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- Summer 2018, Carlo is a rich boy who, after an evening with friends in which he drank a lot, started driving, and causing a car accident in which a girl was scarred. The court sentences him to a year of social services in a retirement home where he will have to take care of the elderly residents.
- In the harsh conditions of a remote fishing village, where is no one fishing, in Argentina's waterlogged Entre Rios region, the 10-year-old Gonzalo has to come to terms with an older generation's failed lives and aspirations. With his escaped mother dying from cancer, Gonzalo is left in charge of his 8-month-old sister. Adrift, he is searching for a new home. In his pilgrimage, he meets a traveler, a broken couple, and the formal owner of a cabaret.
- A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with the director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato.
- Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu.
- Rebellious 24-year-old Anne Bruneau is abandoned at the altar by her fiancé Yann. Unaware that Yann was drunk and fell down a well, Anne reacts to his absence by cutting her hair, dressing like a man, and signing on with a ship captained by a dwarf. When Yann learns what happened, he begins running south to Marseilles to rejoin her. Aboard the ship, Anne's disguise is discovered by the captain and the ship's doctor. With an Arab, she jumps ship, hiding with hookers in Marseilles while still maintaining her disguise.
- The characters include a dirty-dealing 80-year-old mayor with a troubling Fascist past and a bloodthirsty middle-aged writer - also an ex-Fascist, who has now turned Marxist-Leninist and is ready to settle his accounts with history. There is a young leftist idealist, a city councilperson who is fighting real estate speculation. This is the portrait of Latina and its inhabitants. This province is certainly an anomaly, but is not so far from the present-day times that all of Italy is going through now.
- A huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by a new virus.
- From the acclaimed author of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND Francesco Piccolo, an ironic, quirky and intimate last portrait of the poet Patrizia Cavalli. Adored as a pop icon, she is considered the Signora of contemporary Italian poetry. Her life marks the path of a supremely free woman who needs an audience and cannot stand solitude. The documentary is meant to convey the sensuality, freedom, and warmth of Patrizia Cavalli's poems, the experience of an authentic poetic inspiration, and the profound sense of her life. Patrizia passed away on the 21st of June 2022, during the post-production of this documentary, which is her last video testimony.
- Zena, Adriano, Alfonso and Marzia, the outcast children of noble families, are gathered in the exclusive Villa Bianca, where their parents have sent them to become "normal".
- In a winter Sardinia, bruised and violent, the drama of Rudi takes place, a man in his sixties, a small suburban gangster who now wearily manages his business, until he has to take care of his daughter Susanna, alone and seriously ill. Rudi then abandons life on the streets and faces his limits, his fears, his impotence, he falls, gets up and finally understands that his daughter is the destiny that awaits him, the mission to be accomplished. But there is his world out there, the world of racketeering, debts, "odd jobs", which has not forgotten him.
- The movie is made of interviews with people (mainly young) working in Atesia, a large call center in Rome, and telling their direct experiences: low salaries, few rights, protests and strikes, people fired, government promises and so on. In addition, there is one monologue of Ascanio Celestini (the director, who is a theater's actor specialized in monologues), partly surrealistic and partly extremely present-day.
- The story he has been told by his grandfather was about people's dream to go out of their small town to Russia. For them, the greatest pleasure on the earth was taking a prostitute.
- Pinuccio Lovero has always dreamed of being an undertaker. Five months ago he was finally hired to be the custodian of the cemetery of Mariotto, a town in the deep south of Italy.
- Annabì, by facing her fear of planes, deals with the greatest fear in her own life.
- Army commander Manuela returns home after an attack, forcing her into a very different and no less insidious war: against memories and disillusionment, but also against the stereotypical role of woman and victim that society tries to impose on her.
- Giovanna does not approve of her mother seeing her father. She ends up meeting aunt Vittoria at the Communist Feast of Humanity. The gang ends up in a movie theater, but a fight breaks out.
- Sicily, 1936. The Marquis of Acquafurata, an antifascist activist wanted by the police, returns in secret to his ancestors' palace. For fear of being recognized, he poses as his late butler, killed accidentally in a fire. And for the property not to fall into the hands of the fascists, he executes a will bequeathing the palace to a couple without proper housing. They soon arrive at his door. Acquafurata cannot believe his eyes: Rosalia, the young woman is lovely and he immediately falls for her. Even more wonderful, her husband must go to war shortly and leave his good looker behind. The weather is hot, nerves are high-strung and passions are bound to run out of control.
- Giovanna's friends clash with Vittoria on a visit to the slums. The bracelet Vittoria gifted Giovanna as a baby turns up in an unexpected place.
- A secret gets out and unravels two families. Giovanna falls out of school and has her first sexual encounter. Vittoria demands her bracelet back.
- Andrea finds a job for his sister, Vittoria. Giovanna and Giuliana visit Roberto in Milan. Returning to Naples, Giovanna gets more advice from aunt Vittoria.
- A racewalking athlete Maria's father and her friend wishes to see her achieving her dream of success.
- 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.
- As Giovanna begins to fall under Aunt Vittoria's spell and hears both sides of the story of her father's estranged relationship with his sister, she begins to question much about her parents.
- Sicily, summer 1990. Two young boys, sons of militant communists, run away from home to re-found the Pioneers, the glorious and now extinct scouts of the Italian Communist Party. But not everything goes according to their plans.
- Dr. Martinelli is a young psychoanalyst who is treating Dario Campisi, and a surprising truth emerges from the latter's stories during psychoanalytic sessions.
- He is Muslim and rooted in Bengali family traditions, she is an atheist and the daughter of separated parents.
- The story of three orphans; Danny, Frances and Paulie, and their quest for happiness.
- The Cormorant is a former summer camp at the mouth of the river nearby Pisa. This is where young Mario lives. Everybody nicknames him B.B. (for Bugs Bunny) because of his teeth. Around him gravitate a range of colorful characters, all more weird than the other, but with whom he gets along. As far he is concerned, B.B. works hard with a view to earning enough money for being able some day to buy a plane ticket to the USA, where he dreams of joining an uncle who lives in New York and becoming a singer there. But one day, his American uncle returns.