Giuseppe Battiston

This masterpiece of hope-fulfilled traces a married woman's hesitant first steps from a complacent nuptial bed to a giddy and lighthearted freedom she had never experienced and hardly even knew existed. (First Look Pictures)

Based on the celebrated Italian novel "La Bestia nel Cuore," Don't Tell is the mesmerizing story of a woman's journey into her past and the aftermath of confronting personal demons long hidden beneath the surface of her psyche. (Lions Gate Entertainment)

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all? (imdb)

Stefano, once a successful punk rock star, is now past his best times. Having lost everything, he heads home to find shelter. But at his family's country house, everything has changed.

Well-to-do, sophisticated couple Elsa and Michele have a 20 year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream: study art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago... (cineuropa.org)

Everything Lorenzo owns he has earned with great determination and without looking back: a house, envious friends, a woman who loves him, and an established position. When he's just about to undertake the " business" which will make him a very rich man, he's suddenly faced with the discovery of his own bad health. (movies.yahoo.com)

Three aspiring actors struggle to make their version of Cyrano de Bergerac

Paolo is 35 years old and the editor of a small sports paper. After a close friend dies, apparently of a heart attack, Paolo does some investigation and discovers that things are perhaps not as they appear. It will require an encounter with an autistic child to set Paolo on the right path...

A group of mentally disabled people become specialists in "mosaic parquet," thanks to Nello, a stubborn and passionate guy who believes they need help and understanding, not only pills and isolation. (psfilmfest.org)

Anna is a woman in her early thirties who works as an accountant at a large insurance firm. She lives with her long-time boyfriend Alessio, a nice guy who thinks they should settle down and have a child. (yahoo)

"The passion" tells the story of a group of assorted people, bound together by the most unlikely (and, in some cases, unfortunate) circumstances, who find themselves busy staging the tale of the passion of Christ on a Good Friday in a Tuscan village, an old tradition that is still alive all over Italy. (imdb)

Seven friends, every week have an appointment they cannot, and do not, want to miss: their soccer game. However, new events in their lives will bring each of them to revise their 'role' on and off the field...

Lucia has always been in love with her best friend's boyfriend, Paolo. When they announce the engagement, she pays a poor and spunky actor, Antonio, and transforms him into the perfect man in order to seduce her friend and break the engagement. But things don't go exactly in the way she wanted. (imdb)

Dani was born in Togo, and arrived in Italy fleeing the war in Libya. He lives in a temporary guesthouse at Pergine, a village in the mountains of Trentino, at the foot of the valley Mocheni. He has a one year old daughter, who, however, can not raise. The meeting with Michael, a child who is trying to overcome the death of his father, will change him fundamentally.

Looking for a treasure which is hidden in a chair, a tattooer, a beautician and a priest start an incredible adventure

The inspector Monaco (Silvio Orlando), tired of his work since the death of his wife, devoted himself for many years only to administrative tasks. Following the murder of Mr. Ullrich, an entrepreneur closely linked to political life, one night his manager imposes, however, deal with the case that it soon becomes very delicate. The same night in the rooms of the police station also enters Linda, his daughter, who was stopped because it found in possession of his service revolver. (wikipedia)

The divorced scoundrel Paolo lives close to the boarder to Slovenia in a little town in the Italian Friuli. He is so short of money that his former wife and her new husband invite him over each Sunday for a free meal. Due to the demise of an aunt from the other side of the border Paolo learns he has a nephew named Zoran. Zoran is a natural when it comes to darts. Paolo senses there might be a fortune in reach if he adopts Zoran and registers him for an open tournament in Scotland. (wikipedia)

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist. (imdb)

Seven long-time friends get together for a dinner. When they decide to share with each other the content of every text message, email and phone call they receive, many secrets start to unveil and the equilibrium trembles. (imdb)

Enrico is very proud of his unique job: he saves endangered companies by befriending their often reckless bosses and convincing them to sell out. He's saving people's jobs and, he believes, the economy of his country. The encounters with a young girl and two new troubled clients make him question the real motives and morality of what he does.

A political drama about the past and the present.

A declining rock musician reconnects with his family only to find out he's not the only one about to collapse.

Corrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control, is on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he meets Swada, a young Somaliwoman who left her war-ravaged country. (imdb)

A group of people is sent to Armenia to make a movie. Abandoned by everyone, they'll search for a chance at redemption. (mymovies.it)

Seeing all the advantages that go the businesses affiliated to the Catholic Church, a man founds a new religion in order to save his failing bed and breakfast.

The film follows Inspector Stucky investigating a series of murders and the theatrical suicide of Desiderio Ancillotto, a count who lives in the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in a story that recounts the conflict between greed and respect for the land. (imdb)

A precarious "chronic" (Pierfrancesco Favino), a port of Marghera (Fabio Volo), a university researcher a bit 'seasoned (Giuseppe Battiston), un'insicura TV journalist (Claudia Pandolfi) and a man just released from jail (Paul Sassanelli ) are disillusioned with their lives, they decide to take action and kidnap a minister. The unlikely partnership between the kidnappers and the incredible political will lead to an exhilarating and surreal flight between the beautiful mountains of Valle d'Aosta.

Lucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council. (imdb)

An Italian journalist covering the 1978 World Cup in Argentina is swept into the military junta's reign of terror.

Three fathers try to hinder the love affairs of their respective daughters. (imdb)

The camera followed three women. Three journeys that led them to cross the Sahara desert, Libya and arrive on Italian shores. And it is through their eyes that we want to tell the story of the epic "from below" of immigrants in Italy.

A live-action adaptation of Disney's 'Pinocchio' (imdb.com).