Michela Pini

Mona, a bodybuilder, looks like a woman obsessed by an unshapely ideal. The body is her inseparable container, her most faithful ally, her partner responding to laments. Together they find themselves on the threshold of their destiny.

Recién salido de la cárcel y aún buscando a su difunta amada Beniamina, el joven arqueólogo inglés Arthur se reencuentra con su grupo de tombaroli, un alegre y despreocupado colectivo que sobreviven saqueando tumbas. Sin embargo, Arthur no está interesado en los artefactos; está buscando una puerta legendaria al inframundo para reencontrarse con su difunta esposa.

In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. Debut director Valentina Shasivari evokes the calm of this serene landscape with tightly framed shots in contrast-rich black-and-white.

Las nuevas tecnologías están transformando una ciudad relojera del siglo XIX en Suiza. Josephine, una joven trabajadora de una fábrica, produce la rueda de disturbios, que gira en el corazón del reloj mecánico. Expuesta a nuevas formas de organizar el dinero, el tiempo y el trabajo, se involucra en el movimiento local de los relojeros anarquistas, donde conoce al viajero ruso Pyotr Kropotkin.

An aspiring twentysomething writer hesitantly accompanies her equally reluctant younger sister on vacation with their deliriously happy parents, in Luis De Filippis’ resonant, cliché-free debut feature.

A trip that will take us to 7 African countries (Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Mozambique, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Burundi) to meet powerful women determined to do everything possible to offer a better future to the African people. These women will explain how they think they are working to save the continent, which must resolutely embrace integration into the world economy because the years of totalitarian male rule in Africa have been catastrophic. A film that will make us understand that the future of Africa belongs to women.

Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.

Passionate for climbing, Allegra is victim of a terrorist attack, in which her friends lose their lives. She isolates herself after crushing fear towards people and a burning desire for revenge start devouring her. Her beloved ones are helpless. In order to be able to go back enjoying her life, she will have to face her inner struggles. In doing so, Arad – a young refugee from Middle East – crosses her path. Allegra’s greatest challenge will be regaining trust, especially when the element of diversity is involved.

Bernardo is a police officer from Tessin. Though scared of water, he's forced to investigate a series of disappearances on the edges of the Lake Maggiore, where women have been mysteriously vanishing for generations.

Érase una vez una historia oscura ambientada en una pequeña comunidad en algún lugar del mundo. Un mundo aparentemente normal que supura silenciosamente con el sadismo de los padres y la ira de los niños diligentes y desesperados.

Daniel Kemény returns twenty years later to the place of his childhood, the village of Pietrapaola in Calabria. In search of lost time, the filmmaker collects musical accounts, brings together their protagonists and gives these memories a new life, thus playing the generous transmitter who helps keep alive the oral history of a world whose popular traditions are dying off.

Sufriendo de agorafobia, Seconda no puede salir de su casa. Cuando finalmente lo logra, los nuevos desafíos empujan sus límites aún más.

Dumped by his girlfriend and finding himself stranded on different couches at friends’ places, Guido tries to transform his drift into an opportunity for a new beginning.

The outbreak of the economic crisis in Spain led thousands of horses (a symbol of prestige in the years of plenty for nouveau-riches) to be abandoned by their owners. On the southeastern coast of Spain, a 45-year-old British woman, aided by her volunteer helpers, has set up a rescue farm; a modern-day Noah’s Arc that offers refuge and healing to undernourished and tortured horses (and other animals). A humble yet noble tale of perseverance and endurance and a parable for our times, which applies to people as well: once our shine comes off, society deems us redundant.

Un misterioso hombre y una mujer dolida se conocen, aparentemente por casualidad, en una fría noche en Tesino, Suiza. Quizás es la soledad compartida la que los une, quizás una oscura proximidad con la muerte. Aún así, esta improbable relación fundada en el secreto y la simulación comienza a dar sus frutos.

professor saves the life of an injured hit man who, in return, promises to find and kill an enemy of his. Although the professor says not to have any enemy the killer goes for his mission and turns the professor's square life into chaos.

Cesare, viudo de una bella y amada mujer, ex-contrabandista y ayudante de clandestinos, encuentra en un valle remoto el cadáver de su sobrino Fausto. En busca del asesino, descubre a un hombre que lleva ilegalmente a refugiados en Suiza.

Norte de Italia, siglo XVII. En un monasterio, una monja acusada de brujería seduce a un joven confesor quien se niega a ceder a la ardiente tentación. Una lucha de deseos, ilusiones y mentiras que se arrastrarán de forma inesperada hasta la actualidad…

Boys On Film's twelfth collection of gay short films exposes private lives, uncovers secrets and presents a choice — to conceal or to confess? Volume 12: Confession features nine new stories, including: Robert Hawk's "Home From The Gym" starring Jake Robbins; Samuel Leighton-Dore's "Showboy" starring Lucas Pittaway and Malcolm Kennard; Bobby de Groot and Arjan van Meerten's animated "Cruise Patrol"; Denis Theriault's "I Am Syd Stone" starring Gharrett Patrick Paon and Michael Gaty; Dustin Shroff's "Deflated" starring Carson Trinity Haverda and Greg Baglia; Filippo Demarchi's "Age 17" starring Fabio Foiada and Ignazio Oliva; Christophe Prédari's "Human Warmth" starring Thomas Coumans and Adrien Desbons; Dominic Haxton's "Tonight It's Me" starring Jake Robbins, Caleb James, and Christian Patrick; and Peter Knegt and Stephen Dunn's "Good Morning" starring Peter Knegt and Oliver Skinner.

Matteo is a 17-year-old boy who comes to the realization that he is in love with Don Massimo, a young priest of the village that leads the marching band in which Matteo plays the drum. He sees in Massimo a person willing to listen to his fears and desires. For the first time in his life, Matteo feels ready to open up to someone...

This is about a couple whose child develops an unusual illness. While the mother and baby drift into their own world, the computer-science professor father develops a pact with an A.I. character on a virtual island to save his child.