He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

A new era is about to begin in Eastern Europe. Scythians, the proud warriors, are all but gone and m...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
Uli Köhler and Nick Golücke have visited the protagonists of the 1990 World Cup 20 years after their...
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemp...

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged wi...
A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.

Paintings, performances, experiments, electronic music sounding in the spaces of two old houses in a...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

A found footage / object film: the colorful 1960s in Italy, a joyful time, live-giving coating of bo...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...