Stefano Rulli

Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, this passionate epic follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history. (Miramax)

Story about the Piazza Fontana Bombing in Milan on December 12 1969.

Luciano, a young Italian literature teacher living in the provinces, supplements his income by ghost writing for a famous, but dried up, novelist. One day Minister Botero summons him to Rome to write his speeches and communiqués. Luciano accepts. His initial delight in privileges granted to members of the Minister's entourage soon turns into disillusionment. (festival-cannes.fr)

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)

A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria. (imdb)

A narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and his previously devoted wife's extra-marital inclinations, in the touching and insightful new comedy-drama from Italian writer-director Daniele Luchetti. (tiff.net)

Ambientato nell'inverno del 1996, racconta la storia di un professore di lettere in crisi e della sua classe. (wikipedia)

Italia, 1994. Franco e Loris are two friends that decide to steal a stud bull. The bull is worth a lot. Their idea is to immediately leave Italy and try to sell the bull in Hungary. But east Europe is not exactly what they were expecting. The troubles, the miseries and the reality of the countries they are crossing change step by step their minds. The new way of thinking will drive them to a new kind of friendships. (imdb)

A group of Italian university students become partisans against the nazi occupation.

From Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Academy Award®-winning 'The Great Beauty,' 'The Young Pope' tells the controversial story of the beginning of Pius XIII's pontificate. (HBO)

This film supports the ideas of Dr. Franco Basaglia on menthal health and the abolition of lunatic asylums.

A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface. (imdb)

The documentary begins with the intention of describing an oasis of happiness, the "City of the Sun": a village where children with mental illness can spend their holidays together. The director and his wife are the founders. The documentary becomes a diary of the relationship between the child and the parents, from childhood until now. (FILMAFFINITY)