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.

Сверчок Джимини забирается в дом старого столяра Джеппетто, который заканчивает работу над деревянной куклой-марионеткой Пиноккио. Перед сном сверчок загадывает желание, чтобы Пиноккио стал живым мальчиком.

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?

These young women are an odd couple. Julie is quick-witted and stubborn. She celebrates idleness and even voluntarily checks into a psychiatric clinic. Nurse Agnes, on the other hand, is always eager to do the right thing and to meet everyone's expectations of her, which is not always easy. When the two of them accidentally meet one day, odds are they won't get along. But they quickly feel attracted to one another, despite their enormous differences.

Пять сестер Макалузо живут без родителей на окраине Палермо. Несмотря на трудности, их детство наполнено надеждами на будущее, пока внезапное происшествие не меняет размеренный уклад их жизни. Теперь сестер объединяет общая тайна.

Дарио — одинокий чудак, который мечтает отправиться на Луну. Однажды, пытаясь запустить самодельную ракету, он устраивает пожар и попадает в тюрьму. Единственный человек, который может ему помочь, — брат по отцу, Марио, с которым тот виделся один раз в жизни. Спустя долгие годы они воссоединяются — и понимают, что у них одна цель.

Трое отчаявшихся отцов видят, что их худший кошмар сбывается: они убеждены, что их дочери выбрали себе неправильных женихов. Уверенные, что действуют для их же блага, они объединяют усилия, чтобы как можно скорее избавиться от суженых своих дочек.

During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be Mary, the Mother of God.

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.

Детектив Стукки расследует серию убийств, произошедших в небольшом городке на севере Италии, недалеко от Венеции. Чем дальше он продвигается в расследовании, тем больше начинает понимать, что за тайну скрывают жители города.

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.

Семеро старых друзей собираются вместе на ужин. Когда они решают начать игру, заключающуюся в том, что им придется читать все поступающие смс вслух, а на звонки отвечать по громкой связи, они и представить себе не могут, к чему приведет такая откровенность.

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.

Две девушки из Нидерландов приезжают в Италию, где поначалу работают судомойками. Но вскоре судьба им улыбается, и они начинают карьеру певиц. Вскоре к ним присоединяется их третья сестра. Рождается вокальное трио Лескано…

To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.

У Анны есть все для счастья: красивый дом, успешная работа и любимый человек. Но неожиданно у нее начинается роман с официантом Домиником. Оказывается, между ее рассуждениями о любви и настоящей страстью не было ничего общего! Ее невозможно планировать, ею нельзя управлять… Но Доминик женат, он отец двоих детей, и выясняется, что настоящая любовь возможна только два часа в неделю.

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

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.

Жизнь маленькой деревни на севере Италии идет своим чередом, и у нас есть возможность хорошо разглядеть каждого жителя. Пенсионеры коротают день за чашкой кофе. Местный нувориш журит свою жену-румынку, найденную через сайт знакомств, за туфли по 800 евро. Водитель автобуса мил и пунктуален. И конечно, вся деревня собирается на празднике по поводу улова гигантского тунца. Обо всем этом юный Джиованни пишет заметки в миланскую газету — он серьезно намерен стать журналистом, но пока что самое горячее происшествие, о котором удалось написать — ликвидация подпольного цеха. Но Джиованни еще выпадет шанс рассказать о событии там, где его никто не хотел увидеть. В деревню приехала новая учительница Мара, она сразу понравилась всем, а в особенности Хассану, мастеру авторемонта. Джиованни становится невольным свидетелем их отношений. Сможет ли он сохранить правильную дистанцию?

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.

Аттилло Де Джиованни — талантливый поэт, влюбленный в свое искусство. Он боготворит свою музу, прекрасную Витторию, которая каждую ночь приходит к нему в сновидениях. И вот однажды он встречает Витторию в реальной жизни. Аттилло счастлив! Он делает буквально все, чтобы покорить сердце красавицы, но безуспешно. Муза во плоти горда и неприступна. Вскоре Виттория улетает в Багдад вместе с иракским поэтом Фуадом, о котором она пишет книгу. Там она получает серьёзное ранение, и Аттильо не задумываясь, отправляется к своей возлюбленной в надежде спасти её жизнь, невзирая на многочисленные тяготы страшного военного времени…

Лучия — молодая и преуспевающая менеджер по рекламе — тайно влюблена в друга детства Паоло, который собирается жениться на ее лучшей подруге Марии. Лучия не сдается и нанимает бедного актера Антонио, чтобы соблазнить соперницу.

Фрейдистское препарирование сексуального подсознания человека. В центре сюжета молодая женщина, выросшая в семье педофила, которая медленно сходит с ума. На втором плане развивающаяся лесбийская любовь её подруг и её молодой человек, у которого на работе начинается роман с красивой и сексуальной девушкой.

The story of a middle-aged bookshop owner, who becomes embroiled in a surreal swirl of romance and family secrets of infidelity, her energy levels registering in bursts of electrical interference - causing lightbulbs, traffic lights, toasters and computers to spontaneously spark and malfunction.

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.

Домохозяйка Розальба отправляется с мужем и детьми на автобусную экскурсию. Неожиданно она остается одна в придорожном кафетерии. Пытаясь добраться домой, героиня волей случая попадает в Венецию — город ее мечты. Обретенная свобода дарит ей не только новые ощущения и приключения. На этом пути Розальба находит радость и любовь. Теперь все в ее жизни будет иначе.

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?