Premiere Film Original Productions
Show AllSOMETHING PERSONAL
Naples, August 1971. Today Fofò wears a new shirt, his mother sewed it. With it on he looks likehis father. He’s still a little boy, but since his father is […]

YOUSEF
Yousef is a successful cook, the son of immigrants, who grew up in Italy. After a long wait he manages to obtain the Italian citizenship, a few days after the […]

TIDAL TIME
After a boat accident where he puts his son’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decide to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a […]

INDIMENTICABILE
The story of Luna and Angel is an unusual story of love, which goes beyond the judgment of others. […]

CANDIE BOY
Leone has recently received a good mark at school and now he knows very well what to ask to his parents as gift: the pink dressed doll ‘Candie’. […]

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This section contains only the films / short films that won or got selected to the Oscar qualifying festivals, BAFTA, Cesar, Italian AFIC.
Short Films Drama
Show AllNOTTE ROMANA
In an upper-class neighborhood of Rome, Paolo is having a drink with his friends, as per usual. When he decides to go home, he is approached by two dodgy-looking guys. […]

CAPITAN DIDIER
Didier is a child from sub-Saharan Africa, who dreams of building his own boat with pizza boxes. Amir, his father, works as a driver at Franca’s pizza place. Every evening, […]

INCHEI
Armando is a young rom, he spends the last two days beforeleaving for Berlin surrounded by his life-long friends, hisfirst love and a nostalgic feeling for Milan, which by now […]

L’ITALIA CHIAMO’
Rome, the COVID19 lockdown has just ended. Aldo is a 78 years old man who lost his wife who fell ill with Coronavirus during the quarantine. From that moment Aldo […]

YALLA
Four teenagers play football near an area guarded by a military drone. The ball ends behind a hill and Mufid has to go to find it. He never expected that […]

WHERE THE LEAVES FALL
Giacomo, a young second-generation Italian-Chinese student, travels to the Chinese county of Wencheng to bring back the ashes of his late father; Here, in his parent’s hometown, he stays with […]

BATACLAN
A French girl, daughter of second-generation immigrants, walks into a police station to report her brother Jamil’s involvement in the imminent terrorist attacks at the Stade de France and Bataclan, […]

MOTHER
The young Plazen (“fire”) is taking care of John, who is very ill. They both live in an old farmhouse and have a brown cow. John asks Plazen to kill […]

AFRAID
In a small village in southern Calabria, Saro – a 10-year-old boy – is struggling to overcome his fears, waiting for a “lost” grief-stricken father to come back. […]

ACCAMÒRA (Right Now)
Fig harvesting on the rugged Calabrian hills is a yearly life ritual for Antonio. That place is full of memories – it echoes the laughs and the melancholy of past […]

KLOD
Klaudio is 13 and dreams of becoming a basketball player. On a day like any other, the roar of a car breaks the silence of the countryside where he lives […]

AMAL
“Amal” is a quite and crusty man who remained alone in the world. He decides to spend its existence in the outskirts of the village by fixing an old car […]

APE REGINA
Elsa is seventy years old and she has five empty beehives. The bees are gone, like her husband, whom she cannot forgive to have passed away before her. Only a […]

IL CONGEDO
A man is dying, his beloved wife is at his bedside. Life abandons the body of the husband, the woman despairs. But life goes on: on one hand we see […]

3 SLEEPS
Casey (9) and her two young sisters Megan (7) and Taylor (5) live on a tough council estate in London, England. Casey is sworn to secrecy, when their troubled mum […]

THE ALLY
Is there a chance for the photographs taken by Robert Capa – portraying the Allied Invasion of Sicily – to come to life, bringing forth new stories? Will American soldiers […]

MANARA
Tragedy strikes when the Zayyad family loses its patriarch under mysterious circumstances, leaving the surviving members to fend for themselves within a judgmental community in Southern Lebanon. […]

ONE HUNDRED SQUARE METERS
Agnes is an old woman, half paralized due to a ictus who lives in her memories: fetishes that are protected by plastic canvas because nothing, even time, can hurt them. […]

AMATEUR
A hot afternoon. Serena helps Christopher study German. He is bored and prefers to record her with his cell phone. She doesn’t want him to, but he likes it; she […]

SPERA TERESA
Teresa is a young disabled singer determined to be somebody in the world of traditional italian music, despite the difficulties due to her physical condition, the post-seismic context and her […]

FRONTIERA
On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They […]

BARADAR
When they are forced to separate, 10-year-old Ali and his 18-year-old brother Mohammed have already been travelling for a long time. Three years earlier, a bomb destroyed their home in […]

OUR TIME
Roberta is a nine year old girl who wants to enjoy the last days of summer on the beach playingwith her friends, while her father Donato forces her to stay […]

SHE FIGHTS
A seventeen year-old girl meets a guy on the internet. A love is born between them. A feeling that Teresa’s mother does not understand and that will deeply concern her, […]

THE PLACE OF HAPPINESS
One morning in December, Rami, an illegal immigrant of Syrian origins, flees from the city and sets out for the countryside with a rucksack on his back. Rosa, a young […]

INTERVIEW WITH ROSSELLA
Rossella is an old lady, mother and grandmother, very busy and full of interests. […]

MUTTERSCHAFT
An afternoon like many others in the provinces of Tuscany, central Italy, has an unexpected twist when a mother decides to confiscate her teenager daughter’s telephone. […]

FAUVE
Alone in the wild, two boys play around a surface mine. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. When one suddenly gets caught […]

AJO
In the hospital Zana’s mother should be silent and not tell a word to the police about what happened to her. Zana has to make a courageous decision, for both […]

PER SEMPRE
Per Sempre is a short film written and directed by Alessio Di Cosimo, a short film about courage, loneliness but above all talks about love, the real one, the one […]

VETRO
In the middle of the night, in a suburban street, a traffic accident marks the fate of three people. […]

ELIAS
Elias is a 10-year-old roman child who lives in a nomad camp. To save the life of a puppy he will go against his peers, an event that, for better […]

PIANO TERRA
Gloria, a young pregnant lady from a Roman suburb, helped by her friend, organizes to escape from prison. While in hospital, preparing to labour, she is constantly supervised as she […]

IM BAREN
A day in the life of an Italian girl who has just moved to Berlin. Antonia, having to go through a series of grotesque castings to find a house, is […]

NOMOFOBIA
An afternoon like many others in the provinces of Tuscany, central Italy, has an unexpected twist when a mother decides to confiscate her teenager daughter’s telephone. […]

Short Films Comedy / Dramedy
Show AllCAPTAIN T
What does it mean to be a successful voice actor? To permanently donate your voice to another person. To give up ownership of one of the most personal features of […]

DOROTHY NON DEVE MORIRE
An elderly Dorothy lives with her maid Sally in an old mill. The woman is very ill, her condition serious. Her last wish is to see her travel companions from […]

GOD DRESS YOU
Father Athanasius is a young Orthodox monk who lives in a monastery perched in the mountains of Greece. Immersed in an austere life, made of age-old rites, prayers and great […]

LUCE&ME
A 10-year-old boy is in the car with his Roman and Romanist father. They are late because the derby is about to start, but first they have to go to […]

IT’S ON ME
A quiet evening out between two couples of friends from Rome well becomes a ruthless and violent struggle that nobody is willing to lose. In fact, an apparent harmless gesture […]

GOODBYE, BAND!
The historic musical band of Atri is to deal with the new mayor of the country. Only by winning the regional band festival will they heal the debts contracted with […]

A TYPICAL NAME OF A POOR CHILD
Unsatisfied with the attitude of the children during the previous holiday, a father decides to bring to the sea with the family even a poor child, Abdul. His intention is […]

PEPITAS
Andrea, despite being over thirty, still lives at home with his mother and his visually impaired grandmother. His family doesn’t know but he has a part time job. […]

MEAT SOUP
A young workman installs a screen door in an unknown house. He thinks there’s nobody else but himself and the owner, an older woman very attractive and available. He’s wrong. […]

FINO ALLA FINE
A gunshot breaks the silence of the night. Four men run away from the scene of the crime. Umberto “Yes and no”, the infallible killer of the Caputo clan, has […]

PATER FAMILIAS
Augusto, a fifty years old man, gets involved in a virtual chat with a teenager. He pretends to be his son, but how long can this game last? […]

NON E’ UNA BUFALA
Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It’s been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood […]

Cold Fish
An old man wants to commit suicide but a young boy stops him. Not because he wants to save him but because he wants him to do the deed. […]

Short Films Sci-Fi / Experimental
Show AllNIKOLA TESLA THE MAN FROM THE FUTURE
New York, May 16, 1888. Serbian visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, emigrated to the USA, is about to present his innovative alternating current system to the World. Before the demonstration, the […]

COSMIC GIRL
We are in front at the sixth great mass extinction and climate will be the cause. While a young woman relives some seemingly carefree memories, her thoughts tell us that […]

THE NEW WORLD
Next future. People no longer communicate, except within a virtual reality called Néo Kósmo. This ‘parallel’ world can only be accessed by connecting through virtual reality helmets. In a bourgeois […]

THE RECYCLING MAN
In a crowded, yet lonely suburban neighborhood, Jacob, a boy immobilized in a wheelchair, fights boredom by spying on his neighbors across the courtyard. Sarah, a girl of the same […]

ADAM
In a future world where death no longer exists, Adam rebels by asserting the beauty of a mortal life. […]

THE ESSENCE OF EVERYTHING
Gea and Lucius meet on a dating app, only she is Life and he is Death. They are their embodiments, walking amongst us in human form as a disguise allowing […]

MOTHS TO FLAME
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are inexplicably trapped in a room, just minutes before the Apollo 11 mission. The count down is definite: theirs will be a small step for […]

BEAUTY
Stick, a scammer chased by his family, returns home after twenty years because his father is dying. But in dealing with his past he will have the magical opportunity to […]

Short Films Thriller / Horror
Show AllHANDS-FREE
Chiara loves Instagram and she loves her followers. But when one night someone really starts following her, her life turns into a vortex of danger and desperation, Story after Story. […]

FERINE
In competition at 34th Venice International Film Critics’ Week at 76th Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Ferine is a contemporary horror drama about borders of human nature which reflects how […]

STOP INVASION!
A man wakes up stuck inside his car following an accident, near to him lies his wife, unconscious. Through flashbacks we follow the events that led to the accident while […]

Documentaries
Show AllTHE HUG
It is the night of September 25, 1988, a night brighter than the others: the moon is full and radiates the Statale 640, the one that leads from Agrigento to […]

DREAMING EUROPE
During the lockdown, the life of teenagers all around the world became the same: no school, no friends, no freedom. The shrinking of the daily routine we all witnessed has […]

MELINA
All alone and with an extraordinary amount of willpower, Melina has chosen to undertake a journey into the unknown, sacrificing her own family to defend Holy Mother Earth. The rubbish […]

THE TROJAN WOMAN
In one single night, in October 2018, rain and wind tore down 14 million trees, transforming a lush mountain landscape in northern Italy into an apocalyptic ground, with environmental consequences […]

SOMETHING REMAINS
An encounter with fifteen masters in different branches of culture, who, having happily reached their final season, make themselves available to be filmed while they speak about their work, about […]

THE SOUND OF THE VOICE
Tosca’s international tour lasted three years. It started in Algiers and Tunis and ended in July 2018 touching Brazil, France and Portugal. A long journey without borders around music and […]

FIRST CLOSED-Boxing in prison
The documentary aims to articulate how sport can be a great emotional lever to re-emerge and build a new future. It draws an emotional journey that reveals the different phases […]

MALO TEMPO
Luciano is serving time under house arrest. He lives between narrow walls and days feel always the same. Time goes by slowly, marked by actions repeated over and over again. […]

EVERYTHING CHANGES
Tenzin Phuntsok is a young artist of Tibetan origin who lives in Dharamsala and embarks on a journey with the aim of retracing the most important story of his life. […]

BRIGANTI
The city of the future if not even the ideal city: the Japanese archistar Kenzo Tange had thought of Librino as a futuristic peripheral appendix of Catania, surrounded by greenery. […]

ATTO DI FEDE
A lap band moves to the next party of country on board a bus that always arrives three hours before, despite starting three hours later. Vituccia sfoglia rose, puts the […]

BE KIND- A Kind Journey Through Diversity
«Diversity is like an elephant with a short trunk: it’s rare».These are the words of Nino, a twelve-year-old boy who, at the age of two and a half, was diagnosed […]

NON E’ AMORE QUESTO
Three days in Barbara’s life, three days in which her most intimate thoughts are narrated within her daily life. Each day is anticipated by a dream / unreal scene and […]

Short Films Animation
Show AllGRANDFATHER MATTEO
Many years have now passed since, the no longer young protagonist, spent time playing in Grandpa’s old lutherie. But it will be enough for her to return to those abandoned […]

THE FLYING HANDS
‘The Flying Hands’ is the story of a fascination born child which becomes art growing up. […]

LA GRANDE ONDA
Calabria, mid seventies. A real slaughter, 233 murders in a few years, mark the bloody rise to power of the boss Paolo De Stefano and the transformation of the ‘Ndragheta […]

SUGARLOVE
Gemma and Marcello are about to get married. They have long desired this moment. Like all the newlyweds promise eternal love, but Gemma and Marcello are not like all the […]

I-OCCUPY
A political manifestation is unfolding. At one point a Molotov is thrown to the cops. It’s a clash. Camilla helps a wounded among the protesters, climbs into the ambulance, crosses […]

Feature Films
Show AllODYSSEE
This movie will be theatre. It is not going to copy the empty authenticity of television and cinema but create a fantastic anti-universe. Every scene in this movie is a […]

LA PARTITA
The fate of a championship is being decided on a soccer field, but along with it, the lives of many people who have decided to turn things around are at […]
