A fully animated 90’ Minute feature film capturing the life and artistic achievements of the legendary Opera Tenor Enrico Caruso. The film is divided into scenes, each scored by a different musical track, Caruso’s first ever recordings, recently remastered. Each scene directed and animated by different award winning Italian animation directors, visualising in their own style and artistic sensibilities. Every story will feature a different Caruso - 17 tracks that form the bones of the soundtrack and story, on to which hang events and moments from Caruso’s life.

Farinata is tried in Florence and convicted of heresy 19 years after his death; his remains are missing, his sons barbarously killed. Solomon of Lucca is the inquisitor. A story too murky and dark not to bring it back to light.

At the Festival della Valle d'Itria, Antonio Vivaldi's opera Orlando Furioso. Orchestra I Barocchisti, conductor at the harpsichord and music director Diego Fasolis.

Cagliari. It is the day before Christmas Eve in 1985 when the owner of a wine shop is killed with three gunshots for a few hundred thousand lire. The judiciary needs a culprit, the city needs illusory security. A few days after the murder, Aldo is arrested. His crime is his past as a heroin addict, which is well known to the police, who accuse him on the basis of flimsy and specious evidence. Aldo, who is innocent, spends six months in solitary confinement before taking his own life.

An apartment on the Tiber riverfront, in the center of Rome. The director lives here, where Stella lived until her death. Stella is the nom de guerre of Alba Meloni, a partisan courier who, at a very young age, joined the Resistance in the capital. After Liberation, she became an official of the Italian Communist Party and spent the last 30 years of her life in the Testaccio neighborhood, where she is still a very popular figure. The director follows in her footsteps, talking to her, collecting her memories, capturing fragments of her daily life and experiences: at home, in the neighborhood, and on the streets of Rome, where the girl once carried weapons in a straw bag and planted nails on the roads to stop German trucks. It is a journey through time and the city, during which Alba/Stella's individual story intertwines with our collective history.

Papa Francesco's biopic, taken from his own biography.

An Italian documentary.

A movie about the biblical episode, the first of the series.

In Renaissance Rome, young Beatrice Cenci dares to defy her tyrannical father. Imprisoned, abused, and betrayed, she plots her father's murder with the help of her lover and a vengeful servant. When justice turns against her, Beatrice faces execution with unflinching dignity. A death that still echoes throughout the centuries as a cry for freedom and justice.

Michael Gaismair is generally known as the leader of the oppressed people in the Tyrolean peasant uprisings in the 16th century. Yet he was far more than a simple rebel. Michael Gaismair had extraordinary foresight and he dared to fundamentally question the church and the supremacy of the nobles – which of course did not please the authorities at all. Betrayal and imprisonment only fueled his passion for the concerns of the peasants and ensured that he was no longer content with reforms. In his thoughts and actions, he was in no way inferior to Martin Luther and Thomas Müntzer. His plans and actions brought him into contact with the Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli and the two kingdoms of France and Venice. His demands was far ahead of its time and already included points such as the separation of the church from the state, or the reduction of privileges. But the powerful Habsburgs knew how to prevent this and persecuted the Tyrolean leader until his death.

The 13th Dalai Lama has just died. The armies of the terrible Warlord are at the gates. The fate of Tibet seems sealed. But a vision emerges from the waters of the Great Lake of Prophecies. Does it point the way to the Dalai's new reincarnation? Only he could save Tibet. The situation is almost desperate, but a small expedition has set out from Shangri-La to find him. It is an improvised and apparently ill-assorted team consisting of Alexandra, a very young French explorer, Aphur, a young warrior monk, and Kewstang, an elderly and very friendly Lama. Will the trio be able to find the new 14th Dalai and save Tibet?

On the night of April 10, 1991, off the coast of Livorno, the ferry Moby Prince collided with an oil tanker. 140 people died, and Captain Ugo Chessa was blamed. For 31 years, his children have been fighting to reveal the truth and erase years of lies.

Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.

A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 1910. What was the reason for his tragic death? And that odd yet familiar figure glimpsed on the beach, at the end of the trip, as the woman told it: who did it belong to?

A historical document on the uses of Architecture and urban reform as tools for political propaganda, populism and the co-optation of the masses. The newsreels of the time are a testimony to it: the city is a gigantic construction yard; new buildings rise next to the demolitions in the heart of Rome and the Fascist regime adopts new architectural styles and transforms the city. The documentary La Roma di Mussolini, by Leonardo Tiberi and Leonardo Ciacci, aided by footage of the Istituto Luce and maps and drawings of the time, describes XX century Rome, a monumental city opposed to the ancient and medieval one. And yet Mussolini, and his ‘demolishing fury’ take on older city plans, started or laid out back in 1800s. Republican Italy indeed did the same with projects that have begun under the Fascist regime.

A tale of resistance from Northern Italy.

The experience of the Cinema Mitante collective from the city of Milan, a group of militant directors active during the hot militant 70s.

Alan Curtis and his renowned Il Complesso Barocco ensemble present Vivaldi's groundbreaking opera about the mythical hero Hercules and his quest to retrieve the sword of Antiope, queen of the Amazons. Mary-Ellen Nesi stars as the ferocious warrior queen, and Zachary Stains is the beleaguered Hercules, trying to appease the gods for killing his own children in a fit of rage. Laura Cherici, Luca Dordolo and Randall Scotting co-star.

Ghosts of the Third Reich documents the poignant and anguished stories of descendants of the Nazis, who confront their family's past and communicate their most profound feelings of guilt by inheritance. These individuals, whose family members were supporters, officers, and elite of the Nazi regime, share a common desire to distance themselves from Nazi ideology and the actions of their ancestors.

A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation.

A musical drama in three acts that explores all the facets of love. Venice Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Marcon. Andrea Palladio Choir, with Enrico Zanovello as choirmaster.

An animated short narrating the origins of the "Palio dei Bracieri"

In order to bring an end to the prolonged conflict between them, the Lord of San Miniato proposes to the Lord of Vincigliata the union of their children, Jacopo and Beatrice, in marriage.

Biopic on the early life of Italian novelist Grazia Deledda

The objective of this film is to recount the life and actions of a man who left an indelible mark on history: Adolf Hitler. We will do so by showing a journey from childhood, from his rise to power, to the tragic events that led to the end of the Nazi dictatorship and its main driver, showing the whole world what Hitler meant for modern history. This documentary is intended to be a complete educational tool that can unveil the veils of some of the darkest pages of our civilization. Follow us on this journey, because knowledge is the tool with which we can prevent history from repeating itself.

An art history professor, who identifies with Leonardo Da Vinci, is irremediably subjected to the machinations of the femme fatale he loves, who will ultimately also fall victim to the same obsessions and passions.

A Rai Storia special that rediscovers and re-examines the legendary events linked to the birth of Rome, comparing them with scientific data and archaeological discoveries, to understand and analyze the passages and reasons for the fortune of the Eternal City.

This extremely short film is dedicated to chronophotography, which—as is well known—is the prelude to cinema. As with one of my earlier films dedicated to Muybridge (The Naked Killer, 1982), this one was excavated from books and catalogues, that is, from typographic ink. I tried, in a certain sense, to reanimate the inanimable as does the photographer Duane Michals, having only, sometimes, three or four frames. I found older stroboscopic technology as well as more contemporary flicker effects to be very helpful here and there. I attempted to realize the cinematic identification of Skladanowksy with Avedon; contaminations, precisely, between creators of films and creators of photography, contemporary or not. It is surprising to see Michals, a contemporary photographer, bearing such a strong cinematographic resemblance to Londe, the proto-filmmaker. I hope, at least, to have told the story of their direct commingling, as if by a single secret author.

Year 1900, July 28: Gaetano Bresci, an Italian anarchist who had moved to America, arrives in Milan. The man has only one thought in his mind: to assassinate the King of Italy, Umberto I of Savoy.

An Italian documentary.