Ugo Piva

An unconventional day in Nicola’s life, which begins at the eye doctor’s and takes him around the city, his eye bandaged like a pirate’s. At home, the bakery or in his analyst’s office, the various stops on his wanderings are part of a much more complex journey however, a tightly-woven fabric in which there is the slightest of snags; a snag which stretches and unravels to finally take on a new shape. It is that awareness of being homosexual, and yet never having accepted it.

Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two eventually bond over their shared past traumas and pains of love, until...

Jessica is a quiet and somewhat solitary teenager who lives in her own world, a kind of wonderland where her imagination travels freely, allowing her to keep away from the harshness of reality. No one seems to listen to her and understand her, but something could suddely change.

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.

Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.

The Tuscan Giuseppe, after a lifetime spent working in a company in Biella, reaches the well-deserved retirement; but soon he is forced to confront the boredom of retired life.

Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.

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A painter from Turin, Stefano Faenza, arrives in Reggio Calabria on the occasion of a personal exhibition organized in his honor in Locride. Behind this initiative there is a schoolmate of his, Gino Jacona, today councillor to the culture. During the trip, on the 106 state road, that takes him from the airport to the town, Stefano remembers the period he spent in this region in the early 70s...

In the shadows of a squalid farmhouse, under a suffocating oppressive heat, a troubled family struggles to deal with their fears, doubts and discomfort.

When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.

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Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.