Gianni Rodari

Lemmi und die Schmöker (English: Lemmi and the Bookworms) was a German children's television series that presented books from 1973 to 1979 and again in a second series in 1983.

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, "Cipollino, the Onion Boy" fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic produce, Cipollino fights the unjust treatment of his fellow vegetable townsfolk by the fruit royalty (Prince Lemon and the overly proud Lord Tomato) in the garden kingdom.

When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.

Gelsomino finds himself in a topsy-turvy "land of liars," where red is green, bread is ink, and dogs meow.

The tale of the poor boy Ciccio, the magic globe and the Blue Fairy, who defeated the wicked witch and returned the globe to people that fulfills good wishes.

Dzhovanni was so absent-minded boy that in addition to the things and clothes he lost even his body parts all over the city.

Four funny street musicians will tell you guys an unusual story that happened to a boy from Rome, Marco Melani. He visited the planet of "Christmas Trees" and met there...

This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake).

A story about an old railway worker who decides to go live with the cats, as he feels lonely and unnecessary in his own family.

Based on Italian children's tale

Unreleased images of fables told and listened to by Gianni Rodari during a visit to a kindergarten school in Reggio Emilia (Italy) in 1972.

EstrAtti (Passages) is a docufilm that alternates five excerpts from poems, songs, and adapted texts by the following authors: Gianni Rodari (The Sky Belongs to Everyone), Omar Khayyam (the Persian poet who composed a series of poems, including Rubaiyat No. 2), David Bowie (lyrics from Quicksand), Jorge Luis Borges (excerpt from The Aleph), Alejandro Jodorowsky.