Maya Sansa
Nacimiento : 1975-09-25, Rome, Italy
Historia
Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress.
Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodmorning, Night. Sansa has also worked with Marco Tullio Giordana in the film The Best of Youth.
On 2 May 2004 The New York Times published an article which named her as the new image of Italian cinema.
On 14 June 2013, she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dormant Beauty.
She has a daughter, Talitha, with her partner Fabrice Scott with whom she lives in Paris.
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Sara
Un sábado por la noche, en otoño, Mia queda atrapada en un atentado terrorista en un bistró parisino. Tres meses después, sin poder retomar su vida y recordando sólo fragmentos de aquella noche, Mia decide investigar sus recuerdos para encontrar un camino de vuelta a la felicidad.
Caterina
En un día de invierno, Nena reúne a su familia para celebrar su cumpleaños. Il paradiso del pavone es un pequeño viaje a la intimidad y autenticidad del ser humano: una película sobre una familia extensa en la que todos hablan pero nadie escucha. Hasta que un evento inesperado obliga a los miembros de la familia a mirarse a los ojos y revelarse como realmente son.
Gina
It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...
Doctor
Marion se enfrenta a París por la noche con un sentimiento de vulnerabilidad relacionado con la pérdida de su hermana. Se cruza con Alex. Su encuentro evolucionará al ritmo de sus paseos sin rumbo por la ciudad, como un viaje a través de la noche.
Claudia Raffaelli Santini
Un cuento de invierno en el que un incidente trastoca la vida de sus personajes y los cambia para siempre. Cuando el miedo vive dentro de los hogares y las personas, ¿cuál es el precio de la seguridad?
Clara Fasani
Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived until the tragic accident, bursts into Marco’s and his ex-wife’s lives. The mysterious woman claims she keeps feeling a strange presence and hearing the voice of a child that is tormenting her and her son. Marco therefore finds himself torn between the ties of the past and an unwritten future.
A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.
Novia amorosa, fortuna familiar, papel de película: él lo tiene todo. Hasta que una aplicación despierta un nuevo y poderoso anhelo. Mientras está en Roma para rodar su primera película, el actor y heredero industrial Niccolò se obsesiona con la aplicación de citas "US" que lo lleva a una espiral autodestructiva.
Silvana
We are in the mid-60s, when a very young Mariele Ventre gave birth to the very first formation of the Piccolo Coro, originally composed of only eight children. In a few years the Piccolo Coro becomes a real school of choral singing. In its 56 years of history, there have been hundreds of small voices that have brought the music of Zecchino d’Oro and its repertoire around Italy and the world.
Fabienne Dangeville es una aclamada actriz del cine francés, amada y alabada por todos los hombres que llegaron a formar parte de su vida. Cuando publica sus memorias, su hija Lumir regresa de Nueva York, donde vive con su familia, para la presentación. El reencuentro entre madre e hija no tardará en convertirse en un enfrentamiento: se revelarán verdades, se ajustarán cuentas, se hablará de amor y de resentimiento.
Mother Sun
Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
Elisabeth Farnese
Después de muchos años de confrontación, los tesoros de España y Francia están vacíos. En 1721, el regente de Francia traza un ambicioso plan con objeto de inaugurar una era de paz y prosperidad que sanará las economías de ambas naciones: su intención es tender una sólida red de alianzas matrimoniales en la que envolverá a cuatro niños de edades muy diferentes que nada saben de traiciones y juegos de poder…
Maria
La desaparición de Emanuela Orlandi es un acontecimiento que aún hoy cuenta con escabrosas ramificaciones. El 22 de junio de 1983, Emanuela, hija de un empleado de la prefectura del Vaticano, desapareció en misteriosas circunstancias cuando apenas había cumplido 15 años. Su desaparición supone la ocasión para relatar la génesis de la pirámide criminal que desde aquel momento en adelante echó raíces en la capital transalpina.
Giovanna
Ada
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
Francesca
En la cima de su carrera artística, Serge Tanneur dejó definitivamente el mundo del espectáculo para mudarse a la Isla de Ré y vivir como un ermitaño. Tres años más tarde, Gauthier Valence, un famoso actor de televisión, está planeando una producción de "El misántropo" de Molière, y quiere ofrecerle a Serge el papel principal. Serge le propone a Gauthier cinco días de ensayo para saber si quiere participar. Los dos actores se miden y se desafían, compartiendo el placer de actuar juntos y al tiempo enormes ganas de pelearse, y todo parece indicar que Serge va a regresar al escenario.
Valeria
En el siglo XXI, el apoderarse de los recursos naturales de los países emergentes no es una cuestión de guerra, es una cuestión de acciones financieras complejas. Y el poder de los gobiernos detrás de los eventos ha sido reemplazado por el poder de las compañías holding. Hoy en día no conquistas un país. Lo compras.
Rossa
El drama de una estrella de cine que cuida de su hija, que se encuentra en estado vegetativo, sirve para abordar el caso de Eluana Englaro, una italiana que pasó 17 años en coma antes de que por decisión de su padre se desconectara la máquina que la mantenía con vida.
The Woman
In this dark tale of an esoteric ritual, a woman enters a shadowy laboratory where three witches attend a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by hanging skeletons of dresses. She is disrobed, led to a bath, laid in the water and her finger pricked to draw blood. The witches circle, chanting in strange tongues. As the smoke clears, we see the woman has made the ultimate sacrifice, transforming herself into the object of her desire.
Catherine Cormery (1924)
Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
Doctor Alexandra 'Alex' Smith
A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.
Véra
Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he starts to follow her...He discovers that in a secret life, she is another mysterious and sublime person.
Ingrid
Andrea is a twentysomething from a rich but cold family who leads a superficial life devoid of responsibility. After receiving a letter from his dying father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, Andrea reluctantly joins him in Kenya to bid him farewell. Once there, he'll find himself with a rather singular inheritance: an 8-year-old half-brother that his father had from a local woman.
Marinella
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.
Martina
Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...
Lena
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Maddalena
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Giulia
Cuando ve a Thomas besando a otra mujer, Ann decide romper con el pasado y empezar una nueva vida, aunque se siente insegura respecto a lo que le espera. Con su música y la amistad de Georges, un amigo del pasado, emprende un viaje que la llevará a una isla, donde hay una mansión que se llama Villa Amalia.
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
Mileva Marić
Esta miniserie de TV (dos episodios) narra la relación entre el científico Albert Einstein y su primera mujer, Mileva Maric.
Chiara
Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.
Maria Luzzato
Segunda Guerra Mundial. En mayo de 1944, un comando formado por cinco mujeres de la Resistencia Francesa recibe la orden dellevar a cabo una peligrosa misión: lanzarse en paracaídas sobre la Francia ocupada para proteger el secreto del desembarco de Normandía y eliminar al coronel Heindrich, el jefe del contraespionaje alemán. Louise, viuda de un líder de la Resistencia, es una experta francotiradora. Jeanne es una dura prostituta que no dudará en matar. Gaëlle, una joven experta en explosivos, está deseando entrar en acción. Suzy, una despampanante ex corista, fue amante de Heindrich. Maria es una condesa italiana que trabaja como agente secreta.
Anna Lo Russo
Francesca
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
Maria
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Chiara
Chiara es una joven apasionada, utópica y revolucionaria que esconde su verdadera identidad como miembro de las Brigadas Rojas italianas a finales de los setenta. A simple vista se trata de una chica normal que se muda con su novio a un nuevo piso, pero su amigo Enzo empieza a sospechar que no todo es lo que parece.
Mirella Utano
Historia de una familia italiana desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días. Dos hermanos, Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio) y Matteo (Alessio Boni), comparten las mismas esperanzas, los mismos sueños; disfrutan de los mismos libros y de los mismos amigos hasta que conocen a una chica desequilibrada, Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), que perturba su destino. Mientras Nicola ejerce como psicólogo, Matteo abandona sus estudios e ingresa en el cuerpo de policía.
Stella
Stella
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.
Grazia Negro
Lupo Mannaro, based upon the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, is a psycho-thriller revolving around the police commissioner Romeo who is obsessively convinced that the unsuspected Engineer Velasco, well known and respected in his milieu, is a dangerous serial killer. Romeo together with his determined assistant Grazia Negro and police superintendent Rago starts investigating with the help of the famous criminologist Del Gatto. The commissioner will often find himself in difficulty but won't give up the investigation due to his obstinacy and his strong vocation. The case slowly turns itself into a personal challenge between Romeo and Velasco, with unpredictable moves as well as strategies of defence and attack.
Katia
A short film.
Annetta
A principios del siglo veinte, Italia está agitada por violentos problemas sociales. Las emigraciones internas dejan vacíos los campos convirtiendo las ciudades en lugares turbulentos. La falta de trabajo exaspera a los hombres, al tiempo que alimenta la miseria y la desesperación. Ante tal situación, la burguesía defiende el orden social por medio de la represión policial. Los intelectuales se preguntan sobre las causas y los efectos de la miseria.
