Andrea Maguolo

Juliette creció sola con su padre Raphaël en el norte de Francia. Él un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial. La niña, apasionada por el canto y la música, conoce un verano a un mago que le promete que unas velas escarlatas algún día la sacarán de su pueblo. Juliette nunca dejó de creer en esta profecía.

The great oak tree of Scandiano, in the Reggio Emilia hills, is the silent witness of a long history, that of a territory shaped by nature and human activity. From the late Renaissance to the present, revolutions and traditions have alternated, leaving an uninterrupted flow of images imprinted in the memory of the centuries-old tree. Shot using a drone in a 15-minute sequence plan, The Great Oak is the result of a courageous technical challenge, but above all a conceptual one: to overturn the anthropocentric point of view of film narration and offer a more articulate perspective on reality, on the invisible links between living beings and on our role in the world.

The great oak tree of Scandiano, in the Reggio Emilia hills, is the silent witness of a long history, that of a territory shaped by nature and human activity. From the late Renaissance to the present, revolutions and traditions have alternated, leaving an uninterrupted flow of images imprinted in the memory of the centuries-old tree. Shot using a drone in a 15-minute sequence plan, The Great Oak is the result of a courageous technical challenge, but above all a conceptual one: to overturn the anthropocentric point of view of film narration and offer a more articulate perspective on reality, on the invisible links between living beings and on our role in the world.

The daily routine of a young couple is disturbed by some shocking news. A strange dream appears to herald a terrible and, at the same time, wonderful truth.

Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of leftovers. Worlds apart, yet close-by, there is Stanley. He tidies the church in exchange for a monetised hospitality, picks fruits, herds sheep: anything that keep his foreign body busy. Oscar, the young Sicilian, and Stanley the Nigerian don’t seem to have much in common. Except for the feeling of being thrown into the world, to suffer the same refusal, the same overwhelming wave of choices imposed on them by others.

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.

Carla, a young girl 25 years old, is a waitress at a restaurant. While Giulia, the same age as her and with the same economic difficulties, gets paid to get undressed on the internet, in a pornographic video-chatroom. One night, they will need each other.

Es la historia de Georgina Condori, una música andina cuya bebé recién nacida desaparece misteriosamente. En medio del caos político de la época, Pedro Campos, un joven periodista limeño toma a su cargo la investigación y emprende junto a ella la desesperada búsqueda.

“Blue Lips” isn't just a film. It's a cinematographic, cultural and social project, based on the true story of the difficult recovery of two comatose boys a and moves through the world of metropolitan suburbia.

Martin Eden es un chico de pueblo que se gana la vida trabajando como marinero. Un día, Martin consigue salvar la vida de Arthur Morse, un joven de clase alta que vive en San Francisco. Como agradecimiento, Arthur invita a Martin a su hogar y, poco a poco, le va introduciendo en su propio estilo de vida. El joven ve esto como una oportunidad para convertirse, finalmente, en escritor y trata de aprovechar al máximo el tiempo entre lujos. Martin recibirá un impulso inesperado cuando conozca a Ruth, una joven de la que se enamora al instante.

Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It's been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood are pizzas and supplì that come home. Convinced that jihadist terrorism is on the verge of attacking Italy, he decides to take justice on his own by sending a bombshell to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, a nation guilty, in his opinion, of financing terrorists. Not everything will run smoothly as he had expected.

Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same number of groups of bathers who will spend the season in them. For these people the “huts” are the perfect setting in which to hide behind the memory of a social status that the crisis of recent years has undermined. A family gets into debt to go on a seaside vacation and to look well-off among the bathers, three women sunbathe in order to feel as if they are still young and to become the stars of the summer, while on the same beach a barman thinks about earning as much money as possible to get through the winter. Everyone is waiting for the night of August 15 to play a leading role in the summer Vanity Fair and to keep on pretending that the economic crisis doesn’t exist.

The story of Jessica, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a strange world, a place that could be our world in the near future, perhaps, or in an alternate dimension. The point being that, whatever the nature of her world may be, Jessica's problems are the very same as they are in our world. Above all, the fear of a scary future haunts Jessica and seems to worry everybody around her as well, with the only escape appearing to be "like the other people". But Jessica's different: she has a dream and she has talent, yet her world rejects those who try to change the world and better their lives. All the isolation and bullying will have an unexpected impact on the situation, until a very shocking turning point of the story. All the way up to a shocking denouement.

A 12-year-old boy tries everything to join a music lovers club.

The story of the day, from early morning to night, of Mary, a confused but dynamic woman who pursues her career as an actress, but is lost in the fragmentation of the Roman daily. A newspaper that revolves around what seems to be the only source of livelihood for the Eternal City: tourism. Let's see Maria run from the theaters to check-in at the tourists and from check-in to screening in a frenzy that will blur in comical and grueling situations.

A man in a Japanese restaurant thinks back to his encounter with a mysterious creature.

Rocio is 20 years old and has been detained in an identification and expulsion center in Rome, pending deportation to her country of origin. During her detention Rocio has become pregnant, but she is unwilling to reveal how or with whom this has happened, preferring to remain silent. By law, pregnant women cannot be detained. So Rocio is released, four months into her pregnancy and with a temporary permit of stay on maternity grounds. Now she is free, but must also go ahead with an unwanted pregnancy.

Enzo Ceccoti, un convicto, entra en contacto con una sustancia radioactiva. Tras el accidente descubre que tiene una fuerza sobrehumana, por lo que decide utilizar sus poderes para comenzar una carrera criminal. Todo cambia no obstante cuando conoce a Alessia, una chica que está convencida de que él es el héroe del manga Jeeg Steel.

Jenny tiene 17 años y sueña con dedicarse a la natación sincronizada, pero su despreocupada vida de adolescente en Ostia, en la costa romana, se tambalea con la imprevista muerte de su madre. Con un padre enfermo y un hermano pequeño de nueve años del que ocuparse, Jenny se ve obligada a trasladarse a un pueblo montañés. Pronto, la chica comenzará a sentir el peso de esta responsabilidad mientras crece en ella el deseo de retomar el camino del que era su sueño. (FILMAFFINITY)

Con una una tormenta de nieve por llegar, un joven técnico llega a una ciudad montañosa para reparar la planta de energía eléctrica. Pronto descubre que es usada con propósitos siniestros.

Documental dedicado al transitado y enorme anillo de autopistas -Grande Raccordo Anulare, o GRA- que rodea la ciudad de Roma. (FILMAFFINITY)

Aman and Teodoro meet one night on a roof and start a friendship.

Clara observes her sister Sofia, locked in her own world, where there is no space for words and communication takes place only through objects, more effective than certain dialogues between a father and a daughter.

A Donatello award nominated short film about two young Somali brothers living in Rome with completely different work ethics.

A Donatello award nominated short feature.