The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol 2025

A modern fable, the animated biopic will chart the epic life of Pagnol, a celebrated French novelist, playwright and filmmaker who grew up in a middle-class household in Marseille and became one of the world’s most inventive and prolific artists from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Throughout his long career, Pagnol’s books were translated into more than 50 languages and sold more than 150 million units. Pagnol also built his own studio and distribution company, pioneering talking pictures and helping shape the global cinema industry at the time. His movies, including his best-known Provence-set melodrama trilogy “Marius,” “Fanny” and “César,” reached more than 200 admissions worldwide.

Michelangeli and Celibidache interpret Ravel - Great musical moments 2025

Retrospective on a unique moment of great music. In 1982, two immense musicians pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and conductor Sergiu Celibidache combined their talents to perform the “Concerto in G Major” by the legendary Ravel.

Essere oro 2022

Nina is a little girl going through a very difficult time in her life. In search of lost harmony, something pushes her beyond the realm of the possible.

Il pataffio 2022

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled.

Carosello Carosone 2021

The life and times of Italian music legend Renato Carosone.

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me 2020

Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.

The Italian Character: The Story of a Great Italian Orchestra 2013

The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.

Gli Squallor 2012

A documentary about Squallor, Italy's first and most successful "ghost band" project, created by four big bosses of 70's-80's Italian music business.

Stefano Bollani - Carioca Live 2009

L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa 2009

Both from the same neighborhood of Livorno, filmmaker Paolo Virzì interviews singer-songwriter Roberto 'Bobo' Rondelli about his art.

The Cosmos on the Commode 2008

Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.

Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe 2006

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in the search for that "own voice" that European jazz musicians have helped to form. Featuring the great masters of European jazz such as Chris Barber, Jan Garbarek, Juliette Gréco, Stefano Bollani and Till Brönner, to name but a few.