Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven – ‘The Garden of the Finzi Continis’. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani’s 1962 semi-autobiographical novel…

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and…

“Better to die of cancer than of hunger,” are words you may well hear on Priolo beach in Sicily. In the shadows of the lovely city of Syracuse lies one…

Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Bolero, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and…

Delphine, a disillusioned humanities teacher, makes an agreement with her students : they leave her in peace, as they get A+ grades. But these excellent results turn into a nightmare…

Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello,…

Single mother Paulette decides to make up for her mistake by cooking a chicken with peppers for her daughter—only she can’t cook and shopkeepers are on strike.

Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a…

In the old city of Taranto, an industrial center of the Apulia region, Maria tries to help her junkie brother Donato, who is threatened with death for an unpaid debt….

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda…