Alessandro Abate

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.

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work

O escritor Martin Eden entra em conflito com a burguesia. Encarando o novo, ele se apaixona e descobre como autores são vistos na sociedade aristocrática, enquanto se questiona sobre sua própria natureza como criador.

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected.

On the small island where she lives and works, Arianna is preparing to ring in the new year and ring out the old. But that night might not only be the end of the year, it might also be the end of her relationship with Nanni, a beekeeper from the city. The looming separation remains a mystery for the woman: she doesn’t understand the reasons for it and fruitless hours have been spent talking it over with evasive Nanni, who seems to consider their relationship an obstacle to his freedom. But when faced with another woman’s pain, Arianna manages to find the strength within herself to carry on.

Italian documentary

Um escritor inglês está na Itália lançando seu mais novo trabalho sobre História da Arte, um livro onde defende que as cópias de obras artísticas possuem tanto valor quanto a original. Elle, dona de uma galeria, fica interessada em conversar mais com o autor e o convida para um café. Na conversa os dois vão discutir o argumento do livro, e após a dona da cafeteria confundi-los com um casal, irão, de certa forma, colocar a tese do livro em prática.

Um retrato cru de Nápoles, onde os trabalhadores sociais e políticos não conseguem lidar com o lado negro da sociedade urbana — o que torna o trabalho da Camorra ainda mais fácil.

Em viagem a Itália, dona de casa é esquecida pela família em restaurante de beira de estrada. De início preocupada, decide realizar seu sonho e conhecer Veneza. Acaba estendendo sua estada por lá.

Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his older brother Giovanni. While Giovanni is an illiterate worker, Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting the elder sibling to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his brother's academic pursuits.

When her elderly mother is found dead under sordid circumstances, Delia returns to her native Naples for the first time in years to attend the funeral. Trying to piece together her estranged mother's secret life, she has to face the hidden memories that shaped their family history.

Quando cai o comunismo na Albânia, dois italianos compram uma fábrica de sapatos, visando aproveitar o início de uma nova era para os negócios, mas cometem o erro de chamar um ex-preso político para assinar o contrato da empresa como testa-de-ferro.