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- A funeral lamentation is sung by women in a dialect so old that it came from the ancient Greeks who once colonized in that part of southern Italy.
- Avant Garde piece from Carmelo Bene. A series of vignettes drive a whirl of sounds, images and poetry - is it horror, is it comedy, make your own mind up.
- An experimental documentary film about Saint Cross's basilica of Lecce, Apulia.
- A young woman forced into nun-hood by her corrupt father teams up with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill those who wronged her.
- Nico, a shy sixteen-year-old boy, becomes acquainted with his cousin Sonia, who stays at his home during the summer. Before leaving for Rome, Sonia finds a way to share her bed with him.
- Ciccio Zannone, a insignificant little man, but who is very successful with women, wants to join the "family" of Don Calogero Lentini, the mafia "boss" of a small Sicilian town.
- Two scammers (one is called Erika, young and charming, while the other is Giorgio, less attractive and more aggressive) are hired by a rich lady to get rid of her husband, an opportunist and unrepentant womanizer.
- Renata Fonte, council member in the town of Nardò, is assassinated. The inquiry will bring to the discovery of an involvement of the Mafia in redevelopment projects which Renata Fonte had tried to fight back.
- Series teaching Italian for beginners.
- 75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
- Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
- Tonino and Maddalena live very much in love in a small village in southern Italy. Maddalena's great beauty makes her the victim of the envy of her cousin Teresa, who even resorts to witchcraft to win Tonino.
- Martin Brundle tests out his top ten super cars on the track and on the road to find out the best car. The cars tested are: Ferrari F40, Lamborghini Diablo GT, Lamborghini Murciélago, TVR T440R, Pagani Zonda C12 S, Koenigsegg CC8S, Jaguar XJ220, Enzo Ferrari, Bugatti EB110 and the McLaren F1.
- The raw history of an South-east Italian family in 1952's, among poorness and the fight to survive.
- An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
- A short movie shot on Salento seashore, where a lonely character shapes a sand sculpture in a beach sunset. The beautiful Mediterranean landscape and a sudden twist convey a total lacking sense of reality to the story.
- Chasing his dream of living life to the limit, a boy is caught up in an unstoppable race which will make a true mafia boss of this young University student.
- On a rainy day, Alice is tied and gagged into a country house, and through a series of flashbacks she traces the events that dragged her into this situation. Alice, Dora and Sofia are three very different women, friends since school, and all three are now close to the fateful forties of forty years. Everyone tries to find their own way, while their lives are inexorably marked by male figures who go and go. Sofia, however, after escaping from her father's overpriced parental authority, is confronted with an even more cumbersome and overbearing husband who forces her to make an oval calendar to foster her business. The soft comedy, however, is yellow when the village of Puglia where the story unfolds is shocked by a murder.
- A psychodrama about a photographer whose pictures tell a different story to that of her perception.
- Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
- A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
- Nena, a girl from the south of Italy, has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher. She is sad, not because she has to leave her mother and sister, with whom everything is clear and sometimes difficult, but because she is having a serious love affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed: a young upper-middle class man who seems to sincerely feel the same. They promise that nothing will change between them. It is only until June and then she can ask for a transfer. And so she leaves, a little sad and a little curious about what is in store for her. But what she finds is completely different from what she imagined. It's much worse: a school isolated on a high mountain plain, wild children, people she has nothing in common with and a hostile environment. She sticks it out because of pride and because Francesco loves her for her courage, until one cold February day when everything goes wrong, everything seems lost forever... but it isn't so, it's never that bad. Nena will find this out day by day.
- Enzo, Carmine and Bandula are laid off when their factory is modernized. They fear the worst until their boss rehires them to guard his new modern art collection.
- Thirty three year-old Marcello Zappatore plays electric guitar for a Satanist Heavy Metal band in Lecce until one day he discovers... stigmata on the side of his rib cage! Part sci-fi, part fantasy, part family drama, W ZAPPATORE is an over-the-top Italian farce, taking on the age-old battle between Good and Evil... and Rock n Roll.
- Lorenzo is 10 years old, he lives with his few relatives far away from the world; it is the summer of 1960 and even few miles can represent an incredible distance. Especially if, beyond this distance, the reality of this family is threatened by forces of some nature. Among these there is also something, from the other side of the wood, breaks through the night with screams that have nothing of natural.
- On 27 December 2008, with Operation Cast Lead, the Israelis launched their frightening and cruel offensive on the Gaza Strip. The film recounts the odyssey of two brothers who came from Gaza to Rome to regain their sight.
- Short documentary about the sport achievements of Pietro Mennea, Italian runner, winner of the 200 metre at the 1980's Olympics of Moscow.
- Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to. This dramedy on relationships also gets a very credible performance from Paola Miraccione, who plays the tragic, albeit funny, character Egle.
- Having lost custody of her six year-old son, a young Japanese woman (Kikuchi) has four days to say goodbye to him on-board a yacht belonging to her western ex-husband's wealthy family. Alone with the crew, who are under direct instruction to keep a watchful eye on her, the woman must try to forge a connection with her son before she has to part from him for many years.
- The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
- A successful fashion journalist inherits a farm in the deep south of Italy. She goes there to sell it, but not all goes as planned.
- At 36, David has a one and only ambition: to win the respect of the president of the company he works for and, in the process, to get a better position with the substantial salary increase going with it. The time seems to have come as he is the author of a revolutionary invention that could help the firm to become more profitable. But before he has time to present the result of his research to his manager, he is accosted by a friendly-looking man who - he will realize too late - his nothing but a con artist. In a matter of a single night, his life is rocked...