Follow your dreams. Do not be afraid to fail. What you want from life will not land in your lap. It will not happen without your agency. Getting what you want – and no doubt deserve – takes a willingness to fight and to roll with the punches. But every now and then one of those punches will land and it will knock you out. What happens next is the most important thing – do you stay down or do you get up and go again? Sometimes, if you have eyes...

Maria Montessori non fu certo una donna comune. Capace di destare le pi entusiastiche adesioni e le critiche pi malevole, fu oggetto al suo tempo di illazioni, maldicenze, pettegolezzi e, ancor oggi, il suo senso di libertà e le scomode novità del suo pensiero suscitano reazioni contrastanti. Si ripercorrono qui le tappe della sua vita: dagli anni della formazione, segnati dalla difficoltà di essere una delle prime donne medico in Italia, all'esperienza...

There are many ways of framing a landscape, a face. And many more as well to tell the story of a man, his life, his passions, his character and movements, sending a message to the world. “THE HIDDEN ANGLES OF LUCHINO VISCONTI” documentary deals with the man, the great man and director Visconti was, through the eyes of his closest collaborators and the never-before-seen images of Mario Tursi’s personal photographic archive. He was the photographer...

The two sides of Frida Kahlo's spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, victim of her tortured body and a tormented relationship.

The incredibe story of Roger Tur Pallier, the honorary consul of France in Zaragoza from the pre-war period to the nineteen-seventies. Based on true events the story recounts his involvement spying on the Nazis in Spain before, during and after the Second World War and ending with his unfortunate death at the hands of left-wing terrorists shortly before he was due to retire.

I bambini sono dei doni preziosi che ci sono stati concessi da Dio. Egli ci affida la loro cura e crescita. Una parte essenziale della nostra responsabilità in quanto genitori è fargli conoscere e spiegargli in tenera età chi sia Dio, in modo che possano sviluppare una visione del mondo sana, consapevole di Dio, e l'amore per Lui. In ogni famiglia si dovrebbe riservare parte del proprio tempo alla costruzione e crescita della conoscenza e della...

A Moving Diary full of Holocaust Memories She traversed the horrors of the camp and survived there to tell the stories of those less fortunate than her... Poland, 1943. Janina Hescheles, orphan, recites poetry every night with her back to Janowski's camp and the Piaski dunes where thousands of bodies are cremated. Her tormented words attract the attention of the underground movement active in Lvov: Janina is rescued shortly before the destruction...

In his most achingly personal film to date, legendary Italian Filmmaker Marco Bellocchio uses the occasion of a family reunion in his hometown of Piacenza to excavate and discuss a traumatic event: the death of his twin brother Camillo, who committed suicide in the late '60s at age 29. Through detailed conversations with his siblings, archival footage providing context about 20th-century Italian leftist politics, and occasional clips from his films,...

Naples 1904: Italian theatre is thriving, and comic actor, Eduardo Scarpetta is the box office king. Known in the Neapolitan theater for his cheeky alter egos, Scarpetta's larger-than-life stage productions were matched only by his eccentric personal life. Composed of wives, partners, lovers, legitimate and illegitimate children, Scarpetta's home situation resembled one of his comedies more than a traditional family. At the height of his popularity,...