The movie was born from a bizarre analogy which compares social movements to clouds. Clouds appear to be all the same, but only from a distance; they change all the time, and even when they cause damage they are crucial to life on earth. In the same way, social movements put energy back into circulation; they are a response to bottled-up energies in the society at large. Gu...
During a meteor shower, a little girl sets out on a journey in which she faces her fears. The thought of her mother, victim of a banal bike incident will keep her company on the way home. "If in some precise moments, you feel clusters of thoughts flowing through the wrinkles of the soul or of a smile... well, let it be. It is us, knocking. Prepare your shoes and your gloves,...
Jimmy is 18 years old and lives in a sleepy town in Sardinia. He doesn't know what to do with his life, but one thing he knows is that he will not work in the oil refinery of his town. He wants to leave. In the attempt to find enough money to leave for Mexico, he will find himself breaking laws and living recklessly. It is then that the doors of the juvenile prison will swi...
With a single long take the director tells an autobiographical story. In a bar, a young man is shot by a robber. The bullet breaks his femur and missed the artery by 3 mm. That man will start to work on his first film the following day.
Verona, 1970. Sergio is a nine-year-old only child. Though apparently well adjusted, he is nicknamed "the Lone Ranger" thanks to his solitary habits. His middle-class parents Anna and Paolo are going through a rough patch and unhappily debate whether to terminate Anna's unwanted pregnancy. During a long summer vacation in the country, the imaginative Sergio at first fiercely...
During a scorching hot summer, a man prepares an erotic animated film. More than once, he gives a conspiratorial look at the camera that is filming him. A story develops, parallel to the story he is telling.
Bing, a Chinese girl, moves from China to Torino. Waiting for her, there is her new brother...
Mrs. Flo has to go back home, but it's night and she has to go through a street which has a bad reputation. Fear is not her only problem...
Bastiano, fifteen years old, lives in a institute with all the ones, who, like him, have nobody who can take care of them. Obsessed by strange visions of his friends and himself as old people, he convinces himself that the institute is stealing his youth and decides to leave.
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.