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We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

The last year of life of the famous Italian poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, killed 11-2, 1975 by a political conspiracy.

A documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini and his film 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?

Holding her 16mm camera, an optical prosthesis for a 20th-century stroller, Agnès Varda filmed 42nd Street in NYC in 1967, filming crowds of passers-by to the beat of the Doors. Recovered from the French director's boxes, with images of Varda, Pasolini and New York. Pasolini is shown walking in the Big Apple (where he went to present 'Hawks and Sparrows').

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini.

Documentary about the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury Tales (1972), and particularly focusing on the many edits and cut scenes that were made before the film's release.

Pasolini seeks in Africa the peasant and revolutionary authenticity he had sought in the Roman villages. This hope will end in a new disappointment: Africa is a reservoir of irremediable contradictions that will explode in the massacres of yesterday and today. It is an Africa that starts from the outskirts of Rome, but thousands of non-EU citizens flock to the sub-proletariat of the villages.

Psychoanalytic study of the artist and social critic, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Ezra Pound, an acclaimed modern American poet living in Rapallo, was tried for treason because of his radio broadcasts extolling Mussolini. This is Pasolini's interview with him.

Documentary about the Italian cities Orte and Sabaudia.

In the summer of 1959, as a magazine correspondent, writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) traveled along the Italian coast. In 1963, he documented the sexual behavior of the Italians. In the winter of 1970-71, he witnessed the hardships of the most impoverished Italian population suffering from the boot of state power. After these three trips, he came to the conclusion that Italian society had changed drastically for the worse over the years.

Created in 2009 by Alfredo Jaar, The Ashes of Pasolini is a short film commemorating the life of the famous Italian filmmaker, writer and thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) who was assassinated under mysterious circumstances.

Lyrical and fascinating documentary about Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film includes well-chosen fragments from his oeuvre and many unknown interviews with the sharply-quipping master, dug up in the Italian TV archives.

Through interviews, archive footage and quotes from books and films by Pasolini, Laura Betti, friend, actress and collaborator of Pasolini, improvises as a director, making a feature film dreaming of Pier Paolo's words immersed in everything that has not involved him for a long time

For the aesthetic elegance of digital animation with which he infuses plasticity and three-dimensionality to Pasolini's faces, glimpses and shots accompanied by the imaginative lyricism of the virtuosic cinema of his poetic texts and his prose.

Movie about Pasolini by fellow gay auteur Constantine Giannaris.

Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.

The season of nervousness, the season of fury, the season of blood!!

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In the spring of 1970, between the African Orestiade and The Decameron, Pasolini shot a film for which he wrote a commentary in verses but never finished editing. The film was born as a typical Pasolini intervention: filming the strike of the garbage collectors in Rome, who at the time worked in dramatic health conditions, and filming the humility of their daily work, amidst the waste and scraps of society, in the squares and in the streets. Pasolini also filmed the faces of garbage collectors engaged in claims discussions and the result was an extraordinary anthropological picture of an unknown humanity.

A young student prepares his degree thesis on Pasolini and Bologna by investigating the relationship of the great intellectual with the city of his childhood and his studies. Following in the footsteps left by Pasolini in Bo­logna, the protagonist will tell, for the first time in the form of a documentary and with a rock narrative rhythm, the emotional, visceral but also controversial bond of Pasolini with Bologna until his final days, also characterized by severe criticisms of the “consumerist and communist” city, a symbolic terrain of the adverse social and economic metamorphosis from paleo­industrial to neo-capitalist society.

An investigative film, an "investigative itinerary" from 1960 to 1975, in the story of Pasolini alive, in search of the political truth of his murder. A violent death in the world of homosexual prostitution. And the "truth" is definitely written in black and white. But what happened to the testimonies of the inhabitants of the Idroscalo? Through testimonies and visual archival material, the true story of the assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini is reconstructed in the documentary.

CHARBON depicts how Europe was built on fossil fuels over the past 100 years. And how it was torn apart by wars that were the result of these same fossil fuels. During 3 trips to Ukraine, Italy and Iraq, filmmaker Manu Riche explains how he and his French-German family are inseparably connected to the fate of the Iraqi filmmaker and refugee Hayder Helo.

Following the trip Pasolini made in 1959 along the entire coast of Italy as a reporter for the magazine Sucesso, they where located different places as possible scenarios for his death. Understanding cataloging as a tool that allows us to organize knowledge for recovery, this catalog offers the viewer the possibility of redemption of the rebellious individual or the questioning of our acceptance of the critical difference.

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

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Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world where politics and media jostle for influence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.

Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

A tragedy through and through, then: intense, deep and profoundly romantic. Anna Bolena is a very significant work in the history of opera, as well as in Donizetti’s own personal history. In this Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo production Dimitra Theodossiou stands out as a fine interpreter both as a singer and as an actress.

When a young couple spends a day in the countryside, suppressed tensions bubble to the surface, as they struggle to communicate on questions of power and responsibility.

Dancer Dana uncovers her partner Yan's voyeuristic obsession with their neighbor, Lotta, igniting a silent gender power battle for control, self-expression, and the reclamation of her agency.

That morning, when Damiana saw Rosa enter her store, her long-held decision to never interfere in anyone's destiny was shattered. “Days of little bread and zero dreams” follows Damiana’s perspective, which follows a cut in time in the lives of characters living on the limit between dreams and despair.

When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between his calling and his orders.