Enzo
The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.
Phoenix
Greek Tragedy - Holding Era
El duque Teseo ultima los preparativos de la boda de su hija Hipólita, al tiempo que recomienda a Egeo que dé su aprobación al matrimonio entre su hija Hermia y Demetrio. Lo que Egeo no sabe es que Hermia está enamorada de Lysander, mientras que la que de verdad está loca por Demetrio es Helena. En torno a este enredo sentimental, pululan las hadas y los duendes del bosque, como Puck, que es el encargado de mezclar pociones mágicas que sirven para enamorar a los hombres.
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
Nuncio
Rosana sufre una grave enfermedad de corazón y todo lo que desea es ser enterrada junto a su hija, cuando llegue el momento. Dado que el cementerio se está quedando pequeño, y ante la imposibilidad de ampliarlo, Marcello, su marido, cuidará de todo el mundo para evitar que nadie más muera en el pueblo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Uomo Misericordia
Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.
Village Idiot
Sicilia, años cincuenta. El pícaro Joe Morelli, con su obsoleta cámara Ascania a cuestas, asegura que es capaz de hacer realidad los sueños de cualquiera que aspire a ser una estrella de cine. Con el pretexto de descubrir nuevas caras para una película, llega a un pueblecito y exige a los ingenuos lugareños 1.500 liras por hacer realidad sus sueños.
Capasecca
In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.
Don Arpagone es un avaro que recurre a toda clase de argucias para evitar que nadie se lleve su dinero, incluido el Vaticano, que, por medio del cardenal Spinose, intenta apoderarse de su fortuna. La hija del avaro está enamorada del secretario de su padre, y el hijo lo está de la hija de Doña Lucrecia, una mujer arruinada tras la muerte de su marido. Pero pronto se descubrirá que el marido de ésta vive y que el secretario de Arpagone es, en realidad, el hijo de un rico caballero. El avaro se entrevista con el Papa y denuncia al Cardenal, que es desterrado por el Papa.
