Roberto Faenza

Bambini nel tempo

Maria Pia Ammirati, Roberto Faenza

Italy, from the '50s to the present day, told through the eyes of generations of children captured in Rai's (Italian public TV) archival footage.

Come Into the Light

Roberto Faenza

Luca Zingaretti, Alessia Goria

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

According to Pereira

Roberto Faenza

Marcello Mastroianni, Stefano Dionisi

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...

Forza Italia!

Roberto Faenza

Giovanni Leone, Aldo Moro

Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the steady supremacy of the Christian Democratic Party.

The Soul Keeper

Roberto Faenza

Iain Glen, Emilia Fox

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Jona che visse nella balena

Roberto Faenza

Jean-Hugues Anglade, Juliet Aubrey

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of WWII is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.

Mio caro dottor Gräsler

Roberto Faenza

Keith Carradine, Miranda Richardson

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Ferrante Fever

Giacomo Durzi

Lisa Lucas, Ann Goldstein

Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious persona - so uniquely captivating.

Silvio Forever

Roberto Faenza, Filippo Macelloni

Silvio Berlusconi

Lawsuit-proof satirical "unauthorized biography" of Silvio Berlusconi told using only words spoken by the man himself in interviews, rallies, or other public statements.

I Vicerè

Roberto Faenza

Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.

Hill of Vision

Roberto Faenza

Francesco Montanari, Laura Haddock

Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. In 1947 they are miraculously reunited and start a new life in America. Based on the life of Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Marianna Ucrìa

Roberto Faenza

Emmanuelle Laborit, Roberto Herlitzka

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.

I giorni dell'abbandono

Roberto Faenza

Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Roberto Faenza

Toby Regbo, Marcia Gay Harden

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting with the college career that is looming over his last summer in New York, and embarks instead on a search for wisdom through nontraditional means...

Il delitto di Via Poma

Roberto Faenza

Silvio Orlando, Astrid Meloni

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

Escalation

Roberto Faenza

Lino Capolicchio, Claudine Auger

1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first forced to return to Italy, then kidnapped by his father's collaborators, placed in a sanitarium and put through electroshock therapy and other torments. Once 'normalised' Luca marries a woman who is in reality a psychologist paid by his father to brainwash him and turn him into a perfect businessman.