Simone Segre is a surgeon and the son of a Holocaust survivor. His past haunts him when he refuses to help a victim of a car accident who has a swastika tattoo on his chest. He tries to alleviate his guilt and seeks the victim’s relatives. The film was shot in autumn 2019 and is…
"Tolo Tolo" is considered an ironic portrayal of the Italian bureaucracy and the situation of migrants. It was also the most successful film to be shown in Italian cinemas during 2020. After the failure of his restaurant, Checco flees to Nigeria to start a new life, but suddenly war breaks out and he and…
This new film, like the one by the same name directed by Mario Bava in 1967, is also inspired by the 1962 comic. The surprise is the story itself; one of the directors explains: "To really tell the story of Diabolik, it is impossible not to say anything about Eva Kant. She will be a…
Gabriele Salvatores offers us the film version of the play by the same name by Trevor Griffiths, an award-winning work from the late 1970s. In the film, six aspiring comedians sign up for a stand-up comedy school run by a famous politically active actor. At the end of the course, the best of them are…
The film's protagonist, Virgil Oldman, is an eccentric genius, and art expert, known and appreciated all over the world. He always runs away from feelings, until a mysterious woman invites him to her villa to make a valuation. It is to be the beginning of a relationship that will change his life forever.
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Irena is ‘unknown’, a former Ukrainian prostitute who has arrived in Northern Italy to escape from the ghosts and nightmares of the past. She finds work as a maid in a family of goldsmiths, the Adachers, and has an apartment to live in. She wins the confidence of little Tea, but suddenly the past comes…
As God Commands is based on the Strega Prize winning novel by Nicolò Ammaniti. It tells the story of Rino and Cristiano Zeda, father and son. They live in poverty, in the degradation and in the solitude of a desolate province of Northern Italy, bound by a powerful love. Quattroformaggi is their only friend. One…
After a brilliant career as a fencer, Paul works as a sports journalist for a small newspaper. One day a close friend, Franz, is struck down by a heart attack. Paul decides to investigate his friend’s past and finds that his death hides secrets.
Udine stands out as a location. We see the headquarters of…
The ball is in the middle, the referee's whistle blows, and an hour of battle follows. For seven friends this is the classic Thursday night: the amateur soccer match. They are on the pitch and their wives in the stands, on the field and in life, where more than one of them will have to…
Anna, a student and hockey player, is found dead by the shore of Lake Fusine. The mysterious murder is investigated by Commissioner Giovanni Sanzio, a family man with problems and personal tragedies. Little by little, the circle narrows and Sanzio reveals the mystery that surrounds the small mountain community. The film marks the encounter between…
History of the TG3 (Italian news channel) reporter, Ilaria Alpi played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, who was killed in an ambush in Mogadishu on March 20, 1994. The film reconstructs the last month in the life of the journalist and of the cameraman of the Videoest (documentary maker) of Trieste, Miran Hrovatin, killed by a…
October 9, 1963. It’s a little past 10:30 at night when a huge landslide from the overhanging slope of Monte Toc (about 260 million square meters of rock) crashes into the new artificial basin created by the hydroelectric dam at Vajont. The result, caused by errors of human judgment, is dramatic: a wave 100 meters…
