RFor cinema he turns 25. For the finish reached the Rai channels (in the first and late evening) 100 titles will be broadcast throughout the summer until September, of which 78 feature films (31 first visions), between author and entertainment films (Italian and international), documentaries and short films.
A journey into the history of our country and our cinema. From Good morning, night on the Moro ad case ad Habemus Papam by Nanni Moretti, from Laf building On the Ilva di Taranto to the musical The Land of Dreams, to comedies Ferragosto lunch, Blah bland baby with Alessandro Preziosi e Born tired of Ficarra and Picone. First TV and replica films that have marked the history of Rai Cinema in the last 25 years.
Film of summer 2025 on Rai 1 and Raiplay: TV programming
The programming starts on June 25th on Rai 1 In the early evening with the comedy Nobody can judge meplayed by Paola Cortellesi. The flagship network focuses on brilliant comedies. Follow Love at home with Miriam Leone, Blah bland baby With Alessandro Preziosi feeling the voices of newborns and the fun and poetic Ferragosto lunch.
The tribute continues with numerous second evenings animated by actors of our cinema, such as Luca Argentero and Sarah Felberbaum in Opposite polesEnrico Brignano in A whole other lifeAlessandro Siani in Miracles are accepted and Raoul Bova protagonist of Riccardo Milani’s comedy Sorry if I exist!. The offer is embellished with the documentary in the first vision Can I enter? An ode to naples by Trudie Styler (Sting’s wife): a declaration of love for the city of Naples.
Raoul Bova and Paola Cortellesi in “Nobody can judge me”. (Courtesy Press Office)
Rai 2, film between musical and crime and Jennifer Aniston
The summer offer of Rai 2 alternates first TV and different genres. It ranges from the musical The Land of Dreams, The first work of Nicola Abbatangelo in which a young Italian immigrant, who works as dishwasher in the kitchens of a well -known place in the New York of the 1920s, does not want to give up his greatest dream: to become a singer, at Crime Like sheep in the middle of the wolves with Isabella Ragonese, in the role of an action policeman.
The proposal, then, is enriched with the first view of the film made in USA Can you keep a secret? with the splendid Alexandra Daddario (where the protagonist is the surprising side of life, in a romantic story and traits tragicomic that he has in the interpretation of the splendid Alexandra Daddario his true highlight). AND Something special (2009) With Aaron Eckhar and Jennifer Aniston: in which a successful therapist devoted to his neighbor who lost his wife three years earlier meets Seattle the tenacious but unfortunate Eloise, a young woman who collects wrong men
Rai 3: the debut films by Michele Riondino, Beppe Fiorello and Micaela Ramazzotti
Rai 3 is attentive to the first TVs, the author’s cinema and the first works. With Laf building Michele Riondino begins to the direction by addressing the spiny theme like the exploitation in the workplace at the Ilva of Taranto. Beppe Fiorello with Strange of Amuri He speaks of another tough theme like homophobia, telling the “crime of giarre”.
Paolo Virzì, almost thirty years after August holidays, He still takes us to Ventotene with Another mid -August of 2024a reflection on our times. THEThe latest viewing of Liliana Cavani arrives first The order of timewhile after the success of The FatherFlorian Zeller’s other masterpiece lands on TV, The Son With a superb Hugh Jackman.
Nanni Moretti in “Habemus Papam”. (Courtesy Press Office)
Will also be scheduled Happinessfirst work by Micaela Ramazzottithe apocalyptic comedy I told you of Geneva Elkann, The beautiful summer by Laura Luchetti with Deva Cassel And DeltaMichele Vannucci’s noir with Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessandro Borghi Nemici.
The films of the great masters: from Marco Bellocchio to Nanni Moretti
Rai 3 dedicates the cycle 25 years of author cinema to the great cinema. There are films signed by masters such as Marco Bellocchio (Good morning, night), Pupi Avati (The friends of the Margherita bar) Gianni Amelio (Tenderness), Nanni Moretti (Habemus Papam), Gabriele Salvatores (All my crazy love), Roberto Andò (The hidden child) And Giorgio Rights (I wanted to hide with Elio Germano as the painter Ligabue).
Never seen before – The documentaries of summer 2025
The section of Never seen before Dedicated to documentaries, scheduled every Wednesday in the second evening, opens on 30 July on Rai 3 – on the occasion of the “World Friendship Day” – with the latest film by Daniele Vicari: Fela – My living God (2023) On the revolutionary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti and on the young director Michele Avantario who dedicated his life to making a film starring his idol.
For Wednesdays of August, and until 3 September, other first visions are always scheduled in the late evening: The secret drawer (Costanza Quatriglio, 2024, on August 6), The lost generation (Marco Turco, 2022, August 13), Waiting time (Claudia Brignone, 2023, August 20), and again The outpost (Edoardo Morabito, 2023, August 27) and Long wave (Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, 2021, September 3).
Rai Cinema and Rai Movie: the films
Rai Movie also celebrates the five decades of life and the variety of the production of Rai Cinema, with a complementary and parallel cycle to that of Rai 3 which includes seven double events, developed between the first and second evening. The combinations are designed according to geometries all to be explored: if on July 19, it is easy to identify the comedy line that goes from Ficarra and Picone in Born tired (2002) To the classic Miami Beach (2016) of the Vanzina brothers, the final appointment of 10 August pays homage to the “Sisters of Art” Cristina and Francesca Comencini with two films such as The beast in the heart (2005) e Loves that do not know how to stay in the world (2016).
But in the review there is also space for direct oppositions such as that between the criminal Rome of Suburre (Stefano Sollima, 2015) and the emotionally detained Gaeta of These days Giuseppe Piccioni, 2016), or the ironic combination between The shadow of Caravaggio (Michele Placido, 2022), biopic of a master of painting and therefore of color and shadow, and The hidden color of things (Silvio Soldini, 2017), drama centered on an blind woman who illuminates her reality with passion.
A review which includes films by representative authors of national cinema such as Gabriele Muccino, Ferzan Ozpetek, Carlo Mazzacurati, Alessandro D’Alatri and Marco Risi, Without forgetting a darling of the audience like Leonardo Pieraccioni.
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