the most authentic painters of the Italian nineteenth century even if he passed away at the young age of 41. Across the streets, the villages, the valleys and the alpine landscape that influenced the work and the soul of the artist, the docu-film directed by Francesco Fei surrenders the portrait of a complex man retracing the phases of his life, showing his artwork, the colors and the artistic choices while questioning the thoughts and the memories of whom had known and studied the painter from Trentino. The performance of Filippo Timi who gives a voice and face to Segantini in some historical reconstructions purposely realized for this film, will unravel the intensity of the letters signed by the artist and his feelings.
- The Cinema Mexico is one of the last single-screen cinemas left in Milan. Its story is inextricably tied to the figure of Antonio Sancassani who ran it independently for the past thirty years taking care of every single aspect. At the cinema Mexico he presents independent films, debuts, films in original version, documentaries, forgotten films or films that have been "burned" by large-scale distribution offering them a second chance. The thirty-six years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and two extraordinary years of The Wind Blows Round are only some of the successes that have made of the cinema a reference point for insiders from all over Italy. A passionate portrait that reflects on the fate of small cinemas and on the difficulties for independent cinema that is suffocated by the laws of the market, by online streaming and by the television. An example of optimism and perseverance for who, like Sancassani, continues believing in the audience and in the magic that happens while collectively watching a big screen.
- "Teatro alla Scala. The Temple of Wonders is a filmic event dedicated to one of the most exclusive temples of music and world spectacle, a place where art is creating itself, representing itself, living itself. Inaugurated in 1778, the Teatro alla Scala of Milan is the place where the tradition of the great Italian opera is born. The emotions absorbed by the velvet curtains, by the wood of the stage, by the armchairs in front of the orchestra are still alive today and surface every night at the very moment when the light is dimmed, the audience stops chatting and the show begins. Accompanied by the narrative voice of Sandro Lombardi, the video camera travels down the corridors and make us breath 237 years of history: a majestic succession of discoveries and revelations will be a delight for the spectator. It's the story of the only theatre of the world that has captured and tied inextricably to itself the biggest names of the musical sector. Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Arturo Toscanini, Maria Callas, Luchino Visconti have founded the myth of a place that still today provokes a sense of sacredness, passed on over the years by Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Giorgio Strehler, Riccardo Muti, Franco Zeffirelli, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardi Chailly, Patrice Chéreau.
- A tender story of the interdependence between a woman a stage actress and a mother who can no longer live independently. Gianna is a daughter, with an elderly and very demanding mother to look after. She is also an actress, working on a stage production fraught with difficulties. And on top of all this she is a woman, with a delicate romantic situation that she finds hard to fit into her life. Like a game of Chinese boxes, the film blends documentary, theatre and fiction and tells, with a gentle smile, a story about looking after somebody who needs us. The film is like a mirror, reflecting the constant interplay and shifting relationship between reality and fiction through various directorial and dramatic styles. Its story unfolds using a combination of different locations and narrative modes: the theatre, where the actors rehearse the scenes of the play; behind the scenes, where the destinies of the actors intertwine, and the documentary and interviews with Gianna, the central character, who narrates with stark and ironic frankness the intense life and strong relationship shared by mother and daughter. Gianna is a middle-aged woman, a stage actress and a daughter, and the conflict between these various competing identities is fraught with difficulty. When we first meet Gianna she is struggling to cope with the health problems of her elderly mother, who is no longer able to live independently. She has also just landed a part in a theatrical production that addresses this very issue: the difficulties and conflicts within the mother/daughter relationship when the former, who is approaching the end of her life, is completely dependent on the latter. Gradually we learn the story of Gianna and her mother and why the theatre is such a vital part of their lives. Ever since she was a little girl, Giannas mother had sent her to lessons in all kinds of performing arts: guitar, singing, tap dancing, elocution, and endowed her with great expectations of success in the theatrical world. Her mother is a demanding manager, she drags Gianna around countless village fairs, paying audiences to applaud her but harshly scolding her if she makes even the smallest mistake. Love for the theatre nevertheless permeates Giannas blood and eventually becomes her own choice, her choice for life. Gianna is an actress. Now, years later, the balance of reciprocal dependency has shifted and the roles are reversed: Giannas mother is a sick old lady and Gianna is knocked off balance by grief and the fear of losing her. The constant demands for help often feel like emotional blackmail. But the two women discover a new kind of closeness and confront the change in their lives in a tragicomic style. Giannas mother has considerable theatrical talent herself and exaggerates situations in a spirited way that is both hilarious and dramatic at the same time. The two women discover a new kind of closeness. The mere idea of seeing her mothers naked body used to make Gianna feel uncomfortable, but now the body she washes and cares for every day has become another part of their bond and is sometimes even the object of humour, for example when they use the names Bernarda or Filippa to refer to female genitalia. But Gianna is also an actress and we see her bringing part of her real life onto the stage in a very intimate and personal way. Like Gianna, the play has its fair share of problems to deal with too. In a sub-plot running parallel to Giannas story, the film portrays the struggles of artistic endeavour in Italy today and tells the story of the stubborn determination and ultimate success of this small group of actors.
- A romantic Cuban Revolution's lover climbs the Sierra Maestra, meets old guerrilla veterans, listens to their stories and cooks for them; At his arrival in La Habana, after 7000km along the island, he understands that there is a different Cuba, a hidden one, the one that communist propaganda and fake intellectuals all over the world try to hide. He discovers the 'Other' Cuba, the one that belongs to independent journalists, bloggers and human rights activists, political prisoners and simple people who talk about their condition in the 'Paradise of Caribbeans...' Local heroes are now young guys who scream to the world that all the promises told on the Sierra have never been fulfilled. Then, after a terrible and mysterious accident, he leaves Cuba.
- The life and career of Giovanna Cau, legendary Marcello Mastroianni's, Federico Fellini's, Sophia Loren's agent told by herself.
- The life and career of the first and most prominent publicist in Italy: from Ben Hur to La Dolce Vita, from Sophia Loren to Luchino Visconti, Enrico Lucherini is the most important icon of Italian cinema industry golden age.
- Riccardo Crespi came up with the idea of the program "Il Posto delle Fragole" which was put into practice by the production companies Mare Mosso and Puntodoc in collaboration with illycaffè.
- D'Annunzio was more than a poet, a writer, a dramaturg; he was a politician, too. And that's how in 1919 with a group of legionaries he enters Rijeka, according to him "the city of life", declaring its independency and founding the Charter of Carnaro. "One of the most modern constitutions of the twentieth century - asserts Giordano Bruno Guerri - up to date even now; here D'Annunzio imagines an ideal city where beauty, music and liberty rein." The Special presents a little known political D'Annunzio, an intellectual who became active but didn't neglect his being a poet, aesthete, ideal lover, star of the twentieth century, marketing man before the term was invented (in order to sell his second poetry collection, he spread the word that he died falling from a horse). After Rijeka he returns to Italy in what will be the "Vittoriale of the Italians", full of his life between pictures, tacky artwork, dandy clothes, and relics of love but also of literature. A production realized by Maremosso for Sky Arte HD exclusively, which broadcasted it in 2013 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of Gabriele D'Annunzio.