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Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Inspired by a true story LIKE THE WIND narrates 15 years of Armida Miserere's life, a woman who with determination and grit, but also personal suffering, was one of the first woman to become governor of prison. Armida Miserere, after suffering the loss of her loved one, found herself on the front line in the fight against crime, governing the most dangerous jail in Italy, while struggling to find the truth and to get justice. The film is conceived as long flashback that highlights the most important moments of her life in the attempt to unveil her mystery.

In central Italy, during 1860, a poor farmer by the name of Terenzio Grossi manages to form a gang composed of young rebels, his goal to try and revolt against the newly formed Piedmont State. Disillusioned with politics, hungered by ever-increasing taxes and unwilling to participate to mandatory draft by the army, the gang will seize the Pesaro and Urbino Province with the help of a growingly restless and angry population. In two years of crimes, violences and murders at the expenses of the richest and noblest, the gang will rise to its fortune in spite of coward and unprepared local authorities. Only one soldier will pick up the fight and stand fearless in the line of duty: a brigadier of the Reali Carabinieri determined to capture Terenzio and his gang mates at any cost. An irrepressible man of great integrity, the Brigadier will have to grow aware of the poor conditions of the villagers of the area and when law will start making compromises in the fight against crime his conscience and uprightness will be challenged.

A respectable girl decides to marry an irresponsible man.

The Documentary "Dante Ferretti - Production Designer" retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Designer, who won two Academy Awards (The "Aviator" by Martin Scorsese and "Sweeny Todd" by Tim Burton) and BAFTA. Here we detail Dante's life, from the origin of his career in Macerata, to his arrival in Cinecittà and finally his incredible success in the USA. Dante leads us into the places that have characterized the most important moments in his personal and working life, showing also his beautiful drawings and scale models.

An emotional and philosophical immersion in that precious period of one's life which is the end of life, through one year of meetings and conversations between the author and the protagonist, a man terminally ill with ALS. A journey into the human soul where present merges with past and future becoming a landscape background for a dialogue about love, pain and the need for freedom.