Valia Santella

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.

「息子の部屋」でカンヌ国際映画祭パルムドール、「親愛なる日記」で同監督賞を受賞しているイタリアの名匠ナンニ・モレッティが、同じアパートに住む3つの家族の素顔が、ひとつの事故をきっかけに次第に露わになっていく様子をスリリングに描いた人間ドラマ。 ローマの高級住宅地にあるアパートに暮らす、3つの家族。それぞれが顔見知り程度で、各家庭の扉の向こう側にある本当の顔は知らない。ある夜、3階に住むジョバンニとドーラの裁判官夫婦の息子アンドレアの運転する車が建物に衝突し、ひとりの女性が亡くなる。同じ夜、2階に住む妊婦のモニカは陣痛が始まり、夫が出張中のためひとりで病院に向かう。1階のルーチョとサラの夫婦は、仕事場で起こったトラブルのため娘を朝まで向かいの老夫婦に預けるが、認知症の老夫と娘が一緒に行方不明になってしまう。 イスラエルの作家エシュコル・ネボの「Three floors up」が原作で、デビュー以来オリジナル作品を手がけてきたモレッティ監督にとっては初の原作ものとなった。出演はマルゲリータ・ブイ、リッカルド・スカマルチョ、アルバ・ロルバケルら。

1980年代初頭、シチリアではマフィアの全面戦争が激化していた。パレルモ派の大物ブシェッタは抗争の仲裁に失敗しブラジルに逃れるが、残された家族や仲間達はコルレオーネ派の報復によって次々と抹殺されていった。ブラジルで逮捕されイタリアに引き渡されたブシェッタは、マフィア撲滅に執念を燃やすファルコーネ判事から捜査への協力を求められる。麻薬と殺人に明け暮れ堕落した犯罪組織コーザ・ノストラに失望していたブシェッタは、固い信頼関係で結ばれたファルコーネに組織の罪を告白する決意をするが、それはコーザ・ノストラの ”血の掟” に背く行為だった……。仁義なき抗争の果てに、名誉ある男の美学を貫こうとブシェッタが下した決断とは−−。

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.

長く海外で暮らしていた小説家が映画監督に本を依頼され、イスタンブールに帰って来る。ところが依頼主は消え、いつの間にか奇妙な人間関係に巻き込まれていく。

1969年、トリノ。9歳のマッシモの穏やかな幼少期は母親の謎めいた死によって閉ざされてしまう。神父が母親は天国にいると伝えても、小さな少年はこの喪失を受け入れようとはしない。時が経ち90年代、ローマ。大人になったマッシモは、腕利きのジャーナリストとして成功を収めてきた。しかしサラエボでの紛争取材の後、パニック障害を起こしてしまい、駆け込んだ病院で、精神科医のエリーザと運命の出会いを果たす。それまで人を愛することができなかったマッシモだったが、この出会いによって次第に心を解きはじめる。そんな折、父親の逝去を機にトリノに戻ったマッシモは、幼い頃両親と住んでいた家を売ろうと決める。様々な思い出が詰まったその家で、マッシモは再び過去のトラウマに向き合うことになるのだった・・・。

A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.

女性映画監督のマルゲリータは、恋人と別れたばかりで、前夫との間にもうけた娘は目下、反抗期の真っただ中。その上、新作映画の撮影に入ったものの、アメリカからやって来た主演俳優のバリーは、やたらと気難しくて現場で絶えず不平不満をこぼし、撮影は一向に進まない。そこへさらに、入院中だった老母のアーダの病状が思わしくなく、医者から余命わずかと宣告されるに及んで、マルゲリータの悩みはピークに達する。

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a young woman in a depopulated Rome during one hot summer. This heartwarming tale of a lonesome girl who teaches singing and dog-sits during her holidays on the outskirts of Rome. Its striking cinematography evokes Nina's indefinable anxiety. By opening herself up to life she conquers a vision of her future full of imagination and beauty.

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.

An italian short comedy

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.

Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of his life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged mother's secret life, she has to face the hidden memories that shaped their family history.

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.

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.

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.