Olimpia Carlisi

Sanremo Music Festival

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sa...

Catch-22

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions...

Fellini's Casanova

Imprisoned for practicing black magic, writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova escapes and wanders Europe, using...

Etoile

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things...

Joseph Balsamo

Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the...

The Terrace

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss...

Facing Windows

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husb...

Rendez-vous

Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both...

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bank...

Ombre

Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a N...

Misunderstood

Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too p...

The Soup

Two homeless men in Rome are arrested due to a misunderstanding. In jail, they meet a man who has been arrested...

Tolérance

An English hermit has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior t...

Viper

Viper is the nickname Leone, a blacksmith in a small Sicilian village, gave to his wife, who ran off with anoth...

You Upset Me

The first movie directed by Roberto Benigni in four surreal short stories: "Durante Cristo" (During Christ), "A...

Circle of Fear

Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is...

Youth March

Two Brothers, My Sister

This dark and intense drama follows the slow and painful destruction of a young, passive woman as she watches h...

The Middle of the World

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in...

Irene, Irene

The 60-year-old Guido is in a life crisis after his wife left him. His search for her develops more and more in...

Equinox

Psychiatrist takes young man to castle owned by strange woman, where the latter discovers he's the incarnation...

From the Clouds to the Resistance

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese’s «Dialoghi con Leucò», taken from classica...

Cartoni animati

The Insomniac on the Bridge

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) wh...

E il Casanova di Fellini?

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view...

The Sweet Sounds of Life

Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher, is gay. H...

On the Lam

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women'...

Clodia - Fragmenta

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges...

Faire la déménageuse

In 1972, what does making a film mean? How does a movie make? What is the relationship between the producer of...

Under the Sign of Scorpio

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rut...

Olimpia to Friends

Pisa, 1942. Marcella, Olimpia’s daughter, is suffering from meningioma. Her husband Pierluigi and her brother D...

The Visionaries

A film about a love triangle between a theater director, an actress and an actor. Exchanges take place between...

Othon

Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based o...

Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea

Giuseppe M. Gaudino made his directorial debut with this experimental film portrait contrasting the ancient Rom...

Il berretto a sonagli

Beatrice discovers the affair between her husband and the young wife of Ciampa, a man advanced in years and sec...

7 False Connections

Short film showing cinematographer Henri Alekan, director Raúl Ruiz and actress Olimpia Carlisi at work creatin...