Walter Leonardi

I Soliti Idioti return to the cinema ten years after the second film and many things have changed in the world. We will see the most beloved characters compete with the contemporary, with the same cynical and amused eye that distinguished the previous episodes. This new adventure focuses on a current and universal theme: the family.

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.

Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyone this is the great opportunity to change their life, for some it could be the last one. The performances begin and each comedian takes the stage with a great dilemma: to respect the teachings of their master, devoted to intelligent and uncompromising comedy, or to twist their numbers to satisfy the much less refined taste of the examiner? Or maybe look for a third way, one of absolute originality? Through the stories of six comedians, Comedians is a reflection on the very meaning of comedy in our time, facing absolutely topical issues.

Riko es un hombre honesto que vive de un trabajo que no ha elegido, y en la casa familiar que mantiene a duras penas, pero que puede contar con un grupo de amigos verdaderos y con una esposa a la que, entre altibajos, ama desde siempre. Su hijo es el primero en la familia en ir a la universidad. Pero Riko también es un hombre muy disgustado con su tiempo, que parece estar medido por coletazos y salidas en falso. Cuando pierde las pocas certezas con las que había logrado tirar para delante, la burbuja en la que vive se rompe y Riko entiende que necesita hacerse cargo de su presente y empezar de nuevo de una manera u otra.

En 1971, las mujeres todavía no podían votar en Suiza. Nora es una joven ama de casa y madre de dos hijos que vive en un pequeño y pintoresco pueblo donde las noticias de las protestas por los derechos civiles, la revolución sexual y los movimientos contraculturales apenas son un tema de discusión. Nora es una persona tranquila que cuenta con la simpatía de todos. Pero cuando su marido le prohíbe aceptar un trabajo a tiempo parcial, la frustración la lleva a comenzar a luchar públicamente por el sufragio femenino. Su nueva fama conlleva amenazas y el posible fin de su matrimonio, pero ella se niega a dar marcha atrás, y convence a las mujeres del pueblo para ir a la huelga mientras descubre aspectos sobre su propia liberación. Las tranquilas vidas de sus vecinos se verán afectadas por completo.

A disgraced copywriter addicted to psychiatric drugs goes through a hell of a weekend to save his marriage.

Hell can't take the new types of sinners.

With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination that seems to go with it. - Vivian Yuen

Three friends live together in the house owned by one of them - and look for happiness

Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.

Grace educa sola a sus hijos en un aislado caserón victoriano bajo estrictas normas religiosas. Los tres nuevos sirvientes deben aprender una regla vital, la casa estará siempre en penumbra y nunca se abrirá una puerta si no se ha cerrado la anterior porque los niños sufren una extraña alergia a la luz del día.