A scorching summer day in a degraded and unreal southern city. Four kids meet a black prostitute and so, a day similar to many others turns into a moment of discovery and growth.
The last exam of the summer session is close and Emanuele fears to fail. As anybody else in that situation, he would like to have a substitute.
1940. Escaping from Italy, Maria and her boyfriend Olmo, a political activist, arrive to London where they hope to get asylum, but when Italy enters the war, Olmo gets arrested by the British authorities. Maria, alone, will be helped by Beatrice, who offers her protection and refugee on her boat.
Abacuc is a man of nearly 200 kilos who spends his days in a sort of indifferent immobility, in the absence of any kind of emotion. He hangs out at graveyards, thematic "Italy in miniature" parks or near utopic architectures. He lives in a railroad inspector's house and he never speaks. The only voice we hear is a feminine voice-over. Abacuc, pulled out from hi...
Silvano lives in Sottomarina, in the province of Venice. He is 40 years old, has a young, nice wife, a beautiful child and a comfortable house. For a living, he is a car thief. One late summer day, an old friend of his, Mario, who is back to the village after many years...
In the spring of 1896, five years after the mysterious exile, Tiburzi, an highwayman, suddenly reappears in the Maremma area, in Tuscany, Italy, the place where he had been ruling for twenty-five years. But something has changed. Now the house of Savoy reign on those territories, which were once considered wild and dangerous. A manhunt is organized by the local police and th...
Tano, the old barber of the village, promises to his son Tino, who dreams to become a barber like his dad, that the day of his fifteenth birthday he will be allowed to shave his first client. But that day, Tino dies. Tano, who has lost his mind, closes the shop and tries to resuscitate him in a quite curious way…
The concept of "Couple" in a historical moment which iron out with stereotypes any individuality. The models/messages that gravitate and loom over the limbo of modernity lead the Couple along a path where only the capacity of independent thinking and reaction offers a possibility of choice and a refuse to stupidity.
A former teacher decides to move with all his family - his wife and three children - to a small village in the Maira Valley, on the mountains, in order to escape the wrongs of civilization. Philippe and his wife start producing goat cheese and tries to be accepted by the old people of the village, but little by little misunderstandings, envy and conflicts take over and for P...
Zak, a young man of Algerian origins, lives in a village in Southern France. When he learns about his father's death in Algeria, he decides to go there with his family. The journey will give him the chance to approach the Arabian culture, the culture of his motherland that he has never experienced. The movie has won the Kodak Prize at Torino Film Festival and the Best Direct...
