SWEET SWEET MARJA

Corrado, a real estate agent in disgrace, finds himself forced to organize a dinner at his house in order to sell a large estate. Catia, Corrado’s wife, is infuriated by the fact that she has to prepare an important business dinner for her husband on such a short notice. Read more

PER NON DIMENTICARTI

The story takes place in an obstetrics ward in Rome in early 1947. The war finished three years ago, but the dramatic marks it left are still painfully visible. The hunger and pain people suffered during the armed conflict are branded in nine women’s hearts and minds who are there to give birth.

regia/director mariantonia avati
soggetto/subject tommaso avati
sceneggiatura /screenplay tommaso avati
fotografia/cinematographer cesare bastelli
montaggio/editing carlo fontana
scene / scene design biagio fersini
costumi / costume design bettina bimbi
musica / music stefano arnaldi
suono / sound dolby stereo
cast/cast anita caprioli, ettore bassi, enrica maia modugno, francesca antonelli, emanuela grimalda, magdalena grochowska, chiara sani, valeria morosini, monica cervini, lea gramsdorff, manuela morabito
genere / genre drammatico / dramatic
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 94’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production andrea scorzoni per matteo cinematografia
distribuzione/distribution istituto luce

The story takes place in an obstetrics ward in Rome in early 1947. The war finished three years ago, but the dramatic marks it left are still painfully visible. The hunger and pain people suffered during the armed conflict are branded in nine women’s hearts and minds who are there to give birth. The protagonist, Nina, is the first one to be hospitalised because of some complications. The atmosphere in the room she shares with other women is of mutual support and solidarity. Nina will discover a completely unknown world: stories of difficulty and hardships, abandonment and betrayal, but also of love, passion, solidarity and sweetness. Thanks to the women she meets and their unique, yet universal stories, Nina will gain the necessary awareness and strength to face what is going to happen: the great and frightening experience of motherhood.

MARIA ANTONIA AVATI
From 1984 to 1996, while still studying literature at university, she worked for several Italian and international TV and film productions as assistant director and script girl. In 1996 she was production manager for Pupi Avati’s “Festival”, produced by Duea Film, and in 1997 she was co-executive producer of “Il più lungo giorno”, a feature film by Roberto Riviello distributed by Mikado which was winner of the Annency Film Festival Audience Award and received a special mention at the Montreal Film Festival. She also produced TV programmes, documentaries and fictions for Sat 2000. In 1998 , together with TV producer Andrea Scorzoni, she set up the Matteo Cinematografica srl and produced a 180-episode fiction for Sat 2000. As a producer and a director, she shot the high definition medium-length film “Anime”, shown at the B.I.F.F.F., the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film. In 2004 she produced and directed the 35mm feature film “Per non dimenticarti”.

2005 Per non dimenticarti (lungometraggio, feature); 2002 Anime (mediometraggio, medium-length film) (documentario, documentary);

 

PADIGLIONE 22

In 2003 Laura had a neurotic, ordinary life. But Valerio, her schizophrenic elderly brother who had been shut up in a private clinic for years, comes back from the past. Valerio runs away from the clinic and dies in pavilion 22 of the mental hospital where he was confined as a child, before the Basaglia bill was passed.

regia/director livio bordone
soggetto/subject livio bordone
sceneggiatura /screenplay livio bordone
fotografia/cinematographer marco carosi
montaggio/editing giuseppe pagano
scene / scene design ivana gargiulo
costumi / costume design ludovica amati
musica / music puccio pucci, andrea sisti
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast regina orioli, giuseppe antignati, arturo paglia, elio germano, gaetano amato, corinna lo castro
genere / genre drammatico / dramatic
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 80’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production isabella cocuzza e artuto paglia per paco cinematografica srl

In 2003 Laura had a neurotic, ordinary life. But Valerio, her schizophrenic elderly brother who had been shut up in a private clinic for years, comes back from the past. Valerio runs away from the clinic and dies in pavilion 22 of the mental hospital where he was confined as a child, before the Basaglia bill was passed. Valerio has tormented Laura ever since his death: she is torn apart because of her sense of guilt and the hatred she felt for her brother, who was nothing but a hindrance and a burden to the whole family. Since his death, Valerio has been a threatening presence, obsessively reminding Laura of her terrible indifference. The cruel fight between Laura and the ghost, or better said, between Laura and her sense of guilt, develops in a crescendo of tension and hallucinations taking Laura back to the 70s, forcing her to explore her past and to deal with the patients’ ghosts and a younger Valerio.

LIVIO BORDONE
Livio Bordone was born in Siracusa in 1975.  After attending literature at University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano,  he attended a comic’ s narrative, scenography and cinematography course at Centrolab in Roma. After some theatral experiences as scenes director and director’s assistant, he writes and directs many shorts. In 2005 he writes and directs “Padiglione 22”, his first feature.

2005 Padiglione 22 (lungometraggio, feature); 2003 Una semplice storia d’amore (corto, short); 2001 Sarausana iè (documentario, documentary); 2000 C’era una volta un omino piccolo, piccolo (corto, short); 1999 Alma e Alfredo, una storia d’amore (corto, short); 1998 La sala da Barba (corto, short); 1997 Due (corto, short);  1996 L’ultimo giorno sulla terra.

 

NOTTURNO BUS

Franz and Leila cross their lives for an absurd fate joke. She’s a fascinate and impertinent burglar, he’s a boring depressed bus driver, with compulsive gambler. The couple have to pass more freaky dangerous situations, but maybe they’ll find on their street luck…

regia/director davide marengo
sceneggiatura /screenplay giampiero rigorosi
fotografia/cinematographer arnaldo catinari
montaggio/editing patrizio marone shore
scene / scene design anna forletta saint-laurent, sonia peng kohout
costumi / costume design eva coen nazaryeh
musica / music franco piersanti, mario rivera
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast valerio mastandrea, giovanna mezzogiorno, ennio fantastichini, anna romantowska, roberto citran, ivan franek, iaia forte
genere / genre noir
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 104’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production emme
distribuzione/distribution 01 distribuzion

DAVIDE MARENGO
Davide Marengo is 34 and after shooting film backstage material, music video clips, TV commercials and short films awarded at many international film festivals, he directed “Craj” in 2005, a documentary film on Apulia’s folk music starring Teresa De Sio and Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. The film was awarded the “Lino Miccichè” award as “Best First Work” at the Venice Film Festival, was first-prize winner at the “Libero Bizzarri” festival and nominee for the Silver Ribbons award as best documentary film. After directing several music video clips, including “Fiori d’arancio” and Carmen Consoli’s “L’ultimo bacio” – Italian Music Award winner – he has recently directed the music video for Daniele Silvestri’s “Mi persi”, that will be part of the “Notturno Bus” sound track together with “La Paranza”. “Notturno Bus”, a noir comedy film starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Valerio Mastandrea and Ennio Fantastichino, is Marengo’s feature fiction film debut. At present he is shooting the TV series “Due cuori e un delitto” for RAI UNO Television.

2007 Notturno bus (lungometraggio, feature); 2005 Craj (documentario, documentary); 2002 La stretta di mano (corto, short); 1998 Drad Train (corto, short); 1995 Shit! (corto, short).

 

MA CHE CI FACCIO QUI!

Alessio is 18 and has a dream: to travel across Europe with his best friends. Summer is at the door and he has already planned a detailed itinerary. Unfortunately, and much to his surprise, he fails his school year. His parents take an irrevocable decision: he cannot go on holiday. Alessio finds the punishment unbearable and decides to leave anyway.

regia/director francesco amato
soggetto/subject andrea agnello
sceneggiatura /screenplay andrea agnelli, francesco amato
fotografia/cinematographer federico annicchiarico
montaggio/editing luigi maerelli
scene / scene design marinella perrotta
costumi / costume design medile siaulytyte
musica / music alberto caruso
suono / sound dolby digital
cast/cast daniele de negris, paolo sassanelli, chiara nicola, alina nedelea, francesco brandi, emanuela ungaro, gianfranco barra
genere / genre commedia / comedy
formato originale/original format 35mm
durata/running time 92’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production centro sperimentale di cinematale di cinematografia, rai cinema, istituto luce
distribuzione/distribution istituto luce

 

Alessio is 18 and has a dream: to travel across Europe with his best friends. Summer is at the door and he has already planned a detailed itinerary. Unfortunately, and much to his surprise, he fails his school year. His parents take an irrevocable decision: he cannot go on holiday. Alessio finds the punishment unbearable and decides to leave anyway. He jumps on his moped, determined to join his friends at all costs. However, circumstances force him to stop on the coast near Rome longer than he planned and, despite himself, work in a bathing establishment run by a weird family, to say the least. His summer will be extremely challenging: he will run away, come back, meet odd fellow travellers, be seduced and, in turn, break some hearts. Very soon he will realize that travelling is not only a question of kilometres.

FRANCESCO AMATO
Francesco Amato was born in Turin on 11 September 1978. While still attending the senior high school in Bra, near Cuneo, he worked as a photographer. He then moved to Bologna to study arts, music and performing arts. In that period he shot “Quanto ti voglio” and “Vietato sostare sul portone”, his first short and documentary films respectively. In 2001 he shot “Figlio di penna”, a short film receiving numerous awards at different film festivals. In 2002 he was assistant director to Pupi Avati’s film “Cuori altrove” and shot his second documentary film, “Questa è la mia terra”, dealing with immigration in Bologna in the period when the Bossi-Fini bill was passed. In 2003 he entered the National Academy of Cinema in Rome and thus started a three-year film directing course. Together with other students he shot “Ma che ci faccio qui!”, his first feature film.

2005  Ma che ci faccio qui! (lungometraggio, feature); 2004 Il nano più alto del mondo (corto, short); 2003  Autoritratto (corto, short); 2002  Questa è la mia terra (documentario, documentary); 2001 Figlio di penna (corto, short); 2000 Vietato sostare sul portone (documentario, documentary), Qunato ti voglio.

 

L’ARIA SALATA

Fabio is a young educator passionately and devotionally working with prisoners for their reintegration into society. He sometimes argues with all those expecting an easy way to obtain concessionary leave or the much coveted open prison. But Fabio does not grant any dispensations and sticks to his principles, despite it being a lot harder than he is actually willing to admit to himself.

 

regia/director alessandro angelini
soggetto/subject alessandro angelini, angelo carbone
sceneggiatura /screenplay alessandro angelini, angelo carbone
fotografia/cinematographer arnaldo cantinari
montaggio/editing massimo fiocchi
scene / scene design alessandro marrazzo
costumi / costume design daniela ciancio
musica / music luca tozzi
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast giorgio pasotti, giorgio colangeli, michela cescon, katy saunders, sergio solli, paolo de vita, paolo pierobon, emanuel bevilacqua, simone colombari, bruno santini, federico del monaco, maria caterina frani
genere / genre drammatico / dramatic
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 87’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production donatella botti
distribuzione/distribution 01 distribution

Fabio is a young educator passionately and devotionally working with prisoners for their reintegration into society. He sometimes argues with all those expecting an easy way to obtain concessionary leave or the much coveted open prison. But Fabio does not grant any dispensations and sticks to his principles, despite it being a lot harder than he is actually willing to admit to himself. One day, a prisoner convicted of murder starts a conversation with him. His name is Sparti, a difficult man, hardened by detention. This unexpected encounter forces Fabio to deal with the ghosts of removed family memories and to face his sister, Cristina, who does not want to reopen old wounds which could jeopardize their peaceful and quiet life.

ALESSANDRO ANGELINI
Alessandro Angelini has made four documentary films and has a year-long experience as assistant director. His documentary film “Ragazzi del Ghana” won the Turin Film Festival in 2000 and received a special mention at the UNICEF’s RIFF Awards in 2003 with his film “La flor mas linda de mi querer”.

2006 L’aria salata (lungometraggio, feature); 2003 La flor mas linda de mi querer (documentario, documentary); 2000 Ragazzi del Ghana  (documentario, documentary).

 

IO, L’ALTRO

Yousef has been exiled from Tunisia and finds a job in Italy as a fisherman. Despite the difficulty every immigrant encounters, Yousef immediately makes friends with Giuseppe. Together, they decide to buy a small boat and start their own business as fishermen.

regia/director mohsen melliti
soggetto/subject mohsen melliti
sceneggiatura /screenplay mohsen melliti
fotografia/cinematographer maurizio calvesi
montaggio/editing marco spoletini
costumi / costume design carolina olcese
musica / music louis siciliano, roberto colavalle
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast raoul bova, giovanni martorana, mario pupella, samia zibidi, davide lo verde,  alessia luongo, lina besrat assefa
genere / genre drammatico / dramatic
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time drammatico / dramatic
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production trees pictures, sanmarco film
distribuzione/distribution 20th century fox

Yousef has been exiled from Tunisia and finds a job in Italy as a fisherman. Despite the difficulty every immigrant encounters, Yousef immediately makes friends with Giuseppe. Together, they decide to buy a small boat and start their own business as fishermen. Everything seems to be running smoothly when, following the September 11th terrorist attacks, an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust towards Muslims arises of which Yousef will be one of the scapegoats…

MOHSEN MELLITI
He was born on 1st April 1957 in Tunis and was exiled to Italy. He collaborated with newspapers and research institutes to investigate the situation of human and political rights in Arabic countries.

2007 Io, l’altro (lungometraggio, feature); 1999L’uomo che voleva diventare cane (corto, short); 1995 L’altra Roma (documentario, documentary).

 

IN ASCOLTO

In a remote and huge American technological outpost based in England, the Wendell-Cranshaw Technologies, a US private company, takes advantage of the ECHELON worldwide interception system developed by the National Security Agency (NSA).

regia/director giacomo martelli
soggetto/subject giacomo martelli
sceneggiatura /screenplay giacomo martelli, i?igo dominguez e riccardo brun
fotografia/cinematographer eric meddison fst
montaggio/editing alex rodriguez e justine wright
scene / scene design alessandro marrazzo
costumi / costume design silvia nebiolo
musica / music christian kusche-tomasini
suono / sound tom sayer
cast/cast michael parks,  maya sansa, rea tidona, james parks
genere / genre thriller
formato originale/original format super 35 mm
durata/running time 105’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production nicolai iuul
distribuzione/distribution medusa

In a remote and huge American technological outpost based in England, the Wendell-Cranshaw Technologies, a US private company, takes advantage of the ECHELON worldwide interception system developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). In Rome, Italian Francesca Savelli, falsely accused of industrial espionage, is kidnapped and interrogated by Wendell-Cranshaw emissaries. Wagley, an elderly NSA officer betrayed by his friend and superior Philip Kovacs, decides, in turn, to betray him back. After deserting and fleeing to Italy, he rescues the young woman and gets in touch with Gianni Longardo, a former companion in arms. With the help of a mountain guide, they set up a secret listening station on Mont Blanc, at an altitude of 3,500 metres. From there they can listen to the NSA listeners, but their harmony is jeopardized by the deception it is based on.

GIACOMO MARTELLI
Giacomo Martelli is a producer, a screenwriter and a director. He is 29 years old, was born in Milan and brought up in Rome. He studied philosophy and film in England. “The listening”, his debut long feature film, was a four-year-long project.

2006  In ascolto (lungometraggio, feature).

 

IL SEGRETO DI RAHIL

Rahil balances on the train tracks that will lead her to womanhood. She staggers on her twelve years of age, the age when she has to abandon childhood for good. She meets people and women along her way to whom she can relate and compare herself in order to understand who she is and will be…

regia/director cinzia bomoll
sceneggiatura /screenplay cinzia bomoll
fotografia/cinematographer cristian alberini e simone scarozza
montaggio/editing giuliano testa e lorenzo k. stanzani
scene / scene design igor belinello
costumi / costume design flavia servili
musica / music giovanni bovina
suono / sound dolby sr
cast / cast ons ben raies, lorenza indovina, jamil hammoudi, giorgio faletti, elisabetta rocchettim, eva robins, serra yilmaz, mimmo mancini, angelo sellati e giada ramovecchi, vincenzo scuruchi e giorgio careccia
genere / genre drammatico / dramatic
formato originale/original format ps-tecnich mini 35
durata/running time 90’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production bomoll cinematografica

 

Rahil balances on the train tracks that will lead her to womanhood. She staggers on her twelve years of age, the age when she has to abandon childhood for good. She meets people and women along her way to whom she can relate and compare herself in order to understand who she is and will be… Her Iraqi name, “wanderer” in Arabic, perhaps says everything about her destiny… Her past treasures a secret, harder than the steel tracks along which she flees…

CINZIA BOMOLL
Before shooting her first feature film she made several short films. She is a film director and works for RAI and La7, two major Italian TV channels.

2006 Il segreto di Rahil (lungometraggio, feature); 2004 Aperto (corto, short); 2003 A ciascuno il tuo (corto, short); 2001 Il contrattempo (corto, short).

 

IL GIORNO + BELLO

Leo has few but binding certainties regarding his life: he loves Nina, Nina loves him, Nina and him will never get married. He has never been a rebel, on the contrary. But he has always thought of being free. And when suddenly Nina asks him to marry her, there could be just one reason: to prove to all the world that a marriage can be different!

regia/director massimo cappelli
sceneggiatura /screenplay massimo cappelli in collaborazione con chiara laudani
fotografia/cinematographer raoul torresi
montaggio/editing fabio nunziata
scene / scene design marco tripaldi
costumi / costume design valentina taviani
musica / music giuliano taviani
suono / sound dolby sr
cast/cast fabio troiano, violante placido, carla signoris, shell shapiro, luce caponegro, giorgio colangeli, claudia zanella, ariella reggio
genere / genre commedia / comedy
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 90’
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production amedeo bacigalupo per nuvola film in associazione con reef comunicazione
distribuzione/distribution videa-cde, warner bros. pictures italia

Leo has few but binding certainties regarding his life: he loves Nina, Nina loves him, Nina and him will never get married. He has never been a rebel, on the contrary. But he has always thought of being free. And when suddenly Nina asks him to marry her, there could be just one reason: to prove to all the world that a marriage can be different! Indeed he finds himself to do all the steps of the most traditional of the marriages from the beginning to the end. Nina, overwhelmed by duties, seems another person and when the moment of the speech of the bridegroom arrives, Leo has many things in mind…

MASSIMO CAPPELLI
Massimo Cappelli comes from Ascoli Piceno. He has been living in Rome since obtaining his Law degree. In February 2001 his screenplay “Ampio, luminoso, vicino metro” was awarded the Cinecittà Digital 2000 award for high definition short film making. He has written a number of feature film screenplays.

2006 Il giorno + bello (lungometraggio, feature) 2005 Tutto brilla (corto, short) 2004 Per Agnese (corto, short) 2001 Ampio, luminoso, vicino metro (corto, short) 2000 Il sinfamolle (corto, short) 1999 Toilette (corto, short).