Carlotta Cristiani

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.

Una fábula graciosa sobre la mayoría de edad que termina con una moraleja descarada: ¿y si las presuntas "chicas malas" fueran las mejores?

Benedetta, an obese fifteen-year-old yearning for attention, lives in a tawdry province in the south of Italy, emblematic of her inner landscape where everything could be and yet is not. She falls in love with Armando, aka Amanda, a young transvestite who is attracted to the young girl's innocence and begins an unhealthy relationship of mutual dependence with her. Amanda runs a carousel at the fair across the street from Benedetta's house, and the girl is magnetically drawn to this colorful and exciting world. But Amanda not only runs the carousel, she's also a call boy and sells drugs. Between intoxication and family rebellion and the discovery of sex - a great disappointment - she completes her rite of passage into adulthood.

Camilla is a successful attorney in her forties who accidentally causes the death of an undocumented migrant. At first, she is only interested in exonerating herself, but soon a feeling of responsibility starts nagging her: the dead body of a young man is lying in the morgue because their destinies fatally crossed. Camilla is used to shielding herself from pain, and she is incapable of really caring, even for her own daughter. In the midst of discovering the victim’s identity, she meets Bruno, the head of the morgue, who seems to be the only one who can truly understand her. The investigation she pursues will take her far from her surroundings until she will be forced to question herself, her unresolved past, and the life she really wants to live.

Una antigua prisión del siglo XIX, ubicada en una zona inaccesible e indeterminada del territorio italiano, está siendo abandonada. Por problemas burocráticos, los traslados están bloqueados, y quedan alrededor de una docena de presos, con pocos agentes, esperando nuevos destinos. En esa atmósfera extraña, poco a poco, las reglas parecen tener cada vez menos sentido, los protocolos se relajan y se vislumbran nuevas formas de relación entre los hombres que allí quedan.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced many to stay at home, preventing people from meeting each other in real life. In the absence of any physical connection, this short explores alternative forms of contact among neighbors by making use of an old 16mm camera, a zoom lens, and a few meters of expired film.

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

In a prestigious hotel school, Luca learns the art of service. How much of his own freedom and adolescence must the young man give up to work at serving customers?

En un pequeño pueblo de Cerdeña, Vittoria, una niña de diez años, está a punto de descubrir algo que puede cambiarle la vida. Criada por la más adulta, seria y responsable Tina (Valeria Golino), Vittoria conoce a Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher), una chica fiestera, alcohólica y bastante menos responsable, que vive un poco alejada del pueblo. Y el espectador se dará cuenta, por el parecido físico, que la segunda es la madre en cuestión.

Emma (Valeria Golino) se quedó ciega hace ya muchos años, aunque aún le queda el recuerdo de los colores que tienen las cosas. Se dedica a la osteopatía en Roma, siendo una de las más prestigiosas en su campo y una de las profesionales más reconocidas del país. De este modo, conoce a Teo (Adriano Gianinni) en una de sus consultas, un paciente que trabaja como publicista, con una espectacular carisma y que nunca ha estado en una relación de verdad, siempre ha estado yendo de cama en cama en relaciones pasajeras. Sin embargo, Teo forjará una conexión muy especial con Emma con la que, pese a ser totalmente distintos y vivir en mundos opuestos, tiene el reto de vivir la vida juntos y enamorados, aunque esto pasará de ser un desafío a una necesidad para ambos.

For centuries, every year on September 8 myriad swarms of winged ants have been arriving on the Mount of Ants. Similar to clouds obfuscating the sky, these small insects mate in a wonderful flight followed by the death of all the males, which fall exhausted onto the yard of the church rising on the mountain top, once called "Santa Maria Formicarum". The mating flight blazes out like an ecstatic apparition before the eyes of the curious, of tourists and the faithful, who arrive here every year to admire and to celebrate this feast dedicated to the "Virgin of the Mount of Ants". This singular event is the starting point for reflection within the film, which asks questions about the small insects’ nature and that of human beings. Great writers like Nobel Prize-winner Maurice Maeterlinck and entomologist Carlo Emery have studied them a lot: their words echo out again, nowadays, in the voices of witnesses in the film.

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years to valuable editorial and typographical activities, still printing with mobile characters, preserving the memory of a perfect ingenuity made of manual skills and technique, but also of inventiveness and poetry. Silvio Soldini gives us a realistic and poetical portrait of these two artists-artisans, who chose one of the oldest professions in a modern world, finding great success and approval.

Cora is a 19-year-old woman who has recently returned home for a gap year.  Her father is the mayor of Bucco, a town whose livelihood depends on the tourism of Christians who believe in the apparitions of the Virgin Mary.  While busy organizing the celebration of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event that attracts numerous pilgrims, Cora notices a mysterious man whose presence will slowly rupture the tranquility of the town and her nascent adulthood.

Six Italian directors explore contemporary Milan in a rich and eclectic portrait of urban life and spaces—both rooted in history and bursting with a diversity of architecture and humanity.

Lo curioso de esta película es el hecho de que hasta trece cineastas van a aportar su pequeño granito de arena con la intención de mostrar varias perspectivas acerca de Sarajevo, exhibiendo con ello una serie de lecciones sobre los aspectos más ilusionantes pero también más crueles de dicho territorio en el viejo continente. La trama arranca en el desarrollo de la Primera Guerra Mundial, siguiendo a continuación con muchos de los sucesos ocurridos en uno de los puntos más destacados en lo que se refiere a la evolución histórica de Europa en el siglo XX.

A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.

Fábula sobre la Italia contemporánea, en la que historias muy diversas aparecen enmarcadas en el mezquino materialismo de nuestro tiempo. Los protagonistas son un fontanero, cuya esposa muerta se le aparece en bikini, y sus dos hijos adolescentes; una artista pobre y patética, el extravagante propietario de su piso, una especie de predicador urbano y un abogado que defiende a criminales y a políticos corruptos.

Anna se ha convertido en la persona que todo el mundo esperaba: tiene un trabajo modesto pero seguro, es una persona vital y se muestra siempre afectuosa con la familia, con los amigos y con su compañero Alessio, con el que ha decidido tener un hijo. Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando Domenico, un hombre casado, irrumpe en su vida y le hace redescubrir el amor, ese amor basado en el deseo y la pasión.

Vito y Elsa, una pareja de clase media, se encuentran con dificultades que afrontar a raíz del despido de Vito de su antiguo y bien renumerado trabajo. Será difícil afrontar lo que les viene encima.

Meet Claudia: dull Giovanni is married with her, Giacomo is divorced and happy of it (until he meets her), and Aldo... is a taxi driver. At the end, who will have won her heart?

The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.

A Donatello award nominated short drama about some wartime children who are allowed to live in a derelict old factory so long as they loot other bombed-out buildings for the soldiers.

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.

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.

Rosalba se há quedado olvidada por parte de su marido y sus hijos en la cafetería de la autopista. Ella tratará de volver a casa por su cuenta, pero el destino hace que se detenga en Venecia... y decide quedarse unos días para ver la ciudad.

A Donatello award nominated drama following the lives and loves of three people at a drug rehabilitation facility.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.