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A coming-of-age fairy tale set between modern-day Italy and an imaginary realm just beyond, Wonderwell follows Violet, a naive and inquisitive 12 year-old-girl, on a thrilling journey that transforms her world forever.

Four very different characters play with fire in a labyrinth of secrets and deceptions, convinced they can control their own destinies. But that fragile balance is inevitably destined to shatter with tragic and bloody consequences.

Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.

Karate and K1 champion, Claudio Del Falco is ready for his last fight, a memorable event, followed live worldwide, with a prize money of 10 million euros. The enormous sum is tempting to Apha, the boss of a criminal organization who, while Claudio is busy fighting, breaks into his villa with his cruel and ferocious men to take his second wife, Camila, hostage, unaware that in the villa there is also the 14-year-old daughter Sara. When Claudio learns that Alpha is responsible for the death of his first wife, he secures Sara and decides to face the entire organization alone to take his revenge.

Teo, a student in Astrophysics, shares an apartment with his girlfriend, Carla, who is also a student. One evening, while he is absent-mindedly crossing the road, he is knocked down by a car. At the wheel of the car is Mavi, a girl originally from Spalato, who came to Italy with her father when she was a little girl. Teo is lying on the ground, injured, and Mavi helps him, before disappearing without a trace. The two characters meet again by chance some time later and a strong and deep bond forms between them.

A young Italian mother is living a life of part-time prostitution in Austria, unbeknownst to her friends and family. Everything seems to be going well until her secret is discovered.

Marta is a former professional diver. An injury forces her to renounce her career and return to her family home in Matera, a Medieval town surrounded by wild nature. There, she must face the death of her artist father. In the village also lives another artist, Sebastian, and his Japanese model who loves to portray in extreme poses that inevitably attract Marta's attention. She remains so impressed by these works that she opens the doors of her home to the model and begins a symbiotic and sometimes disturbing relationship with her.

Freak and Jajà are in a place with no date and time. A no man's world. The earth is no longer inhabited by man, but on rare occasions a strange survivor or two will appear. The two protagonists who have never met, meet at Bus stop in the middle of nowhere. The Bus arrives but doesn't stop, it was the Bus that was going to GODOT, the God which manifested itself through a musical sound on the other side of the mountain. So Freak and Jajà decide to look for him on foot, in this way embarking on a journey that will have them meet the bizarre characters living on this land. Unfortunately Freak and Jaja at the end of their journey.. will meet up with death before reaching their God.

Anita (Mother of War) is propelled by an invigorating encounter between Brazilian-gaucho guerrilla fighter Anita Garibaldi and outspoken American journalist Margaret Fuller in a battered Rome under siege. The film - a historical fiction interpretation rooted in the 19th century revolutions of South America and Italy -- probes the motivations of historic figures, including Anita's famed husband Giuseppe Garibaldi, determined to fight for social justice. Anita Garibaldi, a fearless woman of action, and Margaret Fuller, a tormented woman of letters, asserted themselves at a time when women had limited options in life. Over the course of their meeting, both women come to better understand their place in the world.

The short film tells the daily life and the dreams of two fraternal twins from Naples in Marghera, Gaetano and Vincenzo, of the blonde, very Venetian, son of Gaetano and of the colorful world around them. It is an opportunity to play on gender, social and cultural stereotypes and for an affectionate reflection on the richness of the differences between human beings.

This film is a journey into the unknown, along with Pippo Delbono and his actors, during the rehearsals of 'Orchids' which starts without any text, where all the actors, through free improvisation, become the authors of their own vision of reality, of their true life. Some performances of these rehearsals will be in the show, some others will only last in the memory of this film.

A major European city. Today. John Higgins is a renowned Professor of philosophy at the American University in Rome. It's the end of the Spring semester and he plans to celebrate taking his favorite students out to dinner to a most exclusive place. The five meet up in the parking lot of a building in the heart of the city. They take the elevator up to the main floor and find the exit. The doors are locked. It's the only way out, so they venture back to the elevator and press button down to the parking lot. The elevator doesn't move. It's the beginning of a long night that will bring them face-to-face with the every essence of evil. A powerful enemy who plans to kill them all. Five lives. One destiny. Only one is to survive. As so is the rule of Pandora. A selected ensemble of very wealthy people bets on the lives of those trapped inside the building through a dark web called BLUE OYSTER. No one knows who runs the site. The players "assemble" their product just like in any online store, by choosing how the victim must die and uploading a soundtrack that is to play during the "a la carte" executions. The players make use of a mysterious figure the site refers to as The Wizard. The Wizard is their tool. Their angel of death. His role is that to terminate the unaware participants. If and when The Wizard turns out to be no longer productive to the Pandora, he is to be "recycled". Eliminated. BLUE OYSTER is his story.

Le vin de Zucco was a famous wine, produced in Sicily in 1854 by one of the richest men in the world. The Duke Henri D'Aumale, son of Louis Philippe, King of the French, lived his exile at Orleans House in England and at the Zucco in Sicily, collecting books and works of art. He put together in Chantilly, France, the second largest collection of paintings after the Louvre. He gave work to 4,000 farmers of Montelepre in Sicily. He loved his wine and his estate of Zucco so much that he went back there to die. Today, the Zucco farm still exudes the charm of this incredible adventure. Pietro, organic farmer, returned to the place of his childhood following a mysterious voice ... The appeal of Zucco beyond the time barrier ... In the film, the historian Salvo Di Matteo, Ennio Palmigiano and the last appearances of Vittorio Umiltà, founder of Salvare Palermo, and Enzo Sellerio, the great Sicilian photographer and publisher. The director Lidia Rizzo: "I could never imagine that where the great chef Vatel guarded the secret of Chantilly cream I would find the secret of the vin de Zucco produced in Sicily. A natural wine."

Southeast Asia Cinema: When the Rooster Crows is a voice of diversity reaching for change. Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Garin Nugroho, and Pen Ek Ratanaruang give voice to a region rich with traditions, ethnic groups, languages, politics, and religions. It is cinema at its purest form, fighting for freedom of expression, documenting real lives of ordinary people, giving voice to the underdogs and the outcasts. The amalgamation of these aspects gives birth to an ultra-neo-realistic cinema language currently unique to films from this region.

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

Dignity is a good reason to fight, or to walk away? Past and present issues on immigration, gender, and dignity in countries - Italy and Brazil - that share many similarities, starting from a biased relationship with their national memory.