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Ennio
Not recommended for young children A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone. Official Selection – Venice Film Festival – 2021
Margini
Grosseto, 2008. Edoardo, Lacopo, and Michele are young members of a punk rock group. Tired of playing the usual town fairs and festivals for the Communist Party newspaper l’Unità, they finally get their chance with an opportunity to open in Bologna for the famous American hardcore punk band the Defense. When the date is cancelled,...
Nostalgia
With Pierfrancesco Favino Felice returns to Naples and for the first time in 40 years. His mother is ailing, nearly blind, and he’s dismayed by how she’s living. But he’s also struck powerfully by memories of his adolescence, memories which mix warmth, joy, regret, and shame. As the days turn to weeks, this flood of memories glues him to the city. He’s not proud of who he used to be back then, but he knows there is unfinished business here; that he must reconnect with his best friend from those days, Oreste, now a feared crime boss in a squalid part of town, and make peace between them. Official Competition – Cannes Film Festival – 2022 Presented in collaboration with the Institut Italien de Culture de Montréal
Three Floors
Nominee – Palme d’Or – Cannes Film Festival – 2021Nominee – Best Film – Golden Ciak Awards – 2021 Three families live in a three-story building. Over a ten year period, life forces the characters to deal with conflicts that affect the relationships between siblings, parents and children, husbands and wives. The choices each of them makes reflect universal moral issues and have repercussions on their lives.
Anima Bella
CANADIAN PREMIERE Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrupted when Bruno gives in once again and once too many to his gambling addiction, in spite of his efforts to quit. Gioia will have to follow him to a faraway town, where he will be treated in a specialized center. This will radically change her existence, forcing her to abandon the safety of the village, her friends and her habits. She will be all by herself to support her father, in his journey for a better life.
Ariaferma
Official Selection – Mostra de Venise – 2021Official Selection – Panorama of European Cinema – 2022Official Selection – Göteborg Film Festival – 2022 In an inaccessible location on the Italian territory, an old nineteenth-century jail is in the process of being vacated, when bureaucracy comes in the way. Together with a handful of officers, a dozen prisoners are left behind in a suspended bubble where rules get hazy, and new relationships form.
Il legionario
Best Emerging Director Award – Festival du film de Locarno – 2021Sélection officielle – Alice nella Città – 2021Prix Art Cinema – CICAE Annecy cinéma Italien – 2021 You may choose to ignore it but right now, in Rome, there’s a battle raging. Thousands of desperate people are forced to occupy empty buildings in order to have a roof over their heads.The police is entrusted with the responsibility of upholding the law and stopping this from happening. Daniel, born in Rome of African parents, grew up in an occupied building. Many years ago, he decided to leave and make a life for himself, but now he is forced to go back only this time, as a policeman with the mobile task force. His job is to evict the building where his mother and his brother still live. In fact, his brother has become the leader of the occupiers and Daniel, a cop among occupiers or an occupier among cops, must choose: remain faithful to his police corp or save his family from eviction.
Welcome Venice
Official Selection – Mostra de Venise – 2021 Pietro and Alvise are heirs to a family of fishermen on the island of Giudecca, in the Venice lagoon. They clash on what should be done with their family house. The deepening impact of global tourism has strongly changed Venice and it has altered the very relationship between city and citizen, between home and life. And the pandemic has made this crisis more evident. Although it is a hard life, Pietro would like to continue fishing for “moeche”, the typical crabs of the lagoon. On the other hand, Alvise wants to take advantage of the house to restart his life, trying to enter the elite of the real estate power that runs the city. Their clash involves the whole family in a choral tale of how our world is changing.
Californie
Official Selection – Mostra de Venise – 2021Official Selection – Mostra de Cinema Italià de Barcelona – Spain- 2021In Competition – Tokyo International Film Festival – Japan – 2021 Jamila is a Moroccan girl from southern Italy who is figuring out life without guidance, friends, or money. She is intelligent and resourceful though and at times it seems she is blazing her own path. But her pride and restlessness may cause her to slip through the cracks. Filmed at different stages of Jamila’s life, from 9 to 14 years old, Californie is an intimate and respectful depiction of how teenagers on the margins find their place in society.
Miss Marx
CANADIAN PREMIERE En compétition – Mostra de Venise – 2020Official selection – Belgrade International Film Festival – 2021Best Producer, Best Music, Best Costume Design – David di Donatello Awards – 2021Prize Italy in the World – Globi d’Oro – 2021 With Romola Garai, Patrick Kennedy, John Gordon Sinclair Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by their passionate but tragic love story.