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As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.
Dec 2025
The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.
Mar 2025
Pio runs a rehabilitation center for young people, Amedeo a nursing home.
Nov 2025
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Oct 2024
In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.
Sep 2025
In 1980s - 1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi’s agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina’s election and Pozzi’s mayoral run.
Feb 2025
An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.
Oct 2025
A tragic event shatters a rich art collector's life, awakening her primal nature. She destroys her privileged existence to build a new concept of family, leading her on a path of destruction and animalistic transformation.
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Explores the dynamics between two local sixteen-year-olds, Ketty and Giulio, who together build an exclusive friendship, a shared refuge in their search for freedom, away from the judging eye of the adult world.
Three friends, Beppe, Umberto, and Gigi, await the arrival of young Toni to celebrate his newfound freedom. After an evening of heavy drinking at the village bar, the car they're about to drive home in hits something. Or rather, someone. Setting off a series of relentless bad decisions, the four flee and take refuge at Umberto's house. It will be a long night of plot twists, paradoxical and ridiculous situations, encounters and clashes between the protagonists and other improbable figures who populate that interminable day. Until the most unimaginable of solutions arrives at first light.
Feb 2026
In 2021, an 11-year-old boy named Mattia Piccoli was named Standard-bearer of the Republic by President Sergio Mattarella for "the love and care with which he daily follows his father's illness." This film tells his story and that of his father, Paolo, who, in his early forties, slowly begins to lose pieces of his memory. But just as the world begins to fade, he chooses to stay close to what truly matters, strengthened also by the love of his wife Michela. Together with his son, he embarks on a journey of shared daily life, sudden laughter, and silences that speak.
Mar 2026
Bruno, a textbook anxious man, is persuaded by his teenage daughter to host his ex-wife Terry for a month, just out of a long psychiatric hospitalization. After all, it’s only 30 nights—what could possibly go wrong? Yet Terry’s exuberance and blunt honesty put Bruno’s routine to the test, as he finds himself stuck in a lackluster relationship and in a job where he struggles to assert himself as he would like.
Apr 2025
Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself, until a chance encounter with a mysterious 7-year-old changes her perspective.
Aug 2025
New film by Davide Minnella.
An autobiographical bittersweet drama centered on Contarello’s rapport with his daughter.
May 2025
In a working-class neighborhood in Rome, a barber bothers his customers and neighbors with conspiracy theories he reads online. At home and in his small community nobody takes him seriously, especially when he convinces himself that streetlights send secret signals via Morse code. Yet, when the police arrive at his door and arrest him in front of his family, his credibility takes an unexpected twist.
Arturo is a lonely, gluttonous, and disillusioned Sicilian real estate agent. His mundane life finally finds its spark through his one true passion: Sicilian pastries. It’s over a tray of cannoli that he meets his soulmate, Flora. She is everything he ever dreamed of—beautiful, witty, and brilliant. To top it off, she’s a pastry chef. However, a divine obstacle stands between them: God. While Flora is a devout, fervent Catholic, Arturo abandoned his faith as a child. Desperate not to lose the woman of his dreams, he decides to "fake it 'til he makes it," pretending to be a man of deep conviction. Guiding Arturo on this chaotic journey toward truth, faith, and Flora’s heart is an unlikely mentor and friend: Pope Francis himself.
Apr 2026
Four boys united by a love of street soccer come of age in the shadow of Naples infamous Camorra organized crime syndicate.