Jody toured Italy with hid dad's carousel. While his peers live a life dedicated to the stability of friendships and family relationships in the same city and in the same school, he travels and meets dozens of teachers and classmates.
Marco Baricalla
Giulio
Deborah Castagna
Jody's Mum
Fabio Manfredini
Jody's Dad
Jordan Manfredini
Jody
Beppe Mazza
Beppe
Jody toured Italy with hid dad's carousel. While his peers live a life dedicated to the stability of friendships and family relationships in the same city and in the same school, he travels and meets dozens of teachers and classmates.
It's quite funny that the young "Jody" (Jordan Manfredini) sleeps in an England football shirt! Anyway, his dad works with a travelling carnival so he goes to school where he can. He'd much rather be travelling with his dad especially as he finds the succession of schools he goes to unwelcoming and he is frequently bullied or insulted. His fairground colleagues are the complete opposite, though - and as they set up and open their fair, he feels very much at home, busy, amongst the personalities, the rides and the bustle. His time at this school has introduced him to "Giulio" (Marco Baricalla) - also a victim of some of the nasty kids, so one evening he gives this lad his very own, exclusive, trip on the "Lollipop". He's made a friend, and they'll be back next year...
Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife Monica is trying to manage the lives of their adult children, Annabelle and David, as well as her own.
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giulio himself, the latter are now each coping in their own way with the defeat of the revolution. Soon, however, Giulio realizes that despite his best efforts, he seems unable to solve the problems troubling those around him.
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.
West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.