Luisa De Santis

Acqua e anice is a “dance hall road movie” about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer and a fixture at local dance halls, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra’s tour bus. No tour dates, this time: she is simply setting out to see her fans, her loved ones and all the places where she became a star, once again. For the occasion, Olimpia has hired a young woman, Maria, as shy and awkward as Olimpia isn’t, to be her driver.

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.

Ever since, at the age of six, Dario Cavalieri saw live images of the first moon landing, he has never stopped wanting to go there. Mario Cavalieri runs a neighborhood hardware store in Rome, until the day his existence is upset by the phone ring. His brother Dario is in prison. Mario finds himself being the only one who can take care of that brother he has seen only once in his life. The two brothers, as physically similar as they are different in character, will find themselves alone in the face of an impossible undertaking.

The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen ".

Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.

Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his old mother in a village in Calabria, where the accident happened.

작가 지망생 소피는 전세계 여성들이 비밀스런 사랑을 고백하는 ‘줄리엣의 발코니’에서 우연히 50년 전에 쓰여진 러브레터 한 통을 발견하고, 편지 속 안타까운 사연에 답장을 보낸다. 며칠 후, 소피의 눈 앞에 편지 속 주인공 클레어와 그녀의 손자 찰리가 기적처럼 나타나는데… 소피의 편지에 용기를 내어 50년 전 놓쳐버린 첫사랑 찾기에 나선 클레어. 할머니의 첫사랑 찾기가 마음에 안 들지만 어쩔 수없이 따라나선 손자 찰리. 그리고 그들과 동행하게 된 소피. 그들의50년 전 사랑 찾기는 성공할까? 그리고 소피에게는 새로운 사랑이 찾아올까?

A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.

A brief tribute to the grat director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.

A brief tribute to the grat director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

B급 영화의 프로듀서인 브루노 보노모는 차기작의 제작비를 마련하는 데 어려움을 겪고 있다. 경제적인 파산과 가정문제로 곤경에 처해있던 브루노는 한 젊은 감독이 쓴 시나리오를 읽고, 거기에 빠져든다. 처음에 브루노는 평범한 스릴러라고 생각했지만, 곧 거기에 베르루스코니 정부에 대한 비평적인 폭로가 내재되어 있음을 알게 된다.

Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.

The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.

젊은 사제 돈 줄리오는 십년동안 살던 섬을 떠나, 그의 고향인 작은 로마 교구 로 가게 된다. 하지만 성당은 운영되지 않다는 것을 알게 된다. 전 사제는 근처에서 여 자와 살면서 아들까지 있었고, 줄리오는 부모, 여동생, 옛날 친구들을 만나지만 그들은 변해 있었다. 마을사람들이 처한 어려움을 도우려고 하지만 그의 도움도 거절하고 자신 의 가족들마저도 해체되고 있었다. 줄리오는 사람들과 더 가깝게 지낼 수 있는 먼 곳으 로 떠나기로 결정한다.

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.

Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a cannonball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited to have a chance to see the change taking place in person, Cainazzo hits a bumpy road when one of his former fellow prisoners yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot, but is in fact a traitor!

The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.

Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.