Drawing on archives and interviews, including one with Italian director Marco Bellocchio, this is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the making of his film about reformed mafia member Tommaso Buscetta.

A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others. He runs into a number of people and, after asking their permission, reveals their hidden vices and limitations. It is the only thing that he is able to accomplish, now that rage and destructive energy have given way to imagination and marginal comments.

Italian television miniseries

A portrait of actress Eleonora Duse.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.

Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat.

“在意大利丰富的犯罪历史中，马蒂奥·梅西纳·德纳罗和他的30年销声匿迹是独一无二的，”导演们坚持说，“多年来的调查和报道中透露出的细节，让我们有机会深入了解他神秘的性格，并揭示他隐身存在所培育的广泛关系网络。在我们的电影中，在理性的沉睡中追逐梦想的人们，最终都陷入了悲剧而荒谬的噩梦之中。”

2024 film directed by Alejandro Monteverde

Writer, poet, playwright, journalist, soldier and patriot, Gabriele D’Annunzio was the man Mussolini was inspired by in the process of building the Italian Fascist Movement. Our story starts when the poet is however ending up his life in exile, determined to fight against the fascist oppression and to not give up his freedom of thought. Even though D’Annunzio accepts honors and appointments from Mussolini, the Duce fears him and sends a young Italian federal to watch over the ‘evil poet’. Yet the poet, even if old and tired, hasn't lost his seductive skills. Will they charm the young soldier to the point of making him question himself and its faith to Fascism?

In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope's soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo's parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras' struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

贝罗奇奥是意大利国宝级导演之一，他不但深受威尼斯的追捧，同时也受到戛纳的厚爱。他曾五次入围威尼斯电影节主竞赛，并获得终身成就奖；同时，他又曾入围过六次戛纳主竞赛单元。去年，导演极其私人化的影片《吾血之血》在威尼斯收获无数好评。今年这部片，将围绕一个隐藏在信封内长达四十年的秘密所展开。本片为今年导演双周开幕片。

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Federico’s twin brother, and making him betray his priestly mission. Federico hopes to secure his brother a burial on consecrated grounds. In modern times, Federico Mai, a Minister inspector, knocks on the doors of the very same convent, in order to broker a sale of the property to a Russian millionaire. Unbeknownst to him, a mysterious "Count" lives there.

2009 film by Marco Bellocchio

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.