Gianluca Bertogna

Dreams Live in Trees

Inspired by true events which took place in 1978 when Italy became the first country in the world to abolish mental asylums. Upon a closure of an asylum in Florence Anja returns home into the care of her brother Ettore and his wife Lisa. With the help and a great sensitivity from her newly appointed psychiatrist Anja slowly starts to adapt to her new life beyond the asylum. She meets Libero, a local man who delivers vegetables to people in the village. Libero, just like Anja, suffers from mental disorder and learning disabilities. Anja and Libero fall in love. They conduct their relationship under the protection of a secret shack in the middle of the forest. An unexpected event brings morality into question.

Ghiaccio

Giorgio is a young talented boxer who lives with his mother and dreams to became a champion.

Per tutta la vita

Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.

Quasi ora

An Italian middle-class family, during lunch, talks about the problems that afflict our nation.

Copperman

Despite his adult age, Anselmo behaves like a child and takes up the role of a superhero called "Copperman."

Happy Go Lucky

Nunzio and Paolo have always been friends but their partnership has only produced a series of failed businesses financed by their wives, who are now threatening to throw them out of the house. The two seek redemption by opening a vegetarian restaurant until, to please a food critic on whom their destinies depend, they find themselves faced with the need to transform the place into a steakhouse. Convinced vegetarians, Nunzio and Paolo have no intention of actually cooking animals. Can vegetable steaks be passed off as real meat? It's the beginning of a spiral of hilarious events.

Hotel Gagarin

An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.

Innamorati di me

After a bitter disappointment in love, the beautiful Lucia decides to take back her life and let herself go to some adventures. Two friends, however, end up falling in love with her.

The Move of the Penguin

Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

18 Years Later

Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his old mother in a village in Calabria, where the accident happened.