Italian

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren’t willing to be ruled.Read More »

Elena (18), is on her first day at work in a bar in a small Apennine town of Bobbio. It’s summer and the bar is very busy.Read More »

As the menacing clouds of WWII spread all over across Europe, a young flaxen-haired Jew woman will witness her idyllic life crumble into pieces as she is rounded up and thrown to forced prostitution at the infamous “joy-camp” 27.Read More »

A librarian lives with his disabled daughter in his Parisian bookstore. Various characters will change their lives.Read More »

Synopsis:
Allegra is a lively young woman with a passion for high mountain climbing. She decides to travel to Morocco to reach the top of the Atlas, but her trip ends abruptly when a man explodes a bomb in a coffee shop and her three friends die in the attack. Unable to overcome the trauma months later she returns to her city, where the encounter with Arad, a young Muslim refugee, forces her to confront her perception of reality, her fears and heal her profound interior wounds.Read More »

Synopsis: Stefano is the younger son in a family who lives in the outskirts of Rome. He’s been expelled at school, and is starting to work at a newsstand. A poetic look at the life and responsibilities of a poor kid in late-60s Italy.Read More »

“Immacolata e Concetta, l’altra gelosia” is a very good first feature by Salvatore Piscicelli about the wildly operatic events that follow the release of the two women from prison.@NYT 1981Read More »

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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.Read More »

Old woodcarver Geppetto’s puppet creation, Pinocchio, magically comes to life with dreams of becoming a real boy. Easily led astray, Pinocchio tumbles from one misadventure to another as he is tricked, kidnapped and chased by bandits.Read More »