Carlotta Cristiani

On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are.

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.

Benedetta, an obese fifteen-year-old yearning for attention, lives in a tawdry province in the south of Italy, emblematic of her inner landscape where everything could be and yet is not. She falls in love with Armando, aka Amanda, a young transvestite who is attracted to the young girl's innocence and begins an unhealthy relationship of mutual dependence with her. Amanda runs a carousel at the fair across the street from Benedetta's house, and the girl is magnetically drawn to this colorful and exciting world. But Amanda not only runs the carousel, she's also a call boy and sells drugs. Between intoxication and family rebellion and the discovery of sex - a great disappointment - she completes her rite of passage into adulthood.

Camilla is a successful attorney in her forties who accidentally causes the death of an undocumented migrant. At first, she is only interested in exonerating herself, but soon a feeling of responsibility starts nagging her: the dead body of a young man is lying in the morgue because their destinies fatally crossed. Camilla is used to shielding herself from pain, and she is incapable of really caring, even for her own daughter. In the midst of discovering the victim’s identity, she meets Bruno, the head of the morgue, who seems to be the only one who can truly understand her. The investigation she pursues will take her far from her surroundings until she will be forced to question herself, her unresolved past, and the life she really wants to live.

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.

O filme de Alice Rohrwacher produzido durante o confinamento foge da claustrofobia das chamadas de vídeo para buscar conexão através do zoom. Seus vizinhos são filmados em filme tátil de 16mm enquanto a diretora narra esta relíquia humanista que irradia bondade sob o sol italiano.

A farming community gathers on a plateau on the border of three regions for the funeral of traditional agriculture. It’s a film to ward off the disappearance of a millenary culture.

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.

Valéria é uma mulher alcoólatra que, no passado, cedeu a guarda da pequena Vittoria para Tina, uma mulher correta que sempre viveu conforme as regras. De repente, Valéria retorna querendo estreitar os laços com a filha, deixando o clima tenso.

Teo é um publicitário sedutor que divide seu tempo entre a amante e a namorada. Ele leva a vida sem a intenção de assumir responsabilidades, até conhecer Emma, uma osteopata que perdeu a visão. A relação inicia como um mero jogo de sedução, mas se transforma em algo íntimo e intenso.

Durante séculos, todos os anos, no dia 8 de setembro, uma miríade de enxames de formigas aladas chegaram ao Monte das Formigas. Semelhantes a nuvens que ofuscam o céu, esses pequenos insetos se acasalam em um maravilhoso vôo seguido pela morte de todos os machos, que caíram exaustos para o quintal da igreja subindo no topo da montanha, uma vez chamado "Santa Maria Formicarum". O vôo de acasalamento explode como uma aparição extativa diante dos curiosos, dos turistas e dos fiéis, que chegam aqui todos os anos para admirar e celebrar esta festa dedicada à "Virgem do Monte das Formigas". Este evento singular é o ponto de partida para a reflexão dentro do filme, que faz perguntas sobre a natureza dos pequenos insetos e a dos seres humanos. Grandes escritores, como o premiado do Prêmio Nobel, Maurice Maeterlinck e o entomologista Carlo Emery, estudaram muito: suas palavras ecoam novamente, hoje em dia, nas vozes das testemunhas do filme.

Naples. Present day. Giovanna, a combative 60-year-old social worker on the frontline of the daily war against pervasive criminality, is confronted, like a modern Antigone, with a moral dilemma that threatens to destroy her work and her life. Giovanna runs an after-school centre that takes care of underprivileged children; a grassroots alternative to the mafia dominance of the city. But one day, young Maria, wife of a ruthless Camorra criminal on the run, and her two children take refuge at the centre, and ask Giovanna for protection.

Alberto Casiraghy and Josef Weiss are true bibliophile artists. One in Osnago, the other in Mendrisio, they have been dedicating themselves for years to valuable editorial and typographical activities, still printing with mobile characters, preserving the memory of a perfect ingenuity made of manual skills and technique, but also of inventiveness and poetry. Silvio Soldini gives us a realistic and poetical portrait of these two artists-artisans, who chose one of the oldest professions in a modern world, finding great success and approval.

Cora is a 19-year-old woman who has recently returned home for a gap year.  Her father is the mayor of Bucco, a town whose livelihood depends on the tourism of Christians who believe in the apparitions of the Virgin Mary.  While busy organizing the celebration of the Virgin of Bucco, an annual event that attracts numerous pilgrims, Cora notices a mysterious man whose presence will slowly rupture the tranquility of the town and her nascent adulthood.

Six Italian directors explore contemporary Milan in a rich and eclectic portrait of urban life and spaces—both rooted in history and bursting with a diversity of architecture and humanity.

Treze cineastas europeus pensam Sarajevo, e o que a cidade representou para a história europeia dos últimos cem anos, desde o início da Primeira Guerra Mundial. Todos eles realizadores proeminentes, de diferentes origens e gerações, oferecem estilos e visões excepcionalmente singulares sobre a cidade, o velho continente, os fantasmas do passado e o seu reflexo no presente.

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.

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.

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.

Meet Claudia: dull Giovanni is married with her, Giacomo is divorced and happy of it (until he meets her), and Aldo... is a taxi driver. At the end, who will have won her heart?

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 Donatello award nominated short drama about some wartime children who are allowed to live in a derelict old factory so long as they loot other bombed-out buildings for the soldiers.

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.

Lupo Mannaro, based upon the novel by Carlo Lucarelli, is a psycho-thriller revolving around the police commissioner Romeo who is obsessively convinced that the unsuspected Engineer Velasco, well known and respected in his milieu, is a dangerous serial killer. Romeo together with his determined assistant Grazia Negro and police superintendent Rago starts investigating with the help of the famous criminologist Del Gatto. The commissioner will often find himself in difficulty but won't give up the investigation due to his obstinacy and his strong vocation. The case slowly turns itself into a personal challenge between Romeo and Velasco, with unpredictable moves as well as strategies of defence and attack.

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 Donatello award nominated drama following the lives and loves of three people at a drug rehabilitation facility.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.