Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he...

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on...

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted...

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by...

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his...

Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is...

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to...

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits,...

Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four...

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of...

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968...

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and...

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country...

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an...

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director...

Making of "Caro Diario"

A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.

A short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient"

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.

Memories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone"

A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who,...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers...

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer.

Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him.

The producer and writer from Turin, Lorenzo Ventavoli, talks to his friend, the critic Steve Della Casa, in a brilliant conversation that touches on...

Nanni Moretti talks about the making of Ecce bombo while working out with his personal trainer.

The filmmaker Nanni Moretti recounts the story of his relationship with politics, both through his films and his political activism.

A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he...

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the...

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian...

Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real...

An old film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces...

From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments...

The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid...

Documentary by Marco Spagnoli.

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

The last game of water polo.

A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).

Demonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of view of an increasingly disillusioned young leftist....

Part interview, part monologue, part documentary with Nanni Moretti talking about his work.

Moretti's contribution to "Chacun son cinema"