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- "The Young Berlusconi" is a documentary series on Netflix, arté and german ZDF.
- This documentary recounts the lives of Roberto Rossellini's children from the perspective of Alessandro Rossellini, the first grandson of the director.
- 21-year-old Claudia suffers from spina bifida, also known as "open back," and wants to explore her sexual needs. To do this, she hires Marco, who is currently taking his first course as a "love giver."
- Motherhood and society, the point of view of Indian women from different classes and castes. The boom of the assisted fertility business encourages childless to overcome the 'curse' of their infertility. A story of hope, drama and money.
- A writer investigates Italy's collective national amnesia about its colonial adventurism and her father's Fascist past.
- The journey of a young Indian woman's hair, donated to the Temple to be then converted into exquisite hair extensions in Italy. This same hair will then return to India to satisfy the whim of a successful career woman in Bombay. A story of the cult of beauty in the era of globalization. An original view of today's India with its contradictions. A kaleidoscope of modernity, economic expansion and ancient traditions.
- Underwater Pompeii is a fitting nickname for Baiae, a site in the same volcanic region of coastal Campania, only it wasn't vanquished by ash (like nearby Herculaneum) but swallowed by rising sea levels due to great geological activity, which is now naturally being reversed. Its bay opposite Positano became the favorite playground of imperial Rome's super-rich, who built spectacular villa complexes there, with private fish tanks, marinas, baths, even cutting edge architecture like an 'oculus'-lighted dome long before the pantheon. Its king of debauchery was tyrannical emperor Nero, who probably murdered his aunt Domitia for her major villa, like his domineering mother Agrippina (who survived a sabotaged vessel), and executed secret throne rival Piso who decided last-moment against killing Nero in his own, even grander villa. The staggering costs enabled stunning art and luxury, like a 'nymphaeum' (artificial pleasure cave) and first rate Greek paintings and sculptures.
- The post-death life of Che Guevara: his elusive remains, at large for thirty years; and the creation of a myth. A story told through the critical and personal perspective of those who "touched" some of history's most famous remains.
- Pietro Orlandi, Emanuela's brother, studies and pieces together the circumstances of important Italian missing person cases.
- Everyone can visualize Via della Conciliazione with St Peter's Basilica in the background. This image is Rome's most famous postcard, the backdrop against which TV news correspondents report on the Vatican, the Pope or the city. Few realize that this street has not always been there, and that in fact it should not be there. The truth is that Michelangelo, who designed and built the dome of St Peter's, and Bernini, the colonnade's architect, had envisaged a surprise effect on pilgrims emerging onto St Peter's Square from the labyrinthine streets of the adjacent neighborhood. Successive Popes had, over the centuries, toyed with the idea of building a triumphal route into the Vatican to welcome crowds of pilgrims and send the world a powerfully symbolic image of the power of the Church, but they never succeeded in realizing this ambition. Paradoxically, the situation only changed when Mussolini, an overtly anticlerical atheist at the start of his career, realized that if he wanted power in Italy he would have to get the Catholic Church on his side. The Duce focused on a treaty between the Italy and the Holy See. This treaty is still in force today and regulates Church-State relations. It led to the Church receiving substantial financial support and acquiring its leading role in the religious and civic lives of the Italian people, greatly undermining the power of the secular state. The pact led to the birth of the Vatican City, the smallest but not the least powerful state in the world. The price paid by Mussolini and Italy to reconcile Church and State also needed a tangible manifestation. To sanction the accord, Pope Pius XI obtained Mussolini's promise to demolish the densely built-up area extending out from in front of the colonnade of St Peter's Square. On 29 October 1936, Benito Mussolini, with a swing of his pickax, officially inaugurated the demolition work. In less than a year, the area had been razed to the ground. So began construction of the great new artery in the center of Rome, Via della Conciliazione, commemorating the reconciliation between the Italian State and the Holy See. Today, Via della Conciliazione is firmly part of the city's fabric, familiar to Romans, tourists and the Catholic faithful from across the world. But to a very few it is still an open wound, a place of painful memories. This film relates the story of an architectural project which had enormous impact on the history, religion and lives of the people of Rome, using exclusive access to archive material and direct accounts by the last living eyewitnesses.
- A tragicomic journey through the city I love, the city I had to leave. The world's most beautiful bay, the world's best seafood and the shadow of the surreal pyramids of garbage. A journey in the company of priests, mafiosi, activists, saints, magistrates, police officers, journalists, bartenders and two outstanding individuals: the Mayor of Naples and the American professor, guru of Zero Waste theory, who maintains that garbage can be reduced to zero not only in San Francisco but also in Naples.
- They're clinging, as though shipwrecked, to the walls of a house. This is being played out in certain neighborhoods where a dwelling is the only thing people possess. For over twenty years in Bari no new social housing has been assigned and three thousand families are on the waiting list. Inevitably, a silent war among paupers has broken out, a war in which squatters lay siege to the lodgings of anyone careless enough to leave home for a few hours too many, whether to visit a relative or to keep a hospital appointment. The squatters mainly target the houses of old or single people. They stake their claim on the basis that they are large families and it is difficult to make them leave. The film relates the stories of four people whose every move or initiative is dictated by the fear of losing their house. They are constantly looking for survival strategies. Though they are in legitimate possession of their homes, in practice it is their homes which possess them. The home as a prison is the metaphor which runs parallel to the everyday ambition to have "a roof over one's head". "Housing" reveals the crazy, grotesque ordeal of the daily obsession with housing problems.