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- A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
- In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
- The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
- Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to achieve a place among the literary elite.
- The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples and their "Mixed by Erry"-trademarked cassettes that brought pop music to 1980s Italian youth.
- A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
- The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.
- Salvatore Todaro is the captain of the Cappellini. He leads in his own way. The bow is reinforced with steel in the off chance an opportunity to ram a ship arises and his crew is armed with daggers should a hand-to-hand battle occur.
- Overwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."
- The biography of Neapolitan comic theater legend Eduardo Scarpetta.
- With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town's young doctor on the unique island of Capri.
- Based on the namesake book, the movie follows Peppino, an old hit man in a '70 Naples, forced to come back in action by the murder of his son. This tragic event also arises reflections on life and on the society in all the characters.
- Valeria, a beautiful, determined woman disillusioned about love, is an implacable teacher of setting up single men. One day she met Giulio and offers to help him in his struggle to win back his ex.
- A look at the musical roots and traditions of Naples, Italy, as well as its influence on the rest of the world.
- The story of a difficult birth set against the backdrop of child trafficking in Castel Volturno, an area outside Naples known for being the most lawless area in Italy.
- Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work.
- After 40 years of exile in Argentina, Roberto, a blind novelist, comes back to Naples for his mother's death and reconciles with his brother Lorenzo, who takes him on a journey of memory through the city of his youth he can't see anymore.
- The panorama of human affairs encounters the "man with a movie camera". But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
- This particular version of Naples is home to Antonio Barracano, the young, vigorous and tattooed Mayor of Rione Sanità who plays by his own rules; a paternal figure who oversees the licit and illicit activities unfolding within the city.
- A tale partly inspired by the optimistic spirit reflected in the eponymous silver half dollar issued by the Unites States Mint from 1916 to 1947.
- The daughter of a young police sergeant, her father had been killed by a terrorist in 1977, meets the killer, who has now served his sentence, in 2010, and the past is explored from her perspective.
- Luigi Ghirri, an internationally renowned Italian photographer, wrote regularly throughout his life. His photography is reflected in his writing, which is at the same time a poetic affirmation, an existential argument, a diary that questions the present times. Starting from his writings, the documentary will retrace the crucial stages of the photographer's life. It will be a journey to the places of the province, a study of lands, water, hills, infinite horizons. It will be a research on his photographic work, conceived not in terms of a single image, but as an alphabet in which each image exists only thanks to the others. The companions of this journey will be the artists Franco Guerzoni and Davide Benati, the art historian Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, the printer Arrigo Ghi, the photographer Gianni Leone, the musician Massimo Zamboni and finally the family, which represented for Ghirri the feeling of belonging to an ordinary but united community. Stefano Accorsi will give voice to Ghirri's texts.
- Three brothers confront a ghost outbreak in the city of Naples.
- 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.
- Carlo Gesualdo - beastly murderer and divine composer - is one of the most striking figures in the history of music. Based on his dramatic honor killing, the film tells the story of revolutionary music and the search for forgiveness.
- The documentary traces the history of our country through the cinema of Francesco Rosi, starting from the film that the director thought told the mother of all negotiations between the State and the mafias: "Lucky Luciano". By lining up his works most linked to the news, politics and Italian society: Salvatore Giuliano, La sfida, Le mani sulla città, Il caso Mattei, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, Cadaveri eccellenti, Tre Fratelli, Uomini contro, Dimenticare Palermo, we obtain one of the most lucid analyses of Italian history. It is a journey in the civil cinema of Rosi, of the Citizen Rosi, as he liked to call himself. A journey that applies his method of work, the one that has allowed his films to resist the elements of novelty brought over time by investigations and historical analysis. As Rosi did, we worked on documents, desecrated materials from Italian and foreign archives, sentences, qualified testimonies of scholars, magistrates, men of cinema. The documentary is also a sentimental journey because the story of Francesco Rosi's life and cinema is told by his daughter Carolina, who has witnessed her father's work since she was a child and who assisted him with love until his death.
- Ermanno lives surrounded by commonplaces about Naples and Scampia: harassed by crime news that describe these cities as a dantesque inferno of shootings, murders, drug dealers. Nevertheless, ordinary good people who do not get into the news live in Scampia. When he finally gets to Naples to sign a deal as a contractor for a project that will boost his career, he has to face reality: the meeting is in a warehouse in Scampia.
- The books of Vittorio Giardino, master of the graphic novel, explore the history of the 1900s. Today, the artist is working on the final chapter of his Jonas Fink trilogy, so it is the perfect moment to look back over this great master's work.
- Naples 1999, two boys and two girls full of hope. Naples 2013, the same protagonists disenchanted in a paralyzed city.
- There's an underground world, right under the skin. It's a globalized suburb: a place where lives together dark and mocking portraits of characters who seem unable to live in this world.
- A Tunisian musician, his Italian wife, and their marriage crisis. A trip to his bilad, his home town, for the first time with his children instinctively in search of his homeland and of his identity. Life of Marzouk is an intimate portrait of an attempt at integration which finds in love its only possible solution.
- An adult woman. A child. A chess-board. He searches. She waits. She is the guide. He is the pupil. A chess-game, placed in a time-space dimension that is not ours, with underneath meaning : a speeches competition between two kinds of ways of understanding and live the Time. In between the moves, the impatient child, taken by a sort of fear of wasted time, he restlessly walks, and he starts to build a tridimensional puzzle of the world, in the meanwhile the guide-woman takes all her time to make even the simpliest move. The child would win the game and he will underlined with a sort of arrogance, but the aim of the game it's much more important than that. And suddenly the lost of the game will take him by surprise putting him in front of a bitter reality.
- In this series of brief short films, shown through led wall displays in Italy's major stations, Campania is the destination of a chosen journey, able to conquer the sensitive traveler with history, local excellences, immersing the audience in a widespread heritage in which art, tradition, nature, and spirituality come together perfectly.
- How to survive the city of tomorrow? An Italian reporter in Beijing, Alessandro lives with his child and wife, alienated by the megalopolis. As he experiences the works of emerging local artists, Alessandro discovers unexpected views on the city, enhancing his own. Myjing is a storytelling in progress, a diary of this experience offering a unique in-depth perspective on today's China.
- At the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, ancient statuary is carefully prepared and restored to express all of its classical power.
- This film was inspired by the cult of purgatory in Naples. It's a collection of encounters, sacred places, true stories, testimonies and dreams. It explores the depth of the cult and its questioning; we need to know that we existed.
- The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past and our recent reality. Mr Rotpeter's interest is strongly connected to human nature, society, politics, inner behaviours and emotions. Antonietta De Lillo's short movie will drag us into a very unique atmosphere, causing us a sense of disorientation and commotion.
- In a remote corner along the Mediterranean coast, a philosopher, sanded up to his neck, is bothered by a group of young savages. The clash is inevitable, and the grotesque that comes from it will generate the seed of the most absurd tragedy.
- A still image of Pompeii, an eternal set for a present frozen in the tourist poses of people on vacation. Pappi Corsicato reinvents the temporal abstraction of the excavations with a gaze that is fascinated by their eternity.