Giuseppe Battiston

Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

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.

Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.

Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.

Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.

An adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol set in 1829 Rome.

An international incident threatens to break out a war between major European powers that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

목수 ‘제페토’의 간절한 소원으로 태어난 나무 인형 ‘피노키오’는 진짜 사람이 되기 위해 자신의 양심이 되어줄 귀뚜라미 ‘지미니’와 함께 진실되고 용감한 마음을 가지기로 약속한다. 그러나 거리의 교활한 여우의 꾀임에 넘어간 피노키오는 서커스단에 들어가게 되고, 이기적인 어른들의 욕심으로 철장에 갇혀버리고 만다. 한편, 사라진 피노키오를 찾기 위해 길을 나선 ‘제페토’는 폭우 속에 목숨을 잃을 위기에 처하고 마는데…

Alice is 18 and afraid of falling asleep. Every night she relives the same nightmare, made of endless races, terrible challenges in which she faces a disturbing Queen of Hearts. Art, her friends, her boyfriend seem unable to help her overcome a nightmare deeply tied to her past. When do wounds become scars? Can scars disappear?

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.

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.

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.

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be Mary, the Mother of God.

An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion.

The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.

An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.

서로 오래 알고지낸 30대 커플 세 쌍과 그들의 싱글 친구가 저녁식사 파티를 위해 만났다. 그들은 그 저녁동안 서로 사적인 전화나 메세지로 그 시간을 방해하지 않기로 약속한다. 대신 그들은 아무 것도 숨길 것이 없다는 허세로 합의하여 그들의 핸드폰을 식탁위에 올려 놓고 파티동안 받게 되는 문자나 이메일, 전화는 모두에게 공개하기로 한다. 또한 전화를 건 사람에게 스피커폰으로 이야기하고 있다는 것을 알리는 것은 반칙으로 정한다. 곧 비밀 프로젝트, 교외지역의 관계자, 그리고 온라인 만남 등이 드러나는데…

Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.

After their mosque is expropriated and turned into a hairdresser by the landlord, a community of Muslims in Venice search for a new location. A young Afghan Imam named Saladin is called to the rescue, but rather than solving the problem, his arrival ends up complicating the situation with a series of absurd consequences and hilarious moments

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.

Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable and with a passion for good wine, he spends his days at the local tavern and stubbornly stalks his ex-wife.

Michele is eleven years old and lives in a small town in the mountains of Trento, with his mother and his paternal grandfather Pietro; his father has recently died. The boy’s pain meets that of Dani, a boy from Togo, who is a total ‘stranger’ to that place covered in snow which he has never seen before in his life.

A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.

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.

During the Fascist Regime in Italy, three Dutch sisters, Alexandra, Judith and Kitty, try to make a career as popular singers.

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

더 깊이...나를 깨워줘 거부할 수 없는 사랑에 몸과 마음이 흔들린다. 남편 알레시오와 함께 평온하고 여유로운 일상을 보내던 안나는 우연히 카페에서 일하는 도미니코를 만난 후 격정적인 감정에 사로잡힌다. 도미니코가 가족과 떨어져 혼자 수영장에 가는 매주 수요일 저녁 마다 그를 만나 은밀하고 뜨거운 사랑을 나누는 안나. 가질 수 없기에 더욱 간절히 서로를 원하는 두 사람의 위태로운 만남은 결국 서로의 가족에게 탄로나게 되고, 두 사람은 마지막일지 모를 밀월 여행을 떠나는데...

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.

The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.

Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.

Todor, a Serbian smuggler in Trieste, Italy, earns his daily bread by smuggling fake brand cigarettes. He sails out in a small boat to collect his freight if there is enough mist to make his illegal mission possible. One day he reluctantly accepts a much larger cargo. In the crate he finds a wounded and drugged woman. Todor decides not to deliver the freight and takes the woman home with him. He takes a chest full of stones to his client and it soon becomes apparent that he has got himself into big trouble with this manoeuvre. Todor takes care of the woman, who slowly but surely overcomes her fear of him. By the time he manages to get her a passport, an unbreakable bond has silently grown between them and he asks her to go away with him. Fate decides otherwise.

Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the engine of the film.Everything moves around two antagonist characters: Ugo and Rita. Ugo is a banker involved in a not really clean business. Rita, the Finance Police officer, is a strong and obstinate woman in charge of capturing Ugo. Other characters wander around them, with their weaknesses and fragility, their goodness, their evil and their contradictions. Characters meet, clash, love and hate each other, their lust for money becomes intense feelings.

눈 오는 날, 호랑이를 만나면 고백하세요! 당신의 사랑을…늘 덜렁대기 일쑤고, 무언가 잘 잊어버리지만 낙천적이고 긍정적인 성격의 아틸리오는 매일 밤 꿈 속에서 한 여인과 결혼식을 올린다. 그녀의 이름은 비토리아, 꿈 속의 그녀는 아틸리오의 사랑을 받아주지만, 현실 속 그녀는 다르다. 시인인 아틸리오가 열렬한 사랑의 시를 바치고, 그녀를 졸졸 따라다녀도 비토리아는 알쏭달쏭한 반응뿐이다! 로마에서 바그다드로 떠난 아틸리오의 감동 퍼레이드가 시작됩니다!그러던 어느날, 아틸리오는 인터뷰를 위해 바그다드로 떠난 비토리아가 폭발 사고를 당해 혼수 상태에 빠졌다는 연락을 받는다. 황급히 병원으로 찾아간 아틸리오는 비토리아의 눈을 뜨게 하기 위해 자신이 할 수 있는 모든 방법을 동원하는데… 핸드메이드 묘약부터 잠수부 산소호흡기, 고생 끝에 구해 온 영양제까지 웃음과 눈물이 함께 하는 아틸리오의 ‘비토리아 깨우기’ 대작전이 시작된다.

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".

The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.

A comedy with two italian comic actors

For ten years, immigrant Tobias has worked at a Swiss clock factory and, in the relentless ticking, he saw life go by without much expectation. One day, he sees Caroline, a former schoolmate from back in Eastern Europe, and falls in love with her, but she's married and has a daughter.

Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.

Three situations about women's lives in three different periods.

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.

A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store's makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can't explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe – that's her name – warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?