Pietro Bontempo

In recent days, Rome has been the scene of an unusual event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam of unknown origin and composition. No one knows that those who breathe in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what they repress, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family. Since Cristina’s death in an accident a year earlier, the love of her husband Thomas and their son Enrico has given way to a forced cohabitation, while the youngest of the family, Barbara, would only like to see them united again as they were before. The accident could have been avoided, both Thomas and Enrico know it. Instead of taking responsibility and moving on, they stopped talking to each other. Now they are two souls full of rage, trapped in a Rome that resembles them: dark, nervous, on the verge of exploding.

Set in Rebibbia (a prison in Rome), the short film follows the lives of three inmates waiting for an interrogation.

From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.

When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.

The librarian of the university Xenia schedules a S&M blind date with the masochist Ghost to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires. They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat. Xenia cleans her evidences and leaves the place, but Ghost's friend Silver investigates the murder of Ghost and finds her files in a CD.

Italian thriller

Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?

이탈리아의 트리멘토라는 작은 마을에서 식당을 경영하는 순박한 남자 마르첼로(Marcello: 쟝 르노 분)와 불치의 병에 걸린 그의 아내 로잔나(Roseanna: 메르세데스 루엘 분). 사랑하는 로잔나의 마지막 소원은 바로 죽은 딸 아이의 곁에 묻히고 싶다는 소박한 꿈이었지만, 그 묘지에는 무덤이 세 곳 밖에 남아있지 않다. 고민 끝에 마르첼로는 다른 사람들의 죽음을 막기 위한 눈물겨운 노력을 기울인다. 교통사고를 막기위해 이리 저리 뛰어다니고 수혈을 해주거나, 병원 중환자실을 순례하며 환자들을 응원하는 것이 그의 주요 일과 중 하나. 그의 지극한 사랑을 바라보며 로잔나는 자신의 여동생 치칠리아(Cecilia: 폴리 월커 분)와 남편이 맺어지기를 희망한다. 로잔나의 고집 센 여동생 치칠리아는 그 마음을 이해하면서도 언니 곁에 계속 있어주지 못하는 마르첼로에게 짜증을 내곤 한다. 그때, 이들에게 구세주가 나타나는데 바로 묘지 옆의 땅을 소유하고 있는 버질의 조카이자 치칠리아에게 반한 젊은 변호사 안토니오(Antonio: 마크 프랭켈 분). 마르첼로와 치칠리아는 안토니오를 통해 버질이 땅을 팔게끔 하기 위해서 두 사람의 만남을 마련하지만 이를 눈치 챈 안토니오는 치칠리아를 떠나간다 그러던 어느 날, 마르첼로의 친구 로씨(Rossi: 로버토 델라 카사 분)가 식당에서 술에 만취한 채 차를 몰고 집으로 돌아가려 한다. 사고를 염려한 마르첼로는 그를 바래다주던 중 그의 숨겨진 비밀을 알게 된다.

A Donatello Award nominated short drama that illustrates a man's addiction to reading - and of the steps taken by some in society to limit this "habit".

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.

In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) must struggle to stay alive.

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?