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.

O conto do boneco de madeira em uma arrepiante aventura para virar um menino de verdade, recontado.

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?

A perspicaz e mimada Julie é uma jovem com seu próprio manifesto: fazer nada. Não trabalha, não estuda, não tem amigos. Agnes é uma enfermeira casada e mãe de uma filha que se encaixa nas expectativas da sociedade sem pensar muito no tema...Até que ela conhece Julie. Juntas, elas começam uma rebelião que vai levá-las ao limite dos seus respectivos mundos.

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.

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.

Lucia, mãe solteira, tenta encontrar um equilíbrio entre a vida com a filha adolescente, uma relação amorosa complicada e a sua carreira de topógrafa. O futuro de Lucia fica em risco quando ela se apercebe do perigo ambiental que representa um projecto imobiliário ambicioso, baseado em incorrecções dos mapas municipais.

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.

Sete amigos de longa data se reúnem para um jantar. Em uma brincadeira, decidem compartilhar um com o outro, na mesa, o conteúdo de cada mensagem de texto, e-mail e ligações que recebem. No jogo, muitos segredos começam a revelar, provando que nem todos se conhecem de verdade.

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.

Um vazamento no apartamento da Toscana do diretor Gianni arruinou o afresco do século 16 da capela ao lado. Para evitar ser processado, ele precisa aceitar a bizarra proposta do prefeito da cidade de dirigir as celebrações da Sexta-Feira Santa.

Anna é contadora em uma firma de seguros. Casada com o rude Alessio, com quem tem uma relação estável e tranquila, leva uma vida rotineira, mas confortável. O nascimento de seu sobrinho e as indiretas do marido criam nela a pressão de engravidar. Enquanto isso, Anna começa a se sentir atraída por Domenico, colega de trabalho misterioso. Apesar de ambos serem casados, a atração logo se transforma em uma relação proibida, e Anna e Domenico passam a se encontrar uma vez por semana em um motel. Mas o caso termina sendo descoberto, obrigando-os a decidir entre a paixão e a vida familiar.

Nello, um sindicalista afastado do sindicato por suas ideias avançadas, se vê dirigindo uma cooperativa de doentes mentais, ex-pacientes dos manicômios fechados pela Lei Basaglia. Acreditando firmemente na dignidade do trabalho, ele convence os sócios a substituir as esmolas assistencialistas por um trabalho de verdade, inventando para cada um, uma atividade incrivelmente adaptada às respectivas capacidades, mas indo também de encontro às inevitáveis e humanas contradições.

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.

Um aspirante a jornalista investiga o assassinato de uma mulher que, um dia, ele amou. Após o suicídio do suspeito principal, ele descobre a verdade terrível por trás do crime.

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.

O poeta e professor universitário Attilo De Giovanni (Roberto Benigni) vive num mundo distante da realidade, em meio aos sonhos de conquistar a mulher que ama. Em 2003, logo depois de lançar o livro de poesia "O Tigre e a Neve", a realidade do mundo finalmente o atinge quando descobre que a mulher de seus sonhos foi ferida num dos primeiros bombardeios americanos sobre o Iraque. Ele consegue achá-la em Bagdá e se envolve então em inúmeras dificuldades para conseguir encontrar, em uma cidade destruída, os medicamentos de que ela precisa.

Indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro e ganhador de muitos prêmios no Festival de Veneza, Segredos do Coração é um filme muito emocionante e terno. Sabina (a fantástica Giovanna Mezzogiorno) está feliz com seu trabalho e seu amor por Franco. Mas pesadelos começam a perturbá-la. Ao mesmo tempo ela descobre que está grávida. Passo a passo, Sabina se lembra da sua infância passada numa família severa de classe média. No entanto, o maior segredo está guardado em seu coração. Ela entra em contato com seu irmão, que vive nos Estados Unidos, para tentar entender o que aconteceu no seu passado. Qual é o segredo? Ela está determinada a trazer serenidade a sua vida.

A verdadeira história de Angela Ghignino, uma italiana com ideais anti-fascistas mas que se apaixona por um capitão do exército alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ela abandona sua família, desafia a sociedade e arrisca sua vida para segui-lo até o front. O amor impossível deles permite que um grupo lance uma imensa operação de importância militar e humana em Veneza e que pode levar ao final da guerra.

O cruzamento das histórias de Ágata, dona de uma livraria, madura, independente e apaixonada; Gustavo, irmão adotivo de Ágata insatisfeito com sua vida medíocre; e Romeo, irmão verdadeiro de Gustavo, que tem uma mulher a quem ama tanto quanto trai, resulta em muita comédia, ternura e suspense. E é a alegria e o magnetismo explosivo de Ágata diante de toda a ironia da vida que cria um paraíso de amor e liberdade para destruir a tempestade de vidas cheias de desejos não realizados.

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.

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.

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?