Paola Cortellesi

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Paola Cortellesi, Massimo Poggio

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.

Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne

Peter Marcias

Paola Cortellesi

Thanks to archive material, reminiscences by those who knew her, and her own reflections vividly recited by actress Paola Cortellesi, the personal story and political career of Nilde Iotti transcends the biographical and touches the core of our own lives today.

Chiedimi se sono felice

Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti

Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti

Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while focusing on their passion project: staging an adaptation of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite to travel from Milan to Sicily after hearing that Aldo is dying.

Bell'amico

Luca D'Ascanio

Luca D'Ascanio, Mariano Bartolomeu

Il posto dell'anima

Riccardo Milani

Silvio Orlando, Michele Placido

Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.

Piano, Solo

Riccardo Milani

Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Do You See Me?

Riccardo Milani

Paola Cortellesi, Raoul Bova

Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.

Tu la conosci Claudia?

Massimo Venier

Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti

Meet Claudia: dull Giovanni is married with her, Giacomo is divorced and happy of it (until he meets her), and Aldo... is a taxi driver. At the end, who will have won her heart?

Gli ultimi saranno ultimi

Massimiliano Bruno

Paola Cortellesi, Alessandro Gassman

Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.

Non prendere impegni stasera

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Luca Zingaretti, Giorgio Tirabassi

Due partite

Enzo Monteleone

Margherita Buy, Isabella Ferrari

Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.

Amarsi può darsi

Alberto Taraglio

Claudio Santamaria, Claudia Gerini

During their divorce trial, Davide and Giulia go back through episodes of their life together while they listen to a series of witnesses. Do they really want to go different ways?

Like a Cat on a Highway

Riccardo Milani

Paola Cortellesi, Antonio Albanese

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.

Figli

Giuseppe Bonito

Valerio Mastandrea, Paola Cortellesi

Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in the modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.

Passato prossimo

Maria Sole Tognazzi

Paola Cortellesi, Valentina Cervi

A pair of summer and winter weekends intertwine in a series of flashbacks involving five friends. Their dreams and expectations overlap with memories of events that took place in the house that they are sharing, which has a particular significance for all of them.

C'è chi dice no

Giambattista Avellino

Luca Argentero, Paola Cortellesi

Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.