Leonardo Di Costanzo

Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.

Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.

A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.

A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.

The story of the crew of the Odessa, a Ukrainian ship blocked in Italy because of the bankrupcy of its owners. For several years now they are stuck without a salary in a foreign land, taking care of the ship while it waits for a buyer.

The film to show a school in Naples, in an area where schooling is given no value, as is perhaps, the case in problem areas in other large Western cities.

To restore the rule of law in Ercolano, a suburb of Naples and one of the cities symbolizing corruption in Italy, is the task that Luisa Bossa, elected mayor in December 1995, has set herself.