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 documentary about German tourists on vacation in Italy and various activities at their Italian vac...
Uli Köhler and Nick Golücke have visited the protagonists of the 1990 World Cup 20 years after their...

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

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks,...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

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

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...

In the small mountain town of Barga, Italy, a group of four filmmakers speak with local cat lovers a...

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and ...

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

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

Luca lives for pizza. In an attempt to create a documentary about the cultural exchange between Neap...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...