Acqua e anice is a “dance hall road movie” about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer and a fixture at local dance halls, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra’s tour bus. No tour dates, this time: she is simply setting out to see her fans, her loved ones and all the places where she became a star, once again. For the occasion, Olimpia has hired a young woman, Maria, as shy and awkward as Olimpia isn’t, to be her driver.
Thirty-year-old Yuri and his father run the last farm left in a small, remote mountain village. Desperate to find love, Yuri meets a young woman in a strip club. Chiara Campara's fiction film debut takes a hyperreal approach to portray forgotten members of society, giving the story an incredibly authentic feel.
Umberto Ferrari
Biopic on one of the most prominent Italian actors: Nino Manfredi. The movie recall the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting the difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and the encounter with the love of his life, Erminia.
Enrico
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When tragedy strikes, the only glimmer of joy arrives in the form of Olivia, a spirited Australian chasing her dream of working in design while on a family mission in Udine. Against the stunning vineyards, rugged mountains and blue Adriatic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, these two very different people find themselves at a crossroads that will change their lives forever.
Dottor Rossi
Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fund his new business while navigating the shady world of the Neapolitan mob.
Il Padre di Giulio
When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.
Antonio
Piero Saggion is a teenager who lives in Marghera, Venice's industrial area known for its "Petrochemicals", plays rugby and spends much time with his friend Sergio. When Nestor, an Argentine worker in the small firm his father Antonio owns, remains badly burned at the end of a day's work with too much overtime, Piero's life takes an unexpected turn. The arrival of Maria, daughter of the Argentine Nestor, will make him discover the love and give him the strength to rebel against a world of lies and compromises.
Pompinaro
A man is forced to retire from competitive swimming due to a heart condition.
Gala Coordinator Dalla Pietà
연인과 헤어진 상처를 달래기 위해 이탈리아행 기차에 오른 프랭크는 기차 안에서 우연히 마주앉게 된 매혹적인 여인 엘리제에게 반해버린다. 프랭크는 도도하면서도 베일에 가려진 그녀의 같이 가자는 제안을 흔쾌히 받아들이는데… 급속도로 친해진 그녀와의 아찔한 키스도 잠시, 두 사람은 정체를 알 수 없는 감시와 추적을 받으며 급기야는 목숨마저 위태로운 처지가 된다. 프랭크는 이 어리둥절한 음모의 중심에 엘리제가 연루되어 있고, 자신 또한 국제적인 범죄자로 쫓기고 있다는 사실을 알게 된다. 과연 엘리제의 정체는? 끝없이 조여오는 추격과 위험한 여정의 끝은 어디인가?
Sergio
From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat, to step aside. Andrea and Giulia come from two different worlds, have different friends, and two different lives who call them strongly in opposite directions. Will they keep their love alive in spite of everything?
Prof. Malerba
il direttore
Two different men living in Milan lose their job at the same time. They will become a funny couple of thieves thanks to the poorest of them that was already a thief.
Valerio Spiegelman
First Policeman
한 커플이 우연히 만난 한 친절한 부자를 만나면서 벌여지는 일을 다루고 있는데, 제목처럼 낮선이의 호의는 영화가 마무리될 쯤에는 완전히 정반대의 역설적인 의미로 변해버리고 만다. 이안 맥이완은 한 때 카프카를 좋아한다고 했고, 물론 그의 영향을 받았다고 말하기도 했다. 그리고 이 작품이 바로 그런 작품 중의 하나로 그는 여기서 인간의 사도마조키즘적 성향에 대해 분석적으로 파해치면서 고발하는 식으로 다루기보다는 카프카의 작품에서 등장하듯이 그러한 것들을 겪는 피해자의 심리적 당혹감과 혼란스러움에 초점을 다루고 있다. 그래서 자세히 다루기보다는 오히려 미스테리하게 그러한 것들에 대해 정확히 알 수 없게 해서 불안 및 공포감 또는 충격을 강화시키고 있다.
