CSC

Barber shop skit with Leopoldo Fregoli.

A man enters and pays homage to the lady standing before him. He turns away, and the lad takes off her clothes and reveals herself as a young man: Fregoli.

In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.

Marco is a shy courier instructed to deliver some jewels in a photo studio. Here he meets Giorgio, the photographer: handsome, gay, cheeky.

Six strangers wake up handcuffed in the back of a truck. Left in the woods with just a chest full of weapons and a military strategy book, they soon find out that someone is after them and have to choose whether to be prey or hunters. Rare unreleased low-budget horror film, starring CSC (Rome Film School) students.

Two musicians brothers face the mob.

Étude is István Gaál's film exam at The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school).

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination.

Roberto Faenza's Nouvelle Vague-inspired graduation film at CSC, shot in 1964 with a then-unknown Raffaella Carrà in the lead role.

A woman escapes a group of bullies seeking to rape her and takes refuge with a seemingly kind couple who have a dark secret hidden in their quiet, secluded house.

One year after she started her gender transition, Marina spends a summer weekend at the house of her best friend, Camilla. Everyone tells Marina how beautiful she has become, but she doesn’t feel like that. Instead, she constantly compares her body to Camilla’s, that she observes and portrays on her notebook. The arrival at the house of an impetuous male presence, with Lorenzo and his friends, will put to hard test Marina, Camilla and the friendship between them.

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination.

"Interno giorno" is a journey through cinema, via the auditions of aspiring young actors and actresses who, from the Second World War era to 1968, tried for admission into Europe’s oldest film school, the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.