Italy On Screen Today 2022

Films & TV Series

  • NOSTALGIA

    directed by Mario Martone (2022)
    NOSTALGIA (2022)
    Original title:Nostalgia
    Directed by:Mario Martone
    Runtime:117 min.
    Cast:Pierfrancesco Favino, Francesco Di Leva, Tommaso Ragno, Aurora Quattrocchi
    Production:Picomedia, Mad Entertainment, Medusa, Rosebud Entertainment Pictures
    World sales:Breaking Glass
    Synopsis:After living 40 years abroad, Felice returns to Naples and discovers again places and codes of the city, facing a past that eats him away.The film is set in the Rione Sanità area of Naples, where Felice first visits his mother and later meets local priest Don Luigi. Felice eventually tells Luigi in a sort of confession that in one of the petty thefts carried out by him and his childhood friend Oreste, the latter had killed the owner of a local carpentry shop. Don Luigi throws him out of the church, telling him that Oreste has in the meantime risen to become a dangerous boss of the Camorra, the local organized crime syndicate.
  • BOSNIA EXPRESS

    directed by Massimo D’Orzi (2021)
    BOSNIA EXPRESS (2021)
    Original title:Bosnia Express
    Directed by:Massimo D’Orzi
    Runtime:70 min.
    Cast:Clio Bosiglav, Eva Tomat, Amina Moćević, Amina Hodžić
    Production:Loups Garoux Produzioni, Il Gigante, Istituto Luce Cinecittà
    World sales:Istituto Luce Cinecittà
    Synopsis:A train passes slowly across the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo, Tuzla, Srebrenica, Konjic, Mostar. Women, religion, war, violence, and music are thrown on the screen like dice on a chessboard, or as Russian Roulette. Up for grabs is truth or lie, life or death. The camera explores what is behind the rediscovered order of things. How far can our gaze reach to know? A dance school, the hallways of the Islamic Pedagogy Faculty, a rock music classroom, the Medjugorjie hill... from all these places the characters carry out their research. How can we hold the executioners or the victims to account for that horror? War does not have a woman's face. Nothing happened in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Nothing.
  • EXTERIOR NIGHT

    directed by Marco Bellocchio (2022)
    EXTERIOR NIGHT (2022)
    Original title:Esterno notte
    Directed by:Marco Bellocchio
    Runtime:6 x 60 min.
    Cast:Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Gabriel Montesi
    Production:The Apartment, Rai Fiction, Arte France
    World sales:Fremantle International
    Synopsis:1978, Italy is torn apart by a war: in the history of a Western country, the first government supported by a Communist Party (PCI) is about to take office in an epoch-making alliance with the Nation's traditional bastion of conservatism, the Christian Democrats (DC). Aldo Moro, President of the DC, is the main proponent of this accord. On the very same day of the swearing ceremony of this new government formation, March 16, 1978, Moro is kidnapped in an ambush that leaves his entire police escort dead on the street. Moro's imprisonment will last 55 days: 55 days of hope, fear, negotiation, failure, good intentions and wicked acts. 55 days ending with his corpse abandoned inside a car in the center of Rome, exactly halfway between the headquarters of the DC and the PCI.
  • RUN TO YOU

    directed by Riccardo Milani (2022)
    RUN TO YOU (2022)
    Original title:Corro da te
    Directed by:Riccardo Milani
    Runtime:113 min.
    Cast:Pierfrancesco Favino, Miriam Leone, Pietro Sermonti, Vanessa Scalera, Pilar Fogliati
    Production:Vision Distribution, Wildside
    World sales:Vision Distribution
    Synopsis:Womanizer Gianni takes the art of seduction so far as to fake a disability in order to charm sexy Alessia. His idea is to get on a wheelchair and pity her into going on a date with him - as pity is the only emotion one can feel towards a disabled person, he reckons. Everything changes when he meets Chiara, a joyful, dynamic musician with a passion for tennis, despite her being paraplegic due to a car accident. Much to his surprise, the feelings Gianni has towards Chiara are in fact far removed from being pitiful.
  • DIARY OF SPICES

    directed by Massimo Donati (2021)
    DIARY OF SPICES (2021)
    Original title:Diario di spezie
    Directed by:Massimo Donati
    Runtime:95 min.
    Cast:Lorenzo Richelmy, Fabrizio Rongione, Eric Godon, Galatéa Bellugi, Fabrizio Ferracane
    Production:Master Five Cinematografica, Rodeo Drive, Rai Cinema
    World sales:True Colours
    Synopsis:What is the strange bond between Luca Treves, a famous chef and spice connoisseur, and Andreas Dürren Fischer, renowned restorer of Flemish paintings? Two different worlds, art and cuisine, collide in a tense and mysterious thriller. Andreas will bring Luca on a road trip across Germany's dense forests and Austria's mountains during which the restorer will uncover piece by piece unspeakable secrets, forcing the chef to face his ghosts and make appalling choices. But there is a man that follows them at a distance: a detective who has worked for years on an international terrifying cold case. Will he be able to find the answers he's looking for and save Luca from falling into this dangerous private hell?
  • THE VIRUS SMUGGLER

    directed by Costanza Quatriglio (2021)
    THE VIRUS SMUGGLER (2021)
    Original title:Trafficante di virus
    Directed by:Costanza Quatriglio
    Runtime:116 min.
    Cast:Anna Foglietta, Michael E. Rodgers, Andrea Bosca, Roberto Citran, Paolo Calabresi
    Production:Picomedia, Medusa Film
    World sales:True Colours
    Synopsis:Irene is a lab researcher working in an excellent zoo-prophylactic institute in a small town in northern Italy; she has a beautiful family, a lovely husband, a deep passion for her work and a team who supports her. But she doesn't realize that she's becoming the ideal target of a perfect storm. When she is accused of the illegal sale of dangerous virus samples, everything around her starts crumbling: her home balance, the trust of her boss, and her own safety.
  • THE GIRL HAS FLOWN

    directed by Wilma Labate (2021)
    THE GIRL HAS FLOWN (2021)
    Original title:La ragazza ha volato
    Directed by:Wilma Labate
    Runtime:93 min.
    Cast:Alma Noce, Luka Zunic, Rossana Mortara, Livia Rossi, Massimo Somaglino
    Production:Adler Entertainment
    World sales:Coccinelle Film Sales
    Synopsis:Nadia is a 16 years old girl. One day she agrees to take a walk with 18 years old Brando. The boy abuses her and from that moment on, Nadia will have to cope for the rest of her life with the emotional and physical consequences of the rape.
  • MAN KIND MAN

    directed by Iacopo Patierno (2021)
    MAN KIND MAN (2021)
    Original title:Man kind man
    Directed by:Iacopo Patierno
    Runtime:80 min.
    Cast:-
    Production:Jacopo Fo SRL
    World sales:-
    Synopsis:Two sea turtles are found beached on the coastline of Lazio and urgently transported to the Anton Dhorn sea turtle hospital in Portici. While the turtles are being cared for, with the hope of being released in the spring, Luca collects sand in the Gulf of Naples and tries to clean it from the soil left over from a motocross race; it is the material he uses to create his pictures. A paddle enters the crystal waters of the River Sarno. It is Aniello, who pushes his kayak towards the first signs of illegally dumped waste; Franco contemplates the sea and collects two plastic petals found on the beach. Is it all true or are the two turtles dreaming?
  • TELLING MY SON’S LAND

    directed by Ilaria Jovine and Roberto Mariotti (2021)
    TELLING MY SON’S LAND (2021)
    Original title:Telling My Son's Land
    Directed by:Ilaria Jovine and Roberto Mariotti
    Runtime:84 min.
    Cast:Nancy Porsia
    Production:ILJA’FILM - ILARIA JOVINE & ROBERTO MARIOTTI
    World sales:Blue Penguin Film
    Synopsis:Nancy Porsia, a young freelance journalist, travels to Libya for the first time in 2011, four days after Gaddafi's death. She definitely moved to the country and for a long period of time was the only international journalist to report on its troubled democratization process, becoming one of the leading experts on the North African country. Due to the publication of a searing investigation into the Libyan Coast Guard's collusion with migrant trafficking, she is forced to leave the country in 2017. After three years, her son's land continues to be dangerous to her safety, but she doesn't give up on staying away.
  • IF WE TOLD THE TRUTH

    directed by Giulia Minoli and Emanuela Giordano (2021)
    IF WE TOLD THE TRUTH (2021)
    Original title:Se dicessimo la verità
    Directed by:Giulia Minoli and Emanuela Giordano
    Runtime:60 min.
    Cast:Valentina Minzoni Domenico Macrì Daria D’Aloia Vincenzo D’Amato Anna Mallamaci Tania Garibba
    Production:JMovie, RAI Cinema
    World sales:Premiere Film
    Synopsis:A trip from Vienna to Copenhagen, Malta to Amsterdam and South Italy to Berlin with the goal to understand what can be done to react to a culpable torpor, a mass denial that touches us all. We meet businessmen who denounce, magistrates who investigate, teachers and educators who are personally committed, journalists who do not back down despite the threats, relatives of the victims of the 'NDRANGHETA who do not give up, associations and companies that join together and propose new ways of doing business.
  • TRASTWEST

    directed by Ivano De Matteo (2021)
    TRASTWEST (2021)
    Original title:Trastwest
    Directed by:Ivano De Matteo
    Runtime:18 min.
    Cast:Roberto, Massimo, Maurizio, Lynda, Stefano, Sara, Lagda, Idris, Arzada
    Production:Utopia Film
    World sales:-
    Synopsis:A man comes out of his house with two bananas hidden in his pockets, another is practicing Tai chi in a deserted Rome. A man dressed in animal skin walks next to an electric wheelchair, guided by an elegant elderly lady with platinum blonde hair. Then a gipsy, card players, an acrobat, two strange lovers. A couple of nuns walk by quickly, whilst two odd characters play the harmonica. Their dogs bark, seemingly singing. The bartenders from the San Calisto saloon come out, curious. Everyone awaits the big duel. Seagulls flying around like vultures. And then the two men meet. A look, a gunshot, a siren. And the piazza returns to being in the red zone, like nothing ever happened.
  • DIETRO LA PORTA

    directed by Walter Croce (2021)
    DIETRO LA PORTA (2021)
    Original title:Dietro la porta
    Directed by:Walter Croce
    Runtime:20 min.
    Cast:Raffaella Anzalone, Giorgio Gobbi, Barbara De Rossi, Nadia Rinaldi
    Production:Flaminia Film
    World sales:Flaminia Film
    Synopsis:The true story of Sara. A woman victim, since childhood, of the morbid attention of her father that will end up in an episode of proper sexual intercourse. Sara psychologically removes this episode, in part due to the stubborn denial of her mother.
  • A MAN FALLING

    directed by Teho Teardo and Orazio Guarino (2022)
    A MAN FALLING (2022)
    Original title:A Man Falling
    Directed by:Teho Teardo and Orazio Guarino
    Runtime:10 min.
    Cast:Michele Riondino, Liliana Cavani, Enda Walsh, Blinda Bargeld
    Production:Teho Teardo and Naffintusi
    World sales:-
    Synopsis:A short movie loosely based on the review that J.G. Ballard wrote about Chris Marker's film La Jetée.
  • EVENING PRAYER (A DIARY OF A WALK)

    directed by Giuseppe Piccioni (2022)
    EVENING PRAYER (A DIARY OF A WALK) (2022)
    Original title:Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata)
    Directed by:Giuseppe Piccioni
    Runtime:17 min.
    Cast:Lucia Mascino, Filippo Timi
    Production:Akifilm, Marche Teatro, Rai Cinema
    World sales:-
    Synopsis:The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.
  • SE POSSO PERMETTERMI

    directed by Marco Bellocchio (2021)
    SE POSSO PERMETTERMI (2021)
    Original title:Se posso permettermi
    Directed by:Marco Bellocchio
    Runtime:18 min.
    Cast:Fausto Russo Alesi
    Production:Kavac Film, Rai Cinema
    World sales:-
    Synopsis:A man wanders the streets of a small provincial town, obsessed by the idea of meddling in the lives of others. He runs into a number of people and, after asking their permission, reveals their hidden vices and limitations. It is the only thing that he is able to accomplish, now that rage and destructive energy have given way to imagination and marginal comments.
  • THE SNACK THIEF

    directed by Alberto Sironi (1999)
    THE SNACK THIEF (1999)
    Original title:Il ladro di merendine
    Directed by:Alberto Sironi
    Runtime:105 min.
    Cast:Luca Zingaretti, Katharina Böhm, Guia Jelo, Cesare Bocci, Renato Scarpa, Jonis Bascir
    Production:Rai Fiction, Palomar
    World sales:Rai Com
    Synopsis:Is the death of a Tunisian man onboard the fishboat Santopadre linked to the killing of businessman Aurelio Lapecora, who was stabbed in an elevator in Vigàta? Montalbano is inclined to think that the two cases are entwined, not just because Lapecora's widow is adamant that her husband was killed by his mistress – Karima, Tunisian as well - but because of the testimony given by miss Vasile Cozzo, an old school teacher who generally prefers to mind her own business, but this time has something very important to say about the case.
  • THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN

    directed by Alberto Sironi (1999)
    THE VOICE OF THE VIOLIN (1999)
    Original title:La voce del violino
    Directed by:Alberto Sironi
    Runtime:105 min.
    Cast:Luca Zingaretti, Katharina Böhm, Biancamaria D’Amato, Cesare Bocci, Mario Erpichini, Gigliola Raja, Giovanni Vettorazzo
    Production:Rai Fiction, Palomar
    World sales:Rai Com
    Synopsis:A chicken suddenly crosses the street, causing Montalbano's car to crash into a vehicle parked along a road between Vigàta and Fela. A good reason to flunk agent Gallo as a driver, but also an opportunity to snoop around the nearby villa. In the courtyard, slumped on a table, there's a beautiful woman, stark naked and… choked dead. Her name is Michela Licalzi, who had just moved from Bologna and maybe was killed because of a valued old violin. Her friend, Anna Tropeano, by collaborating with Montalbano, will help him find the key to unlock the investigation.
  • THE SHAPE OF WATER

    directed by Alberto Sironi (2000)
    THE SHAPE OF WATER (2000)
    Original title:La forma dell'acqua
    Directed by:Alberto Sironi
    Runtime:110 min.
    Cast:Luca Zingaretti, Katharina Böhm, Isabell Sollman, Davide Lo Verde, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo
    Production:Rai Fiction, Palomar
    World sales:Rai Com
    Synopsis:The dead body of engineer Luparello is found by two street cleaners in a shady area of Vigàta. Luparello was a prominent political figure and the coroner states that he died of a heart attack during a sexual intercourse. To make things worse, the last person he met is supposedly Ingrid Sjöstrom, daughter in law of professor Cardamone, a political opponent of Luparello. Montalbano finds out that the truth is much different from appearances and, as the water takes the shape of its container, he calls back into question the whole case.
  • THE MYSTERY OF THE TERRACOTTA DOG

    directed by Alberto Sironi (2000)
    THE MYSTERY OF THE TERRACOTTA DOG (2000)
    Original title:Il cane di terracotta
    Directed by:Alberto Sironi
    Runtime:102 min.
    Cast:Luca Zingaretti, Katharina Böhm, Cesare Bocci, Davide Lo Verde, Peppino Mazzotta, Angelo Russo
    Production:Rai Fiction, Palomar
    World sales:Rai Com
    Synopsis:The mafia boss-turned-collaborator Tano U Greco reveals to Montalbano the location of a cave full of
    weapons. There, they find a secret room, where the remains of a fifty-year-old double murder resurface. The inspector's curiosity is aroused, undeterred by the serious injury he suffers after an attempt by the Mafia to scare him. He keeps investigating, and his findings lead him to Lisetta Moscato and her cousin, Lillo Rizzitano, protagonists of a buried but not forgotten story…