Roberto Perpignani

Red Line

In 1975, Thomas Harlan's crew filmed Torre Bela's homestead occupation, in the center of Portugal. Three decades later, RED LINE revisits this emblematic film of the Portuguese revolutionary period: in which way did Harlan interfered in the events that seems to naturally develop in front of the camera? What was the impact of the film on the lives of the occupants and the memory of that period?

Bernardo Bertolucci, le dernier empereur du cinema

Glauber, Claro

A deep dive into Glauber Rocha's years exiled in Italy in the 70s. Through a collection of interviews and archives, the movie shows the making of his film Claro (1975) and his relation with European auteurs in their filmic and political views.

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.

Buon compleanno Massimo

The World in Shots

"Il mondo a scatti" is a film that intertwines images of today and yesterday, still images and moving images through a dialogue between two people who reflect on the visible and invisible things of the world: Cecilia Mangini, unstoppable ninety years old, photographer, documentary maker, screenwriter is filmed by Paolo Pisanelli, photographer, director, curator of cultural events.

Dissidia

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles

The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles’ debut film.

Behind Love and Anger

Documentary about the anthology film Love and Anger (1969) with interviews with Carlo Lizzani (director of the segment "L'indifferenza"), Marco Bellocchio (director of the segment "Discutiamo, discussamo"), Maurizio Ponzi (assistant director of the segment " La sequenza del fiore di carta," by Pier Paolo Pasolini), and Roberto Perpignani (editor of the segment "Agonia," by Bernardo Bertolucci).

Journey into the Twilight

A portrait of Italy in the 60's and 70's, based on films by Marco Bellocchio.