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Five boys live their lives hiding behind a mask of hatred and violence. Behind this facade, however, lies a great fragility crushed by the burden of always having to appear big and strong. The main character, Edo, however, has different origins and dreams from the rest of his group, and this begins to make him doubt his life choices. In fact, he himself will be the fuse that will bring down the big castle that he, along with his friends, have built. A journey into male identity animated by a deep and penetrating reflection on the hidden fragility of the individual, who dams up his own anxieties with a mask of masculinity and superiority.

In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.

When two different and distant galaxies collide, the result is always unpredictable. Two existences, those of Carlo and Marco, will change shape irreversibly.

In a coastal village obsessed with standing out, through flashy solos, fierce ping pong matches, and clumsy dates, a young saxophonist takes a different path.

Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless.

Bianca is 12 years old when she is chosen to play the angel — a symbol of purity and grace — at her town fair. As she prepares for the moment when she will be lifted off the ground, her encounter with Ginevra fractures the surface of childhood and opens a crack from which a new and unsettling desire seeps in. In a suspended time and place, the film covers the imperceptible yet radical transition between imposed purity and awareness of one’s own body, between childhood and adulthood. A female coming-of-age tale that investigates — through its hagiographic and apocryphal aesthetic — the symbolic construct of grace and the inherited weight of guilt.

When an Afghani asylum seeker brings his beloved pet goat on his months-long journey into Italy, immigration authorities are confronted with the task of processing the two as a pair.

Marcello is a young man who, beneath the clear-cut plans he has for his future and firm visions about the world, is still discovering himself. By his side there is his best friend Gioele, an unalloyed dreamer. For him, time seems to stop underneath the clouds of their childhood, while Marcello is ready to set off to the big city and start his adult life. During their last summer together, the two embark on an excursion to find the mythical "leap's waterfall", a journey that will prove revealing. Throughout the search for the waterfall, the two will discover themselves and each other truths.

Klod is a 13-year-old boy and his dream is to become a basketball player. On a day like any other, the roar of a car breaks into the silence of a country house where Klod lives with his family. Albania is no longer a safe place. This short film deals with the arrival in Italy of the Italian-Albanian basketball player Klaudio Ndoja.

Nicole, alone at home while pregnant during the G8 demonstrations, unwisely lets rioters in. During the forced cohabitation, the private world of the woman and the public world of the protesters collide, changing each other.

A musician hears a disturbing moan coming from the pipes of his sink at home, accompanied by a shrill tinnitus. He records it to insert it into the song he is composing, but this disturbing frequency brings back memories of a woman who was part of his past.

After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.

The entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations on the planet: the 'Ndrangheta, told through the life and death of an ordinary man.

Lorella and Daniele host a marine-themed dinner with friends at their elegant Catania (Sicily) home. Upon their daughter Amanda's return, the conversation turns to her. The parents notice that Amanda has posted a provocative video online and are baffled by it, but accept her explanation to avoid looking like boomers.