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Browse 17 movies from Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Siblings Clara and Pietro aren't close, but they share a hatred for the high school that she's recently started attending and that he graduated from years before. Forced to wait in the school with their father, familial tensions arise.
Jan 2025
Feb 2025
The story of a young nun who, one night on a deserted beach, meets an old fisherman who is desperate because of the poor catch. Suddenly, a miracle occurs, leading him to believe that she is the Virgin Mary, while she exploits the man's blind faith to leave her convent forever. It is a story that speaks first and foremost of faith in the broadest sense of the term, that is, believing in something at all costs, but also of the desire for revenge and emancipation.
Mar 2024
Feb 2026
The choral work of 57 directors and filmmakers who tell stories of Milan at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 2020
Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.
Sep 2020
Mar 2026
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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.
Two famous influencers, while visiting the location of their upcoming wedding, encounter a sinister priest who puts their relationship and their survival to the test.
Jun 2024
my first short film
Jun 2022
A teenager disowns her parents while they are on vacation, but the reunion of her childhood shoes will lead her to meet her childhood self and see the world from a different perspective.
Sep 2024
What is perfection?
Nov 2021
Short animation representing how death is processed in a small sardinian village.
Nov 2023