Casting
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.
Assistant Director
Elsa is seventy and has five empty hives. The bees are gone like her husband. One morning he finds Amin, a sixteen-year-old boy who has escaped from an immigration center, hiding in the garage. The police are looking for him. Elsa hosts him in exchange for help.
First Assistant Director
After the death of his estranged father, professional rainbow-watcher Stefano finds out he has a 13-year-old half-brother, and that he must become his legal guardian to receive the inheritance.
Solinas Prize Presenter
Certo dia, um dos maiores produtores de cinema na Itália é encontrado morto dentro de um rio. Os principais suspeitos são três jovens roteiristas que tiveram contato com ele recentemente. Durante uma noite, os três são levados à delegacia para serem interrogados. Esta será a oportunidade de relembrarem seus percursos, que coincidem com o declínio da Era de Ouro das produções italianas.
Casting
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
Casting
A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Casting
Beatrice Morandini Valdirana tem transtorno de personalidade, gosta de fazer drama e se autodenomina condessa, além de conhecer Deus em sua intimidade. Donatella Morelli é uma jovem tímida e frágil que guarda um doloroso segredo. Ambas são internas de um hospital para mulheres com distúrbios mentais e são consideradas socialmente perigosas. Beatrice e Donatella desenvolvem uma improvável amizade, e fogem à procura de um pouco de felicidade no manicômio a céu aberto que é o mundo dos sãos.
Casting
The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.
Second Assistant Director
Now 25, brilliant Marta seems to have her whole life ahead after majoring in philosophy, but she has to face the ugly truth for young graduates in Italy: a complete lack of work opportunities outside of temp jobs. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work at the call center of a company selling junk to housewives, quickly rising through its ranks and experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative competition culture pushed on young employees. Around her revolve other people, like delusional supervisor Daniela, her boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio, and well-meaning but inconsistent union official Giorgio.
Casting
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Second Assistant Director
PE teacher
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Casting
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
