Gianluca Costamagna

조 다마토는 누구인가? 미국에선 호러의 천재, 프랑스에선 에로티시즘의 대가, 이탈리아에선 포르노의 왕. 수많은 별명을 지닌 이 남자는 200편이 넘는 작품에서 프로듀서, 감독, 작가, 사진 감독, 그리고 카메라 오퍼레이터까지 동시에 해낸다. 자칭 영화의 장인인 그는 모든 장르를 아우른다. 스파게티 웨스턴부터 포스트 아토믹, 데카메로틱부터 글로시 에로티시즘, 그리고 블록버스터 포르노에서 블러디 호러까지. Joe D’amato는 궁극의 미학을 가이드 삼고 부정할 수 없는 기술력의 도움을 받아 그가 헌신적으로 따랐기에 그를 대표하게 된 세 가지 코드 ‘놀라움, 충격, 스캔들’의 한계까지 스스로와 관객을 밀어 붙인다. 하나의 장르, 어느 것도 아닌 장르, 또는 백 가지의 장르가 한 명의 화자에게 담겼다. 이 영화는 독특하고 억제할 수 없는 파괴적인 집착, 즉 영화에 헌신한 그의 무모한 삶에 대한 이야기를 들려준다.

다섯 자매의 이야기다. 어린 시절 물놀이를 간 자매들은 자신들의 삶을 뒤흔드는 비극적인 사건과 마주하는데, 영화의 시간은 그로부터 몇 십년 뒤 이들이 중년이 되는 시기로 갑작스레 이동한다. 그날 이후 응어리진 마음과 오해로 인해 서로를 오랫동안 원망하던 이들은 자매들이 모두 노년이 된 어느 날, 누군가의 부고 소식을 듣고 한 자리에 모인다.

매년 생일이 되면 세상에 없는 엄마로부터 선물이 도착한다. 임신한 채 시한부 선고를 받은 엄마가 미리 준비해둔 열여덟 개의 선물. 하지만 딸에겐 그 선물이 부담이다. 마침내 마지막 선물을 푸는 날, 모녀에게 새로운 시작이 찾아온다.

After reuniting with his first mentor Bruno and receiving his latest mission, an exiled Ciro is left to fearlessly confront whatever comes his way, navigating a new chapter of gang warfare while grappling with devastating memories of loss and trauma. Weaving between his past as an orphan in Naples' cruel underworld and present as a hardened, cunning assassin with nothing left to lose, Ciro is plunged into the cold, dark depths of a world where immortality is just another form of damnation.

When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano’s failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Instead he is focussed on putting his affairs in order: distributing possessions, reconciling past disputes, and, most importantly, finding a home for his beloved canine, Pato. Over four days, the two men walk the streets of Rome, visiting bookshops, restaurants, veterinarians and friends, examining their lives and speculating on what the future holds.

A woman and her 10-year-old son face, in their own way, the mourning for the death of the husband and father, which took place in a factory, while the waiting and the recollection for the day of the funeral grow all around.

Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?

Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper school, who he deems inadequate. At that time the public broadcasting network Rai decides to realize a program to educate millions of Italians.

On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the “Vlora”. Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted “Italia, Italia”, making the victory sign. On 7 August 1991, the ship, returning from Cuba, the “Vlora” had arrived at the port of Durrës with 10,000 tons of sugar in its hold. Work on unloading the sugar was underway when an enormous throng of thousands of people suddenly assailed the ship, forcing the captain to head for Italy. The next morning, waiting for the “Vlora” was an incredulous and stunned city and an empty football stadium where the Albanians were held before being sent back home. Twenty-one years have passed since that day. Most of the people who boarded that ship were sent back to Albania, but the crossings continued and many of them had another go. Today, 4.5 million foreigners live in Italy.

The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.

Five ordinary people disaffected with traditional politics -- a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict -- kidnap an elected politician and plan to donate the ransom money to the family of a blue-collar worker who died on the job.

Documentary on the village of Viganella, in the Piedmont Alps, and on its mirror that reflects the sunlight on the hamlet, which otherwise would not reach the valley.

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero".

In Sicily, in a time not yet forgotten, in the heart of a small secluded town populated by cicadas, ticks and venomous snakes, that which made a man a real man was not riches or power, but his honor. He had to defend his dignity against insults and village gossip. It took little to stoke the fire once lit, and no one was immune. One of the worst humiliations a man can suffer was to have an adulterous wife. A man so disgraced would bear the mark of shame, with all eyes of the community upon him. It was said that "his horns were sticking out" for all to see.

Three stories that provide an irony-laden analysis of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie and of small-time intellectualism and aspiration.

A documentary on the world of motor racing fans.