Paola Freddi

Set in a near-future when a new technology exists that can put the consciousness of a dead person back into a living body, in an attempt to ease the grief of separation, providing a little extra time to say goodbye.

Surrounded by social and political chaos in Lima during the summer of 1992, Lucia, Aurora, and their mother, Elena, plan to leave and seek opportunities in the United States. Their farewell involves reconnecting with their estranged father, Carlos, adding turbulence to the regrets, hopes, and fears of their emotional departure.

Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which to find refuge, hide away from life and earn her daily bread. Every day, in order to survive, Princess has to steer clear of dangers and sentiments, follow the scent of money and dupe her clients. Her life is a succession of days that are always the same, one joins to another, without a break. Until one day, driven by an inner force to break the shackles of cynicism and exploitation, she quarrels with the friends with whom she shares the street and meets a man who wants to save her, but first she will have to save herself.

로스엔젤레스에서 홀로 살고 있는 모니카는 어머니가 위독하다는 소식을 듣고 그녀의 고향 오하이오로 돌아간다. 20년 만에 방문하는 고향엔 아픈 어머니를 돌보고 있는 오빠 폴과 그의 아내 로라, 모니카가 처음 보는 조카들과 오랫동안 어머니의 간병을 맡아 온 레티시아가 있다. 그들은 외면적으론 모니카를 따뜻하게 맞아 주지만, 그 뒷면에는 고향을 등지고 매정하게 떠났던 그녀에 대한 서운함이 서려있다. 어머니와의 아픈 과거를 가지고 있는 모니카는 어머니가 돌아가시기 전에 그 상처를 치유하려고 노력하지만, 오히려 오랫동안 잊어버리고 살았던 가족과의 갈등만 깊어진다.

"Sons of Cain" is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (Kanun) still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code meet and discuss the story of Cain and Abel. Creating their own dream space, partially consciously and partially not, they create an analogy between their own stories and Bible stories. Stuck on the fine line between reality and forgetfulness, this is one of the few chances they have to come to grips with their traumas and emotions.

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.

유능한 의사인 시모네는 교통사고를 목격하고 피해자를 구하기 위해 사고에 개입한다. 그러나 피해자의 가슴에 나치 문신을 발견한 후 망설이던 그는 결국 피해자를 돕기를 포기한다. 그러나 이내 죄책감에 사로잡힌 시모네는 죽은 이에 대해 조사하기 시작하고 그의 가족의 존재를 알게 된다.

1990년대 이탈리아의 사르데냐, “아산디라”라는 이름의 작은 리조트가 큰 화재에 휩싸이고 사람들이 목숨을 잃는다. 이 현장에서 사루는 망연자실한 표정으로 기억을 더듬으며 경찰과 함께 범인을 찾으려 한다. 그리 멀지 않은 과거, 이 지역에서 오랫동안 살아온 사루는 아들의 제안으로 ‘이국적인’ 느낌을 원하는 관광객들을 대상으로 관광 사업을 시작한다.

Suffering from agoraphobia, Seconda is unable to leave her house. When she finally succeeds, new challenges push her limits even further.

남편이 수감되면서 홀로 남겨진 ‘한나’는 엄마로서, 아내로서, 여자로서 삶과의 조용한 싸움을 이어간다. 매달릴수록 사라지는 것들, 현실을 부정할수록 깊어지는 고독, 폭풍의 눈처럼 고요 하지만 위태로운 나날들 속에서 한나는 자신의 인생을 다시 매만지기 시작하는데… 남편이 수감되면서 발생한 일들을 해결하고자 홀로 매달려 싸우던 한나는 조금씩 국면을 타개해나가기 시작한다. 한나의 조각난 정체성과 자제력 상실의 문제를 조사해나가면서 인간의 외로움과 이웃의 공포를 전하는 작품. (2018년 제19회 전주국제영화제)

Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother – a harsh and devoted woman – is a regular church-goer and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is twenty-five, has a violent temper and a difficult past behind. He works as a warden in a car park that borders a Roma camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a true sentiment, made of little stolen moments and mutual help.

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

이탈리아 시칠리아, 고요한 대저택에 살고있는 안나. 어느 날, 아들 쥬세페의 여자친구 잔이 찾아오지만 그는 이곳에 없다. 고통스러운 비밀을 안은 안나와 애인의 무소식에 상심한 잔. 마침내 쥬세페가 오기로 한 부활절이 다가왔는데…

3 August, Cagliari: a poor neighborhood. At three in the morning eleven-year-old Cate is woken by the screams of her eccentric neighbor. Cate wants to run away from that apartment, from her numerous and problematic siblings and her tyrannical father. Only Gigi, a neighbor, is worthy of her love. She does not want to end up like her sister Mandarina, who got pregnant at thirteen. Or like Samantha, the neighborhood sex siren. And today, on 3 August, Gigi’s life is in danger: Tonio, Cate’s brother, wants to kill him. Cate warns Luna, her best friend. The two of them spend the longest day of their lives between the city, the sea and a thousand adventures. But her beloved Gigi is in danger. And when everything seems lost, during the night a beautiful woman appears out of nowhere: the mysterious Aleni, a witch who apparently can see into people’s futures...

The story takes place in the summer of 1980 in Brindisi, Italy. Martino is a young man whose father isn't giving him enough attention. His older brother and his friends, including Silvia, a young northern Italian who spends her holidays in the south of the country and has a romance with Martino. Young people tend to enter an American military base north, and Martino ends up finding a US military officer, Captain Clark, a good friend who teaches him how to surf.

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.

A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a small and thin man who, try as he might, cannot put on weight until one morning he finds has scales saying 121kg!

A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

Six youngsters aged between 20 and 30 years old, stranded within the restricted values of a provincial city, constrained to live in an emotional void, lacking dreams and acknowledged values, brought together by their rage and feeling that they have nothing left to lose. Luca finds happiness with his ex-girlfriend's outgoing brother Riccardo. When a gay-bashing leaves Riccardo dead, Luca lures the perps to an abandoned factory basement, where he pretends to join in on their sadistic torture of a passerby before he turns the tables.

Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.

Four separate-but-interconnected stories - one for each season - about life in Sardinia.

Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.

In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!

A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.