Francesco Di Giacomo

Pablo’s life is ruled by drugs and by the intense and oppressive relationship he has with his mother, a former cocaine mule who escaped from Colombia and with whom he shares a small house in the outskirts of Rome. After her death, following her relapse into drug addiction caused by his emotional involvement with a young Colombian girl mixed up in the smuggling ring, Pablo’s guilt pushes him to try and bring her ashes back to Colombia. When the embassy denies his request on the basis of the fake identity and passport of his mother, the protagonist will be forced to tackle the journey by ingesting ovules containing ashes instead of drugs and he will find himself in his home country for the first time, desperately looking for redemption and his mother’s house on the Madgalena river.

A young orphan escapes the realities of her life by fantasizing about, and then entering, a fairy tale world.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.

Mirta, una adolescente de 19 años, muere de sobredosis junto a Robin, su novio. Entonces, resucita sola y se da cuenta de que para seguir viviendo necesita devorar a otras personas.

Martin Eden es un chico de pueblo que se gana la vida trabajando como marinero. Un día, Martin consigue salvar la vida de Arthur Morse, un joven de clase alta que vive en San Francisco. Como agradecimiento, Arthur invita a Martin a su hogar y, poco a poco, le va introduciendo en su propio estilo de vida. El joven ve esto como una oportunidad para convertirse, finalmente, en escritor y trata de aprovechar al máximo el tiempo entre lujos. Martin recibirá un impulso inesperado cuando conozca a Ruth, una joven de la que se enamora al instante.

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever.

When Deborah's ex-husband, a popular neomelodic singer, loses his life in a stage dive, Deborah worries for her eleven-year-old son, Ciro, who is exhibiting signs of depression. Searching for a solution, Deborah takes Ciro to see Tommaso, a shy child psychologist. During the course of their visits, Ciro confesses that it's not his father's death that has got him down, it's his love for his classmate, the beautiful Ludovica. The two make a deal: Tomasso will help Ciro to win the affections of Ludovica, while Ciro gives Tomasso a hand at having a chance with his mother.

Una madre se encuentra con la novia de su hijo y se propone conocerla mejor aprovechando que ella desconoce un hecho trágico sobre el joven.

A woman, a man, two cultures and years separating them: will Adriana and Mohamed overcome the prejudices of the world around them? A sincere love story in the heart of Southern Italy.

La noche del 2 de noviembre de 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini es asesinado en Roma. El director era el símbolo del arte revolucionario que lucha contra el poder. Sus escritos eran escandalosos; sus películas, perseguidas por los censores. Era tan amado como odiado. Ese día, Pasolini había pasado sus últimas horas con su madre y con sus amigos; por la noche se lanzó a la calle en busca de aventuras. Al amanecer, su cadáver fue hallado en una playa de Ostia, en las afueras de la ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)

The film depicts the first flaming signs of love in human life. The characters are all ten years old and attend the same hockey and figure skating club in a small village set among the Italian Alps. The theft of a medal will trigger an adventurous escape to Moscow, where our six main characters will learn the first skirmishes of love and find new fiancés.

L'amore e basta looks at the relationships of nine gay and lesbian couples. How can one love, today? The answers given by Stefano Consiglio and the couples he met in four European countries are scandalously normal, simple like the feelings of a group of children who open this story of many voices. Can homosexual love be lived in the harmony, clarity, contradictions, passions and duration that have always been common models in speaking of feelings? The incredible naturalness of the subjects in the film is powerful and destined to leave an impression on our reflections. As are the shame of marginalization, fear and diffidence of which Aldo Nove speaks in the brief novella that precedes the life stories that weave the plot, in between the explosions of color of Ursula Ferrara’s animated designs.

Documentary about Sergio Leone

Un conflictivo y rebedde sacerdote viaja a Roma para investigar la extraña muerte de su mentor. El joven sacerdote descubre que quizá el misterioso fallecimiento puede ser obra de "The Sin Eater" -el comedor de pecados-, una antigua figura que relaciona a unos sacerdotes que comían la carne de los cuerpos -para hacerse cargo de los pecados no perdonados del difunto- absolviendo a los muertos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Tras ejercer sus funciones en una isla del sur de Italia, un joven sacerdote es destinado por sus superiores a una parroquia de Roma. Allí se reencontrará con su familia y con sus amigos e intentará, en la medida de sus posibilidades, cambiar las cosas; pero el fracaso lo acechará, y su posterior crisis personal y profesional le harán cuestionarse su labor dentro de la Iglesia

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.