A young intellectual named Pier Paolo learns from Margherita, his colleague and poetess, that he has been appointed "Master of Holy Week" by the municipality. After meeting Giovanni, a beautiful homeless boy, Pier Paolo begins his surreal journey through bucolic and popular scenery, typical of the South, which becomes a mirror of his soul. He will fight, thus, against the incarnations of desire in order to find his own spirituality.
Giacomo Pressi
Pier Paolo
Giulia Sanna
Margherita
Antonio Carella
Giovanni
A young intellectual named Pier Paolo learns from Margherita, his colleague and poetess, that he has been appointed "Master of Holy Week" by the municipality. After meeting Giovanni, a beautiful homeless boy, Pier Paolo begins his surreal journey through bucolic and popular scenery, typical of the South, which becomes a mirror of his soul. He will fight, thus, against the incarnations of desire in order to find his own spirituality.
In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
A middle-aged man, Pietro, becomes a widower and must take care of his daughter. He will never have the time to delve into his own pain, committing himself to raising his daughter with love and dedication, in an all-encompassing relationship in which one heals the other's wounds through his own. When, after a few years, he tries to start a new life with a new partner, not everything will go as hoped: his daughter's reaction will be exaggerated and Pietro will be put to the test. He will find himself struggling between anger and paternal instinct.
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.