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Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire to improve his social standing is a silent killer that prevents him from ultimately accepting Gioia’s surprising affection for him. He goes and destroys it all, cancelling the only person who has ever loved him.
Aug 2025
Il Maestro is set in the late 80s, and tells the story of a former tennis player with mediocre career, who finds himself for the first time to coach a shy boy who carries on his shoulders all the weight of his father’s expectations. From tournament to tournament, the student and teacher learn that on the field, as in life, you can not hide and must play without fear, to the last ball.
Nov 2025
Giada and Carlo are a couple with great complicity and intimacy, while each of them pursues their own career with determination. The young and ambitious Peter fascinates Carlo, who introduces him to the family. However, when Giada sees Peter, she has an unexpected reaction and tries in every way to remove him from their home: he could bring out some unspeakable secret from her past. And yet, the truth always finds a way to come out.
Mar 2025
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
May 2008
On a ranch surrounded by nature, a man broken by life spends his days taming wild horses, the only creatures he could ever relate to. When he hears that his dad is embarking on yet another dangerous endeavor, his son Tommaso comes back home to try and dissuade him. It is a chance for them to bond again and to face the resentment that has long been keeping them apart. Day by day, father and son will learn to face each other to heal from their pain and walk together on the steep path to forgiveness.
Oct 2022
Jul 2024
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Sep 2022
Oct 2025
Paris, 1794. The crazy misadventures of the gay baronet Jean-Claude continue, amid the harassment of his despotic Mother and Aunt Genoveffa, who hatch a plan to kill him and get rid of Wonder Woman. This film was specially edited for the 11th edition of 'Il Cinema in Piazza', in Rome, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the famous comedy series, bringing together the best episodes of the last four seasons.
Jul 2025
A couple decides to turn their backs on civilization to build their private paradise on a desert island. However, a millionaire passing through the island makes them a sensation, making a European countess want to take over their island.
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A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
Jan 2023
PE teacher Sergio is assigned to Remis, a small mountain village where the people live with unshakeable serenity, but soon discovers that behind the peace lies a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by "holy boy" Matteo, a 15-year-old introvert with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue Matteo from this madness, Sergio unleashes his dark side.
Sep 2025
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
Mar 2005
Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.
Alone and angry, a teenager travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. On the beaches of Emilia-Romagna’s Riviera, deserted in winter, the girl meets him for the first time. Their encounter is fraught with questions, longing and conflict, as they struggle for acceptance, love, and honesty. It’s a difficult and complicated reckoning between the choices of the past and its repercussions on the present.
May 2025
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
Jan 2008
The story of Mary is reinvented, no longer a spectator but a courageous architect of her own existence.
Nov 2023
Samuele and Marzio, as teenagers, make a promise to be friends forever, but adulthood, women and everyday problems sneak into their lives.
May 2023
Jan 2024