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.

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class R...

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Historical drama set during the reign of Philip II of Spain. The royal troops have taken up quarters...

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

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

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...

Did Jesus exist? This film starts with that question, then goes on to examine Christianity as a whol...

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

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

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Nata...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragos...