Michele Riondino

Giorgio is a 22 year-old model law student, until the day he meets Francesco, a mysterious fellow student who introduces him to the world of gambling houses and poker and teaches him how to cheat. (cineuropa.net)

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985 (imdb)

Winter, 1999. Camilla, a student of Slavic literature, leaves home to take up residence in a semi-derelict house in an overcast Venice devoid of tourists. On the last leg of her journey - a ferry to her island - she's spotted by a would-be Romeo, Silvestro. Over the next ten years, Silvestro and Camilla develop a strong bond, and the narrative captures a beautifully painful, reflective push and pull between two souls who keep finding their way back to each other.

Italian master Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket, Good Morning, Night, Vincere) offers a multi-faceted exploration of the thorny issue of euthanasia in this response to Italy's famous Eluana Englaro controversy. (tiff.net)

Based upon the short but fruitful life of illness-racked Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. (imdb)

When Giulia meets Libero, she discovers there may be another destiny awaiting her, as they embark on an intense period together. A choice that leads to Giulia being completely cut off from the Jehovah's Witness world she belongs to. (imdb)

Alessandro, a forty-year-old pediatrician, lives with his teenage son Giacomo. Since he lost his wife he leads a monotonous and withdrawn life. One day he receives a phone call from Brazil: it is Luigi, his close friend who asks him to join him immediately. Alessandro leaves immediately, but when he reaches his destination he discovers that the alarm raised is a lie and that in reality Luigi has devised a stratagem to take over 3 million euros. His father has just left him a large legacy, destin

Anna and Francesca are both fourteen years old and live in a working-class neighborhood of Piombino. Face to them, off the shores, they can see the Elba Island with its gorgeous beaches whereas behind them stands the steel plant, which shrinks the lives of the district dwellers. All the same, Anna and Francesca are on holiday and are determined to take advantage of this interlude of freedom. (imdb)

For the young Méte, a graphologist fascinated by the psychology hidden behind writing, it's an embarrassing and difficult situation having to take care of his half-sister Belinda, a seventeen-year-old teenager in the balance between everything and nothing, during the second marriage of Méte's father (the only thing the two have in common). To avoid the situation, Méte pretends to be mostly busy with Damiano, a womanizer friend, and Bruno, colleague and separated father. (imdb)

Roma, summer 1968. A very young Pino Pascali, at the peak of his dazzling artistic career, dies in a motorcycle accident. In 2018 the Pino Pascali Museum buys and exhibits Pascali's work "Cinque bachi da setola e un bozzolo". (imdb)

A seemingly happy marriage begins to dissolve when the husband's faithfulness is called into question, and both spouses become tempted by other desires. (imdb)

Falchi is a melodrama set in the city of Naples, in its pulsating multi ethnic veins. The movie tells the story of two agents of the Special Squad of Naples, a police unit that investigates organized crime. Though impeccable at their work, the two cops hide strong weaknesses, shady secrets, loneliness, and overwhelming passions in their private lives. (imdb)

Follows Filippo, a skeptical Catholic priest who becomes attracted and unsettled by a mute young woman, and gets entangled in a series of apparently miraculous events that undermine his vocation.

This series follows the Florio family where brothers Paolo and Ignazio turn a small shop in Sicily into a flourish business activity that becomes an economic empire, but the arrival of a strong and intelligent woman disrupts the entire family's life. (imdb)

1997. At ILVA in Taranto, yet another workplace death has just occurred, but Caterino Lamanna, a worker assigned to strenuous tasks in the steel industry, is ready to blame the unions for it.

The young "Commissario" detective Salvo Montalbano, based in the fictitious village of Vigata, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia. (imdb)