Alessandro D'Alatri

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962 semi-autobiographical novel recounting an unfulfilled love story between two young Jews in Ferrara, while fascism was raging in Italy in the late 1930's. In 1972, Vittorio De Sica's film adaptation of the book won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Since then, the fictional space of the garden became so tangible that people from all over the world come to Ferrara to look for it. Fifty years after winning the Oscar, reality and fiction come together once more, as we walk through an imaginary garden and bring to life the book, its author, its main protagonists, history, love, friendships and betrayals.

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

A teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.

A teenager, named Matteo, dreams of becoming a professional swimmer. When his coach prefers to him the son of the team's sponsors, Matteo takes revenge studying at the university Bocconi and inventing a social network.

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Alessandro D'Alatri directed this Italian drama about Jesus Christ, covering his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, an 18-year span not chronicled in the Bible. The film uses names of the period instead of names given in the Bible. The adult Jeoshua (Kim Rossi Stuart) reflects on past events -- his journey into the desert, baptism, acceptance into the Essenes' community, Jewish life in Galilee, his yeshiva studies, education from his father Josef (Omar Chenbod), and his spiritual growth. After seeing slavery, crucifixions, the stoning of an adulteress, and brutal Roman soldiers, Jeoshua turns to God for answers, leaves the village, and is betrayed by his friend Aziz (Said Taghmaoui), who leaves him to die in the desert. Issues such as carnality bring Jeoshua in conflict with the Essenes, yet he speaks out on behalf of the Essene David (popular Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini).

The lives of a young mother and her boyfriend are turned upside down when she unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.

1930년대 말, 이탈리아의 작은 도시 페라라. 부유한 유태인 가문인 핀치 콘티니 가의 미콜과 알베르토는 저택에서 파티를 열고 테니스를 즐기며 평온한 나날을 보내고 있다. 무솔리니 정권 하에 민족차별법이 공표되고 전쟁이 임박하는 등 파시즘의 광풍이 몰아치는 가운데, 핀치 콘티니 가문은 세상과 동떨어져 궁전 같은 저택 안에서의 삶을 누린다. 미콜과 알베르토의 오랜 친구인 조르지오는 미콜을 열렬히 사랑하지만, 미콜은 조르지오에게 쉽게 마음을 내주지 않고 오히려 그의 친구인 말나테와 가까워진다. 유태인을 향한 박해는 점점 더 거세지고, 평화로울 것만 같던 이들의 삶에 위기가 닥치는데…