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New film by Luca Barbareschi.

"Ritratto di Rosa, all'italiana" stands as the second act of the trilogy begun in 2019 with "Portrait de Rosa, à la française." The poetry of the first chapter is replaced by a melody that takes the viewer back among the waves of a journey, among rocks and shells. A song full of love and hope from the past, setting the end of youth and the beginning of maturity.

Adapted from the ninth chapter of the novel "Controcorrente" (1884) by Joris Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation.

Parents beat friends two nil.

A happily married moustached feminine man started to experience delirium and see delusions. His wife having affair with another guy, maybe she didn't?

To save a strip-club from failure a drag-queen needs to transform an ex-gigolo into a professional dancer capable of convincing investors but soon she'll have to deal with a word of machismo and disloyalty.

Nine actors and their driver are taken hostage during a theatrical tour organized for Italian soldiers in countries striven by war. The kidnap has a political motive and soon turns into a reality show without the hostages knowledge. The terrorist are sending a live feed to an Italian TV station which gets broadcast 24 hrs a day, in exchange for proceeds from advertising sales. The hostages are completely isolated, surrounded by woods, by the silence and suddenly find themselves struggling with the violence of the kidnappers, their precarious hygienic conditions and with themselves.

Marco is a model student and leader of a group of guys who are adrift. He hides a terrible secret: he's a champion in clandestine fights managed by a cruel trafficker.

Lupo is bored, frustrated, and restless. Meri tries to help him, but everything falls apart when he meets Tancredi: he feels inadequate. He knows he isn’t “normal”: normality isn’t a path he can take.

Albert is a neurotic photoreporter constantly hearing voices in his head reminding him some childhood thraumas; he has also nightmares about his Vietnam experience. Myra is a hippie girl: she seems happy and free, but her memory goes often to her mother who died in Auschwitz. With these premises a love story between them will surely become a drama...

Orpheus - a postmodern flâneur - wanders by night in a decadent timeless Berlin. His is a Dante's journey, during which casual encounters, neon lights and electronic music accompany his reflections on himself and the reality that surrounds him.

A young boy with financial problems takes part in a strange experiment.

Francesco is a young entrepreneur, often very selfish and focused on achieving success. One day he runs over the dog of Mario, a wise and calm blind man who lives in the countryside. Francesco lies to Mario about what happened and, hoping to leave quickly, agrees to look for the dog with him.

Buenos Aires. When Monica and Mirna meet by chance, nothing will ever be the same again. However, their relationship is hindered by the fact that Mirna has to leave, to follow a deep calling to a lost place in her past. To the Andes.

Michele is a fourteen year old boy with a dream. He wants to dance like his idol Michael Jackson. Unluckily the same day he has his audition there is also a demonstration against his father's factory shut down. Michele has got an idea...

A most original interpretation of an E. A. Poe’s short novel, the film is set in the Belle Époque time and in the golden age of silent films.

A Sicilian man confronts his past as two strangers embody his conflicting desires, blending reality and fantasy in a nostalgic tale of longing and change. In an undefined period in Sicily, Italy, Dino finds himself reassessing how he has lived his life, realizing that the only way he can truly experience it is to dream about it. Into Dino's orbit comes a French woman and a Nigerian man, both sharing his space and inadvertently stepping into his dreams, pursuing their own aspirations. Junior finds the clarity to choose to stay, while Emma breaks free from her confinement. The film blurs reality and reverie, exploring the power of dreams reshaping actual lives.

On a quiet late-summer day, Alessandro and Flavio set out in search of the last secrets of their city. Sitting on the branch of a large cherry tree, they wait for the night. A beer with friends, mopeds heading home, and a farewell.

Felicia is a young rider who suffers from asthma. In the few free moments that her hard work allows her, she has to take care of her father who is no longer independent. During a delivery like many others, Felicia is involved in a cynical experiment that highlights the bitter contradiction of an economic system that leaves the vain hope of getting rich as the only possibility.

The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.

The heroic 19th century figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his role in the Risorgimento to unify Italy into one nation state are used to celebrate the bravery and grandiosity of Italy's new leader at the time the film was made, Benito Mussolini.

Daniele is an introvert boy who is working in a café frequented by his high school classmates. By listening to a conversation at work, Daniele will end up discovering a terrible truth.

A Korean girl wearing a yellow raincoat runs through the city in the rain. Mi-Rae, on vacation in Rome with her parents, after visiting many monuments, arrives at St. Peter's Basilica, where she is struck by the words of a priest: "Ask and you shall receive; seek and you shall find; knock and the door shall be opened unto you."

Sometimes eroticism lays hidden in that moment suspended within the space that separates two bodies which cannot touch each other.

Margherita, a young photographer meets her sister Caterina at a symbolic place of their childhood to give her important news. Right in the middle of the Piedmont’s hills, the distance between them arises changing their lives forever.

Giorgia is a careless Italian student who forgot to bring a pen to school: so she asks the janitor of her school for one, but this isn't just a normal pen. Follow her journey in this horror short film and discover the pen's curse.

Amidst the chaos of war, a group of aspiring actors sets up a room to stage a performance aimed at boosting the morale of the few survivors.

Alba, a passionate and ambitious woman, tries to remember when she started to stop believing in herself, to pursue her desires. Her partner ridiculed her aspirations for her, instilling in her the feeling that she would never make it. Without love, a violent everyday life invaded her life for years, until the tragic ending.

When his beloved girlfriend dies, a boy returns to the house by the sea where they once used to be happy.

A mother hides her children in the countryside, forcing them to a cloistered life without joy, freedom and taste. The children, now grown up and eager to know the world, break the rituals of the mother and face the consequences.

The film describes a moment of difficulty in the life of two brothers. The first is struck by a strange depressive syndrome, and the other assists him.

Alfredo talks to himself or rather talks with a cigarette—bad thing loneliness, real loneliness, especially at the age of seventy. Alfredo is a man who has loved another man, Mario. He loved him so much that he found the courage to come out and lose his job and family. Mario, on the other hand, continued his married life, then became a father and finally a grandfather, because he is gay, but only part-time. Alfredo cannot bring himself to let him go, but neither can he live that relationship in the middle, so separation becomes inevitable here. At first, Alfredo convinces himself that he can escape the melancholy but then he accidentally slips on his partner's shirt and sees their whole life together again. Yes because all it takes is a scent, a smell to return there, where one was loved. Mario no longer wants to separate himself from that smell, which turns into an obsession, convinced that once it is gone, the last traces of their love will also disappear.

A controversial stage director goes back to his birthplace to face his destiny.

The crippled Sarkis is the true king of Carbio. But it's Azazel who usurps the throne after having killed the former king, Sarkis' brother. Azazel proclaims a three-day feast of total freedom, chaos ensues, and Azazel asks Sarkis for help.

Love, hate, desire and jealousies are in the midle of a couple, that of Andrea and Fabrizio, who questioning the certainties of their relationship and their feelings.

A child in anaphylactic shock after an insect sting is brought by her father to a doctor, a foreigner who doesn't speak the language well and is looked at by the town with diffidence.

Two spirits meet in an alternative reality and discuss about life, death and desire.