Paolo Fresu

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.

The film chronicles a unique artistic experiment: pianist Stefano Bollani (the director’s husband) brings together an ensemble of Italian jazz legends and rising stars in a home studio to prepare for a one-of-a-kind concert.

Two former partners reignite their spark at a wedding reception, but as the night wears on, fond memories fade into mutual regrets and their brief affair turns into a desperate attempt to recapture lost time.

Italian comedy

World War I, Italian north-eastern front after the 1917 bloody battles on the Altipiano. A group of soldiers face the difficulty of war in a story that unfolds in the space of one night. Events follow one after the other without any kind of pattern: the peaceful mountains suddenly become a place where men die. But every story told in this film is a true story.

Before becoming a renowned jazz trumpeter, Paolo Fresu grew up in the local marching band in Berchidda, Sardinia. A return to the places of his childhood through the musical notes of the region’s traditional sounds.

Monica, a forty-five-year-old woman, decides to radically change her life after her father's death.

A timeless spa town, a 1940s hotel, a place that transports the present to who knows where. Not the past, Ornella Vanoni's life, but the revelation—current—of her intimacy, exhibited through a relationship: her relationship with the director. The energy, the character, the music, the confrontations, the heat, the fatigue. Everything is filmed without sparing anything, not even the arguments between Ornella and Elisa. The film goes along with what Ornella naturally generates and bends to the unexpected, to the present. And then there are the encounters with friends, musicians, Vinicio Capossela, Samuele Bersani, Paolo Fresu's trumpet resounding in the empty spaces of the grand hotel where, between identical days marked by care and treatment, the story, the memory, but also the future take shape as Ornella prepares to become a fantastic creature made of voice and dreams, destined for eternity.

Thanks to archive material, reminiscences by those who knew her, and her own reflections vividly recited by actress Paola Cortellesi, the personal story and political career of Nilde Iotti transcends the biographical and touches the core of our own lives today.

The Music Festival is not just an event, but a true force for social cohesion and cultural identity that transforms the streets and squares of Europe into a widespread stage every June 21. Thirty years of music, culture, and European identity as recounted by Jack Lang, Ezio Bosso, Enrico Rava, Tosca, Malika Ayane, and Paolo Fresu.

For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy bank clerk and faithful husband became director, tombeur de femmes and the most revered and respected expert on wine in Italy. Just as he had predicted the enigmatic "Professor" who had convinced him to taste his first glass of wine. The only event that the "Professor" with his accent and his piercing blue eyes, had not predicted was that he would soon be charged with the murder of his wife Adele. While being put under pressure by the Commissioner Sanfelice, John is to reflect on the last three years of his life, dominated by a single and mad passion: wine.

A lone robber riding a maxi scooter, each time looking different, robs one bank and jewelry store after another, always managing to slip away through the streets of Rome. To solve the case, Commissioner Murena asks for help from a friend in Paris, known as the Frenchman, a former commissioner with a keen instinct. The solution will be surprising.

Naples. Margherita, a singer who has always been distracted from her husband and daughter Chiara, is experiencing a profound existential crisis as she approaches her sixties. Life is not easy for Chiara either, given her conflictual relationship with Lucia, the daughter she had with a partner who is now expecting another child with a new girlfriend. When Lucia is with her grandmother, she savors the taste of freedom, and Margherita has the relationship with her granddaughter that she was unable to have with Chiara.

From the Archiginnasio Library in Bologna, a cultural journey celebrating Paolo Fresu's 60th birthday. Accompanying him will be the Alborada String Quartet, pianist Dino Rubino, bandoneon player Daniele di Bonaventura, and double bassist Marco Bardoscia, who will bring the story to life with the assistance of Alessandro Bergonzoni's voice.

The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967), who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the island of Ventotene, he co-authored the Ventotene manifesto.

Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.

Three years of filming across Italy, from Mont Blanc to the island of Lampedusa, have resulted in this short film. The aim of this universal event is, first and foremost, to commit wealthy nations to guaranteeing food, water, and dignity to every human being according to a principle of justice that governs coexistence among the peoples of the Earth. Similarly, and just as with food, the peoples who have won the privilege of freedom through the sacrifice of their martyrs should be an example of democracy and civil coexistence.

A trip in an automobile described in the style of the phonetic poetry by Patrizia Vicinelli.

Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.