Ignazio Oliva

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.

Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.

Nos anos 80, na plena época do maior boom econômico que Milão atravessou no último século, o gângster Santo Russo (Riccardo Scamarcio) iniciou a trajetória de sua ascensão no mundo do crime. Excêntrico e peculiar, ele usa de seu carisma e excessos para conquistar, aos poucos, a confiança da máfia italiana.

Em uma era de profunda descrença dos políticos e pessoas no poder, Papa Francisco é representado pelas suas muitas visitas espirituais pelo mundo e suas respostas às questões globais atuais sobre morte, justiça social, imigração, ecologia, desigualdade econômica, materialismo e o papel da família.

Boys On Film's twelfth collection of gay short films exposes private lives, uncovers secrets and presents a choice — to conceal or to confess? Volume 12: Confession features nine new stories, including: Robert Hawk's "Home From The Gym" starring Jake Robbins; Samuel Leighton-Dore's "Showboy" starring Lucas Pittaway and Malcolm Kennard; Bobby de Groot and Arjan van Meerten's animated "Cruise Patrol"; Denis Theriault's "I Am Syd Stone" starring Gharrett Patrick Paon and Michael Gaty; Dustin Shroff's "Deflated" starring Carson Trinity Haverda and Greg Baglia; Filippo Demarchi's "Age 17" starring Fabio Foiada and Ignazio Oliva; Christophe Prédari's "Human Warmth" starring Thomas Coumans and Adrien Desbons; Dominic Haxton's "Tonight It's Me" starring Jake Robbins, Caleb James, and Christian Patrick; and Peter Knegt and Stephen Dunn's "Good Morning" starring Peter Knegt and Oliver Skinner.

A recently separated man meets many girls online.

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Kiko is a teenager whose now dead father was Italian and his mother Marilou is from the Philippines. They live with Ennio, mother's new boyfriend, a foreman who recruits and exploits illegal migrant workers. Kiko goes to school but at the same time he is forced to work in Ennio's building yards. He feels he lives in a wrong planet. There's only one place where Kiko can dream: an old abandoned bus in a dump yard that he's turned into his private refuge. One day it seems his fate could change: an elderly friend of his father's, Ettore, comes looking for Kiko and offers to become a strange kind of tutor for him. But one day Ettore reveals to Kiko his real identity...

Matteo is a 17-year-old boy who comes to the realization that he is in love with Don Massimo, a young priest of the village that leads the marching band in which Matteo plays the drum. He sees in Massimo a person willing to listen to his fears and desires. For the first time in his life, Matteo feels ready to open up to someone...

Diaz - Política e Violência reconstrói com brutal e chocante realismo os eventos acontecidos durante o último dia do encontro do G8 de 2001, em Gênova, quando mais de 300 policiais atacaram a escola Diaz, buscando ativistas em protesto. O resultado foi uma explosão de cruel e descontrolada violência.

Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences…

Continuação de "Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore" (Lição de Amor), a história de amor entre Niki e Alex, um publicitário de sucesso de 39 anos e uma estudante, agora com 20 anos, que se conheceram em um acidente de carro. Três anos após terem se conhecido, Alex percebe que, apesar da diferença de idade, Niki é a mulher com quem quer se casar.

An italian transposition of the S. S.. Van Dine novel.

Nikki (Michela Quattrociocche) tem 18 anos e divide seu tempo entre os estudos no último ano do ensino médio e a ida em festas e clubes, juntamente com os amigos. Alex (Raoul Bova) tem 37 anos e uma carreira de sucesso como publicitário. Abandonado pela mulher que considerava ser seu "eterno amor", a vida social de Alex agora se restringe aos antigos amigos. Um dia a vida deles se cruzam, quando acidentalmente Nikki bate sua moto no carro de Alex.

O ano é 1939, a Europa passa pela Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apesar da tensão social, o produtor Davide Rieti (Alfred Molina), decide rodar um filme épico nos estúdios da Cinecittà. Nesta efervescente atmosfera, começam as filmagens, mas fora dos sets os protagonistas se apaixonam e procuram formas de escapar da realidade da guerra através do álcool e das drogas. Porém, com a guerra batendo à porta, Rieti começa a sofrer pressão psicológica de todos os lados - pelo governo, pelos bancos, e principalmente pela imprensa, que descobre que Rieti se relaciona com um homem. Rodeado pelo escândalo sexual e político, o grande épico é ameaçado pela polícia secreta, mas determinado a continuar e enfrentar a ameaça da polícia, Rieti e seu elenco decidem fazer um final extraordinário para a realização do filme, em apenas uma noite.

Elena, a young trainee psychiatrist, dreams of bringing "mad" people back to a normal life; she makes them talk, she provokes and incites them in the hope of finding the distinguishing signs of normality. Fausto is a boy judged "mad", who has been hospitalized against his will several times, an extrovert musician, he shows clear signs of normality.

A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories of events that took place in the house that they are sharing, which has a particular significance for all of them.

Nicola is a 6-year-old boy who lives with his family in an old apartment divided in two by a long corridor. His parents' relationship is slowly falling apart, as money is running low and love is fading. To escape the violence, Nicola hides himself in the fantasy world of his toy soldiers. But as the tension increases day after day, the young boy begins to see the corridor slowly turning into a war trench and getting to the front door is no longer a matter of going to school, but the only way to survive.

A princesa Leonide (Mira Sorvino) reina no trono usurpado por seu pai do verdadeiro herdeiro, o príncipe Agis (Jay Rodan). Leonide viu Agis apenas uma vez e ficou totalmente apaixonada. Agis foi criado pelo filósofo Hermocrates (Ben Kingsley) e treinado para odiá-la. Para tentar conquistar seu amor e devolver-lhe o trono, ela se veste de homem e, junto com sua ama Corine (Rachael Stirling), entra no palácio de Agis, onde procura ser seu melhor amigo e confidente.

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?

Giulia works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son.

Il Tempo Dell'Amore (A Time to Love) is an omnibus film of three different love stories that take place in three different eras and locations. The common element is the theme: love causes a lot of pain.

Após o suicídio de sua mãe uma jovem de 19 anos (Liv Tyler) viaja para a Itália, com o propósito aparente de reencontrar alguns amigos e ter seu retrato pintado, mas planeja rever especialmente um jovem com quem ela dera seu primeiro beijo, quatro anos antes. Simultaneamente pretende decifrar um enigma que foi encontrado no diário da sua mãe, mas gradativamente sua presença exuberante transforma a vida dos seus amigos.

After a kidnapping a boy is kept in the family castel to protect him. But the situation is not easy