Alessandro Abate

Billy was a child prodigy who had invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine. He is now 19, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly in love with a girl, only visits children aged between 8 and 12 and does not know what to do with his life.

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work

20세기 중반 이탈리아 나폴리. 주먹 하나만큼은 최고인 선박 노동자 ‘마틴 에덴’은 상류층 여자 ‘엘레나’를 만나 첫눈에 사랑에 빠진다. 오직 그녀처럼 생각하고 말하기 위해 굶주린 듯 탐독하고, 그는 들끓는 열정에 이끌려 작가가 되기로 결심한다. 두 사람이 함께 하기 위한 새로운 길을 만들기 위해 ‘마틴 에덴’은 홀로 펜 하나로 세상과 맞서기 시작하는데…

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected.

On the small island where she lives and works, Arianna is preparing to ring in the new year and ring out the old. But that night might not only be the end of the year, it might also be the end of her relationship with Nanni, a beekeeper from the city. The looming separation remains a mystery for the woman: she doesn’t understand the reasons for it and fruitless hours have been spent talking it over with evasive Nanni, who seems to consider their relationship an obstacle to his freedom. But when faced with another woman’s pain, Arianna manages to find the strength within herself to carry on.

Italian documentary

영국인 작가 제임스 밀러는 새로 펴낸 <기막힌 복제품>이란 책의 강연차 들른 이탈리아 토스카나에서 그녀와 만나게 된다. 아름답고 예민한 그녀는 홀로 아이를 키우며 골동품 가게를 운영하는 프랑스 여성으로 <기막힌 복제품>의 팬이다. 그의 책에 매료된 그녀는 하루 동안 토스카나의 시골지역을 소개해 주겠다고 자청하고, 함께 하면서 서로에 대해 알아가게 될 때쯤 두 사람은 ‘진짜 부부’인 척하는 장난스러운 역할극을 시작한다. 가벼운 마음으로 시작한 그들의 역할극은 점점 진지해지고, 진실과 거짓이 모호한 감정의 소용돌이 속으로 휘말리기 시작하는데...

Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.

중년의 주부 로살바(리치아 마글리에타 분)는 가족 여행 도중 고속도로 휴게실에서 일행을 잃고 홀로 남겨진다. 집으로 돌아가기 위해 히치하이킹을 했다가 충동적으로 베니스로 목적지를 수정하고, 그곳에서 밤마다 자살 기도를 하는 냉소적인 아일랜드인 웨이터 페르난도(부르노 간쯔 분)를 만난다.

Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his older brother Giovanni. While Giovanni is an illiterate worker, Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting the elder sibling to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his brother's academic pursuits.

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged mother's secret life, she has to face the hidden memories that shaped their family history.

Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.