Stefano Grosso

Beautiful and troubled 20-something Donya, an Afghan translator who used to work with the U.S. government, has trouble sleeping. She lives by herself in Fremont, California, in a building with other Afghan immigrants and often dines alone at a local restaurant watching soap operas. Her routine changes when she’s promoted to writing the fortunes at her job at a fortune cookie factory in the city. As her fortunes are read by strangers throughout the Bay, Donya’s smoldering longing drives her to send a message out to the world, unsure where it will lead.

The neon sign ‘Circus’ illuminates the wide street of Naples’ suburbs: four circus families were abandoned by the institutions, and now they’re awaiting the pandemic will disappear, like a magic show. The circus has stopped, but their lives go on.

무려 3년간 비가 오지 않으며 심각한 가뭄을 겪고 있는 (가상의) 로마. 정부는 새로운 규제 정책을 만들어내고, 사람들은 전에 겪지 못한 갈등을 겪는다. 영화는 물을 구하려 노력하는 사람, 인간성을 잃지 않으려는 사람 등 극단적 상황에 처한 다양한 인물들을 보여주며 공동체의 미래에 질문을 던진다. 2022년 베니스영화제 파시네티상 작품상 수상.

Nic, Leo, Andrea and Raff determine their own gender identities. Each of their gender biographies is different, but the societal barriers to their social, physical and legal changes are the same. Together they are strong.

Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.

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.

내전과 독재, 테러로 얼룩진 이라크, 쿠르디스탄, 시리아, 레바논 국경 지역의 밤 풍경을 담았다. 로시는 밤이 끝날 것 같지 않은 그곳에서 군인과 어부, 아들을 잃은 어머니, 연극을 준비하는 환자들, 사냥꾼의 조수로 고용된 소년, ISIS의 만행을 목격한 아이들을 만난다.

In a prestigious hotel school, Luca learns the art of service. How much of his own freedom and adolescence must the young man give up to work at serving customers?

Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.

A border town in the south of Switzerland is the backdrop for the most important summer in 15-year old Samuel’s young life. He is introverted, a loner and communicates through the world of comic drawings. Determined to overcome the doubts and memories that have long plagued him, he hires a former private detective. With him, he embarks on a daring adventure that will lead him to discover a painful family truth.

Filmed entirely inside Civitavecchia prison, with the inmates themselves as protagonists and co-authors, Fortezza is the reinterpretation of one of the most important novels of the 1900s: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati. Three soldiers arrive at a solitary military garrison which no longer serves any defensive function. Here, time is at a standstill and is marked by strict regulations, power dynamics, engrained idleness and habit. Waiting in vain for an enemy that will not arrive, the military officers are consumed by the need to give their stay meaning, and resist the attraction that this place holds for them.

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…

9살에 미국에 이민 와 40년간 미국인으로 살았던 택시기사 토니는 멕시코 불법 이민자들을 밀입국시키다 발각되어 이탈리아로 추방된다. 그러나 그는 누가 뭐래도 미국인, 그의 모든 삶은 그곳에 있다. 마침내 그는 멕시코 국경을 넘어 미국 땅을 밟으려는 위험한 여정을 결심한다.

한 남자와 한 여자. 둘의 만남과 사랑, 이별, 그리고 재회에 이르는 긴 시간 동안 두 사람이 느낀 감정과 그에 대한 기억이 하나의 흐름 안에 교차한다. 사랑에 대한, 감정에 대한 기억은 과거에 머물지 않으며 현재 내 존재의 바탕이라는 점을 영화적으로 탐색하는 작품.

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.

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.

Italy, late 16th century, the Church, threatened by the Protestants, unleashes the Inquisition. Menocchio, an old, stubborn, self-educated miller oppose the new order. Accused of heresy, he ignores the pleadings and stands trial. The story of a man incapable of betraying his own principles.

Professor Biondi is a depressed scientist. After his wife's death, he lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He supposedly works on a top-secret project for the US government, but in actuality, he spends his days on the couch, listening to the sound of the Universe. His only contact with the outside world is Stella, who organizes alien-themed weddings for tourists on the prowl for extra-terrestrials. One day the Professor receives a message from Naples: his dying brother is entrusting him with his two children, so that they may live with him in America.

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

While her best friend Vale can afford to be a full-time performer, aspiring dancer Eli has an unemployed husband and four children to take care of, and works all day long in a cafe on the opposite side of the city, meaning she has to wake up before dawn and comes home late at night. Her kind and effervescent nature still manages to overcome this hardships.

Giò, a 13-year-old girl living in the south of Italy, is the head of a boys' gang. She's secretly in love with young Paola, and she's ready to compete with male opponents to win her heart. In the last day of summer, innocence ends.

12살 소년 사무엘레는 섬에 살고 있다. 소년은 학교에 가고, 사냥을 가거나 새총을 쏘며 일상을 보낸다. 소년은 뭍에서 노는 게 좋지만, 그를 둘러싼 모든 것들이 바다와, 그 바다를 건너 소년의 섬으로 오려고 애쓰는 난민들에 대해 얘기한다. 소년이 사는 섬은 람페두사. 그곳은 과거 20년 동안 수만 명의 이민자들이 자유를 찾아 바다를 건너왔던 유럽의 가장 상징적인 경계선이다. EIDF 2016 월드쇼케이스 출품

로마의 거대한 외곽순환도로 ‘그라(GRA)’와 그 주변인들의 삶을 그린 다큐멘터리. 감독은 2년에 걸쳐 구불구불한 형태만큼이나 파란만장한 이 도로 이면의 보이지 않는 세계들, 규명하기 어려운 교묘한 특성들, 스쳐 지나가는 환영들, 그리고 가능한 미래들을 밝혀준다.

Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1 hour and 25 minutes, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the “border” between Jaffa and Bat Yam, in Israel. One day, Yael, a young journalist, visits them. In these dilapidated shacks, in the orchard filled with lemon trees and surrounded by mass public houses, she discovers a range of characters far removed from the usual clichés offered by the region. Yael has the feeling of having discovered a human goldmine. She no longer thinks of her job. Faces and words of Youssef and Miriam, Sarah and Walid, of their neighbors, their friends tell her about life, its dreams and its hopes, its love affairs, desires and disillusions. Their relation to time is different than that of the city around them. In this tinkered and fragile place, there is a possibility of coexistence. A universal metaphor.

2001년 제노바 G8 정상회담 마지막 날 자정 직전, 300명이 넘는 경찰들이 디아즈 학교를 급습하여 블랙 블록 시위대를 찾고 있었다. 학교 안에는 90명의 활동가들이 있었으며 대게는 유럽에서 온 학생들이었고 몇 명은 해외 기자들이었으며 이들은 그날 저녁 학교 바닥에서 잠 잘 준비를 하고 있었다. 경찰이 들이닥치자 젊은 시위자들은 손을 들고 항복했다. 하지만 시위대의 항복에도 경찰들은 남녀노소 가리지 않고 무차별적인 폭행을 하기 시작하는데…

Using unedited archive footage Questa storia qua recounts Vasco Rossi's exceptional career as an artist and a man. Twenty-five million albums sold in his thirty year-long career, unfading success and a unique story: Vasco Rossi talks about himself in this documentary and for the first time presents us with an intimate self portrait. A new, authentic picture is created of this rockstar from Emilia Romagna thanks to super 8 footage, family photographs and amateur videos. Vasco accompanies us along the path which took him from Zocca, in the province of Modena, to success. He describes his personal history without ever taking himself too seriously, while his words conjure up recollections of an era and a generation. He is accompanied by friends, his loved ones and musicians who have always followed him and who help us to discover that special mix of memories, nostalgia, rebellion, freedom and talent which have inspired his songs.

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.