Movies: Ladis Zanini

Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support...

Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his t...

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A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016)....

"Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning "La strada di Levi", Ferrario sets off on a journey: this time, on the traces of the expedition of t...

A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman....

Joe, Carlo, Bobo and Giacomo have always been friends, each with their own life and problems, but united by an authentic bond and the passion that brought them together: music. The Boys, the band's name, had had lightning-fast success in the 1970s. I...

"One evening, without any particular expectations, I went to the Lavanderia a Vapore theatre in Collegno, headquarters of the Balletto Teatro di Torino, directed by Loredana Furno, and I saw Sexxx, the ballet by Matteo Levaggi. I’m not a fan of moder...

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Art documentary about the Accademia Carrara gallery, which reopened in 2015 after seven years of extensive restoration....

A group of international art students in Siena comes in contact with a mysterious Etruscan artifact owned by the sinister Samuel Powell....

In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he exp...

Three friends live together in the house owned by one of them - and look for happiness...

Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night....

A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion....

Piero C, a successful Turin television host, is dumped by his girlfriend, Beatrice; the abandonment left him in a state of deep depression. to the point he considers to end it all and leave his job. But his friends will try to make him recover throug...