Five worlds, five ways of talking about cinema, five different visions: these are the worlds of our five Oscar®-winning directors who talk to us about the cinema that influenced them, the Italian films they watched in their youth, their imagery. Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino, Giuseppe Tornatore talk about themselves honestly, they recall the wonder, the love and the magic of the stories they enjoyed in the darkness of the movie theatre. Their personal considerations on the meaning of filmmaking give us insight into what it was that drove them to make their first films.