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- It's a company started in 1910 , it got through two world wars and it's arrived to modern technologies creating interiors for banks and shops within other activities. Its history through the souvenirs by Carlo Monticelli included bridges of boats during war and little stories by people working in the company.
- A long conversation with Alberto Casiraghy shot from 2014 that made of the art of printing not just a job but a way of life, a way to make friends and a way to love literature and live it. Publishing with his Pulcinoelefante about ten thousand books in ultra limited edition to many well-known personalities. It remains indelible her life together with her friend poet Alda Merini which has published more than a thousand books.
- The poet Alberto Mari, published by Guanda, Mondadori, La vita felice narrate about himself and read some of his poems with irony. Including shuts in galleries with his shows about drawings and watercolors and a introduction by the poet and critic Michelangelo Coviello.
- A concert by Alessandro Ducoli with a repertoire between songwriting and song theater that draws from 30 years of career plus 6 songs from the new album Il Cotone.
- It's a walk with the Israeli director Amos Gitai and his wife Rivka at the Venice Biennale of Art in 1995 (the same year, after two months Rabin Prime Minister was killed in Israel). The same year the Biennale was celebrating the 100th anniversary and in exposition there was an heterogeneous group of artists. They enter in the Israelian pavilion too and we can only imaging how the Israelian art will change few months after that tragic episode released in cinema 20 years after from Gitai with "The last day of Rabin". Here instead there's peace and divertimento for colors and extravaganzas of the art in exposition.Few words in the end stolen at the cell phone of Gitai and during the goodbyes.
- His curiosity awakened by troubled letters from a friend working at Bánffy Castle, a psychiatric clinic in rural Rumania, director Tobias Müller sets out to discover life at Bánffy Castle for himself, hoping to find at least some happiness, smiling faces, minor triumphs and, most of all, people who are able to value life's little pleasures. He meets the inhabitants of Bánffy Castle, its "princes" and "princesses". Enneke, the young woman with a sparkle in her eye, Günther, a broken legged footballer with theories about populated planets, and lovely Rosi, with her red hat and dislike of pills. He discovers lives that, in some ways, mirror his own. Everyday routine punctuated by petty squabbles, laughter, illness, friendship, loss, even the occasional party. But the effects of poverty and mental illness on the patients are devastating and as the film unravels nothing can explain the perpetual cycle of misery, madness and death.
- More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
- The play-writer, actor and director Dario Fo, organize a Pubblic Conference with his wife Franca Rame and his friend Giorgio Albertazzi at the Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy. This event happened one day after the news about the Nobel Prize given to him.
- A conversation made in 2006 with the famous American writer Edmund White in Chelsea and at his apartment in Manhattan. He talks about his life his memoirs and the people he met: from Truman Capote to Elton John, form Peggy Guggenheim to Mapplethorpe.
- A celebration of life, eclecticism and the genius of the pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Enrico Intra. In the film there are also those who worked with him, There is also talk of the most international jazz meetings with Billie Holiday, Gato Barbieri, Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan.
- The life and technique of a great Formula 1 photographer, Ferrari's favorite, author of books and highly successful exhibitions including one dedicated to Ayrton Senna and one to Gilles Villeneuve.
- The story of a small village in Emilia Romagna, through the interviews to the farmers and families. The war, the work, the devil, the goblins, Eisenhower, Africa and the self building of a house are some of the moving stories. Shut in 1998 and re-edited in 2008 after the death of a farmer, suicidal with a rifle, the movie is dedicated to him.
- "Gringo Wedding" is a romantic comedy set in modern times where technology has improved communications beyond our dreams, giving us cell phones, pagers, faxes, e-mails and much more. In spite of this, a lot of people are finding it harder and harder to meet the right person to connect to; someone to share their life with. This story deals with two such people living thousands of miles away, in two different continents, in two different cultures. They come together as destiny takes them on a joyful and eventful journey. "Gringo Wedding" is full of laughter and at the same time it is a thought-provoking story where we witness and discover the common values of love, friendship and follow their desire to be with someone who cares. Rebecca Gonzalez is a management executive with a financial institution in Bogotá, Colombia. She is very attractive, sexy, highly educated, and self-motivated young woman in her late twenties. Matt Goldman is in his mid thirties; a handsome, hardworking account executive with an advertising/production agency based in Miami, Florida. Though he is well liked by all his colleagues and friends, he feels that something is missing from his life. In this movie full of laughter, twists and turns, Rebecca meets her match in the form of Matt. Against all odds they tie the knot. Their friends call it "Gringo Wedding".
- The title it's a reference to the last movie directed by Derek Jarman "Blue" here the screen is black. An interview made in 1988 to the British director after the screening of "Last of England". He's talking about his life, his career and his films. Including his friend, the director Julian Temple comments an answer.
- An homage to the spanish director Bigas Luna, with images of him and his voice over in two italian shows as a painter and one location on the set of Bambola with Jorge Perrugoria and Valeria Marini.
- This is the chronicle of an exhibition of photographs by Roberto Tarallo taken on the set of Dichiarazioni d'amore by Pupi Avati.
- The history of editorial advertising, from Gutemberg until today. Angelo Stella introduces the exhibition Il libro promosso cured by Ambrogio Borsani which tells in detail how advertising to promote books has taken many forms.
- The famous journalist Vittorio Feltri, loved and hated, and the story of his life told in first person. His career is instead narrated by Pino Farinotti who wrote the lyrics. There is little talk of politics but known and lesser known faces alternate to talk about Felt as director and as a man. Trying not to make it into a hagiography anyway. There is also talk of Indro Montanelli and the writer Andrea Pinketts, of literature and cooking. With irony and self-irony.
- A document-interview shot at the Monumental Cemetery in Milan, with the songwriter, producer and painter Ivan Cattaneo. Life, anecdotes, songs, meetings, all you need to know about one of the most seminal artists of italian music scene. Forty year career and a great influence on famous colleagues. Not only that, he is historical importance in the Italian gay movement, was the first Italian artist to come out and have to suffer the impacts of the environment, especially in the seventies, was narrow-minded and petty.
- Friendly conversation with Josef Weiss a great artist and typographer as well as a bookbinder but also a great artist.
- It's the moving story of a farmer with 24 species of cows. He's in trouble, they wanna take away the farm rented by him. He's talking about his life and gives a great description of every kind of cows he owns. One of the species is the one used to give milk and make milk soap for the Royal Family in Great Britain.
- Conversations with the American painter Marcus Jansen, considered the pioneer of the Modern Urban-Expressionsim painting movement. There is talk of childhood, career and experience that marked him deeply as a soldier in the Gulf War, works for Absolut, Warner Bros. and meetings with celebrities in the art. Interlaced with the shooting of the installation of his staff at the Milan Triennale.
- Chronicle about Lifetime Achievement Award given to the Italian director Mario Martone at the Med Film Festival in Rome. The souvenirs by the actress Iaia Forte, critic comment by Giona Nazzaro and the director Mario Martone that makes considerations about his own career.The background is Casa del Cinema that is situated in the charming gardens of Villa Borghese in Rome.
- The history of publishing in Milan through the stories of Milanese writers such as Alessandro Manzoni, Cesare Beccaria and Carlo Porta, but also naturalized Milanese like Ernest Hemingway and Stendhal.
- A candid conversation with the french director Paul Vecchiali. With Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and other directors was starting during the Nouvelle Vague in France. His life and his films narrated in different places at his villa in Plan de la Tour.
- Conversations with the italian composer Sylvano Bussotti made between 2008 and 2010. He's talking about his eclectic carreer, including collaborations with Carmelo Bene, John Cage, Luciano Berio, Rudolf Nurejev, Cathy Berberian and many others.
- The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.
- Uninhibited conversations with Tony Patrioli, the first Italian photographer of male nudes in the 60s, It's one of the two documentaries about the same photographer shut by the director.
- Every year, Silvana dreads coming home for Christmas. Her family is simply unbearable: lame parents, ghastly sisters and a brother, who lives in a cupboard! It is not until she discovers Robertson's ice world that she thaws.