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At 33, Anna has already served 15 years in prison for the murder of her twin. When it happened, she was barely of age: she served her sentence, but her judgment lives beyond the verdict, both in her eyes and in those of other people. She can't even find the strength to meet her mother again, so she runs away to a small Tuscan town, where she gets a job as a librarian.

Sixteen-year old Anita has a father who is seriously ill and waiting for a transplant. His brother is a compatible donor, but the two haven't spoken in years. Anita decides to look for her uncle's help.

Maia, called ZEN, a rowdy yet solitary 16-year-old tomboy, lives in a small village on top of the rough and beautiful Italian Apennines. She's the only girl of the local ice hockey-team and she is constantly bullied by her teammates for her masculine attitude. When Vanessa - the beautiful and bewildered girlfriend of the team captain - runs away from home and hides in Maia's family lodge, Maia feels free to trust someone for the first time. Led by the need to break away from the roles that the small community has forced them to play, Maia and Vanessa embark on a journey of self-discovery: an exploration of their gender identity and sexuality, liquid and restless like the troubled time of youth.

In a near future, feelings are for sale. It was a painful choice, but Francesco has decided to sell his love for his daughter, Anna: he would not have done so if the child's life were not compromised by an incurable disease. Mario, a man animated by an ambiguous spirit of sacrifice, buys it at the most expensive price a father can feel.

In an industrial province, a youth gang carries out a series of thefts in churches. Meanwhile, a large asteroid is looming. As the end of the world approaches, 19-year-old Pietro and Ivan take part in a final theft.

It follows the roads that lead into the cold darkness of Italian decline of the family, of patriarchal society, of educational firms, of religion and a land where common shared space is molded by a drab, egotism, even its revolutionary.

Secluded from the rest of the world in a bare and anonymous room, an old man recalls the most important moments of his life thanks to the memories contained in a mysterious suitcase.

As the war drew to an end, or immediately after it, several Italian filmmakers like Rossellini and De Sica attempted all by themselves to present a new face of Italy in the eyes of the world. When, twenty-five months after the end of the war, Andreotti was placed in charge of the government department of the performing arts, the Italian movie industry was already threatened with extinction. Not just because of the destruction of the war, not just because Italy was the most tempting market in Europe, but because the Americans had had the terrible idea of putting it in the hands of quarrelsome figures of Italian extraction. The ratio between foreign movies and homemade ones was 4 to 1. Andreotti was able to rebuild the industry, hold the Vatican to some extent in check, bring the Festival back to the Venice Lido and make things easier for new producers, as well as defend "Anni difficili", the most courageous and original film on the transition from Fascism to post-Fascism. He organized a newsreel for national distribution, mitigated the greed and obtuseness of the operators, fought against a number of ridiculous movies and made it obligatory to show the ones that were made in the country. After leaving the post, in 1953, he got the blame for all the idiocies of his highly incompetent successors. More than sixty years later he is still remembered as the public enemy number one of our cinema. This film shows that it wasn't like that at all.

How to portray one of the most charismatic poets of the past decades. How to recount the human and artistic saga of Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, to convey the complexity of a character who provokes contrasting emotions and opinions.

Between the 1950s and 60s, Bologna found itself home to an authentic cultural movement: the arrival of Victory Discs, the opening of Disclub, a record store dedicated exclusively to imported jazz, the formation of the city's first bands. Unknown musicians jam into the night in smoky basements, driven solely by their desire to be a part of it. More famous ones cross the ocean, landing on stages in packed stadiums for the Festival Internazionale del Jazz, thanks to an imaginary but solid bridge created by genius, passionate promoters. Historical footage unearthed from RaiTeche's vast archives and never-before-seen interviews with the main players of those extraordinary years tell a great story that has been filed away as a distant memory. This famous festival, invented by Alberto Alberti "the main man" in Italy, is brought back to life through previously unpublished footage of Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Gato Barbieri, Lou Bennett, Kenny Clarke, Ornette Coleman, Franco D'Andrea, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Johnny Griffin, Keith Jarrett, Elvin Jones, Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Oscar Peterson, Amedeo Tommasi, Giovanni Tommaso, Sarah Vaughan, Cedar Walton and many others.

A richly documented, lyrical and visionary journey into an unknown universe: the origins of Italian silent cinema. An art and a dazzling industry that gave birth to the first international stars, to hundreds of peplum, melò and adventure films, and launched the first filmmakers. Its world of fasts and romantic deliriums, between Verdi's symbolism and D'Annunzio's decadentism, soon reached international fame, fascinating crowds, intellectuals and artists from all over Europe, reaching out to the United States and South America. The protagonists of "Italia. Il fuoco, la cenere" ("ITALIA - Fire and Ashes") are male and female directors, actors and actresses, technicians and critics who contributed to the exuberant originality of that cinema. The voices of Isabella Rossellini for the Italian and English versions and by Fanny Ardant for the French one, interpret the exceptional archive footage - most of it rare and unpublished - through the original words of those who contributed to and witnessed that aesthetic and cultural revolution. An art dedicated to the sublime, to sophistication and death: an era of splendor and the history of a country that would soon fall into the abyss of Fascism, from the ashes of which one of the greatest cinematographies in the world would be born again.

A group of friends long for football magic and decide to organize a World Cup in football. The participants are allowed to represent their old home countries, but a group of immigrants want to represent Italy. Two Italian teams compete in the World Cup and teams from all corners of the world give their all in the matches on the city square to the cheers of the audience.

Anna and Lucia, two women, one Italian and one of Nigerian takes care for Maria, a bedridden old lady living in a large, antiquated and silent house.

An old widowed man studies - and becomes a bit obsessed with - the Ancient Roman poet Lucretius. Along with this and in spite of his age, he continues to humor his body and its desires. He begins visiting a prostitute with whom he ends up falling in love. This strange union and the dangerous consumption of stimulating pills (the modern life version of Lucretius' love filters?) lead the old man to set off on an epicurean challenge against life and death that eventually finds him in a hospital bed. The voice that inhabits his thoughts reveals a lucid and conscious observation: while bodies ruthlessly consumes, the quest for pleasure retains its undeniable attraction to human beings (and their bodies). That is the nature of things.

In a suburban neighborhood of Bologna there is the first and last residents television of Italy: it's a microscopic network designed by a retired man, Gabriele Grandi. Today Teletorre19 is struggling with a decreasing viewership.

It's been a week since two folk bands play nonstop in a dance hall to survive a terrifying threat.

In a world without food and overgrown with plastic, Zigle Clinic tests a new food re-education Method, which is coveted by many but granted to few. Giulia is one of the patients chosen by the Clinic. Even if she is fearful at first, she gets increasingly involved and joins the group sessions under the guidance of Isotta, the exuberant nurse. Nursery rhymes and deceiving words of encouragement hide an inconceivable truth.

A mysterious clochard is lovingly welcomed in a quiet suburban apartment building, where all of the residents inexplicably start caring for him except for Davide, who begins harboring a profound hatred for the man.

The story of an Italian boy finding his own freedom in the injustice of an Indian prison.

Left alone as only inhabitants of a deserted fishermen village, two elderly, Lucia and Peppino, live in the hope that winter will never end.