Alessandro Ghiara

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.

The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.

Эудженио, промышленник лет сорока, одержим мыслью о грядущем Апокалипсисе. И по его представлению, конец света наступит не когда-то там, в далеком будущем, а в самые ближайшие дни. Эудженио не радуется процветанию своей компании и не огорчается по причине ее возможного банкротства. Деньги его теперь скорее пугают, чем привлекают. И промышленник, «земную жизнь прошедший до середины», приходит к неожиданному выводу: он решает стать бедняком. У нищего нет проблем, считает Эудженио. По крайней мере, тех, которые постоянно встают перед богатым и преуспевающим бизнесменом. Попрошайничать, побираться объедками из мусорных бачков рядом с ресторанами, спать в пустых бассейнах или в залах ожидания железнодорожных вокзалов — чем не жизнь?… И так продолжается до тех пор, пока Эудженио не знакомится с прелестной Мартой, которая влачит такое же существование на речном катере…

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.