Antonio Palumbo

Varichina - La vera storia della finta vita di Lorenzo De Santis

Antonio Palumbo, Mariangela Barbanente

Federica Torchetti, Ketty Volpe

Varichina was the first openly out homosexual man in Bari in the ‘70s. Ugly, flashy and campy, he was well known for making coarse advances to every man he saw. He was gay, had nothing to hide, and lived a life of celebration! Funny and heartwarming, Varichina: The True Story of the Fake Life of Lorenzo de Santis is a documentary/fiction hybrid looking at someone who was WAY OUT, long before it was socially acceptable.

My Name Is Tanino

Paolo Virzì

Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to the States forgetting Tanino and her camera. He instead cannot forget the girl and he decides to go to the States with the excuse of bringing back her the camera and to see the dreamland of any Sicilian. Tanino will discover that dreams don't always match with reality...

Questa notte è ancora nostra

Luca Miniero, Paolo Genovese

Nicolas Vaporidis, Massimiliano Bruno

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.

Parking Lot

Francesco Gasperoni

Harriet MacMasters-Green, Marius Bizau

Aspettando la Bardot

Marco Cervelli

Peppino Mazzotta, Nicola Nocella

Maltese - Il romanzo del commissario

Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

Kim Rossi Stuart, Paolo Ricca

In Sicily during the seventies the police chief Maltese finds himself entangled in an investigation that will uncover the widespread influence of Mafia in the area and expose the archaic roots which nurtured it.

torno presto

Giovanni Bufalini

Antonio Palumbo, Alessandro Lama

In an Italy frozen in time, a private writes to his wife with the hope of returning home. A universal tale with a taste of neorealism. Lest we forget.