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…
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…
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…
Sergio, forty years old and writer of books for children, lives in ‘his’ completely ordered world. After the death of his father, a strange character bursts into his life overturning all his certainties and leaving him with unanswered questions.
The director chose Trieste for its past and its history. What better place to represent…
Piero is a young homosexual politician in love with Remo, with whom he lives. When he is a candidate in municipal elections he is teamed up with Adele, a moderate and conservative colleague. The relationship between the two quickly turns into a strong attraction. Remo finds himself to be the third wheel. Excited by the…
Based on the novel by Italo Svevo. Emilio Brentani, a writer from Trieste who is going through a creative crisis, lives with his sister Amalia. Weary of the monotony of his life, he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful, young Angiolina. The difference in age and character results in their constant bickering…
Gustav von Aschenbach, a fifty-year-old musician, arrives from Munich to Venice Lido for a holiday. There he meets the young Tadzio, a teenager with beautiful features, a beauty which he is strongly attracted by. To suppress his feelings and the disappointing hospitality of Venice, he goes back to Munich, but a mistake in sending his…