Roberto Cuzzillo

Senza fine

Roberto Cuzzillo

Cristina Serafini, Irene Ivaldi

Because artificial insemination in Italy is restricted to married straight couples, Chiara must travel to Holland to be inseminated, and she can’t risk losing their only chance to become mothers. Will she be able to handle the physical and emotional burdens of both her secret and her pregnancy?

A Quintet

Ariel Shaban, Elie Lamah

Jelena Stupljanin, Demet Gül

A quintet is an omnibus feature told from the perspective of five international up and coming filmmakers who are searching to find identity in the modern world. The five segments are : "Polaroid" by Roberto Cuzzillo; "Friend Request" by Elie Lamah; "The Cuddle Workshop" by Mauro Mueller; "The House in the Envelope" by Sanela Salketic; and "The Tourist" by Ariel Shaban.

Camminando verso

Roberto Cuzzillo

Orucevic Amel, Fiorenza Tessari

The culture clash between two women create an obsession full of tension from the first moment. Emina struggle to hide a dark secret to her roommate, Antonia. The life she left behind in Bosnia follows Emina in Rome, forcing her to recall a violent past. Antonia out at night, she misses her young girlfriend in New York, and it seems collecting foreign friends in great need of help.

Non accettare i sogni dagli sconosciuti

Roberto Cuzzillo

Daniel De Rossi, Giuseppe Claudio Insalaco

New anti-gay laws have just been approved in Russia. After a competition in St. Petersburg, Italian swimmer Massimo meets a Russian of his own age, Vladimir, working as an interpreter for the delegation of which Massimo is a member. The two men fall in love, but they will have to face the cultural barriers between them, as well as old and new macho stereotypes.

Male Shorts: International V3

Simone Bozzelli, Marcio Miranda Perez

This popular international series continues with this third volume of five short films focusing on men, including: Vanilla [Baunilha] (2017); Lightrapping (2016); Polaroid (2014); Five Minutes a Day [Cinco Minutos Por Dia] (2018); My Brother [Mio fratello] (2015).

Polaroid

Roberto Cuzzillo

Salvatore LI Causi, Pierre Lucat

Giuseppe, 33, is still struggling to build his life in a small Italian town where he has to hide his homosexuality. With a Polaroid in hand, he decides to leave for Berlin to find Peter, a summer love he has never forgotten. The shock of a cosmopolitan city is nothing compared to the moment he realizes that the German artist has a "normal" family. For him this represents the possibility of 'losing' himself and meeting Marco, who takes him around all night to arrive at dawn to the conviction that love is the only strength to find one's identity. "Polaroid" is one of five short film segments in an omnibus feature titled "A Quintet".