"JULIA MY DEAR! GIORGIO." So begin and end the letters that the famous director Giorgio Strehler wrote to actress Giulia Lazzarini, before or after a performance. The last recommendations, the last nods of love and fear for his actors. Then Giulia is left alone on stage, she and her characters. The film start…- The Ealing Club, dubbed ‘the cradle of British rock’ (Mojo), was a dingy, smoky, concrete-floored basement barely mentioned in music history books, and it would last only three years. However, its pivotal role in fostering a golden generat…
- Gianluca Ansanelli, best known as the screenwriter of Opposites Attract (LIFF16), pens a vibrant and endearing love letter to Naples through two interconnected love stories, as an eleven-year-old navigates his first crush with the help of his bookish psychologist, who himself is falling head over heels for the boy’s vi…
- An Italian submarine returns from a mission. The crew members look forward to reunite with their family, and to escape the promiscuity that causes tensions to run high amongst sailors. Shortly before reaching safe waters, disaster strikes: a squadron of enemy airplanes bombs the submarine, which sinks to the bottom of …
- After the war, almost by chance, Alfonso Sansone starts to produce documentary films with his brother Agostino and moves from Palermo to Rome, the city of film. Thanks to Citto Maselli, he comes into contact with Henryk Chroscicki, an Australian young man of Polish origin, who is in Rome to attend the Experimental Cine…
- Ekvtime Takaishvili was well known archaeologist, numismatist and teacher who became a guardian of the Kartvelian national golden, antique and holy treasure during 24 years in his emigration in France from 1921 to 1945 and never lost or sold any item to survive