Federico Fellini died on October 31, 1993. After two days of lying in state in “his” Theater 5 at Cinecittà, crowded with friends from cinema and ordinary people, his solemn funeral was celebrated in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Rome, by Cardinal Achille Silvestrini.
It was November 3. Twenty years ago. Three intense, extraordinary days transformed into the first great media event (approximately one hundred television networks present) centered on the demise of an Italian show business figure. A particularly moving event in which Italy, and the world, gave a last affectionate farewell to one of the greatest, universally recognized geniuses in its

Bernardo Bertolucci is sitting in his armchair. Together with the DOP Fabio Cianchetti and other members of the crew, he is watching the digital texts and he looks doubtful – perhaps it’s better to go back to film.
There are only a few days before filming begins on Me and You, and so film it is. Bernardo arrives on the set in an electric wheelchair that allows him to move easily around the studio that has been transformed into a basement, where he will shoot for almost 9 weeks.

In the 1960s, the steps leading to the airplane were like a fashion show for Italian and Hollywood stars, as well as for major businessmen, politicians and diplomats. Flying. Today it’s normal, but back in the 50s it was still an experience reserved to an elite. Personalities, industrialists, politicians, top officials and diplomats. The film originated in the author’s idea of shedding new light on the memorable images of the past to reconstruct the culture of airplanes and travel starting from the years when flying was still an “exclusive” experience, far from being a mass phenomenon. The widely-read weeklies applied the term Jet Set to the elite consisting of the personalities who had turned airplanes, which

Donne nel mito: Anna Magnani a Hollywood recounts the American period of the great actor’s career through the words of her son Luca, of the most important of Italian press agents Enrico Lucherini, of Anna Magnani’s biographer Matilde Hockhofler and of Caterina D’Amico, daughter of the legendary screenwriter Suso Cecchi D’Amico, a close friend of Anna Magnani’s. The film produced for the series Donne nel mito explores, for the first time, the relationship between Magnani and her great friend Tennessee Williams, one of the most famous dramatists in the history of literature who wrote some of his best-loved plays specially for her. Official selection 2013 edition of Venice International Film Festival.

The life of Giuliano Montaldo, one of Italy’s leading filmmakers, who, in parallel with an enviable, eminently successful career, also played an important institutional role in the creation of Rai Cinema, as its president. A fleshed-out portrait of a great director and intellectual, but at the same time a profile of an ironic, elegant personality who made cinema his lifelong passion, but also a very personal tool for his artistic inquiry and his outspoken aversion of intolerance. From Genoa to Rome, first as an actor and then as a director, stock footage, photographs and private papers reveal the essence of this great auteur who is seen as both a filmmaker and an old world gentleman from another time.

This is the story of Gianenzo. He’s just turned eleven and he’s 18 cm tall. He’s first in the junior rankings in: chess, drawing, singing, solfège, arithmetic, piano and chemistry. Mind you, he shares those top spots with his two sworn enemies. The genius who was king of the hill through the third year of nursery school has had to contend with two giants at his same level for five years now: the magnetic Luigifausta and the unflappable Pancraziomaria. Now the exit exams for primary school are looming and none of the three contenders seems willing to give an inch. Who will walk off with the gold for being the class grind?

Rinaldo, Lolli and Mario are the main characters of this thwarted and passionate love story - dramatic and comic at the same time - set in Rome during the fascist “Ventennio”. Rinaldo Maria Bonci Paonazzi, is an aged but charming lawyer and yet a tragic figure, who succumbs to an existential challenge to seduce Eleonora Ciancarelli, nicknamed Lolli, a very young girl who works at a

Terramatta; is a symphony of landscapes - old and new, near and far - filmed with the help of electronic music and archives. The story is brought to life by Vincenzo Rabito, an illiterate Sicilian, through a blend of imaginary, musical language - neither Italian nor dialect. A striking storyteller, he recounts Italian twentieth century history through thousands of dictated, tightly written, rope-bound pages, tracing the extremes of a century marked by poverty and economic boom, disgrace and redemption. Rabito gives an impassioned and unique autobiographical perspective on a complicated part of Italian history, forcing his audience to face up to contradictory and uncomfortable truths.

In early March 1991, several ships made a phantasmagoric appearance on the horizon of southern Italy’s Adriatic coast; with their human “cargo”, they marked the beginning of what became known as the “Albanian exodus”. This time the Bible reference wasn’t an exaggeration, because never before in postwar history had a mass emigration of such proportions been seen. Who was on those ships? From what country were they arriving? And where are they today, 20 years later? This is the story of an exodus and a journey, in a reconstruction of the three major Albanian exoduses. Unlike other documentaries that have dealt with the subject by concentrating on the arrival, this focuses mainly on the departure of the ship, seeking to understand the reasons for leaving the country, and telling, for the first time, about the droves of people taking the ships by storm.