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Browse 7 movies from Nieminen Film
One family’s life goes haywire at the start of the pandemic as the matriarch—now without her steady housekeeper income—encounters a new kind of fame and celebrity when she begins teaching cooking lessons over the internet.
Jul 2022
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.
Feb 2018
Armando, a 15-year-old Roma teenager, lives with his mother and siblings in the suburbs of Milan. The family is about to leave the shacks to move to Berlin, where his mother’s partner found a job and a house. In the two days before departure, Armando moves through his teenage friends, his first love and a nostalgia for a Milan that is now home.
Jan 2022
A principal and teacher conspire to protect their students from an invisible predator lurking inside their school. Based on a true story.
Jan 2020
It's a rainy night. Maria is a drug addict like many others, she has lived on the streets long enough to realize how society sees her but not long enough to have forgotten that it means being looked at like a daughter. That night he decides to break into a house to steal something. When searching through the drawers he makes a noise and wakes the owner. Francesco is a former conductor with Alzheimer's, a tough and lonely man who has been battling the disease for several years. Seeing Mary that night he mistakes her for his daughter who died so many years earlier. Illness gives him the opportunity to relive that relationship. The two will then spend this bizarre night together where, trying to get something from each other, they will manage to find a strange balance.
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When a refugee from Syria has to crosso the Italian border, she finds out that only one thing can save her: her breath.
Aug 2015
Mustafa and his son Chafik are traveling through the foggy roads of northern Italy. The nine-year-old, unaware of where they are going, glean some information from his father's stops and meetings. The man, tired and worried about something still undefined, barely speaks to him. After a journey marked by silence, foggy landscapes and desolate cemeteries, a call will put an end to his anguish. Thus, near an abandoned village, far from prying eyes, little Chafik will discover the painful truth hidden in the trunk.
May 2024