Virgilio Palone

Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, accidentally kills his lover during a revolt against the local Prince. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.

A princess has to pretend to be in love with a rude and ignorant boy to obtein success among her citizens.

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.

ローマ、サベリ街の総合病院の小児科病棟。13歳の少女ヴァレンティナ、通称ピッピ（アレッシア・フガルディ）は生後3ヶ月で発病し、てんかんと診断された。小児精神科の若き医師アルトゥーロ（セルジョ・カステリットー）は、それが誤診であり、心の病であることを直観的に見抜く。彼は薬物を使わない心理療法で発作の原因を探ろうとし、ピッピとできるだけ長い時間を過ごすようにする。アルトゥーロはやがて、ピッピの苦しみは、愛のない生活を続ける母チンチア（アンナ・ガリエナ）と父マルチェッロ（アルマンド・デ・ラッツァ）の歪んだ関係を全身で感じ取った彼女が、いつしか自分が逃げ込める世界を作り上げてしまい、心の行き場を失った時に“発作”を起こすのだと確信する。ある日、彼は“スヌーピー”の本をおみやげにピッピを訪ねた。アルトゥーロは、彼が子供の頃に愛した挿話を話し、「かぼちゃ大王が夢をかなえてくれると信じて、かぼちゃ畑に座って大王を待っていた」と語る。この日を境に2人の間に温かい友情が育まれていく。