Giancarlo Rutigliano

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.

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

Baseado no romance homônimo de Ermanno Rea, acompanhamos a história de Felice, um homem que, depois de quarenta anos longe de casa, retorna ao lugar onde nasceu, o bairro de Sanità, no centro de Nápoles, onde redescobre os lugares que uma vez andava, os códigos do bairro e um passado que o devora.

Uma história sobre inocência, ganância e fantasia que gira em torno de um bolo natalino, ambientada em um internato católico para garotas durante a guerra. O termo "pupila" vem do latim pupilla, que significa "garota pequena". Baseado em uma carta enviada por Elsa Morante, uma das maiores escritoras italianas do século XX, para seu amigo, Goffredo Fofi, no Natal de 1971.

O filme conta a história de Eduardo Scarpetta (Toni Servillo), uma lenda da comédia italiana. Tudo muda na vida do humorista quando ele encena uma paródia de La figlia di Iorio, uma tragédia escrita pelo maior poeta italiano da época, Gabriele D’Annunzio. Após a apresentação ser interrompida por vaias e assobios, Scarpetta acaba sendo processada por plágio pelo próprio D’Annunzio, sendo a primeira ação judicial sobre direitos autorais na Itália. Inspirado em acontecimentos reais.

Filmado ao longo de três anos nas fronteiras entre Iraque, Curdistão, Síria e Líbano, Notturno relata as dificuldades diárias de quem tenta reconstruir suas vidas em meio aos efeitos devastadores das guerras civis, ditaduras, invasões estrangeiras e a presença mortal do grupo terrorista ISIS.

A história do primeiro ano de formação de Luca e seus colegas em um respeitado instituto de hotelaria. Eles passam a conhecer a regras complexas e a disciplina imposta pela profissão e pelo futuro que os espera.

Três famílias acabam na mesma casa alugada. Ao longo do verão, eles se tornam amigos e redescobrem como aproveitar a vida.

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.

o longa retrata o assassinato do primeiro-ministro israelense Yitzhak Rabin em 1995, contado através dos olhos de seu assassino Yigal Amir.

Ele é encantador, irônico, nostálgico. Ela é cheia de vida, inteligente, apaixonada e vive no momento. Quando se conhecem, se apaixonam instantaneamente. Uma longa história de amor, vista através das memórias de um jovem casal: alteradas pelos humores, perspectivas diferentes e pelo próprio tempo.

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a commune of Scandinavian artists establishes itself on the rural island of Capri, a safe haven for dissidents and nonconformists from all over the world, like Russian exiles led by Maxim Gorky, preparing the upcoming revolution. Here, local shepherdess Lucia finds herself torn between Seybu, the charming leader of the commune, and Carlo, a young doctor.

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.

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its vocation and ideals. Through dramatic events (terrorism, Tangentopoli, labor crisis, conflict, loneliness) Carlo Martini interpreted losses and concerns of the people, who saw a free man and a non dogmatic prince of the Gospel Church. Thanks to the authenticity of his testimony he has been a reference point for believers and non-believers, a prophet of hope, a forerunner of Pope Francis.

A man decides to buy a flat in a controversial district of the city. An abandoned area can be seen from this building, a factory with a glorious past, laying there while waiting for a sumptuous, well-structured restoration project. At the same time, a rom family has been living for a long time in a camper there, trying to fit in this space. Far from there, an old worker, keeps his passion for aircrafts and dreams to have one last flight. Sounds and movements linking environment and man, and representing a shared dignity in facing the seasons that go by.

O filme captura a vida da ilha de Lampedusa, na costa sul da Itália. O local se tornou linha de frente na crise imigratória europeia, e virou manchete mundial nos últimos anos por ser o primeiro porto de escala para centenas de milhares de imigrantes, da África e do Oriente Médio, que tentam fazer uma nova vida no continente europeu.

Atual Sardenha. "Dal profondo" foi filmado, do início ao fim, 500 metros abaixo do nível do mar na mina de carvão de Nuraxi Figus. Patrizia, a única mineira italiana, nos guiará até os lugares mais impenetráveis da última mina de carvão na Itália e através das almas e histórias de seus colegas.

Sacro GRA acompanha as histórias daqueles que vivem ao redor do anel rodoviário de Roma: a Grande Raccordo Anulare.

An apartment on one of Rome's seven hills turns into a film studio for shooting three different stories about cocaine.