Jacopo Quadri

Billy was a child prodigy who had invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine. He is now 19, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly in love with a girl, only visits children aged between 8 and 12 and does not know what to do with his life.

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

Tras 40 años de ausencia, Felice Lasco regresa desde Egipto a su ciudad natal: Nápoles. Allí redescubre los lugares, los códigos de la ciudad y un pasado que le corroe.

Daria is getting married, and Antonio is the best man. They are two artists who have lived in the same building for years, but now she’s moving to another neighborhood. They get to work on a new project inspired by Federico Fellini’s Ginger and Fred, and bring in Emanuele, Monica, Francesco, Martina, and Andrea. First, tap dancing classes, as the script comes together one day at a time, with rehearsals in Rome, Rimini and France, in theaters shut down by Covid-19. Euphoria is running high, despite the uncertain times, and our theater troupe starts to resemble a gaggle of shipwreck survivors, bewildered by the way real life gets confounded with what is tentatively shaping up as the stage production.

En un día de invierno, Nena reúne a su familia para celebrar su cumpleaños. Il paradiso del pavone es un pequeño viaje a la intimidad y autenticidad del ser humano: una película sobre una familia extensa en la que todos hablan pero nadie escucha. Hasta que un evento inesperado obliga a los miembros de la familia a mirarse a los ojos y revelarse como realmente son.

El querido actor y dramaturgo napolitano Eduardo Scarpetta, padre de Eduardo De Filippo, dedicó toda su vida al teatro, logrando el éxito con obras atemporales como “Miseria e nobiltà”. Sin embargo, todo por lo que trabajó parece perdido en 1904, cuando se ve envuelto en una desagradable batalla legal que podría comprometer su libertad de expresión.

More than eighty years ago, a girl was born into a poor farming family in Tuscany, Ultimina, which was to be the last of many children. Ultimina is an animated and expressive storyteller. The greatest editor in Italian cinema films her with affectionate respect and simplicity.

En la costa de Italia, una superviviente del Holocausto que regenta un centro de día (Sophia Loren), acoge a un chico senegalés musulmán que le robó y vive en la calle.

Un retrato de quienes intentan sobrevivir en el Medio Oriente devastado por la guerra.

Antonio Barracano, a man of honor distinguishing between “decent people and scoundrels” in the Neapolitan underworld, is the "Mayor of Rione Sanità". Administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the State, he is faced with a difficult decision when Rafiluccio Santaniello, the baker's son, asks him for his benediction to kill his father.

Un magistrado británico en una pequeña ciudad colonial comienza a cuestionar su lealtad al Imperio mientras intenta ignorar una guerra inevitable contra los llamados “bárbaros”.

In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and investors triggers a domino effect in their destiny that forever subverts reality.

En 1914, con Italia a punto de entrar en la Primera Guerra Mundial, una comunidad de jóvenes artistas del norte de Europa se establece en la isla rural de Capri, un refugio seguro para disidentes e inconformes de todo el mundo, como los exiliados rusos dirigidos por Maxim Gorky. Preparándose para una próxima revolución. Aquí, la joven Lucía se encuentra con Seybu, la encantadora líder de la comuna, y Carlo, un joven médico.

Italia, 1990. En la noche en que la selección nacional de fútbol de Italia es eliminada de la Copa del Mundo por Argentina en los penales, un conocido productor de cine es encontrado muerto en el río Tíber. Los principales sospechosos del asesinato son tres jóvenes aspirantes a guionistas, detenidos frente a los Carabinieri para contar su versión de lo ocurrido.

The hard-working brothers Lorello and Brunello are filmed throughout the seasons on their farm in Tuscany. Their efforts look like a labour of Sisyphus, in which all progress is destroyed by prices on the world market and the return of packs of wolves hunting sheep. Respectful, detailed and filled with earthly beauty.

The hard-working brothers Lorello and Brunello are filmed throughout the seasons on their farm in Tuscany. Their efforts look like a labour of Sisyphus, in which all progress is destroyed by prices on the world market and the return of packs of wolves hunting sheep. Respectful, detailed and filled with earthly beauty.

Un matón que sodomiza a sus víctimas por encargo, deberá escapar de la mafia tras una misión fallida.

La isla de Lampedusa es el punto más meridional de Italia, que desde 1990 se ha convertido en un lugar masivo de desembarco de inmigrantes ilegales procedentes de tierras africanas. En poco más de 20 años, más de 20.000 personas se han ahogado durante la travesía para alcanzar lo que para muchos supone vía de entrada a Europa, y que les debería permitir escapar de la guerra y el hambre. Samuel vive en la isla, tiene 12 años, va a la escuela, le gusta tirar con la honda e ir de caza. Le gustan los juegos de tierra, pese a que todo a su alrededor habla del mar y de los hombres, mujeres y niños que intentan cruzarlo para llegar allí. (FILMAFFINITY)

Documentary follows the experimental drama course given by the old Italian theatre and opera legend Lucio Ronconi every summer in a remote corner of Umbria, where young, dedicated acting talent rehearse several plays.

Documentary follows the experimental drama course given by the old Italian theatre and opera legend Lucio Ronconi every summer in a remote corner of Umbria, where young, dedicated acting talent rehearse several plays.

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.

Inspired by the novel by Aldo Nove, this is the dramatic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.

Documental dedicado al transitado y enorme anillo de autopistas -Grande Raccordo Anulare, o GRA- que rodea la ciudad de Roma. (FILMAFFINITY)

Two young girls, a hot, stifling summer, the desire to run away from a small provincial town. Luisa is full of life, uninhibited, unconventional. Renata is dark, angry and in need of love. The lives of two young women is a tale of blackmail, of a love betrayed, of violence: Luisa uses her Albanian boyfriend, Bilal; Renata uses Luisa’s body to orchestrate her revenge. Both want to leave the small community where they have grown up among village festivals and independence gatherings, helpless families and new generations of migrants targeted by those who feel increasingly threatened. Luisa, Renata and Bilal will risk loosing themselves, loosing a precious part of themselves, of those they love, ultimately loosing their own lives.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Renato Nicolini is travelling along the Grande Raccordo Anulare. The traffic flows behind him like thoughts that have been triggered in a logic of free association. His story consists of memories and connections that span esoteric suggestions, city-planning considerations, and metropolitan legends.

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.

Describe la historia de un adolescente de catorce años que engaña a sus padres con una coartada de una esquiada entre amigos para, en realidad, pasar esos días en un sótano con la intención de ayudar a su hermanastra mayor a superar su adicción a la heroína.

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.

Un sicario responsable de secuestros, torturas y de cientos de muertes cuenta él mismo los secretos de su trabajo. Ex comandante de la policía de Chihuahua, actualmente vive como un fugitivo, perseguido por sus antiguos jefes. El experimentado documentalista Gianfranco Rosi, premiado en Venecia en 2008 por su obra "Below Sea Level", decidió correr el riesgo de entrevistarse en persona con un auténtico narcotraficante y sicario para conocer de primera mano su testimonio. Rosi se encarga no sólo de la realización, sino también del guión, la producción y la fotografía, campos, todos ellos, en los que ha desarrollado una amplia experiencia a lo largo de su carrera.

Un sicario responsable de secuestros, torturas y de cientos de muertes cuenta él mismo los secretos de su trabajo. Ex comandante de la policía de Chihuahua, actualmente vive como un fugitivo, perseguido por sus antiguos jefes. El experimentado documentalista Gianfranco Rosi, premiado en Venecia en 2008 por su obra "Below Sea Level", decidió correr el riesgo de entrevistarse en persona con un auténtico narcotraficante y sicario para conocer de primera mano su testimonio. Rosi se encarga no sólo de la realización, sino también del guión, la producción y la fotografía, campos, todos ellos, en los que ha desarrollado una amplia experiencia a lo largo de su carrera.

Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.

A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Goyo (Rafael Ferro), antiguo campeón de natación en aguas abiertas, abandona su carrera y sus sueños para refugiarse en el desierto tras una injusta acusación de doping en el maratón de Santa Fe-Coronda, que consiste en cruzar a nado 57 kilómetros del río Paraná. Ocho años más tarde, Goyo regresa a la ciudad de Santa Fe. La maratón vuelve a realizarse y busca recuperar su título y limpiar su nombre. Goyo se cruza con Chino (Nicolás Mateo), un disciplinado y terco nadador de piscina, que intenta tenazmente clasificarse para la selección nacional, pero falla. Goyo se siente identificado con Chino e intenta ayudarlo.

Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s, known as the downtown scene.

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly left by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.

Whisky Romeo Zulu narra la historia previa al accidente del Boeing 737 de LAPA que, el 31 de agosto de 1999, se incendió tras impactar contra un terraplén en pleno centro de Buenos Aires, provocando la muerte de 67 personas. La catástrofe cambió la historia de la aviación civil y comercial en Argentina, y la película relata, desde la óptica del director -un ex piloto de líneas aéreas- cómo en algunos países la seguridad de los vuelos es increíblemente precaria.

Un romance de temática gay entre un soldado (Lomnoi) y un chico de campo Tong, en medio de una leyenda popular tailandesa que de un chamán que es capaz de cambiar de forma.

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.

París, 1968. Isabelle y su hermano Theo, solos en la ciudad mientras sus padres están de viaje, invitan a su apartamento a Matthew, un joven estudiante americano al que han conocido en un cine. Una vez en casa establecen unas reglas para conocerse mutuamente, explorando emociones y erotismo a través de una serie de juegos extremadamente arriesgados.

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...

Consta de varios episodios, cada uno de ellos realizado por un director. El tema es el tiempo. Es el complemento de "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet".

The Director Mohammed Soudani comes back to Algeria after 30 years with the photographer Michael von Graffenried to visit the Algerians he had photographed between 1991 and 2000 without them knowing it.

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, Paz! is a 24-hour slice of life of a bunch of students living in a flat in Bologna during the 70's, divided between marjuana, university, girls and political activism.

En una veloz carroza tirada por caballos, dos jóvenes mujeres se arrancan las vestimentas del siglo XVIII y apresuradamente se disfrazan de hombre. Son la Princesa y Corine, su dama de compañía. La Princesa ha heredado el trono usurpado por su padre. Por derecho pertenece al Príncipe Agis, de quien ella se ha enamorado. Sólo le ha visto una vez desde lejos, pero se propone conquistar su corazón y devolverle el trono. Sabe que debe ser astuta, ya que Agis ha sido educado para odiarla profundamente. Para conseguir su amor, la Princesa deberá conquistar antes a un filósofo y su hermana que viven con ellos. En consecuencia, se encuentra pivotando entre sus personajes masculinos y femeninos en una enredada tela de araña de complicidades y emociones.

The suburbs of Padua, in northeast Italy. Flavia, a hairdresser, is closing the shop after 43 years of activity. He is 61 years old. He left school when he was 11. He made the hairdresser always. He is leaving behind a clientele of older women who did hair for years at a rate of regular appointments. He knows every single hair of their heads.

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.

This ensemble drama details the friendships that grow between survivors of the 1997 Umbria earthquake. The townsfolk—adults, children and foreigners alike—deal with various issues as they try to resume normal lives in a homeless situation.

Impressive and dramatic found-footage documentary about the worldwide issue of emigration and immigration.

Durante la Dictadura militar, María vive en Buenos Aires con su madre en una gran casa en decadencia. Han alquilado algunas habitaciones, y en una de ellas vive Félix, un joven tímido, enamorado de María, que, al parecer, trabaja de vigilante en un garaje. María enseña a leer ya escribir en un barrio pobre y, además, pertenece a una organización que lucha contra la dictadura militar. Una mañana, unos soldados de paisano la detienen y la llevan al Garage Olimpo, uno de los lugares donde se tortura a los activistas ante la indiferencia o ignorancia general. El encargado del centro elige a uno de sus mejores hombres para hacer el interrogatorio.

Imma falls in love with a fireman.

A failed restaurant owner on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with extreme deference and kindness by a group of strangers who host him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the government agent they were waiting for and treat him well only to get allowance for their floundering ostrich-breeding business.

A camorrista follows a surreal path.

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.

Cuando el dictador de su país encarcela a su marido, una joven africana (Thandie Newton) se ve obligada a exiliarse por motivos políticos y llega a Italia, donde comenzará a vivir en una vieja casa romana con un pianista británico (David Thewlis). Ella estudia medicina, y hace la limpieza a cambio de la habitación. El amor surgirá entre estas dos almas solitarias, pero también saldrán a la luz sus diferencias políticas y culturales.

Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women.

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

Cuando una madre muere en extrañas circunstancias, su hija trata de averiguar cómo sucedieron los hechos y qué hizo su madre en las últimas horas de su vida. Todo ello conduce al análisis de la traumática relación que hubo siempre entre ellas, cuyo origen fue una una mentira infantil que marcó sus vidas.

Mario Martone films the eponymous stage show by Enzo Moscato.

In a series of small portraits, Gianfranco Rosi depicts life on and along the banks of the Ganges River. The director’s first film documents the boat trip he took along India’s sacred river with his helmsman, Gopal. They pass tourists and locals, witnessing them bathe, work, or meditate. The film captures the imagination of the endless circle of life and death, which is rooted in the lives of the Indian people, and is convincingly manifested in the way they bid farewell to the dead.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

In Buenos Aires, in the Almagro neighborhood, there is IMPA: for more than 20 years the oldest recovered factory in Argentina. IMPA is a school, theater spaces, a museum, a place for cultural, educational, artistic workshops ... and much more. IMPA is a city. In the heart of Buenos Aires.