Paolo Pierobon

It’s 1965 and Lia, a spirited young woman living in a small Sicilian town, is initially attracted to Lorenzo, the son of the most prominent (and possibly Mafia-tied) local family. His possessiveness eventually repels her. But soon after, he appears with his cronies to kidnap, rape and force her into a shotgun marriage, all with the collusion of the town’s authorities. Lia and her family refuse to accept this barbaric ‘tradition’ and, despite the constant intimidation and violence, they take their fight for Lia’s rights to court.

The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental state of inmates finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he's lost all control.

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

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.

Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…

Pietro and Alvise come from a long line of fishing families from Giudecca, Venice's most 'working-class' island. But they don't see eye to eye on the seemingly unstoppable transformation of the lives of the Venetians and the city's very identity. Indeed, the far-reaching impact of global tourism has changed the relationship between Venice and its residents, and the pandemic has only thrown this critical situation into relief. Pietro would just like to keep fishing the typical crabs found in the Lagoon, lonely as that lifestyle is, while Alvise believes their home on the Giudecca itself is the ticket to joining the elite managing the city's real estate assets, hence running Venice. This clash of views will involve the entire family, in an ensemble film about how our world is changing.

El final de la civilización ha llegado. Un padre y su hijo se encuentran entre los supervivientes. El hijo es criado como un niño salvaje, pues su padre considera que es la única forma de sobrevivir. Cuando el padre muere, el hijo decide emprender un viaje a lo largo del río, en busca de alguien que pueda leer el diario que su padre escribió a lo largo de su vida.

Vera, a ten-year-old girl who loves astronomy, disappears without a trace while walking with Claudio, her teacher, near the cliff of Punta Crena, in Liguria. Two years later she returns, but instead of being a teenager, she is a woman of about twenty-five years old. She doesn’t remember anything. When images resurface in her memory, Vera realizes that she has lived the life of a man, clinically dead, who woke up at the same moment in which she vanished in nothing.

In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery and devoted to the Blessed Armida, risk being removed from their beloved convent. To oppose a destiny already marked, workers and nuns join forces and start a "business" outside the rules in the hopes that a miracle will help them keep the convent and the factory.

Rinaldi, un veterano policía italiano de gran experiencia, es enviado por su gobierno a Libia para negociar el control de los migrantes en suelo africano. Allí, se enfrenta a la complejidad de las relaciones tribales libias y al poder de los traficantes que explotan la angustia de los refugiados.

En el espíritu de "decir no a sus hijos ", la película habla de un grupo de jóvenes que están en la escuela secundaria y montan una banda que lleva el nombre de Alex & Co. Será este grupo de chicos, dirigido por Alex (Cecchi), quien haga frente a sus propias aspiraciones, a la voluntad de sus padres y especialmente a la directora de la escuela que quiere obstaculizarlos en todo momento...

A kid helps his troubled father to hunt a killer bear.

Narra las peripecias de un funcionario de una administración provincial, con quince años de servicio, que se dedica a la rutinaria pero cómoda tarea de expedir las licencias de caza y pesca. Vive feliz en casa de sus padres, mimado por su madre, y con una novia con la cual no tiene intención de casarse ni tener hijos. Pero su mundo se derrumba cuando el Estado decide eliminar las provincias. Antes que aceptar una indemnización y buscar otro trabajo, el protagonista acepta varios traslados a regiones remotas de Italia y finalmente se aviene incluso a trasladarse a Noruega para trabajar como guardián de una estación científica italiana en el Polo Norte.

Fausto y Nadine se reúnen por primera vez en los pasillos de un gran hotel en París, descubriéndose frágiles, solos y obsesionados con una idea de la felicidad que parece inalcanzable. Fausto es italiano, pero vive, o más bien sobrevive, en París, con la esperanza de que algún día la vida le ofrecerá algo mejor que trabajar como camarero. Nadine es una joven francesa de conmovedora belleza. Después de reunirse, perderán, se amarán y sufrirán.

Hell can't take the new types of sinners.

Inspirado en una novela del norteamericano Stephen Amidon, originalmente ambientada en Connecticut, el film habla de un mundo de una clase pudiente, con mansiones fastuosas y repletas de personal de servicio, dominado por un especulador creador de un fondo que promete un 40 por ciento de interés anual atrayendo y esquilmando a los crédulos inversores. El personaje es un digno "representante de esa criminalidad financiera que, como ocurrió en la crisis de 2008, puede llegar a destruir la economía de naciones enteras o por lo menos a despojar a los ingenuos de todos sus bienes", declaró Virzì.

Michele is eleven years old and lives in a small town in the mountains of Trento, with his mother and his paternal grandfather Pietro; his father has recently died. The boy’s pain meets that of Dani, a boy from Togo, who is a total ‘stranger’ to that place covered in snow which he has never seen before in his life.

Esta es la historia de dos jóvenes pobres y hambrientos, así como su deseo de recompensa social en Italia a principios del siglo XX. La pasión por el ciclismo les unió y los eventos aventureros que compartieron para siempre. Los dos muchachos se llamaban Constant Girardengo y Sante Pollastri. Pero, para todos, fueron los "Campionissimo" y "Bandito Numero 1".

Principios del siglo XX. Benito Mussolini, un joven revolucionario socialista, conoce a Ida Dalser, una mujer tan pasional como él, que lo apoyará en la lucha política, incluso cuando cambia de rumbo y sustituye el socialismo por el fascismo. Ella pone a su disposición todos sus recursos para que pueda fundar su propio periódico: Il Popolo d'Italia. Se casarán y tendrán un hijo, pero Ida descubre que su matrimonio por la Iglesia tiene mucho menos valor que el que Mussolini ha contraído con Rachele Guidi. Cuando el Duce llega al poder, su decisión de excluir de su vida tanto a Ida como al niño es irrevocable.

Claudia, a single bored Milan travel agent in her thirties, takes evening classes in Russian and tries to get to know her teacher Boris from Kiev. Boris says that he is reluctant to get involved with his student, but asks Claudia to put up his beautiful Ukrainian cousin Olga for a few days while he is away on business. The women get along quite well, but Claudia is distressed when Olga disappears without taking her suitcase, money or passport.

London-based Italian Antonio bets on everything, from the lottery to horses and soccer matches without ever winning or losing the hope of winning; so convinced that his luck is going to turn that his betting companions have started to call him "Win tomorrow". One day Antonio notices that he's being followed by a suspicious looking stranger, well - dressed and obviously rich. This happens frequently, causing Antonio to become very concerned. Alarmed, he tells wife and gambling companions about the situation, but they all just make fun of him, convincing him he's the victim of his imagination.

Two different men living in Milan lose their job at the same time. They will become a funny couple of thieves thanks to the poorest of them that was already a thief.

Fabio's work consists in helping ex prisoners to find their way in the outside world, but his quite life changes after he meets Mr Sparti, now he has to fight his own ghosts.

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.

Three situations about women's lives in three different periods.

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.