Simone Catania

Alexis, a talented and proud student of the National Ballet School of Cuba, spends his life practicing chassé and entrechats with his girlfriend and dance partner Yelenia. However, when his family moves to Florida to be reunited with his sister, he must adjust his expectations and dreams to a radically new environment. Alexis, facing rejection and homesick for his native Cuba, feels lost and alone. He must find his way in the world of American ballet while remaining faithful to his roots.

Together impossible goals can be reached. Like playing a song as a tribute to your favorite rock band, putting together 1000 musicians playing perfectly in synch. It’s what Rockin’1000 achieved, a group of Italian friends who became a global community bringing musicians from all around the world. We Are The Thousand is the story of how the largest band on the planet came to be: over nineteen thousand musicians, amateurs and pros from every age group and social background, united by one passion: rock’n’roll. This is the story of how the idea of virtuous community can positively influence every single member, encouraging them to pursue their dreams while giving the best they have to offer.

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

Every summer on Mondello Beach in Palermo, more than a thousand cabins are erected to house the same number of groups of bathers who will spend the season in them. For these people the “huts” are the perfect setting in which to hide behind the memory of a social status that the crisis of recent years has undermined. A family gets into debt to go on a seaside vacation and to look well-off among the bathers, three women sunbathe in order to feel as if they are still young and to become the stars of the summer, while on the same beach a barman thinks about earning as much money as possible to get through the winter. Everyone is waiting for the night of August 15 to play a leading role in the summer Vanity Fair and to keep on pretending that the economic crisis doesn’t exist.

Школа. Два часа дня. Раздается звонок - закончен еще один учебный день и здание пустеет. Внезапно, в дверях появляется человек, вооруженный кувалдой. Это Сабот, учитель, которого выгнали из школы. И то, что первоначально задумывалось, как акт вандализма, превращается в кровавую бойню. Каждый удар Сабота раскрывает нам глубинную подоплеку повествования о преступнике и жертве. И мы обнаруживаем в ней весь тот ужас, который скрывается под поверхностью тривиально повседневной жизни. Насилие над животным естеством - то, что многие люди скрывают и оправдывают каждый день за маской ролей и обязанностей. Каждый день...в этом "гражданском" обществе.

Школа. Два часа дня. Раздается звонок - закончен еще один учебный день и здание пустеет. Внезапно, в дверях появляется человек, вооруженный кувалдой. Это Сабот, учитель, которого выгнали из школы. И то, что первоначально задумывалось, как акт вандализма, превращается в кровавую бойню. Каждый удар Сабота раскрывает нам глубинную подоплеку повествования о преступнике и жертве. И мы обнаруживаем в ней весь тот ужас, который скрывается под поверхностью тривиально повседневной жизни. Насилие над животным естеством - то, что многие люди скрывают и оправдывают каждый день за маской ролей и обязанностей. Каждый день...в этом "гражданском" обществе.