Movies: Susanna Nicchiarelli

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger pol...

Approaching age 50, singer/songwriter Nico leads a solitary existence, far from her days as a Warhol superstar and celebrated vocalist for the Velvet Underground in the 1960s. Her life and career on the fringes, Nico's new manager convinces her to hi...

In her public persona, Eleanor “Tussy” Marx was a translator, actress, a children’s rights activist and a persuasive labour organizer, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father’s work. She held her own with twentieth century gods, inclu...

Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to ...

Against the backdrop of the space race between the Soviets and the US, a 15-year-old girl struggles to affirm her political and gender identity in 1960s Italy....

Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but sh...

Registe, talking on a blade is an Italian documentary about the Italian Cinema signed by women and about the pioneer of the Silent Cinema Elvira Notari (1875-1946) plays by Maria De Medeiros. The directors interviewed are the most important Italian w...

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Italy, 1974: citizens are called upon to repeal or confirm the law on divorce....