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Solo un padre
Just a father
directed by Luca Lucini

Starring
LUCA ARGENTERO
DIANE FLERI
FABIO TROIANO
ANNA FOGLIETTA

Carlo is a thirty-years-old dermatologist whose life has always been perfect: caring parents, a thriving career, good friends. A regular, sheltered life, with small room for feelings. But one day, Carlo’s consistent life is suddenly turned upside down when his young wife dies giving birth to their baby daughter Sofia...


 

 

 

 

La prima cosa bella
The first beautiful thing
directed by Paolo Virzì

Starring
VALERIO MASTANDREA
MICAELA RAMAZZOTTI
STEFANIA SANDRELLI

In 1971 Anna was a beautiful young mother proclaimed ‘Queen’ of the most popular bathing establishment in Livorno.Her innocent and flimsy success  arouses chaos in the family creating embarrassment and misunderstandings all through the following thirty years.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Due vite per caso
One life, maybe two

  

directed by Alessandro Aronadio 
 

Starring
Lorenzo Balducci
Isabella Ragonese
Ivan Franek
 

At 20 life is a bundle of endless opportunities just waiting to be seized. But sometimes being in the wrong place at the wrong time distorts your choices...

 

 


 

 

L'uomo che verrà
The man who will come
directed by
Giorgio Diritti

Starring
Alba Caterina Rohrwacher,Maya Sansa,
Claudio Casadio

September 1944, a cruel war is getting to an end.
8 year old Martina takes upon herself to save her baby boy brother born
on the eve  of an unprecedented massacre of civilians in the area. 

 



 

                      

 

 

Iago
 

directed by Volfango De Biasi
 

Starring
NICOLAS VAPORIDIS
LAURA CHIATTI
AU
RELIEN GAYA
LORENZO GLEIJESES

Iago is an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello, with a comical twist set at the university of todays Venice



 


 

Si può fare

 

directed by Giulio Manfredonia
 

Starring

CLAUDIO BISIO
ANITA CAPRIOLI
GIUSEPPE BATTISTON
GIORGIO COLANGELI
BEBO STORTI

Nello finds himself managing a cooperative of former mental patients. He encourages them to learn a trade in order to free themselves from dependence on charity handouts, inventing a role for each of them that is amazingly adapted to their abilities, but coordinating them will lead to tragic-comic situatiions.

 

 

 

 

VIOLA DI MARE
SEA PURPLE
 

directed by Donatella Maiorca
 

Starring
Valeria Solarino
Isabella Ragonese
Ennio Fantastichini
Maria Grazia Cucinotta

 

Angela, the main character , isn’t  like the other girls of her same age. She runs, smokes and plays with boys. She fears nothing and nobody,  Not even his grumpy and violent father, the powerful mines’ guardian.
All her feelings are for the young Sara...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MARPICCOLO
 

directed by Alessandro di Robilant
 

Starring
Giulio Beranek, Anna Ferruzzo, Selenia Orzella, Michele Riondino, Nicola Rignanese, Roberto Bovenga, Giorgio Colangeli, Valentina Carnelutti
 

Tiziano, 17, lives in Taranto, in a poor neighbourhood polluted by nearby factories and burdened by petty and organized crime. He's one of those border line youths that could - given the chance- leave behind everything and aspire to a better life.

 


 

 

 

 


 

SCONTRO DI CIVILTA' PER UN ASCENSORE A PIAZZA VITTORIO

Clash of civilization over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio

directed by Isotta Toso

Starring
Kasia Smutniak 
Daniele Liotti
Serra Yilmaz
Ahmed Hafiene

 

Roman born locals, mix with immigrants, transplants and political refugees.
 The violent death of young Lorenzo sparks up a portrait  sometimes  funny, otherwise sad  but always incisive of a mixed community.


 

 

 

 

L'IMBROGLIO NEL LENZUOLO
The trick in the sheet
 

directed by Alfonso Arau
 

Starring
Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Anne Parillaud
Primo Reggiani
Geraldine Chaplin
Ernesto Mahieux

 

1905, cinema seems a mysterious and devilish trick.

When Federico films unaware and unknowing Marianna in the nude, it will be Federico’s success and Marianna’s plunge into incredulity and desperation.

 

 

 

 

 

POLVERE
BLANCA

 

directed by
Massimiliano D’Epiro, Danilo Proietti

Starring
Primo Reggiani
Michele Alhaique
Victoria Larchenko
Gaia Bermani Amaral



Two friends share an ambitious project, innovative and daring, which will get them into deep trouble. They plan to shoot a documentary entirely with hidden cameras about cocaine and everything that surrounds it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE CASE OF UNFAITHFUL KLARA

directed by
Roberto Faenza

Starring
Laura Chiatti
Claudio Santamaria
Yemi Akinyemi

 

In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents, misunderstandings and traps culminating in an unusual Venice…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOLLYWOOD HERO

directed by
Diederik van Rooijen

Starring
Egbert-Jan Weeber,
Ishwari Bose-Bhattacharya,
Akhilesh Kumar

 

Soon after arriving in Mumbai, to play a little role in a Bollywood movie, Nick, a Dutch actor,  witnesses the fatal car accident  of a young  beggar girl. Severely shaken, Nick decides to no longer be a passive eyewitness to all the misery around him...


 

 





 



 

GIULIA DOESN'T DATE AT NIGHT

directed by Giuseppe Piccioni

Starring
Valeria Golino,
Valerio Mastandrea
Piera Degli Esposti

Giulia teaches swimming at a pool. One of her pupils is the young daughter of Guido, a successful and married writer grappling with feelings of futility about his profession. When they meet at the pool Guido gets intrigued by this charming woman who keeps initially a certain distance, because Giulia hides a secret and a mysterious past.

Best Actress Award to Valeria Golino
at
21st Panorama of European Cinema of Athens

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

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