Michele Riondino

Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and nose that were covered with a mask, but our eyes. We couldn't see each other during the pandemic. The mask was on the eyes like that of the protagonist of Chris Marker's film, La Jetée. Perhaps it is from this film that is so important that one could start looking at the world again,try to figure out how much of what we were has been deposited in the filters of memorial.

Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…

Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the story of a work of art returning to its origins told through Pino Musi and Pino Pascali’s photographs.

Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested.

Montelusa, Sicilia, Italia, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, nombrado nuevo inspector jefe de molinos, está encargado de recaudar un severo impuesto. Siciliano de nacimiento, pero ligur por adopción, razona y habla como un hombre del norte de Italia y no entiende la dinámica de la ley del silencio que gobierna la tierra siciliana, de modo que su intransigencia le gana inmeditamente varios enemigos…

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.

Narra la historias de tres "falchi" (agentes de paisano en Nápoles) que deben enfrentarse a sus demonios personales.

Giulia’s is a poised world, made of rigour and sacred texts, which fiercely excludes those who do not belong to it. Libero's world is the world of all the others, of those who make mistakes, who fend for themselves looking for another chance and who love unconditionally. When Giulia meets Libero, she realizes she can have another destiny, one she will have to choose and build.

Ambientada en la Florencia azotada por la Peste Negra entre 1348 y 1349. Huyendo de la epidemia, diez jóvenes se refugian en el campo y pasan el tiempo contando breves historias. Ya sean trágicos o ingeniosos, eróticos o grotescos, todos los relatos tienen un único protagonista, el amor en sus múltiples formas. Y el amor acabará siendo, para estos jóvenes, el mejor antídoto contra el sufrimiento y las incertidumbres de la época.

Relata la maravillosa creación y la durísima y corta vida de Giacomo Leopardi, gran poeta de la Italia del siglo XVIII. Condicionado por sus terribles padecimientos corporales, Leopardi transita desde la Recanati de la biblioteca paterna hasta la Nápoles del cólera, dejando una obra tan personal como trascendente.

Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and the unreachable dream of happy families. In the middle, on the shores their secret beach, neither here nor there, Anna and Francesca, small but big, "thirteen years old almost fourteen", who are living their last summer of innocence before high school. The film is based on the book by Silvia Avallone.

El drama de una estrella de cine que cuida de su hija, que se encuentra en estado vegetativo, sirve para abordar el caso de Eluana Englaro, una italiana que pasó 17 años en coma antes de que por decisión de su padre se desconectara la máquina que la mantenía con vida.

The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. His investigation intersects the lives of young people and affected Nina and John, in spite of themselves involved in the murder of a drug dealer and his mother. Aerobics instructor her layabout him, the young lovers try to work out and awkwardly from a story larger than themselves. In the background is moving while the murder underworld clan committed to winning a prestigious post in the heroin market. Among African criminals and delirious, Silvestri will be up to restore order and find the culprits. The price you pay will be high, however.

Narra de manera pausada el drama existencial de unos personajes perdidos y atormentados en una Roma caótica, prepotente e inmersa en sus ruinas y sus ritos cotidianos.

Young laborer Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry Cinzia, his lifelong fiancée. His uncertain feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, engaged in the renovation of a house in Trastevere, he comes across Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by her lifestyle, light-years away from his.

Como respuesta a la feroz represión borbónica de 1828, tres jóvenes del sur de Italia, Domenico, Angelo y Salvatore (Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco y Luigi Pisani), deciden alistarse en el grupo de resistencia dirigido por Giuseppe Mazzini (Toni Servillo). A través de cuatro episodios, seremos testigos de la corrupción, las conspiraciones y las pulsiones homicidas que se viven en el seno de la organización. La unidad de Italia es el objetivo, pero no parece que vaya a ser precisamente un camino de rosas.

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, thus discovering an evil part of himself he has never known.