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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy and Pretty Butterflies
The Commander And The Stork
(Il Comandante E La Cicogna)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Silvio Soldini; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Valerio Mastandrea, Claudia Gerini, Luca Zingaretti, Luca Dirodi, Guiseppa Battiston)
A widowed plumber struggling to raise his teenage kids meets an impoverished artist and her eccentric landlord.
Dormant Beauty
(Bella Addormentata)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2012; Director: Marco Bellocchio; Writer: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli; Stars: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher)
Three stories explore Italian concerns in the context of a famous euthanasia case.
Every Blessed Day
(Tutti I Santi Giorni)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Paolo Virzi; Stars: Giovanni La Parola, Luca Marinelli, Stefania Felicioli, Claudio Palitto, Thony, Micol Azzurro, Benedetta Barzini, Katie McGovern)
A happy couple whose jobs mean they rarely see each other find life gets complicated when they decide they want a baby.
Fear
(La Paura)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1954; Director: Roberto Rossellini; Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mathias Wieman, Renate Mannhardt, Kurt Kreuger, Edith Schulze-Westrum, Klaus Kinski)
A husband aware of his wife's infidelity gradually recognises the psychologically dangerous situation she is in.
Immature, The Trip
(Immaturi, Il Viaggio)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Paolo Genovese; Stars: Ambra Angiolini, Barbara Bobulova, Raoul Bova, Ricky Memphis)
Reunited former schoolmates on holiday find their friendship tested by a series of confounding events.
Dormant Beauty and The Red And The Blue
The Interval
(L’Intervallo)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2012; Director: Leonardo di Costanzo; Writer: Leonardo di Costanzo, Mariangela Barbanente, Maurizio Braucci; Stars: Francesca Riso, Alessio Gallo, Carmine Paternoster)
A captive girl and the boy who is guarding her in an abandoned building gradually overcome mistrust and form a tentative bond.
It Was The Son
(E’ Stato Il Figlio, The Son Did It)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Daniele Ciprì; Writer: Daniele Ciprì and Massimo Gaudioso, based on the book by Roberto Alaimo.; Stars: Toni Servillo, Giselda Volodi, Alfredo Castro, Fabrizio Falco, Aurora Quattrocchi)
A dysfunctional family struggles to survive in a challenging environment, but might wealth make things even worse?
Journey To Italy
(Viaggio In Italia, The Lonely Woman)
(Country: Italy/France; Year: 1953; Director: Roberto Rossellini; Writer: Roberto Rossellini, Vitaliano Brancati; Stars: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Paul Muller, Anna Proclemer, Maria Mauban, Leslie Daniels, Natalia Ray)
A seminal film about a marriage in crisis.
Me And You
(Io E Te)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Bernardo Bertolucci; Writer: Niccolò Ammaniti, Bernardo Bertolucci, Niccolò Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello, Francesca Marciano; Stars: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Sonia Bergamasco, Veronica Lazar, Tommaso Ragno, Pippo Delbono, Francesca De Martini)
An introverted teenager forges a bond with his step-sister as he hides out in his family's basement.
Nina
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Elisa Fuksas; Stars: Diane Fleri, Andrea Bosci, Luca Marinelli, Marina Rocco)
House-sitting in a Rome whose inhabitants all seem to have left for the summer, a young woman forms unexpected friendships.
Me And You and Journey To Italy
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
(Romanzo Di Una Strage)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Marco Tullio Giordano; Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon, Laura Chiatti)
A police commissioner investigating a bombing uncovers shocking government secrets.
Pretty Butterflies
(Bellas Mariposas)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Salvatore Mereu; Stars: Sara Podda, Maya Mulas, Davide Todde, Micaela Ramazzotti, Luciano Curreli, Maria Loi, Rosalba Piras)
Two 12-year-old girls set out to spend the day at the beach.
The Red And The Blue
(Il Rosso E Il Blu)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Giuseppe Piccione; Writer: Giuseppe Piccioni, Francesca Manieri; Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Margherita Buy, Roberto Hertlitzka)
Bittersweet personal stories interconnect in a high school in Rome.
S.B. I Knew Him Well
(S.B. Io Lo Conoscevo Bene)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Giacomo Durzi, Giovanni Fasanella)
An intimate documentary portrait of Silvio Berlusconi.
Slow Food Story
(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Stefano Sardo; Stars: Carlo Petrini, Azio Citi)
An update on the development of the slow food movement.
Stromboli
(Country: Italy; Year: 1950; Director: Roberto Rossellini; Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Maro Sponzo)
The story of a troubled marriage on a harsh volcanic island.
The War Of The Volcanoes
(Country: Italy; Year: 2012; Director: Francesco Patierno; Stars: Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani)
The true story of a jealous lover's decision to challenge her cheating partner by creating a rival to his film.
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