Elide Melli

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

Set in 1940’s and 50’s Sicily (Paternò), we follow the fortunes of Rosetta from the time she’s twelve (Larissa Volpentesta) and living with her drunken father Leone (Harvey Keitel) – he’d turned to alcohol to forget Rosetta’s mother, Vipera (Elide Melli), after she ran away with a fascist some time ago. Little Rosetta’s fortunes turn for the worse when she’s raped and made pregnant by another former fascist (Giancarlo Giannini), and Leone also dies after falling from his bicycle. She’s sent to live in a convent until the age of twenty one, and her newborn child will cruelly be adopted out by her visiting mother.

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.

Edith Stein se ha convertido al catolicismo, después de encontrar en Cristo la respuesta a su búsqueda de la verdad, leyendo los escritos de santa Teresa de Jesús. Debido a sus orígenes judíos, la decisión le acarreará la repulsa de su propia madre y las críticas de algunos compañeros. Mientras tanto, en Alemania se vive una época muy tensa por el implacable avance del Tercer Reich. En este contexto, Edith dejará atrás su exitosa carrera como filósofa, para ingresar como novicia en un convento carmelita.

Adaptación de la novela homónima de Michael Ende (autor de "La historia interminable") que narra la historia de Momo, una niña que vivía en un viejo anfiteatro a las afueras de una gran ciudad. Momo tiene la maravillosa cualidad de saber escuchar a los demás, por ello tiene muchos amigos que la visitan. Entre ellos están Gigi Cicerone y Beppo Barrendero, que son sus mejores amigos. Todas las tardes, montones de niños se acercaban al anfiteatro para jugar, porque con Momo era imposible aburrirse. De vez en cuando, Gigi contaba cuentos e historias increíbles, que ni él mismo sabía como iban a acabar. Momo era muy especial; arreglaba disputas, inventaba juegos, reconciliaba a la gente, y todo ello sin hablar, sólo escuchando a los demás.

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

Freely adapted from a story by Marcel Schwob in 'Screw imaginary' and deeply focused on the thought of Georges Bataille, the film wants to give substance to Clodia tragic affair, the Roman noblewoman loved by Catullo and made him immortal in his ways, with the Lesbia pseudonym.

A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.