Antonella Di Nocera

Procida

In 2022, Procida was named Italy’s Capital of Culture. That same year, twelve boys and girls joined the Atelier di Cinema del Reale on the island. Some of them had never used a camera and many had never been to Procida. This film originates from the desire to tell the island's story and the urge to investigate the practice of film-making and the desire to make films.

L'armée rouge

Idrissa Koné, aka Birco Clinton, lives in an asbestos container on the eastern outskirts of Naples and has a dream: to become the king of the coupé décalé music genre. In order to succeed, he has created l'armée rouge, a band of young people from the Ivory Coast who support him and help him organise his big Christmas party.

Agalma

A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Rose Stone Star

Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old historic centre. A circle of hell where, even to get a residence permit, you have to pay to work

Open to the Public

The Institute for Public Housing in Naples employs about 100 people. When the office is open to the public, employees receive residents who live in the 40,000 houses managed by the institute. Their task is to find solutions to citizens’ problems and trigger the bureaucratic procedures to solve them. But managing these chaotic lives within rigid legal structures is not an easy task and employees are often forced to resort to a singular art: “bureaucratic compromise”. (Tënk)

MeanMinds

Ciccio “O' Pazz” and Ciruzzo “Pesce bello”, are two powerful, blood-soaked Mafia characters. The legacy left to them is a violent, depraved narrative of murderous dominion over the weak. But still, enemies muscling their way into this realm of the wretched. These apparently harmless enemies are nevertheless viewed as potential usurpers by Ciccio and Ciruzzo, who, alienated by their imposed surroundings, develop a deep paranoia towards two animals: Severino, leader of the famous donkeys of Campu Perdu, and Piero, top boar around the Olive field area. The day of reckoning is near. There has to be a showdown. They have to get rid of the two animals. There's no way around it. A letter is delivered. A Pinter-like ultimatum with a crystal-clear demand: it's you or us. Men or animals. Coexistence is out of the question. Power has room for only one big chief. The final, inevitable apocalypse draws near.

The Secret

A group of Neapolitan children roam the city in search of Christmas trees. They pile up their mysterious collection in an abandoned courtyard in the Quartieri Spagnoli.

Le cose belle

Naples 1999, two boys and two girls full of hope. Naples 2013, the same protagonists disenchanted in a paralyzed city.

One Man Up

Naples, 1980. Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives going downhill. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.