Social & External
The people behind it
RICCARDO ROTONDO
Max Rossi
CLARISSA ALOISIO
Serena Rossi
GABRIEL LO PRESTI
Fisico anni '80
SARA AMPELLI
Ragazza perfezionista
CHRISTIAN RUNCI
Maratoneta
ALESSANDRO COPPOLINO
Prof. Ettore Lombardi
Set in the early 90's, two brothers play a "spy game" which leads to the end of childhood innocence and the realization of one brother's mental illness.
The sea and the city. Man and woman. Fear, willingness, loss and regain. A journey full of encounters and engagements into which He plunges to regain his collapsed world, in a foggy mysterious passage between wake and dream. Inspired by Naguib Mahfouz’s The Dreams.
Him – Her – and what’s in between. A short experimental silent fiction film shot entirely on 16mm BW and colour film made in the tradition of classic silent-era filmmaking.
A college student is forced to confront his secret addiction after an unexpected run in with a familiar friend.
Agatha, a reserved but curious young woman, leads a peaceful life. One evening, after a movie screening, a simple drink with friends leads her into an unexpected adventure. She finds herself in a mysterious club but above all confronted with herself. Plunged into a chaotic and fascinating night, she experiences mystical events and disconcerting encounters that push her to explore unsuspected facets of her identity.
After the devastating suicide of her best friend Coli, 15 year old Natalie turns to journaling to cope with her overwhelming grief. Struggling with guilt and isolation, she pours her emotions onto the page and joins a support group for teens. A deep conversation with Ezra, a friend who understands silent pain, inspires her to transform her journal entries into a novel. As Natalie writes, she begins to confront hidden truths about her friendship with Coli, unspoken struggles, and the weight of what was left unsaid. Through storytelling, she finds healing, connection, and the courage to speak the truth—not just for herself, but for others who need to hear it.
Jane is a 12-year old girl living with Childhood Schizophrenia. Her sister, Jessie, leaves her in the care of their Tita Hilda to study back in Manila. But during her stay, Aunt Hilda is having a hard time dealing with her niece’s illness because of her lack of knowledge of the situation.
A troubled young Latina photographer and Asian American juvenile delinquent yearn to escape their farm town in Santa Ynez Valley, CA, but the psychological, cultural, and at times mystical obstacles threaten to hold them forever.
A disillusioned young man enjoys the beauty of the last minutes before Tomorrow.
In a world almost like ours, Jonah works for an agency that offers human relationships. When he's hired to serve as Nika's father, he begins to lose control of his tightly controlled life.
In order to fulfil her dream of becoming a musician, a cat from the countryside named Ocon must face the fears and anxieties of performing in front of the glamorous city animals.
Trapped in recurring dreams of her own death, a young woman must confront the buried memory of her father’s suicide in order to finally wake up.
A girl just broke up with her boyfriend and needs to talk.
In a city exploited by mining, Josué can’t sleep. Surrounded by mountains, fears, and frustrations, he reflects incessantly on the challenges of early adulthood.
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity.
The relationship between an embittered farm woman and her orphaned niece reaches a breaking point in this dark, psychological pastoral.
A mentally exhausted chef revisits memories she had long surpressed through food, allowing her to find closure.
A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.
In lieu of prison, Lyle, a violent adolescent, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
On 20 November 2012, 15-year-old Andrea Spezzacatena took his life, becoming the first reported case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying leading to a minor's suicide. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap.
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
A reluctant summer together transforms into an enchanting adventure when a young boy discovers his aunt's mysterious Sicilian house holds secrets and, perhaps, ancient spirits lurking within its walls.
Torn between longing and anger, 15-year-old Leo travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. The two are complete strangers to each other. They struggle to find truth, affinity, love and the courage to face themselves.
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This film follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
