Mario Sesti

On October 20th, 1959, producer Giuseppe Amato is alone in a screening room, watching Federico Fellini's most famous movie. The working print is more than four-hour long. Fellini would not allow any cut, and distributor Angelo Rizzoli wants to drop the movie. It is the hardest moment in Giuseppe Amato's long career.

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much more: daily and deeper aspects of his life, his love for Southern Italy, his passion for cinema, his relationship with music, his bulimic curiosity of launching himself into new artistic adventures, his mercurial energy and his boundless sense of humor.

Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs.

Antonia receives a singular proposal from her husband: to open the couple up to new acquaintances. From the stage to reality Chiara Francini, who plays Antonia, deals with the macro-theme of polyamory, learning about new worlds and ways of practicing it, without sparing even heated debates.

Documentary about the making of the film Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini

A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding. Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena, a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her. The incidents from these women's lives are interspersed with another story, set in 1929 and filmed in black-and-white, about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police.

Documentary about Andrea Molaioli's film La Ragazza del Lago.

The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

News explodes like a bomb! Due to the genetic mutation, immigrants living in Italy undergo a noticeable change. Is this wonderful country in danger of sinking? A television reporter decides to go over this strange theory, and the news is on the agenda of the whole country. This fake documentary brings fake news, media, politics and harsh criticism about Italy.

The last interview of Bernardo Bertolucci who recalls his work with precision, delicacy and philosophy.

The texts of the poet, director, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, read by Toni Servillo and accompanied by archival images, reconstruct the history of Italy since the war through to the 70s: the love for the people, the hatred of the bourgeoisie, the difficult relationship with the youth protest.

On a speech by Berlinguer, in 1981, in Turin, images of oceanic crowds, amateur films and faces with a propensity for the future unknown to us flow. That voice, which addresses the search for happiness and the moral question, has the strength and authority of a Politics so far from what we know today, to be, for us, touching and painful.

By means of a skillful interweaving of sequences from erotic documentaries produced in the Sixties, the so-called "world" genre, the film offers a close-up look at the nightlife of the day in cities such as Paris, London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and other exotic locations mapped out by the popular imagination of this genre, which opts for the documentary style to evoke a largely taboo world, that of naked desire.