Donatella Finocchiaro

Paolo, 19, a boy with Down syndrome, befriends a tough and lonely boxing trainer.

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.

Hamid, a 25-year-old boy, survived the escape from Eritrea, with the intention of arriving in Switzerland by his brother Yemane, but Natale, a Sicilian fisherman, advises him not to continue the journey as an illegal immigrant and with his wife, they decide to host him at their restaurant, in exchange for help in the kitchen. After Hamid's long journey through Italy and numerous adversities, he manages to reach Basel ...

We are in a beautiful southern family, united by a deep relationship, despite some misunderstandings: Franco, a father who has dedicated his life to his loved ones and to work.

시칠리아의 뜨거운 여름 햇살, 그보다 더 뜨거운 사랑이 소녀와 소년에게 찾아왔다. 하지만 깊은 사랑은 그보다 더 깊은 상처를 가슴에 남기는 법. 여름 해가 지고, 너무 빨리 성장해야 했던 두 사람의 사랑 이야기.

Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.

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.

January 6, 1980. The President of the Sicilian Region Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family. A young man approaches the car window and shoots Piersanti in cold blood and kills him. Despite the confusion of the moment with a series of misdirections towards left-wing terrorism, the crime appeared anomalous in its modalities. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty, that day of the Epiphany, will be Pietro Grasso, future Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Senate. The investigations will be continued by the Instructor Judge Giovanni Falcone, who will uncover dangerous relationships between the Mafia, Politics, Nar and neo-fascists, the Magliana gang, Gladio and Secret Services.

According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.

The story of 11-year-old Silvia whose life at home is consumed by her mother’s clinical depression. When no one will take the time to fulfill her dream to visit Rome, she runs away, determined to see it for herself. On a train she meets a Roma girl, Emina, and begins following her through the streets of Rome to her gypsy camp.

Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…

참전을 눈앞에 둔 1914년의 이탈리아. 카프리섬의 순박한 양치기 소녀 루치아는 카프리에서 이상향을 만들고자 하는 코뮨과 가까워지며 자유와 주체성에 눈을 뜨기 시작한다. 아름다운 카프리의 풍광을 배경으로 중견거장 마리오 마르토네의 카메라에 담긴 20세기 초 격동의 이탈리아.

In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery and devoted to the Blessed Armida, risk being removed from their beloved convent. To oppose a destiny already marked, workers and nuns join forces and start a "business" outside the rules in the hopes that a miracle will help them keep the convent and the factory.

A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.

Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.

After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.

In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return being an infernal descent into his past and his region's contradictions.

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.

Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin bombing the city. She's a 25-year old woman, always dressed in black, solitary and quiet, typical of the beauty of those from the most sparse areas of Sardegna.

Lorenzo is a 35-year-old diver and an incurable Casanova. But one night, after having withdrawn with the beautiful Claudia, he comes across his little Matteo, the son of the woman. The presence of the child throws Lorenzo into a vortex of doubts and remorse that will lead the man to review his crushed sentimental conduct.

Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.

The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

For Valeria, her wedding day has arrived. Antonia spots the groom kissing a woman in an unmistakable loving manner and gifting her a jewel.

Ghosts from the past and the present inhabit the old neighborhood of San Berillo, in Catania. It is 1958: while brothels are being shut down all over Italy, San Berillo is razed to the ground and its inhabitants are deported to the suburbs. A piece of the neighborhood, however, remains intact and thousands of prostitutes from all over Italy find shelter there, creating one of the biggest red light districts in the Mediterranean. Until 2000, when a police raid forces the neighborhood's inhabitants to abandon their homes once again.

로마에서 휴가의 마지막 일정을 보내던 건축가 존. 그는 우연히 자신의 젊은 시절을 꼭 빼닮은 건축학도 잭을 만나게 되고, 순수하면서도 열정적인 삼각관계 속으로 빠져든다. 지극히 평범한 로마 시민 레오폴도는 어느 날 눈 떠보니 스타가 되어 있다. 속옷 색깔부터 케첩 묻은 양복 패션까지, 그의 일거수일투족이 주목 받으며 조금은 피곤한 스타의 삶이 펼쳐지는데... 갓 결혼한 신혼부부 밀리와 안토니오는 로마 생활에 대한 부푼 가슴을 안고 정착을 준비한다. 하지만, 밀리가 없는 사이 갑작스레 나타난 콜걸 안나로 인해 안토니오는 자신도 모르는 본능에 눈 뜨게 되고... 은퇴한 오페라 감독 제리. 그의 딸 헤일리는 여행 중 만난 미켈란젤로와 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 딸의 약혼자를 만나기 위해 로마에 온 그는 평생을 장의사로 살아온 미켈란젤로의 아버지에게서 엄청난 재능을 발견하게 되는데...

로 베니스 감독상을 수상한 크리알레세가 4년 만에 내놓은 올해 최고의 이탈리아 영화. 섬에 사는 필리포는 아버지가 바다에서 실종된 후 어머니와 민박을 운영한다. 할아버지는 고집스럽게 뱃사람으로 남고자 한다. 그들 가족은 리비아 감옥에서 탈출해 도착한 불법이민자를 숨겨준다. (2011년 제16회 부산국제영화제)

A family story in the city of Bobbio between 1999 and 2008.

Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire

John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is now working for a crime organization.

A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.

Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.

영화는 결혼식 장면으로 시작하지만 주인공은 그리 기쁘지 않다. 영화감독 프랑코 엘리카(세르지오 카스텔리토)는 그의 딸이 독실한 가톨릭 신자와 결혼한 후 실의에 빠진 것이다. 한편, 알레산드로 만조니의 를 리메이크 해달라는 의뢰가 들어오고 그는 거의 도망치는 듯한 기분으로 시칠리아로 날아간다. 그 마을에서 그는 다양한 사람들을 만나게 되는데, 결혼식 비디오 촬영을 업으로 하는 사람, 단지 유명해지기 위해서 자기가 죽은 것처럼 위장한 영화감독, 그리고 팔라골리나의 페르난도 그라비나 왕자 등이 그들이다. 그리고 그는 그들을 만나면서 최근 복잡한 심경을 해소하기 위해 시칠리아로 갔지만 여전히 만족스럽지 못한 기분을 느끼게 된다. 한편, 페르난도 왕자는 프랑코에게 자신의 아름다운 딸 보나(도나텔라 피노치아로)의 결혼식을 찍어달라고 부탁하는데, 그만 그는 보나를 보자마자 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그리고는 급기야 정략결혼의 위기에 처한 보나를 구해내야겠다고 마음먹는다. 하지만 그는 그 작은 마을에 떨어진 이방인일 뿐이다. 그의 헛된 욕심은 결국 여러 사건들을 야기하게 된다. 마르코 벨로치오는 (1964)를 만든 베르나르도 베르톨루치와 더불어 60년대 이탈리아 영화의 혁신을 이끌었던 장본인이다. 두 젊은이는 앞서거니 뒤서거니 하며 60년대 정치영화의 수작들을 연이어 발표했는데 선배 격인 피에르 파올로 파졸리니, 마르코 페레리 등이 이데올로기적 주제가 강한 사회비판영화들을 발표하며 이탈리아 영화계의 좌파 전통을 계승하고 있을 때, 이 두 사람은 그런 전통을 계속 이어갈 인재들로 인식됐다. 베르톨루치와 달리 지금도 여전히 그러한 정신을 잊지 않고 있는 그는 전작인 (2003)을 만들 때까지도 변함없는 모습을 보여줬다. 그에 비하면 는 얼마간의 블랙 코미디적 요소를 엿볼 수 있는, 마르코 벨로치오의 변화를 느낄 수 있는 작품이다. 하지만 언제나 그의 영화에 등장했던, 그러니까 배타적인 관계 속에 갇혀 있는 인

A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp.

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly left by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.

Adelaide is a 40-year-old literature teacher married with children. One day, she learns about the murder of a wealthy and arrogant co-worker of hers, strangled in her own home. Adelaide meets Gaetano, the charming inspector dealing with the case and decides to help him in the investigation, much to her husband's chagrin.

On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.

Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.

True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.