year: 2024
runtime: 52/70min
director: Maxim Derevianko

In 1920 Giacomo Puccini wrote the first note of Turandot, that now is taken up by Ai Weiwei, one of the greatest contemporary artists, who choses to diect his first theatrical production at the Opera in Rome. Turandot story represents also Ai Weiwei life, as his life-long friend and choreographer Chiang Ching tells us. INFO: https://vimeo.com/901906520/d759826613

year: 2024
runtime: 1x90min
director: Laurent Portes

Rome, 2005. The Line C capital's third underground line constructions begins. The project is an exceptional challenge. The city has the most complex archaeological subsoil in the world. Over 3000 years of history, new buildings have been superimposed on ancient ones, creating an archaeological stratification up to 15 metres deep. INFO: https://vimeo.com/759208852/2ee42dce75

year: 2025
runtime: 1x75min
director: Danilo Caracciolo

World War II, summer: Italy has just entered the conflict and all Italian citizens living in the UK become potential threats. So do to the Germans.Workers and immigrants become first prisoners and then civilian casualties, so the fatal trajectory of more than 800 people is accomplished in a month in a series of accidental mistakes on everyone's part. War often kills by friendly fire, but the Arandora Star tragedy is unique under all circumstances.

year: 2026
runtime: 1x75min
director: Luca Pagliari & Giulia Betti

For some mysterious reason, few people know the novel-esque life of Renato Cesarini, the man who gave his name to the famous area. He was born in Senigallia in the early 1900s and died in Buenos Aires in 1969. After some football seasons with Argentine teams, in 1929 he was bought by Juventus, with whom he made his First Division debut.

year: 2024
runtime: 1x85min
director: Martin Turk

In early 20th century Austro-Hungarian city of Trieste, a group of local fearless entrepreneurs decided to open Ireland’s fi rst full time cinema, the Cinema Volta, led by an unknown english teacher from Dublin: James Joyce. INFO: https://vimeo.com/851583729

year: 2024
runtime: 1x52min 1x75min
director: Igor D'India

In 2016, the CNR and La Sapienza University of Rome published a study on the discovery of a huge dump in the depths of the underwater canyons of the Strait of Messina. This rubbish dump, identified thanks to the use of a sophisticated ROV, a remotely operated underwater remotely piloted vehicle, is not an isolated case, but an example of a phenomenon also found in several other marine abysses around the world, from Gibraltar to Nice, from Korea to Africa. With the aid of sophisticated technical means of the latest generation, the film documents the underwater exploration conducted at the end of June 2023 by the director together with CNR marine geologists, marine biologists and robotics engineers, in the suggestive arm of the sea that connects the Tyrrhenian Sea with the Ionian Sea, at a depth of over 600 metres.

year: 2023
runtime: 52/99min
director: Alessandro Negrini

A fresco with dreamlike atmospheres in Erto, a village devastated by the 1963 Vajont tragedy, torn between the desire for rebirth and the need to preserve the memory of a painful past. INFO: https://vimeo.com/867154858Password: EIMD_23#

year: 2016
runtime: 90min
director: Tony Trupia

A revenge against Cosa Nostra. Malerba is a world that in Sicilian dialect means spear grass. The film’s story follows the vicissitudes of a young criminal during the period between the first half of the ‘80s to the early ’90s. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/183192784 Password: grassonelli

year: 2024
runtime: 2x52min
director: Jesus Garcés Lambert

From the bombed-out, blackened ruins of Iraq’s war-torn cities to Vatican City State, the world’s smallest country nestled in the heart of Rome, from Paris to his home country Argentina or Central African Republic, in every moment and in every place the Pope is not alone. A Swiss Guard is the first person he greets every morning and the last one in the evening. Being a Swiss Guard is so much more than just a job. It’s a vocation. It’s a unique calling. It’s something many of today’s guards “inherited” from their ancestors, and of which they are immensely proud.

year: 2023
runtime: 52min
director: Roberto Palozzi

The nativity is one of the most famous traditions in the Christian world, but its story is hardly known. On the night of Christmas 1223, in the mountains of central Italy, Saint Francis of Assisi – sanctioned by the Pope himself – created the first living nativity. This is the true story behind the Christmas tradition beloved around the world, told in the sites where it all began.

year: 2023
runtime: 52min
director: Roberto Palozzi

Saint Francis of Assisi is best known for his miracles, philanthropy and connection to the natural world. But it was his final, and least known years, that were the most important. Eight hundred years ago, feeling like he had failed in his life’s mission, Saint Francis embarked on his path to reach God. Discover how the legacy of these three years is lived out today in Christian traditions globally.

year: 2024
runtime: 52min
director: Marco Finola

From the most evocative points of the Duomo of Milan, to the Basilica of Saint Ambrosius, Monsignor Marco Navoni, Doctor of the Venerable Ambrosian Library, historian and scholar of the life of Saint Ambrosius. He tells of the life of an extraordinary man who gave all his possessions to the poor, who played a fundamental role in the conversion of Saint Augustine, who guided the Christian community with faith and justice for over 20 years, through difficult conflicts with the imperial authorities.

year: 2016
runtime: 40min
director: Marco Finola

The Venerable Ambrosian Library is a universally recognized cultural excellence. A large number of Greek, Latin, vulgar and other Eastern languages codices were donated to the Library. Today its patrimony counts more than a million printed books, including 40,000 manuscripts, 2500 incunabula, 12,000 parchments and almost 12.000 drawings (by Rafael, Leonardo and many others). Among its many treasures is the unique Codex Atlanticus, the most complete collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s manuscripts.

year: 2015
runtime: 75min
director: Marco Finola

The documentary illustrates the overall artistic and cultural treasures that live in custody, with hints to the important activity of the academy.

year: 2016
runtime: 76min
director: Marco Finola

The organ of the Duomo of Milan is perhaps the largest in the world for the number of pipes, but certainly the most important in terms of timbre performance and versatility. Its history began in 1400, practically with the birth of the cathedral itself, to transform over time in step with technical developments. What we see today dates back to 1938. Still today, with its 16,000 barrels and five-level keyboard, it represents absolute excellence.

year: 2018
runtime: 7min
director: Marco Finola

After the painful fire in Notre Dame de Paris, the story of the maintenance of the Spire of the Duomo of Milan is topical. The Duomo was founded in 1386 and from that date requires continuous maintenance for the marble and wooden parts and for the precious interior decoration. The recovery of the spire maggiore is perhaps the most important work completed in recent decades, the operation is not only aesthetic, but also structural. Engineer Mörling describes in detail the delicate intervention that foresees a particular tubular grid in order to make the self-supporting spire, just in time for the works. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/312992058

year: 2015
runtime: 70min
director: Marco Finola

On May 12, 1935 The Archbishop of Milan, Blessed Cardinal Ildefonso Schuster, consecrated the Basilica of the Seminary of Venegono, thus inaugurating the "New" seat of the Seminary desired by Pope Pius XI.

year: 2014
runtime: 41min
director: Marco Finola

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, a man of our times, Cardinal of Milan from 1929 to 1954, his Episcopate has gone through the darkest moments of the 20th century. Schuster opposed racial laws in 1938, was close to his diocese in the war period. He lived with intensity the reconstruction, he made 5 pastoral visits.

year: 2018
runtime: 81min
director: Marco Finola

Like few other thinkers, the great intellectual of the 1800s, Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), philosopher and theologian, statesman and founder of an order, can be of great help to us. A thinker of European rank and with far-sighted prospects. The basis of his thought is man, the person, the common good, just those values we need today. TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/antoniorosmini2

year: 2016
runtime: 65min
director: Marco Finola

From the most evocative points of the Duomo of Milan, to the Basilica of Saint Ambrosius, Monsignor Marco Navoni, Doctor of the Venerable Ambrosian Library, historian and scholar of the life of Saint Ambrosius. He tells of the life of an extraordinary man who gave all his possessions to the poor, who played a fundamental role in the conversion of Saint Augustine, who guided the Christian community with faith and justice for over 20 years, through difficult conflicts with the imperial authorities.