Olimpia Carlisi

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone... (imdb)

An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò": after WWII the emigrant 'The Bastard' comes back to his village in the Langhe (northern Italy) to find that everyone he knew has died and the war has deeply changed relationships between people. (imdb)

The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory. (imdb)

Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision (imdb)

This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.

"This is probably a good time to mention Dwoskin's use of comedy: Outside In is a film that deals with disability but is also funny and even burlesque. Of course, only the disabled can use this mode to stage themselves as disabled characters. Bergson states not only that "a deformity thay may become comic is a deformity that a normally built person, could succesfully imitate." (Michel Barthelemy)

Two hungry men become friends in adversity, but are thrown into gaol when they cause a traffic jam by looking at the sky. In gaol, they meet a sophisticated but hungry con-man, whose trick is to dine in restaurants without paying... (bfi)

A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape. (imdb)

Short stories are connected by two things: love and disturbing. People fall in love after huge fights, and someone is always on their road.

This "film on the film", which is in a way the reverse of a making of, was actually shot to make the producer wait, because the gestation of the film was difficult. (www.wikipedia.org)

The story of a triangular relationship between a theater director, an actress and an actor. (imdb)

Lisboa, Portugal, mid-1990s. Three brothers, a young woman, and two young men, are living together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other, but one day they go separate ways. When Maria does need help, the three brothers will join again - but a trifle too late. (imdb)

After a rehearsal of the Othello passed through water (the precarious room is flooded), Sofía discovers that her passionate romance with director Bruno Maier will not prosper, since he is gay. Desperate, she gets on a train to run into a stranger who, after giving birth in the bathroom, runs away abandoning her newborn. Years later the director will reappear, to whom Sofía makes him believe that the boy is the son of both ... (FILMAFFINITY)

Pozzuoli and its surroundings are places with an ancient and distant history. Thus we are reliving some dramatic episodes of an almost forgotten past: the matricide of Agrippina by Nero; the oracles of the Sibilla Cumana; the young Christian martyr Artema, killed by his classmates; Maria 'the crazy', a warrior heroine who saved the city from enemies. (imdb)