In recent days, Rome has been the scene of an unusual event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam of unknown origin and composition. No one knows that those who breathe in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what they repress, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family. Since Cristina’s death in an accident a year earlier, the love of her husband Thomas and their son Enrico has given way to a forced cohabitation, while the youngest of the family, Barbara, would only like to see them united again as they were before. The accident could have been avoided, both Thomas and Enrico know it. Instead of taking responsibility and moving on, they stopped talking to each other. Now they are two souls full of rage, trapped in a Rome that resembles them: dark, nervous, on the verge of exploding.
Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.
Tonino
padre di Roberta
From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.
Sergio's Father
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Bontempo/Kater Karlo
En un país ficticio, pero fácilmente identificable por los espectadores, está a punto de suceder algo importante. Su presidente, también ficticio e igualmente identificable, va a sufrir un extraño secuestro que posiblemente le aparte de la vida pública durante algún tiempo. Esta es la historia de un acontecimiento que puede cambiar el rumbo de una nación, conmocionando a todos sus habitantes y demostrando al propio presidente los verdaderos sentimientos que su pueblo tiene hacia él. Presentada como una de las películas más provocadoras del año, "Bye Bye Berlusconi" es una ácida sátira sobre la política actual. Aunque esté situada en un país ficticio y su protagonista sea igual de ficticio, todos los espectadores reconocerán que se trata de una comedia sobre la figura del primer ministro italiano Silvio Berlusconi. Y no una comedia cualquiera, sino una en la que se especula cómo sería su posible secuestro y qué reacciones levantaría entre los habitantes.
The librarian of the university Xenia schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD.
Italian thriller
Michele Ferramonti
Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?
Cop 2
Rosana sufre una grave enfermedad de corazón y todo lo que desea es ser enterrada junto a su hija, cuando llegue el momento. Dado que el cementerio se está quedando pequeño, y ante la imposibilidad de ampliarlo, Marcello, su marido, cuidará de todo el mundo para evitar que nadie más muera en el pueblo. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Donatello Award nominated short drama that illustrates a man's addiction to reading - and of the steps taken by some in society to limit this "habit".
The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.
Himself
2nd Man
En este thriller, el novelista estadounidense David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) se enreda accidentalmente en el plan terrorista de la Brigada Roja para secuestrar al primer ministro italiano Aldo Moro. Mientras los terroristas intentan matar a David, él y su amiga fotógrafa(Sharon Stone) deben luchar para mantenerse con vida.
Leo
En 1840, un joven aristócrata ruso, Dimitri Sanin, regresa a casa después de una larga gira por Europa. En Alemania, se enamora de una bella pastelera, Gemma Rosselli, que pronto empieza a compartir sus sentimientos. Deciden casarse y, para financiar la boda, Dimitri vuelve a Rusia para vender su patrimonio familiar. Por desgracia, es presa de una seductora, la princesa María Nikolaevna, que finge estar dispuesta a comprar sus tierras para acercarse a él. Ahora Dimitri está en un aprieto: ¿debe elegir a la pura Gema o a la malvada pero irresistible María?
