Dreaming of a better life for her family, a star struck mother invests everything, including her last penny, into the dream that her daughter will be discovered at an open casting.

Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, take another trip down the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week! Anna Molinari’s Blumarine runway is in full bloom with floral motifs, elaborate details, and a romantic spirit. Ennio Capasa looks to the Stonehenge music festival to inspire his refined rock ‘n’ roll runway at CoSTUME National. The Ports 1961 woman is a modern goddess. Plus, Giorgio Armani channels the grandeur and emotion of Paolo Sorrentino’s...

In Rehearsal for a Sicilian tragedy, actor John Turturro (Barton Fink, Do the right thing) takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island's vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater's few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry. Filmed during preparations for the Sicilian Day of...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Roberto Cavalli presents the glamour of the silver screen from 1930’s/40’s era Italian cinema for his lavish runway show. For her Spring/Summer 2014 collection, Jil Sander explores a new meaning of effortless dressing, where cropped tops and trousers along with deep V jumpsuits play it cool in pale tones. Speckled prints punctuate the collection, where the designer was inspired by the radical Arte Povera...

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, it’s more luxurious spring style from Milan! Consuelo Castiglioni celebrates 20 years of Marni with an Asian influenced spring show which featured an elaborate floral finale on and off the runway! Jeremy Scott’s Barbie girl is living in a Moschino world for Spring 2015, as the eccentric designer dresses his ultra-feminine muse for every occasion in her unpredictable but always chic life! MSGM takes a...

When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.

In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Alberta Ferretti presents the joy of life in her South American and Southern Italy-inspired Spring collection. Flirty Fifties bombshells have some fun in the sun in a retro-chic show from Dsquared2. Alessandro dell’Acqua’s woman for No.21 goes on holiday for Spring 2014, with an envious wardrobe cleverly combining classic menswear silhouettes and ultra feminine details. Plus, Anna Molinari reveals the...

Since the days of the Roman empire, the numerous eruptions of Italy's Mount Vesuvius have devastated whole cities and towns, also destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum in A.D. 79. Describes how the volcano affects the lives of some two million people who now live in its shadow.

Inspired by Pythagoras's belief in four-fold transmigration, by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral, Michelangelo Frammartino's wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of Calabria.