Renato Carpentieri

Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

Durante un viaje a Sicilia en 1920, Luigi Pirandello conoce a Onofrio Principato y Sebastiano Vella, dos actores que ensayan un nuevo espectáculo con los actores de su dramaturgia amateur. Este encuentro trae grandes sorpresas.

La historia semiautobiográfica de la mayoría de edad de Fabietto Schisa, un niño del Nápoles de la década de 1980 cuyos años de adolescencia están marcados por alegrías inesperadas como la llegada de la leyenda del fútbol Diego Maradona, y una tragedia igualmente inesperada. El destino juega su papel, la alegría y la tragedia se entrelazan, y el futuro de Fabietto se pone en marcha en una historia de familia, deportes y cine, amor y pérdida.

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.

Antonio has spent his whole life away from Italy, his home country. He crosses paths with Leo, a young Italian artist who is trying to make it abroad. The old man and the young woman's destinies mirror each other. Memories from the past are awoken and end up offering a more peaceful future to the both of them.

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it’s a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher invites him to sit, he was waiting for him. He is dark skinned. He comes from Mali. Well dressed, serene, ready for the “game” that the teacher is playing. It’s a puzzle game where one wins when completing a crossword. But there is a variable that makes this game impossible: guessing the solutions before the question is made. Nevertheless, the young man finishes the game. Or almost…

Después de un accidente mortal, Paolo regresa a la Tierra solo 92 minutos más, gracias a un error de cálculo realizado en una oficina paradisíaca.

Nápoles. Nicola y sus amigos tienen quince años. Quieren ganar dinero, comprar ropa de diseño y motos nuevas. Juegan con armas y recorren la ciudad para hacerse con el poder en el distrito de Sanità. Se aman como una familia, no temen a la cárcel ni a la muerte, sabiendo que su única posibilidad es arriesgarlo todo, ahora. Ellos experimentan la guerra con la irresponsabilidad de la adolescencia, pero sus actividades criminales pronto les llevarán al sacrificio irreversible del amor y la amistad.

A woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the recollection for the day of the funeral grow all around.

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.

Lorenzo, de unos 70 años, vive en un antiguo edificio del centro de Nápoles, es una persona indiferente y egoísta que hace tiempo que dejó de querer a sus dos hijos. Algo cambia al llegar una pareja con niños al piso que se encuentra enfrente del del viejo Lorenzo. Michela es hermosa y vivaracha; Fabio es un ingeniero naval de Trieste inquieto, inestable y con dejes de infantilismo. Lorenzo no tardará en encariñarse de esta familia aparentemente perfecta que representa algo que nunca fue capaz de encontrar en sus hijos. Sin embargo, una enorme tragedia acontecerá entonces, un delito característico de la peor crónica de sucesos, que provocará que el padre, anciano, y la hija, quien busca testarudamente una reconciliación, revisen de algún modo su relación afectiva.

Axèle es fotógrafa, Camille, escritora. Las dos se van un año a una estancia en la Villa Medici de Roma. A Camille la acompaña su marido, el reputado escritor Marc Landré. Mientras que una extraña rivalidad se establece entre las dos, Camille se acerca a Axèle. ¿Pero quién es en realidad Axèle? ¿Una artista completa, sin límites, que se confunde con su obra? ¿O el mismo fantasma del lugar? De este año en la Villa Medici, en donde los cuerpos y las almas se liberarán, nadie saldrá indemne...

A migrant tale of sisterhood and music celebrating unconventional friendships and the power of diversity.

Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.

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

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.

Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she encounters there do not nearly satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling to find her place, Marta pushes the boundaries of the class, the priest, and the church.

Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.

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.

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from those he considered his friends. Luisa and Mariano have nothing in common except for a deep sense of the failure they are experiencing and which attracts them to each other. Between the young woman, exploited and disillusioned by an ambitious colleague, and the mature ex-criminal, the spark of friendship is kindled.

The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined

1998 Made-for-TV Italian film.

A Donatello award winning short drama about the young Carlotta who stops off on her way to be married to see her ageing grandfather whom she hasn't seen for many years.

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy, forbidden for her eyes, led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a courtroom because her teacher, Agostino Tassi, was suspected of raping her. She tried to protect him, but was put in the thumb screws...

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.

Vittoria Belcastro, a Calabrian oncologist, telis of her long battle against cancer, which she won. Her therapy is based on respect for life, but also for the disease. Two literary testimonies serve to counterpoint her touching words: "Pozzi d'amore (Wells of Love)", a theatrical monologue by Enzo Moscato, the portrait in which fragments the rhythm of the film, and "In alto a sinistra (Top left)", the transposition of a tale by Erri De Luca, in which the themes of pain, memory and absence emerge from the story of a father-son relationship.

In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.

The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.

Film dividido en tres episodios, que refleja la vida y opiniones de Nanni Moretti. «En mi Vespa» es una aproximación a la vida cotidiana de Roma durante el mes de agosto; en "Islas" visita a Gerardo, un amigo que lleva once años viviendo en Lipari; juntos recorren otras íslas como Salina, Stromboli, Panarea y Alicudi. En "Médicos" el director rueda su propia quimioterapia y su recorrido por hospitales y especialistas incapaces de diagnosticarle la causa de unos insoportables picores.

Una maldición pesa desde hace 200 años sobre la familia Benedetti. Todo empieza cuando la joven Fiorile descubre que su hermano Corrado es el responsable de la ejecución de su amante. Rota por el dolor, maldice a todos sus descendientes, condenándolos a no alcanzar jamás la felicidad. Y la maldición se cumple: mientras que su fortuna crece, ellos pierden el amor y el respeto de sus vecinos. Dos siglos después, dos niños van a Florencia con sus padres para conocer a su abuelo, un descendiente de Corrado, que les relata la historia de la familia.

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, ordinary bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drag him into a series of misadventures that'll make him revaluate his place in the world.

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.

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Palermo 1936. El empleado fascista Tommaso Scalia ha cometido tres asesinatos y se espera que sea condenado a la pena capital. El juez Vito Di Francesco, en contra de la opinión general, es partidario de la cadena perpetua y tratará de impedir la condena a muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)

Maria, a young Neapolitan painter, lives the artistic experimentation of the 1960s. She is a woman who does not hesitate to live her life adhering to the ideals of research and love, which are for her the very content of art.