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- After his retired father, Franco, nearly dies from a heart attack, Francesco decides to make a film about him. Francesco's ruthless directing methods, as well as Franco's dubious acting efforts, generate both absurd and intimate dialogues which mostly occur between the takes. Edited as the "making of" for a film that was never finished, '13 attempts to shoot my father' follows the tragicomic journey of the director-son and his actor-father's attempts, with the help of a camera, to overcome their inability to communicate.
- Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested...
- A script of the Televsion Italian Rai inspired by Il triplo psicodramma di Aldo Carotenuto (1994) episode of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) by Ottavio Rosati about the Aldo Carotenuto's best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (1980). The book revealed the secret and dramatic story of the young Sabine Spielrein between Jung and Freud and the italian movie was to be directed by Nelo Risi, author of Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968). Ottavio Rosati who was the historical consultant and the author of the dialogues of the film, invited Tania Di Martino to realize this difficult screenplay. After many versions and the translation of the script in English, in 1998 Risi was making the casting but the production was stopped by the new Rai President who considered this story too difficult for a TV audience. Some years later, Roberto Faenza and David Cronenberg made two popular films from Carotenuto's book. The screenplay for Rai Cinema, which emphasizes Jung's para psychological researches, should be turned into a movie.
- "A proposito di Max" (About Max) is a documentary produced by Sky made by Simone Del Vecchio, Miranda Bevilacqua and Gabriele Acerbo about the Italian film director Max Croci who passed away in 2018. The documentary goes through Max career as a film director, from his very first works like Rosso Tigre (1996) and Marameo (2000), to his last works like Poli Opposti (2015). It depicts his passion for the classic cinema and how this passion developed from his childhood. It also shows how being raised by his mother and his grandmother and seeing notable actors like Cary Grant on the screen when he was a child morphed the vision he had about the cinema as a whole and his own personal way of making movies, giving his own touch to each and every movie release.
- Lino, a penniless Pugliese emigrant to Turin, is an unwelcome guest in his sister and brother-in-law's house. Engaged with Rossana, who leaves him for a friend. Lino makes 13 the pools but keeps it hidden from everyone.
- All of us can make a difference in their own lives by helping the others and saving the planet. You can be an hero doing little actions but of great value and becoming the example who will inspire the new generations.
- "Amanda Lear - Live In Concert 1979" is the first live music video title by singer and actress Amanda Lear. Released by VCL Video in 1980, it contained footage from her first tour filmed in Hamburg in 1979. VHS Track listing: "Hollywood Flashback" (Intro), "Black Holes", "Blood and Honey", "Queen of Chinatown", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", "Tomorrow", "Follow Me", "Forget It", "Never Trust a Pretty Face", "Fashion Pack". DVD version: "Run Baby Run" (Intro)"La Bagarre", "Black Holes", "Forget It", "Hollywood Flashback", "Just a Gigolo", "Miroir", "Blood and Honey", "Queen of Chinatown", "Enigma (Give a Bit of Mmh to Me)", "Tomorrow", "Follow Me", "Run Baby Run" (Interlude), "Intellectually", "Never Trust a Pretty Face", "Fashion Pack"; Bonus: "L'Interview Confession A L'Elysée Matignon 1978".
- Background Information: Padre Salvatore Gabriele Anastasio (Anastasia) arrived at Santa Lucia Church in an Italian-American section of the North Bronx in 1951. He was assistant pastor there for 12 years, having come to the USA from Calabria. His two brothers Albert (Umberto) of Murder, Inc. fame & Anthony "Tough Tony" Anastasia, who ran the Brooklyn docks, were well known. Albert was a boss of the Gambino crime family and was their chief executioner. He was assassinated in the barber shop of the Park Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan on West 56th Street in October of 1957. Father Sal handled the wake & burial. Tony died of "natural causes" in March of 1963. After Father Sal buried his second brother, he left Saint Lucy's disgraced, to return to Parghelia, Calabria, where he wrote the book of the same name as this movie. He died in 1973. The story as Father Sal wrote it portrays Albert as a kind of "Robin Hood" and not the ruthless killer he was. Their are many comedic scenes which really were not very factual. Father Sal was beloved at Saint Lucy's and was very active in children activities, starting sports teams & leagues, in addition to founding the school's Father's & Mother's clubs. The Father's Club's Annual Dinner-Dances were legendary and many of his personal friends such as Sal Mineo, Jimmy Durante, Pat Cooper, the Royal Teens among others, all performed there. This movie has just been released on DVD after 40 years in the USA as "My Brother Anastasia".
- Alice and Nicholas survived an epidemic that ravaged the world, now only inhabited by the undead. But the nightmare is not over; the rumbling of a motorcycle approaches, breaking the silence. Maybe it's another survivor that will bring them to safety, or perhaps it is the most dangerous predator from which they have no chance of escaping?
- Ezio wakes up in the middle of the night as he has been doing for some time now. Tormented and distressed by his relationship with Anna, the girl he has been living with for the past two years. Frustration and the need to find some form of contact leads Ezio to look for a dialogue with Anna. The couple's umpteenth sleepless night inexorably reveals the critical issues of a toxic relationship.
- "Art is a Family Business" is a documentary about the life and the work of the famous artist Fidia Falaschetti. The documentary depicts his ideas showing where his art comes from and how the shades of his passion gave birth to his unique pieces. A particular aspect is also how much the sea means for him and how being born and raised in Civitanova Marche in an house that had a stunning view to the sea played an important role in his bond with it. But most importantly, it shows how art really is a family business.
- Steele, Arthur Steele receives a mysterious letter that will lead to the as-yet-undiscovered creature that lives in the snowy terrain. Believing that he is finally on the trail of discovering the Yeti, he heads to the trail mentioned in the letter. While in Yeti territory he tries to find the person who sent him the letter, however, all he encounters is Yetis. Just as he is about to be destroyed by one of the Yetis, Clifton, a barbegazi, saves Steele and asks him to help his people fight the trolls.
- Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.
- On 18 April 2014, an avalanche on Mount Everest near Everest Base Camp killed sixteen Sherpas guides. On 22 April, the Sherpas announced they would not work on Everest for the remainder of 2014's climbing season, first time in Everest's history, as a mark of respect for the victims. -Candle for Sherpas- document the tragedy from the point of view of the Sherpa community based in Queens, NY, the largest outside Nepal. Introducing the topic with the use of rare archival footage, -Candle for Sherpas- bring the audience straight to the testimony of the Sherpas that left Nepal in search for a better future.
- "Carlè" is how Antonio refers to Carlo. After a soccer game Antonio invites Carlo and his girlfriend Sara to a party. Precisely in the course of this night, all of Carlo's hidden weaknesses will come to light.
- In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, life for Jiho, a second-generation Korean American man, and his Grandma seem to be getting gradually worse day by day. Losing Grandma will wake an urge in him to find out more about his culture.
- Built on the summit of a ridge eroded by centuries, nowadays the town represents a paradigm of demographic migration towards urban centers; inevitably abandoned to memories and stories handed down by the few remaining inhabitants. With the help of Rossana, Tony, Realino and Giuseppe, we retrace the footsteps of a fallen agricultural community used to arduous work in the fields as well as to precious moments of social sharing. Thanks to them, the town's spiritual heritage lives on in the many tourists who visit it every day and in the new generations through their sense of civic duty and moral values.
- Emilio is a clever and introverted teenager who lives with intolerance the confidential relation between his father Dario, a left wing university professor, and his former student Giulia. When Sandro Ferrari, Giulia's lover, is killed at a roadblock, Emilio tells the police how the young man used to go to their home.
- The house represents the abode of human inner reality. The space of the house and the natural elements that surround it are inextricably united with the soul of the protagonist, who is overwhelmed by the power of an environment now in stark contrast to everyday life, a childhood that has disappeared now resurfaces. D O M is also dedicated to the memory of Sara Iommi, researcher and theorist of cinema at the D.a.m.s University of Bologna, who died prematurely in 2016.
- Life and work in a police station of Rome. The chief of the station, Giovanna Scalise, has arrived in town after a long period passed in the city of Palermo, Sicily, where she fought against mafia. Now she catches criminals with the help of Mauro (the crazy guy of the group), Manrico (the cool one), inspector Ardenzi (who is married with Angela, the psychologist of the station), Parmesan (the old one) and the young Nina (who loves the handsome Benvenuti). Distretto di polizia is a TV series of action, sometimes dramatic, sometimes happy, with a peculiar attention to human affairs.
- A mechanic living in Paris falls in love with a chemist. At first she does not return his affections, but learning she is affected by a terminal illness changes her disposition.
- Salvador Espinoza, a young soccer player from Ocotlán, Jalisco, arrives in Mexico City searching for soccer super-stardom. After his great performance in the Sub-20 World Cup, the best soccer clubs in the country are fighting to sign him in their teams. Now, Chava must prepare for the unstable, seductive and exciting world of Mexican soccer.
- A woman's journey from defying her family's gender expectations and migration to the United States, to her life decades later after an accomplished career as a professional cellist.
- 1943. Antonio Ferrini, 100 meters runner turned WWII soldier, gets wounded on the battlefield and is forced to spend his last living moments next to the body of an American he has just killed. Having to face both his own regrets and the horrors of the war, he establishes a strange friendship with him, while acknowledging what History has taken away from them.
- Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
- After Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) a series of psychoplays, Ottavio Rosati with his friend Alessandro Cecchi Paone, writes for a popular program of Rai 2, a series of family life stories in front of a dozen boys and girls sitting next to us to intervene on the themes and that of the spectators at home who sent the letters with the problems of the children to solve.
- Giovanni is a kid called Loser Leg due to his soft legs. Due to his disability, he is tied everywhere by his bullish classmate. Despite all, he manage to take life with irony. He is secretly in love with a cute little girl Rose. Unfortunately she runs away terrified every time she see him tied somewhere...
- The americanist Fernanda Pivano and her struggle in Italy for "The Time Theatre" inspired by Allen Ginsberg, the Beats and the Hippies. By the author of Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991). In 2020 Istituto Luce Cinecittà produces a new version.
- In 1918, the young figurine maker Giuseppe Magi was born in Mediavalle del Serchio, a mountainous area in northern Tuscany, has just landed in Helsinki, Finland, after adventures and wanderings throughout Europe. Exactly one hundred years later, a group of teenage students from Finland, Ireland and Spain, accompanied by Italian high school students from Mediavalle del Serchio, from the Higher Institute of Education in Barga (Lucca), visit the Museo della Figurina di Gesso e dell'Emigrazione (Coreglia Antelminelli, Lucca, Tuscany) a few kilometers away from the town where Giuseppe Magi was born.
- Gli Sporcosauri" (2008) is the video (produced by Plays) of an ecological socioplay conducted by Ottavio Rosati, conceived by Ezio Donato (professor of pedagogy at the University of Catania) and realized by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with financial support from the European Community.
- A young man assists his elderly mother in a daily routine marked by an intrusive rain, until an unexpected event changes the course of events.
- Edo believes he's a samurai, or some sort of hero warrior. A bokken in his hands, wearing a DIY Kimono, he tries so much to help others, like a real superhero, into the streets of his small home town, but keeps on failing. Being treated like a fool, Edo fails to listen to his inner self, and the real Samurai that lies within.
- The Aeolian Islands (Sicily) have the most important grave goods of Greek masks in the world. They were discovered by archaeologist Luigi Bernabò Brea in 1948 in the necropolis of Lipari and they are preserved in the Aeolian Archeological Museum. If the humanity now knows the characters of the Greek theater, it is because of these masks. A young explorer, Vanessa, will drive this journey discovering and revealing the reasons of the ancient relationship between the people of the Aeolian Islands and the cult of the Mask. The event of the modern Aeolian Carnival becomes a tale that narrates the anxieties and dreams of ordinary people who face death through the power and the symbols of the mask.
- The documentary will reconstruct the history of "Pilotta", the residence of the Farnese family in Parma (Italy), from the middle of the 16th century up to the present day.
- Natale, an old man, decided to send a video message to wish Merry Christmas to his daughter who moved from Sicily to the United States to become an actress. He is about to begin shooting when Salvo, a thief, steals the precious video camera from him that he had bought after so many sacrifices. After a series of ups and downs, Niccolo', the thief's son, decides to give the camcorder back to Natale, because he is aware of the importance of that recorded message.
- An entire village, Casole d'Elsa, that tells a story, a no-budget movie made by non-professional Actors.
- The psychodrama (never broadcasted but published with an interview) of the series Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) where the analyst Aldo Carotenuto, author of the best seller "Diario di una segreta simmetria" (Ubaldini, Rome, Italy, 1980) plays three roles: Freud Jung and Sabine Spielrein. In 1998 the italian television Rai will invite Rosati to write A Secret Simmetry (1997), a script for a movie for Nelo Risi direction.
- Baloum is a very remote and pristine village up in the mountains of Western Cameroon. Jean Paul was born and raised there. He's dying chained to a tree, victim of superstitions. He's been left without food and water for days. Jean, the man who is in charge of his custody, talks about a magical ring.
- Members of a racially mixed cast of self-confessed murderers is transformed by acting in a play about slavery and freedom that took three years to mount.
- San Francisco, a city that has always been an avant-garde regarding minority's rights, now sees on those same streets, a demonized and feared homeless community. What have those eyes seen? Those eyes, so full of life experiences, which force us to look away.
- After the announcement of forthcoming layoffs in the factory where he works, Dario stages the protest and call his colleagues to join it. His mission is held back by the illness of his father, Mario, who previously participated in the riots back in the Seventies. Dario looks after him at home along with the help of his partner, Simona. The confrontation with the elderly father, who educated him in an outdated ideology, puts him at a crossroads: continuing the protest or accepting the offer of his bosses? With a child on the way and a past to deal with, Dario will make his choice.
- In a Sicilian town signed by countless problems provoked by a rampant dishonesty, the inhabitants elect a major which promises order and legality. But the truth is that the town (and Italy) is corrupted and dishonest beyond redemption.
- The history of Cervia is inextricably linked to salt. Salt is life, the white gold of our civilization for centuries. Cervia is the northernmost salt pan in Italy and covers approximately 827 hectares. Observing expert workers, we go through the various stages of salt processing, from 'cavadura' to washing, after which the product is ready to be sold on the market: the sweet salt of Cervia. The techniques used are those of craftsmen who follow a solid tradition that has its roots in the past and which, using modern support machinery, guarantees the constant excellence of the product. The basins are immersed in a vast natural area protected by the Emilia Romagna region. We will discover the daily work that Salina di Cervia Park does to preserve the ecosystem.
- The documentary depicts the story of Ivan Ljubicic, the man who became a tennis legend after escaping from the Yugoslav War.
- Ottavio Rosati directs the first psychodramas held on italian theaters. Both starting from plays by the Nobel Prize Luigi Pirandello's: "Questa sera si recita a soggetto" (Tonight we improvise) and "Ciascuno a suo modo" (Each one in his own way). Starring Zerka T. Moreno, wife and collaborator of Jacob Levi Moreno the father of psychodrama. Both with the collaboration of the Americanist Fernanda Pivano. The first (1983) for Teatro Stabile di Roma at Flaiano Theatre, with the participation of actors from the Living Theater. The second (1986) at Carignano Theater for Teatro Stabile di Torino, starring the Nobel Prize, Dario Fo who gives his voice to Jacob Levi Moreno. In Turin, Zerka Toeman Moreno performs the strange role of "La Moreno (che tutti sanno chi è)" and directs the psychodrama of Pier Luigi Pirandello, nephew of Luigi Pirandello and son of the painter Fausto Pirandello. The sociodrama about "Ciascuno a suo modo" triggers an organizational conflict and a social scandal similar to those that Pirandello imagined in his comedy set in the city of Turin. When the event's funding is in danger of being blocked by financial blackmail, Rosati goes to Naples and takes to Turin a Pazzariello, an advertising auctioneer who runs with his band through the streets of the city, denouncing the scandal. It is a winning turning point. Fifteen years later, Rosati will perform Fantasmi al Valle (2012) the socioplay of the third play of the Pirandello's trilogy: "Six Characters in Search of an Author". The magazine "Atti dello psicodramma" dedicates an issue to the event. This spin-off begins in 2002 in Sicily produced by the Teatro Stabile di Catania with Leo Gullotta in the role of Pirandello and will be concluded in 2012 at the Teatro Valle di Roma where in 1921 happened the stormy premiere of Six characters.
- A short about the Roberto Capucci exhibition "Alla Ricerca della Regalità" at Venaria Reale. The first step of a project by Ottavio Rosati that goes on with the documentary The Forbidden Fashion (2019) and a movie about the famous couturier.
- Leo sulla cresta dell'onda (Leo on the edge of the wave) is a documentary about the life and achievements of Leonardo Fioravanti, an Italian surfer who realized his dream of becoming a professional surfer. The documentary goes through Leonardo's story, shedding some light on his early days, on his dream, on the difficulties of leaving his home to pursue it and on how it became true as he's now traveling around the world while competing with other surf legends in several competitions.
- Ipod-Plays School of Psychodrama interviews prof. Vezio Ruggieri about the relationships between body, psyche and theatre. The film contains extracts from "Da Storia Nasce Storia" the first television of real psychodramas photographed with many cameras as in cinema.
- Medè opens a window into the complex world of juvenile delinquency in Naples. It follows a group of minors, detained in various juvenile correctional facilities around the Camorra infested Naples area, who are offered a chance to learn how to sail and prepare for a historical Regatta. The film chronicles the life, struggles, hopes and denied ambitions of six kids grown up in the shadows of the Camorra.