Paola Freddi

Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, providing a little extra time to say goodbye.

Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.

Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which to find refuge, hide away from life and earn her daily bread. Every day, in order to survive, Princess has to steer clear of dangers and sentiments, follow the scent of money and dupe her clients. Her life is a succession of days that are always the same, one joins to another, without a break. Until one day, driven by an inner force to break the shackles of cynicism and exploitation, she quarrels with the friends with whom she shares the street and meets a man who wants to save her, but first she will have to save herself.

The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.

"Sons of Cain" is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (Kanun) still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code meet and discuss the story of Cain and Abel. Creating their own dream space, partially consciously and partially not, they create an analogy between their own stories and Bible stories. Stuck on the fine line between reality and forgetfulness, this is one of the few chances they have to come to grips with their traumas and emotions.

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.

En el corazón de Trieste vive Simone Segre, un conocido cirujano de origen judío: goza de una vida tranquila y aparentemente resuelta. Los duros conflictos con su padre, superviviente de un campo de concentración recientemente fallecido, lo han llevado, durante años, a distanciarse de él. Durante su práctica de remo, Simone auxilia a un hombre que ha sido víctima de un accidente automovilístico: pero cuando descubre un tatuaje nazi en su pecho lo abandona a su suerte. En los días sucesivos aflora el sentido de culpa por la muerte de ese hombre, sentimiento que le llevará a seguir a la familia del neonazi, que vive en un popular conjunto residencial. Una noche, la hija Marica llamará a la puerta de Simone, presentándole inconscientemente las deudas a saldar.

Soaked to the skin, Costantino sinks into the haystack like old timber left on the shore by a stormy sea. Torrential rain has just put out the fire that in a single night ravaged Assandira, a farmstay deep in the woods of Sardinia. But the rain hasn't quenched the pain, the endless remorse for the son lost to the flames, the son he was unable to save. The first to arrive are the carabinieri and the young investigating magistrate: Costantino tries to tell them what happened the previous night, to explain how it all began.

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

Retrato íntimo de una mujer, Hannah (Charlotte Rampling), que se tambalea entre la realidad y el rechazo tras quedarse sola después de que su marido sea encarcelado.

Agnese y Stefano son muy diferentes. Ella sólo tiene 17 años, vive con su madre y está a punto de hacer voto de castidad hasta el matrimonio. Él es un hombre de 25 años, con un temperamento violento y un pasado turbio. Su inesperado encuentro despierta un sentimiento de pureza. Pero cuando hacen el amor por primera vez, la ilusión de pureza de Agnese se rompe. Siente que ha traicionado sus ideales y toma una decisión extrema para intentar borrar su pecado.

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

Una madre se encuentra con la novia de su hijo y se propone conocerla mejor aprovechando que ella desconoce un hecho trágico sobre el joven.

3 August, Cagliari: a poor neighborhood. At three in the morning eleven-year-old Cate is woken by the screams of her eccentric neighbor. Cate wants to run away from that apartment, from her numerous and problematic siblings and her tyrannical father. Only Gigi, a neighbor, is worthy of her love. She does not want to end up like her sister Mandarina, who got pregnant at thirteen. Or like Samantha, the neighborhood sex siren. And today, on 3 August, Gigi’s life is in danger: Tonio, Cate’s brother, wants to kill him. Cate warns Luna, her best friend. The two of them spend the longest day of their lives between the city, the sea and a thousand adventures. But her beloved Gigi is in danger. And when everything seems lost, during the night a beautiful woman appears out of nowhere: the mysterious Aleni, a witch who apparently can see into people’s futures...

El verano de 1980 fue trágico para Italia: en junio tuvo lugar el derribo de un DC9 en Usica, y en agosto las Brigadas Rojas perpetraron un sangriento atentado terrorista en la estación de tren de Bolonia. Estos dos episodios enmarcan la vida de Martino, un chico de 15 años; de Clark, un capitán del ejército de EE.UU. aficionado al surf, y de Silvia, la novia del hermano de Martino. En una hermosa playa, Martino aprende a conquistar las olas y el amor, el capitán se enfrenta a los fantasmas de su pasado, y Silvia se enamora de Martino. La vida de los personajes se entrelaza con la leyenda de “Dragut”, un príncipe que decide viajar más allá del arcoiris y zambullirse en las profundidades del mar para encontrar una vasija mágica. Si lo logra, el mundo nunca más volverá a conocer el dolor ni la muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)

Gianluca, un hombre al que cada día le cuesta más hacer frente a las contracciones de la vida, sube a lo alto del Coliseo. Mientras tanto, sus superficiales amigos viven situaciones hilarantes camino del Coliseo. La abuela de Gianluca también sube a lo alto del Coliseo, y su llegada es vital para que su nieto pueda salvarse.

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.

A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.

Agata, una mujer bellísima y apasionada, tiene una intensa relación amorosa con su marido Manfredi, también muy atractivo y algunos años más joven que ella. Una trágica y asoleada mañana, Manfredi es asesinado. Agata supera su luto, con la firme determinación de buscar al asesino del marido y someterlo a un castigo ejemplar, evadiendo la justicia oficial, que según ella es muy blanda.

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a small and thin man who, try as he might, cannot put on weight until one morning he finds has scales saying 121kg!

Documental entorno a la figura del prestigioso director italiano Elio Petri, que indaga en su vida y obra. Intervienen directores como por ejemplo Robert Altman o Bernardo Bertolucci hablando sobre él, así como compañeros suyos de trabajo.

Italia /// Seis chicos entre los veinte y treinta años, atrapados en la vida de provincia, obligados al vacío sentimental y emocional, privados de apoyo, de valores reconocibles, unidos y animados por la rabia y la inconsciencia de quien no tiene nada que perder.

Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.

Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.

Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.

In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!

A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.