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- The documentary talks about the malnutrition and the problems associated to the access to food on global scale. It investigates on social and economic contradictions that are behind the "hunger geography" and it try to answer the increasing food demand with the food-agricultural industry.
- Intercultural living in Milan, waiting autonomy between dreams, misunderstandings, feelings, study and uncertainty of the future.
- An attempt to bring the border between fiction and reality as close as possible, until it is unrecognizable.
- A documentary dedicated to detailing the daily lives of Italian folk.
- An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
- The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
- An investigation of 9/11.
- This evening of one-acts is like a lavish three-course dinner, prepared by a master and promising something for everyone's taste. Not since 1952 had San Francisco audiences had the rare opportunity to enjoy this unique work the way its creator intended-in its entirety and with an ideal cast. "Smartly directed by James Robinson and conducted with sweeping lyricism by Patrick Summers" (San Francisco Chronicle). Soprano Patricia Racette, whose many San Francisco Opera triumphs include her incisive portrait of Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly,"tackled all three soprano roles...and emerged triumphant" (San Francisco Chronicle). In the three diverse soprano roles, "Racette modulated the quality and tone of her radiant, muscular sound accordingly. The title role in Suor Angelica is the real soprano showcase, a virtuoso exercise in both soaring vocalism and emotional specificity, and Racette rose superbly to the challenge."
- "Attualità di Rossellini" provides a unique overview of Roberto Rossellini's oeuvre.
- The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
- In 1998 it seemed impossible to Balagura to make films in the Ukraine without becoming a slave to television; he therefore left for Italy, the "country of culture". With no immigration papers, with a wife and two children, the less agreeable realities of his situation soon caught up with him. In 2004, armed with a basic mini-DV camera borrowed from a friend, in the company of a casual acquaintance who agreed to act as camera operator, he shot 'Pausa Italiana'. From a small village in the Abruzzi region, with which he was well acquainted, he observed the reality surrounding him; he also turned the camera upon his own status as migrant, a situation which no documentarist would be capable of capturing. Permitting himself a rather unusual temporality, he allies the precision of his recordings with a fragmentary narrative of great literary quality. The combination of these two elements gives the film a very particular quality: auto-fiction and ethnography intersect to form an Aristotelian poetic, which avoids any separation between self and other, observer and observed, the real and the cosmic.
- A 16 year old girl, 8 months pregnant, and on drugs, is taken off the streets into his apartment by an actor in Rome. The film reconstructs how they met and her past and how an attempt is then made to rescue her.
- Erik Negro's project started in 2007 as a kind of machine to stop time. What the machine has produced are unstable fragments as the interim phase of a historical and personal process of solidification. Out of the chaos of existence, this UFO has emerged, twelve years later. During this period, cinema and music offered some footholds for a boy from the Italian provinces who had just finished secondary school and was open to life (which among other things regularly brought him to the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals). The footage was shot (and edited) a long time ago now, back when the film still had a form fixed in advance - over the years, this has been lost.
- An ensemble comedy set in the Italian resort town of Rimini, following several intertwining stories and characters during one summer season.
- As the first part of a longer motion picture cycle, 'River of Time' is many things at once: cinematic symphony, epic film poem, and reimagined spiritual autobiography. It is a celebration of Existence and a moving impressionist portrait of contemporary life. Finding transcendence in the daily and mundane, cine-artist Felix van Cleeff interweaves inner life with the Universal, creating a wholly original visionary work with footage collected meticulously over more than four years from a dozen countries in ten different languages. In 'River of Time', memory, dream and quiet revelation coalesce as the lyricism of life itself, and flow together to create a radically new cinematic form.
- Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
- The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.
- In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It's an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of a man "of a certain age" looking back. He tells stories about Fellini and De Sica's direction, of using irony in performances, of constantly working (an actor tries to find himself in characters). He's diffident about prizes, celebrates Rome and Paris, salutes Naples and its people. He answers the question, why make bad films; recalls his father and grandfather, carpenters, his mother, deaf in her old age, and his brother, a film editor; he's modest about his looks. In repose, time's swift passage holds Mastroianni inward gaze.
- A biopic on the personal and artistic life of Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André.
- Five stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.
- The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
- Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
- The Don Juan legend crackles to life in the hands of the world's most well-known composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Carefully balancing brilliant comedy with heaping amounts of seduction and ultimate tragedy, Don Giovanni is often referred to as the greatest opera ever composed. From the sparkling overture to one hit musical number after another, this fast-paced San Francisco Opera production features extraordinary Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien in the title role. Maestro Donald Runnicles leads the world renowned San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
- In this melodically rich bel canto masterpiece, a femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. Soprano Renée Fleming "uncorks the secret inner torments of history's most notorious poisoner. Her best singing was sumptuous and long-lined, airy and ravishingly rich" (San Jose Mercury News). Tenor Michael Fabiano "made a dashing Company debut as Gennaro, breathing vivid life into the role...singing with both graceful lyricism and full-throated ardor" (San Francisco Chronicle). Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong, "sings like a vocal giant. Her lowest notes have body and depth, the midrange is especially rich, and she propels her secure, full, and rounded highs with aplomb" (San Francisco Classical Voice). Bass-baritone Vitalij Kowaljow "gave a thrillingly robust and commanding account" of Duke Alfonso (San Francisco Chronicle). "The production's execution is first-rate: fine singing, towering sets and outlandishly appealing costumes, as well as a robust chorus and a dazzlingly spot-on performance by the orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Frizza, a bel canto specialist in his company debut" (San Jose Mercury News).
- Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the history of music and an eternal source of delight, Rossini's remarkable opera was composed in only a few weeks. Although the premiere, performed on February 10, 1816 in Rome was a resounding flop, the opera was quickly revived on February 22, when "The Barber" received rapturous applause.
- The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of nineteenth century English farm laborers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
- The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
- At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
- The lives of a group of highly-gifted young physicists known as the Via Panisperna Boys, led by Enrico Fermi. One of them, Ettore Majorana, mysteriously disappeared in 1938.
- "Part of the film brings together a number of unusual, picaresque, mysterious and occasionally extraordinary characters you might well meet, or invent anywhere. We find them along river banks or in woods, in old, abandoned farms, in swamps, in tree tops and hidden dales. The characters of this story all do traditional, occasionally archaic or even totally invented jobs. It is to these actors of the river who play romantic and extravagant parts that a lot of this story is dedicated to."
- Director of The Royal Opera Oliver Mears brings Verdi's masterpiece into the modern world. Verdi's thrilling Rigoletto pits power against innocence, beauty against ugliness.
- Rome is on the thresh-hold of the Holy year 1925, the city wishes to present itself as 'spotless' to the outside world. The appearance of a child's corpse puts an end to these aspirations. The police arrest a small time crook who has committed a robbery but has nothing to do with the murder of the child. His 'fence' the jeweler BALETTA, who is also a member of the ruling political party, suggests a deal: the crook goes free and in return Barlett will spill the beans on a planned robbery of the treasury in the Vatican. The police agree to the deal, and soon after one of Barlett's contacts is found dead. The police send officer Guglielmo Motta, who is not known in Rome, under cover as a wealthy 'fence' ( dealer in stolen goods). He slips into the criminal milieu thanks to the helpful charms of the lovely Lulu- they fall in love. Guglielmo gets scared when the body of Barlett shows up, and Lulu treats him with a new coldness. He wants out. The police chief dismisses this request. To top all of this Guglielmo's wife is jealous, and his mother in law seriously ill. Lulu hasn't missed the fact that Guglielmo has gone on ' home leave' and disappointed, she is prepared to work with a mafioso who knows the 'real' Guglielmo. Back from holiday Guglielmo ends up making contact with the Vatican robbers through a criminal intermediary. He is supposed to fence the goods. After the Vatican robbery has gone off with out any hitches, he waits at the agreed location for the hand over. Thanks to a letter written by Lulu, who regrets her double dealing and has out of desperation committed suicide, Guglielmo knows about the mafia gangster. And indeed, he is able to arrest all of the robbers, and retrieve the goods. An unsung hero, Guglielmo returns to his quiet life at the side of his wife Maria.