Tatti Sanguineti

Love Among the Ruins is a spoof about the miraculous discovery and restoration of a long lost Italian silent film. The film connects a contemporary filmmaker with the genius of the Lumini brothers, two cinematic icons who have been almost overlooked in the history of cinema.

This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".

Piero Tortolina has been a point of reference for a whole generation of film lovers. Pioneer of cinema-clubs and great film collector, he has been an invisible protagonist in the history of italian cinema.

Just before sleeping, a small boy finds a crate of ancient toys: a little circus, lead soldiers and a book about circus legend Antonio Franconi - whose dream was creating a great show mixing all possible forms of art.

En 1968, los jóvenes italianos soñaban con cambiar el mundo; era aquel un tiempo en el que las normas se violaban, se reivindicaba el amor libre y todo parecía posible. Nicola, un atractivo joven de Puglia, a pesar de que sueña con ser actor, se hace policía y acaba introduciéndose en calidad de "topo" en el agitado mundo estudiantil. En la universidad conoce a Laura, una joven de familia católica de clase media y, además, una estudiante brillante y apasionada que sueña con un mundo sin injusticias. Allí también conoce a Libero, un estudiante y trabajador líder del movimiento estudiantil que sueña con la revolución.

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered.

Comedia basada en la novela El Desierto de Libia de Mario Tobino. Narra la historia de un grupo de enfermeros que son enviados, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, a un oasis perdido del desierto de Líbia. Allí tendrán que afrontar las contradictorias órdenes de su superior, las incomprensibles exigencias de una cultura ajena como la árabe y la difícil convivencia entre ellos mismos.

Paolo Bonomo es un productor de películas de serie B que atraviesa un momento particularmente crítico: está en trámites de separación de su mujer Paola, y además su productora no va demasiado bien. Un día le ofrecen un guión para hacer una película sobre Silvio Berlusconi y acepta la propuesta. (FILMAFFINITY)

Immediately preceding INTERVISTA, director Federico Fellini made GINGER AND FRED (1986). For that film, Fellini created a number of comically exaggerated television advertisements, but most ultimately went unused and unseen until they were presented in this 2003 collection for Italian television.

In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".

A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica' Ladri di bicicletta. But it won't be easy.

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.