In post-World War II Rome, plunged in poverty and unemployment, the inseparable bosom friends, Giuseppe Filippucci and Pasquale Maggi, struggle to eke out an existence working as shoe-shine boys, or sciuscià: a paraphrase of the English word, "shoeshine" with Neapolitan pronunciation. Intent on buying a gallant spotted horse, the entrepreneurial boot polishers are willing to go to great lengths to obtain hard-to-find cash, putting their precious friendship to the test, delving deeper and deeper into the harsh and ugly criminal underworld. But, are the boys prepared for an unwelcome but inevitable brush with the law?

Restored by The Film Foundation and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in association with Orium S.A. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

In 1959/1960 Rome, Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) is a writer and journalist, the worst kind of journalist--a tabloid journalist. His job is to try to catch celebrities in compromising or embarrassing situations. He tends to get quite close to his subjects--especially when they're beautiful women. Two such subjects are local heiress Maddalena (Anouk Aimee), and Swedish superstar-actress Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), with both of whom he has affairs despite being engaged to Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), a clingy, insecure, nagging, melodramatic woman. Despite his extravagant, pleasure-filled lifestyle, he is wondering if maybe a simpler life wouldn't be better.

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with The Film Foundation, Pathé, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Mediaset – Medusa Film, Paramount Pictures, Cinecittà Luce, and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale, with support from Gucci and The Film Foundation.

An investigating judge struggles with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran caused by the death of a young woman. When his gun goes missing, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing harsh measures that fray family ties.

In silent-era Hollywood, stuntman Roy Walker is brought to a hospital after an on-set accident. There, he befriends a young girl and tells her a fantastical tale of epic heroes taking revenge on an evil ruler. The story transports her from the hospital into the exotic landscapes of her imagination.

An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.

In a Himalayan polyandrous village in Nepal, newly married and pregnant Pema tries to make the best of her new life. But soon, her first husband Tashi vanishes on the trade route to Lhasa.

Accompanied by her monk de facto husband, Karma, she embarks on a journey into the unforgiving wilderness to find him, evolving into a quest of self-discovery and liberation.

On a small Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn’t too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for whom he starts to develop a genuine fascination. Coach and former champion Arakawa, spots potential in Takuya, and decides to mentor him to form a duo with Sakura for an upcoming competition. As winter persists, feelings grow, and the two children form an harmonious bond. But even the first snow eventually melts away.

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams.

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not ready.

Director Giovanni and his wife Paola are working on a film about the Italian Communist Party in around 1956. The leads are for two journalists from the L'Unita newspaper who have to decide whether to remain loyal to their Soviet masters or to disown them now the Hungarian Revolution has broken out. Fiction soon merges with fact when Giovanni’s relationship with Paola worsens, a financier proves unreliable and things get out of hand on set.

In Franco Amore's final night before retiring, he faces a perilous case that jeopardizes his career, love, and life. The honest policeman confronts a complex crime scene, setting off a night of danger, testing his principles, relationships, and survival.

A rock band in the '90s navigates the narrow path between dazzling success and complete disaster, creating an album that defines a generation and forever changes Spain's music scene. Inspired by one of Spain's most popular bands, this unconventional biopic won multiple top awards at the 2024 Malaga Film Festival.

A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal much: he observes them, takes cue, until his imagination throws them into another era, in a past where the noise of the sewing machines fills a workplace handled and populated by women, where men have minor and marginal roles and cinema can be told from another point of view: the one of costume. Between loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absence and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction permeate, as well as the lives of the actresses and those of the characters, the competition and the sisterhood, the visible and the invisible.

The Viennese cab driver Maggy has all kinds of problems, not least monetary ones. But suddenly Maggy's financial problems could solve all by themselves when Juliette Koons, who has been reported missing, gets into her cab with a heavy suitcase.

Two young soldiers: Enzo in service to the military; Sasà, to the Mafia. Engaged to Maria, Enzo has taken a mortgage on a nice, new apartment. But while she and her mother are planning the wedding and shopping for furniture, he is killed in action in Afghanistan. The wedding turns into a funeral. Maria is devastated. The new flat is to be sold before it has even been occupied. When she arrives to clear out, she finds Sasà - a soldier of another kind. Wounded in a shootout between two rival gangs, he has taken refuge in the first empty flat he could find. Brought together by a twist of fate, she lets him stay and tends to his wounds. It somehow distracts her from her sorrow. As he recovers, the two draw closer, but face an uncertain future

A timeless Carpathian story - the young Ivan falls in love with the daughter of his father's killer among the Hutsul people of Ukraine.

Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in association with Dovzhenko Film Studio and in collaboration with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

A young actress gets rudely turned down for the role as Juliet by a famous director, who's star is waning. She returns in disguise to audition as Romeo just to show him how good she really is and is cast for the role.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, shows him that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection.

Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.

The documentary follows the life of Francisca Hernández hailing from a long family of midwives, bonesetters, and exorcists, who dedicate their lives to the healing of large communities in Veracruz, particularly in a ritual celebration dedicated to Death that takes place every year. The film explores magical-religious syncretism and transculturation in occult faith practices, through a sensorial approach to nature and the echoes of mysticism that reside in it.

Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.

Dragfox ( UK/ 2024/  English/ 8 mins) Dir.  Lisa Ott. Struggling with their gender identity, eleven-year-old Sam feels alone and confused, not quite sure how to express the way they feel. That is until a mischievous neighbourhood fox (marvelously voiced by Ian McKellen) jumps through their window late one night, taking Sam on an all-singing, all-dancing journey of self-discovery and acceptance.

If I Make It To The Morning ( USA/ 2024/ English/ 9 mins) Dir. Andre Shen. Accompanied by her overbearing mother, Chinese teenager Ziyi spends the final night of her cross-State college tour at her aunt’s apartment in New York. But as Ziyi starts to think this could be the perfect place to live and study, an unexpected revelation suddenly brings tension to the group.

NGGGAK!!!( Indonesia/ 2024/ Indonesian/ 8 mins) Dirs. Oktania Hamdani, Winner Wijaya. As they play an online game together, girlfriends Sekar and Bebi laugh, chat and send each other memes. But their simple bliss is shattered when Sekar’s mother phones to tell her she is to be set up with a potential partner. Can Sekar make her mother understand that she has already found the one?

We’ll Go Down In History (UK/ 2024/ English/ 25 mins) Dir. Cameron Richards. The story of TRUK United, a grassroots, proudly trans football club formed in January 2021. Filmed over two years, this heartfelt documentary captures the highs and lows of the pioneering UK team on and off the pitch as they strive to create a safe haven for their community in the face of rising transphobia.

Wait, Wait, Now! (New Zealand/ 2024/ English/ 12 mins) Dir. Ramon Te Wake. When best friends Alex and Sam are left at home for the night, they do what all teenage boys do: raid mum’s wardrobe, play dress ups, and create a fantasy world where they feel safe and accepted. Well, maybe that's just what some boys do. But little do they know, the parents are on to them. Is there a safe bubble about to burst?

In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?

In a heartfelt effort to rekindle his 80-year-old father’s zest for life, filmmaker Filip Hammar surprises him with a road trip to the French coastal town where they spent family holidays to revisit cherished memories in this touching and humorous first-person documentary.

 From Miguel Gomes, the award winning director of Tabu and Arabian Nights, comes a globe-trotting tale of unrequited love. Earning Gomes the Best Director prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, Grand Tour blends melodrama and screwball comedy in this cat-and-mouse chase between lovers.

1917, colonial Burma. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he escapes into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, she quickly follows suit amused by his moves. 

Rendered in stunning black-and-white period visuals interspersed with modern-day documentary footage, Grand Tour–Portugal’s Best International Feature entry to the 97th Academy Awards®–is a dazzling multi-city symphony that will leave audiences reeling with wonder.

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams.

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to heal, she returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands where she grew up.

Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptot’s autobiographical bestseller uses harrowing flashbacks to depict Rona’s downward spiral in London and her time in a strict rehab programme. However, the focus of the film is on her liberation from personal demons through a connection with the nature of her childhood home.

"I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos' house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about the Mafia, and several politicians maintained that the Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti's criminal activities and the whole Mafia system, by using a small local radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this conclusion. Note: This is a true story. More than twenty years after Peppino's death, the case has been re-opened. Tano Badalamenti, meanwhile, has been convicted in the USA for drug trafficking.

A former star of a crime TV series is forced to take on the role of a detective when a murder disguised as an accident occurs at the nursing home he has just moved into.

Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style, based on the play by Neapolitan author Eduardo De Filippo, “Filumena Marturano”, features Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in an emblematic portrait of Italian society in postwar Italy. Domenico, a successful businessman with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is still only 17 years old. She becomes a sex worker, but also becomes Domenico's mistress. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works for him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannies. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee, and Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage; Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. Could all of them be his? Domenico marries Filumena again, this time willingly.

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage, with support from Memory Cinéma.

It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church. Based on the novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers on a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there. Actually, the island isn't deserted and when the Greeks understand that those Italians are harmless, they come out of their hiding places in the mountains and continue their peaceful lives. Soon the soldiers discover that being left behind in a God-forgotten Greek island isn't such a bad thing, after all..

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter. Eventually, they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.

A man who has been unemployed for months is finally given a chance at a job putting up posters. He and his family have been living in poverty for months, and are very excited to hear the news. The only requirement for the job is a bicycle. His wife pawns the sheets off of their own bed in order to buy the bicycle. And, as you can tell from the title, it is stolen on his first day of work. Now, without it, he and his son search the crowded streets of Rome for the only thing that can give him back his dignity as a man. 

The Bicycle Thief is De Sica's masterpiece of Italian neorealism filmmaking and a true landmark in cinema history.
 

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Compass Film, and Istituto Luce – Cinecittà, in collaboration with Arthur Cohn and Euro Immobilfin.

Abandoned as a child, Jack travels to remote New Zealand to attend the funeral of his estranged mother Elizabeth.There he meets her widow, Jill, who has questions of her own. Over the nights that follow, Elizabeth returns and possesses Jack and Jill, using each of their bodies to speak to the other. Jill faces Elizabeth’s suicide, while Jack confronts his abandonment. As they learn she is trapped in limbo, Jack begins to doubt Elizabeth’s reason for returning.

Caught in a life-threatening nocturnal dance, Jack and Jill must find a way to let go of Elizabeth’s hold before she pushes them to the edge. WENT UP THE HILL is a psychological drama inspired by writer/director Samuel Van Grinsven’s memories of his childhood in New Zealand’s South Island. An intimate, modern ghost story that explores the extremities of grief in our pursuit of letting go.

 From celebrated filmmaker Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust and Bone), EMILIA PÉREZ is a genre-defying musical odyssey set against Mexican cartel land. Overworked lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldaña, Colombiana), is hired by notorious drug lord Manitas Del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón) to help him disappear and live authentically as Emilia Pérez, the woman he has always dreamt of being. Unbeknownst to Manitas’ wife Jessi (Selena Gomez, Spring Breakers), Rita arranges secret surgeries and fakes Manitas' death. But as Emilia begins a new life, the past threatens to unravel their carefully crafted plans. A bold and gripping exploration of identity and transformation, Audiard’s acclaimed latest won both the Cannes Jury Prize and the Best Actress award for its dazzling ensemble cast.

The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death: his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors, and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia. 

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, in association with the Cinema Foundation of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia. Funding provided by the Material World Foundation.

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner ANORA is an audacious, thrilling, and comedic variation on a modern day Cinderella story. Mikey Madison captivates as Ani, a young sex worker from Brooklyn whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the impetuous son of a Russian billionaire. However, when Vanya's parents catch wind of the union, they send their henchmen to annul the marriage, setting off a wild chase through the streets of New York.

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face, that does not stop her love for music.

The film maker will be present for the screening.

For decades, the only “legal” way to experience world cinema in India was through film festivals and film screenings organised by film societies (or sourcing films through 'alternative', underground ways). All cinephiles have a core memory, a nostalgia of catching a rare foreign film for the first time, feeling that initial spark of discovery. With the advent of streaming platforms like MUBI, the landscape has changed significantly, and access to international cinema is now much more convenient, transforming this ritual into an everyday experience. In this conversation, we revisit that nostalgia, the thrill of discovery, and the role of streaming in redefining cinephilia—and, of course, our evolving relationship with reading subtitles. Panelists : Anurag Minus Verma - Filmmaker, cultural practitioner and Professor, Manisha Pande - Writer, news anchor and podcaster, Harshit Bansal - Critic, producer and Founder of Humans of Cinema. Moderated by Svetlana Naudiyal - Programming Director, MUBI.

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

Accompanied by his friend Miyata, Sano returns to Izu, a seaside resort in Japan where five years before he fell in love with his wife Nagi.

A generous and stubborn elderly boxing coach who gets along with everyone except his own son. They're reunited after the death of the old man's wife and forced to face old grievances.

A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and CristaldiFilm.

A woman's world turns upside down after her father's death, as she experiences a recurring dream of a little girl, compelling her to dive into international adoption, risking her marriage, family stability, and moral compass.

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.

WINDCATCHER is set in the heartwarming town of Herbertson, where Percy Boy, a fast-running Aboriginal boy, forms an unexpected alliance with Keithy Cobb, the newcomer, and Daisy Hawkins, a daring girl. Together, the trio aim to clinch the athletics carnival title from the "Wolf Pack” — the notorious grade five bullies. As Percy Boy trains, he uncovers his unique gift of seeing Lost Souls, a gift inherited from his grandfather. But as the big day approaches, a crisis looms over Herbertson and threatens Percy Boy’s family and the town. Percy Boy must harness the support of his mates, his family, and his community to face the challenge head-on. This is not just a journey about winning, but discovering the strength to make your mark. For Percy Boy, catching the wind is only the start of his great big adventure.

While doing groceries, old man catches a whiff of a woman, Saimi, who smells just right and makes his world spin around. The man is struggling to believe that, in his heart, he could ever feel like a young boy again. He can’t help but admit that he enjoys Saimi’s company. The words, gaze, and touch of another person awaken long-lost feelings.
 
His sons are skeptical, even jealous of their father, and don’t trust Saimi’s intentions. Who knows, maybe she’s after his inheritance. Family meetings, misunderstandings, swimming in the moonlight, sleepless nights. The power of love can pierce through even the oldest of flannel shirts.

The film tells the story of a Ukrainian family spending the last day of their holiday in Tenerife, Spain. They do not know yet that the next day their life would completely change. Once at the airport, their flight is canceled: Russia has invaded Ukraine. Trapped on the island, overnight the tourists become refugees.

Filmmaker Ali Khamrayev, accompanied by cinematographer Yuri Klimenko delved into the archives, and travelled to Armenia and Georgia to honour Sergei Parajanov: one of cinema's greats, whose vision and defiance of convention transcended borders.

Alessandro is an established Italian director who makes films on environmental issues. During his trip to India, along the sacred Narmada river, he meets Lala, a “street urchin” from an Indian village who left his home to work and guarantee dignity and land for his family of farmers displaced by the construction of a large dam.

 Lia, a retired teacher, made a promise to find her long lost niece Tekla. The search takes her to Istanbul, a beautiful city that seems full of connections and possibilities. There she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights, and Tekla starts to feel closer than ever...

Under the shadow of the US invasion, an extended Afghan refugee family begins their new lives in Iran unaware of the ultimate price expected of them as outliers in this (un)welcoming environment: Mohammad, a young teenager and promising student; Leila, a woman isolated by geography, and Qasem who bears the weight of his family’s sacrifice.

Swapping the tumult of a locked-down world for the anarchic digital hinterlands of gaming’s very own Wild West, this uproarious documentary yanks Shakespeare into the 21st century. Winner of the Grand Jury Award at SXSW, Grand Theft Hamlet finds community and creativity in the unlikeliest of places.

The workshop will be a journey through documents and images about the restoration of De Sica’s film and the challenge of preserving the original elements of the Apu Trilogy. Along this main focus, we will be able to discuss film restoration and preservation techniques the way they are carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata.

Come along with your questions and curiosity!

Céline Stéphanie Pozzi has been working at L’Immagine ritrovata since 2003. First in the film Repair department, where she started as an intern, then switched to digital in 2006 and became Head of the Digital Restoration in 2008, but she is still an analog film fan. In 2019 she became Project Manager. Along the years she has also been actively involved in the organization of internal training at L'Immagine ritrovata, recruitment, and Public relations at film markets such in Hong Kong and France.

She has been part of the faculty at the FIAF Film Restoration Schools all over the world since 2007,  including Film Preservation and Restoration School India, Mumbai 2015 and 2022, teaching about the Digital Restoration and Restorations workflows.

Marcello Snaporaz is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward, when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts falling toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact, then follows her when she leaves the compartment. For a few moments she finds him attractive too. Then suddenly she gets off the train and starts walking through a field. Marcello follows her, loses her, and finds himself in a large hotel surrounded by women. A feminist conference is taking place and he tries to escape.

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Europictures, with support from the Italian Ministry of Culture, using original negatives provided by Gaumont.

In Miracolo a Milano, a poetic and neorealistic fantasy tale, Vittorio de Sica portrays the life of a kind man named Totò, who was found in a cabbage patch when he was a baby. The drama of a miserable childhood, unemployment and social exclusion Miracolo a Milano focuses all its time on the humble and the poor in a shantytown built on the outskirts of Milan. Vittorio de Sica, a leading figure in Italian cinema from the 1930s to the 1970s, was in the 1950s one of the greatest champions of the neorealism movement.. Ingenuous, Totò has the audacity to believe in a just world. De Sica addresses the post-war years, driven by a desire to contribute to the moral reconstruction of Italian society. 

Restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film, in collaboration with Mediaset, Infinity, Arthur Cohn, and Variety Communications.

Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different - September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is suspended from their school, July is left to fend for herself and begins to assert her own independence - which does not go unnoticed by September. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland, where July finds her bond with September shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand or control - and a series of surreal encounters test the family to their limit.

In an abandoned house, Don Cristian, 80 years old, has decided to die. But everything changes when Camilo, a young doctor, takes refuge in the house to spend the night and a series of enigmas are unleashed that will be solved in a magical and supernatural way. The black humor, also present, gives the drama a touch of irony. An old enemy of Don Cristian arrives, causing the secret, which has kept him hidden there for 47 years, to be revealed.

Joys and disappointments of three young girls who dream of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills; Giuditta, the most inexperienced and naive, will have to choose between the dream of cinema and the reality of a marriage.

After years of mass tourism in the alps, a rethinking is slowly taking place. Whether researchers, artists or philosophers, many are trying to approach the essence of the mountains in new ways. They reflect the contrasting approaches in this critical time when we need to redefine our learned values and actively seek change.

Marcello Curti is a young man who is part of a middle-class family. In spite of his appearances, however, he conducts trafficking in dirty money by acting as an intermediary between the large foreign mafia clans and his fellow villagers.

A voice that claims to belong to a hippopotamus. A voice that does not understand the perception of time. A voice that tells of a historical event as if in a trance. “Am I making that sound that comes out of my mouth? And what is a mouth anyway?” The only thing the animal knows for sure is that it is dead. The first and only hippopotamus ever killed in the Americas. The Colombian press called him Pepe. Between encounters and misunderstandings, epiphanies and sadness, we enter a world full of stories replete with even more stories. In a serious and playful way, both authentic and deceptive, images and sounds narrate the overwhelming orality of places full of beings who, like Pepe, died without ever knowing where they really were.

Soy Nevenka dramatises the case of Nevenka Fernández, a member of the Ponferrada City Council who in 2001 became the first woman in Spain to win a court case for sexual harassment against a high-ranking politician – her ex boyfriend and all-powerful Ponferrada mayor Ismael Alvárez. Relentlessly hounded by the mayor, a man used to getting his way both politically and personally, a twenty-three year old Nevenka decides to report him, knowing fully well that it will cost her dearly. What follows is a gripping and intense drama that tells the story of a pioneer of the Spanish MeToo movement.

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

On a special day in 1938, all of Rome is attending a parade celebrating Hitler’s meeting with Mussolini. A working-class housewife, left alone to tend to household duties, meets the only person not attending the parade, a liberal radio broadcaster, and the two forge an unexpectedly close friendship.

 Mi-Thet, a young Burmese woman who works in a garment factory, faces an urgent strike organized by her colleagues, which reminds her of her deep trauma. By learning about the recent history of her country, she decides to act.

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. In a final period of hopeful innocence, free-spirited Nicola travels the world and settles for a life as a successful psychiatrist, while his tragically introverted and idealist brother Matteo joins the Italian police with the hope of righting society's wrongs. Their politics and personalities are inextricably intertwined as the world around them violently shifts and they are pushed together and pulled apart by the tides of history and their own divergent dreams.

One of the last days before the school holidays something happens between six year old Armand and Jon. The parents are called in for a meeting, but the school management doesn't really know what actually happened. Was it just a children’s game or something much more serious? The incident between the two boys triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into a captivating battle - where madness, desire and obsession arise.

Apu is born into a poor family where Harihar, his father, cannot provide for everyone at home. However, Harihar dreams of a better life and leaves the village to look for an opportunity to earn money.