Natalino Balasso

It is late 18th century in Venice, and in a convent school for girls Teresa, a girl with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of music that is pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.

Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyone this is the great opportunity to change their life, for some it could be the last one. The performances begin and each comedian takes the stage with a great dilemma: to respect the teachings of their master, devoted to intelligent and uncompromising comedy, or to twist their numbers to satisfy the much less refined taste of the examiner? Or maybe look for a third way, one of absolute originality? Through the stories of six comedians, Comedians is a reflection on the very meaning of comedy in our time, facing absolutely topical issues.

Lazzaro es un joven campesino que, junto a un grupo de gente, vive en una casa de campo, a las órdenes de una marquesa. Pronto, sin embargo, nos daremos cuenta de que en esta historia hay algo extraño, y los avatares de Lazzaro darán un inesperado vuelco hacia lo fantástico. Lazzaro felice recorre el cine italiano de manera libre, para relatar la historia de un hombre bueno: un auténtico milagro cinematográfico.

It's 2pm. Another school day is over. Sabot, a teacher who has been expelled from the school, shows up armed with a club. A premeditated vandalism turns into a feud. Sabot rages against his colleagues who have ostracized him, but his killing spree won't spare even the boys he has always fought for.

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.

A un fracasado director de cine se le ofrece la oportunidad de montar la pasión de Cristo en un pueblo, con divertidas consecuencias.

Matteo tiene 30 años, un diploma en el bolsillo y un gran talento para las matemáticas. Sin embargo, logra apenas pagar el alquiler del apartamento que comparte con Francesco, su mejor amigo. En poco tiempo, su vida se transforma en una pesadilla: pierde a su novia y, como si fuera poco, peligra su trabajo. La llegada sorpresa de Beatrice, una nueva inquilina que aspira a convertirse en profesora, y de Angelica, que además de ser muy guapa es también jefa de marketing, marcarán profundamente el curso de los acontecimientos. Matteo tendrá que pensar por primera vez en su futuro. (FILMAFFINITY)

En el idílico escenario de un pueblecito a orillas del Po, surge el amor entre Hassan y Mara. Él es un mecánico tunecino que, tras años de duro trabajo, se ha ganado el respeto de sus vecinos. Ella es una joven a punto de partir a Brasil con una ONG. Giovanni, un chico que aspira a ser periodista, es testigo de esta historia de amor. La vida de los tres dará un giro tras una serie de inesperados y dolorosos sucesos.

Stefano es un guitarrista de una banda de rock. Adolescente treintañero, decide regresar a casa de sus padres cuando descubre que su mujer lo engaña con otro. Pero al regresar, encuentra que sus parientes (padre, madre, hermanos) no llevan precisamente una mejor vida que la suya. Porque a pesar del bienestar económico del que gozan (y que le ha sido escaso a Stefano en su vida profesional) sus vidas personales se van desplomando. Y Stefano parece ser el único que los puede ayudar. (FILMAFFINITY)