Giorgio Faletti

Baaria

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Concrete Romance

A climax of brutality and violence after a young man hits some cars in a rush.

The Night Before the Exams Today

In 2006, as World Cup fever sweeps Italy, high school senior Luca falls hard for dolphin trainer Azzurra and stumbles on a family secret -- right before his exams.

Il segreto di Rahil

Rahil is a twelve year old Iraqi refugee girl living in an impoverished neighborhood of Rome, Italy. Her story is revealed in a series of flashbacks, as told by Rahil herself, through the bars of a jail-cell from an undisclosed location. Her guardians, Jamal and Anna, often argue and the local bullies label her stinky.

The Night Before the Exams

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...

Tornare indietro

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...

Elvis and Marilyn

The film chronicles the melancholy journey of two celebrity look-alikes chasing their dream of la dolce vita in Italy. Romanian Marilyn Monroe impersonator Ileana and Bulgarian Elvis double Nicolaj win a look-alike contest in Bucharest in which the prize is a summer engagement in a nightclub on Italy's Adriatic coast. The two strangers take off together, communicating in the broken Italian they picked up from TV. When a bureaucratic hitch with Ileana's passport cuts them off at the airport, they cross the border illegally by car, travelling through a part of Yugoslavia devastated by war. They accept hospitality at a military outpost, but the suicide of a colonel there casts suspicion on Ileana. Beaten and afraid, they continue their odyssey across the harsh sunless no-man's-land gradually scarring them both and clouding their hopes. They finally reach Italy, but all is not as promised.

Miracolo italiano

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.

Geppo il folle

Italian rockstar Geppo has to learn English in order to perform with Barbra Streisand in the US, but falls in love with his beautiful female tutor, Gilda.