In many Western countries, trust between the people and conventional political parties is at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In Italy, protest party Movimento 5 Stelle, founded by popular comedian Beppe Grillo, vows to send all politicians home and bring power to the people. They win a stunning 25% votes, becoming the most-voted single party in Italy, but what happens when ideals meet parliamentary reality? Can one be uncompromising and effective at the same time? Are internet referendums direct democracy or faceless mob rule?
Thoughts of a diversity of public and private citizens on the virtues of democracy, its faults, its ...
The personal and professional story of Ilona Staller, known as Cicciolina, is probably unique: she l...
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falc...
The work deals with the election campaign of Vladimir Luxuria, the first transgender woman to sit in...
The last days of Marco Pannella’s life - indomitable and disruptive protagonist over 60 years of Ita...
Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created...
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate mo...
Hard things were said. Incredible things were said. It is time to think about everything that was sa...
Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the ...
Fifteen years ago, social networks were seen as a new democratic ferment that, by promoting the diss...
The making of patriotic films was not rare among FAI productions, and Il bacio della gloria is one e...
In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a d...
In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ...
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying ...
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged...
In this remake the Bertolucci's 1900, Olmo Dalco and Alfredo Berlingheiri's complicated friendship a...
A bucolic fantasy frolic in which an adaptable young woman must navigate a bewildering and whimsical...