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Maria married an honest worker at a very young age, works as a part-time beautician and has three children. Her life is like many others in the working-class suburbs of Naples, where the daily struggle to make ends meet makes you get used to everything. When her husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Maria accepts the help of Gennaro, a rich owner of a car dealership. She lets him court her until she becomes his lover. One day he suggests that she become a business partner: he will transport a load of cocaine to Switzerland. Once she becomes a widow, her relationship with Gennaro will make her fall into a criminal vortex, which will finally allow her to experience new possibilities and fulfill old dreams. But the path chosen by Maria for her personal revenge will leave its inevitable victims in its wake, just like in a war that does not look anyone in the face.
Jul 2019
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Sep 2017
May 2025
A psychiatrist tries to make his dream come true by organizing the first worldwide football cup for patients who suffer from mental illness. Based on a true story.
Oct 2021
2020 marks 100 years since the birth of Federico Fellini, the most prominent Italian director and one of the symbols of the insuperable cinematic heyday of mid-20th century. Fellini had always been a mysterious director, not only in his cryptic symbolism but also in his idiosyncratic, excessive mixture of psychoanalysis, Catholicism and faith in the mysterious. In this documentary, his relationship with the paranormal, luck and fate, alongside the coexistence of organized discourse and transcendence to the imaginary, is examined via friends, collaborators and distinguished fans (Friedkin, Gilliam, Chazelle). A great testimony to why rationalists and ideologists have a hard time with his work, ‘Fellini and the Spirits’ is an appropriate yet unexpected tribute.
Aug 2020
A well-known Neapolitan writer returns to his hometown after a long absence and encounters an old friend known as Caracas. Caracas, once a neo-fascist skinhead, is now converting to Islam.
Feb 2024
An upcoming film directed by Enrico Iannaccone. Valerio (Antonio Folletto) is a thirty year old man who leads a self-destructive life. The still beautiful Carla (Catherine Spaak) is an ex-magistrate, who begins to show the first signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's. Contrary to Valerio she has an overwhelming desire to live. These two tormented souls become friends and together they find the strength to confront the pains and secrets of their past. They are both related to a mysterious woman, Anneke (Veruschka von Lehndorff ). This is a journey of two people who are so different and yet so similar, sharing their most painful emotions. It will lead them to the discovery of a new way of loving.
Sep 2020
Sergio driving a taxi in a white Naples overflowing sadness and garbage. Pouring rain leads her clients through the city trying to process the death of his brother, who started ten years earlier for Tibet and never returned. A pop singer, a recycler of fragments of life, a radio announcer, an old uncle, alternate seats on its bearing, each in its own way, a trace of his brother loved. Stubborn not to go over and get lost in an endless race, Sergio is overwhelmed by memories and the music produced in pairs with Alfredo, which in Buddhism and in its foundations had found the strength to cope with the disease. Those notes that he believed buried and laid to always return overbearing and demanding a soundboard that resonate and express his being sound. Putting his hand on the piano, Sergio Alfredo feel again, giving the past with the present and realizing itself in the feeling.
Nov 2013
The story of two brothers, separated by time and their character, and their journey back to Italy, homeward, in the summer of 1956.
Jun 2022
Based on actual events, this is the story of a young woman who meets the terrorist who murdered her father, a policeman, who died when she was just born.
Nov 2020
Oct 2025
In a dilapidated Neapolitan apartment furnished in punk style, a dysfunctional extended family takes center stage. Amidst arguments, reconciliations, tensions, and clarifications, on the night the Berlin Wall falls, Erri Gargiulo, a shy and unambitious forty-year-old, decides to tear down his own personal walls and turn his life around.
Feb 2021
The plan of a rich criminal to avoid a trial by expatriating involves many characters.
May 2016
A tour through the alleys of Naples between works of art, music and theater.
Nov 2023
A friend of Jodice, Martone recounts the story of the great Neapolitan photographer: a film made for the exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia in Turin, Mimmo Jodice. Timeless.
Dec 2023
Arturo has been locked up in the juvenile prison in Nisida for two years. While doing community service on a beach, he decides to wander off. On the other side of the wall, Arturo meets Catrine, a charming tourist on vacation. In the girl's eyes and between the pages of a book, Arturo will find his new beginning.
Dec 2025
A woman decides to start her own business and open a salon in the Spanish Quarter, but a rivalry with her former owner will begin.
Apr 2017
The short film, marking the 800th anniversary of Europe’s first secular university, offers a distinctive portrayal of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. A ruler with multiple crowns, Frederick’s tumultuous relationship with the papacy led to three excommunications. FII - LO STUPORE DEL MONDO seeks to capture Frederick’s essence through an animated and colourful portrayal.
Aug 2024
Dec 2022