Italy / Sweden
Director: Erik Gandini

Shockingly relevant and precisely crafted, Erik Gandini's documentary portrays the relationships between Italy's political elite and its powerful media empire. As Gandini puts it, "President Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV entertainment and politics." With an eerily fitting soundtrack to guide it along, Videocracy exhibits firsthand the dangers of government-television cohabitation.

English, Italian with subtitles, 80 minutes

France / Italy
Director: Marco Bellocchio

The closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions in this electrifying tour de force. Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini's charisma, Ida Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wife, the scorned Dasler and her son are locked away in separate asylums for more than a decade. But Ida will not disappear without a fight….

Italian with subtitles, 128 minutes

USA
Director: Eric Bricker

In his eight-decade career, California-based Julius Shulman became the world's preeminent architecture photographer and the man who defined the way we view modernism. This visually inventive documentary—narrated by Dustin Hoffman—revisits with the joyful, whip-smart photographer some of the landmark houses he has immortalized on film. Shulman passed away in July at age 98, so Bricker's film has become a fitting eulogy to an American icon.

83 minutes