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Daniele, a rebellious and impatient 14-year-old from Castel Volturno and his best friend Lucio, are high on crack for the first time. Daniele is about to loose his ailing grandmother who lives 40 km away in Bagnoli, Campi Flegrei. To fulfill her dying wish - having fresh mozzarella cheese prepared by her son, a buffalo farmer - Daniele embarks on a journey first by motor scooter, then on foot, sided by his crush Martina. Now a drug courier, socially marginalized and constantly high, he bumps into weirdos and feels paranormal experiences. This happens repeatedly, triggering memories of a happy age lost way too soon. Daniele is still unaware that he's fallen into the wolf's den when he naively asks the boss 'O Biondo and his lieutenant El Napolitano for help and money. They coerce him into being a crack mule without giving him the money to address problems that arise along the route. The rivalry between the Casal Di Principe gang and a group of Nigerians, who are trying to take control of the drug market, culminates in an open slaughter among hundreds of young people dedicated to getting high. O'biondo, in agreement with the narcs-trafficker the Cuban, ambushes the Nigerian leader with Daniele's help. The Cuban brings an imposing load and his firing squad, whose full ferocity Daniele and Martina will eventually experience. The journey through extreme events thus simultaneously becomes a path of self-discovery and an escape route. A mysterious woman accompanies him, appearing in different guises and ages, ostensibly guiding him on his journey towards freedom.

Squid, a young man from the Roman suburbs, must help his long-time friends Jason, Freud, Rebecca and Gianmaria in hiding a corpse. As the plot unfolds, an unexpected twist adds another layer of intrigue to the narrative.

Haunted by wartime traumas, Giovanni's tumultuous spirit finds solace in the wisdom of an elderly lady who unveils his extraordinary gift: the ability to harness the spirit of a departed soul and heal the tormented.

Four very different characters play with fire in a labyrinth of secrets and deceptions, convinced they can control their own destinies. But that fragile balance is inevitably destined to shatter with tragic and bloody consequences.

Gollum, a teen with a speech impediment and Frank, a school dropout, meet Nina, a teenage wife and mom seeking education. As they study together, their bond grows, redefining family and reality itself in their eyes.

During the Crusades, Joachim's monastic habit has become like a second skin. Enveloped by the darkness of the world, his life intertwines with dreamlike experiences and mystical visions. A river of oil appears before his eyes. The ascetic receives divine revelations, prophecies, and visions that only his heart can unveil. His final endeavor is humanity's greatest challenge: to overcome the apocalypse.

A woman's world turns upside down after her father's death, as she experiences a recurring dream of a little girl, compelling her to dive into international adoption, risking her marriage, family stability, and moral compass.

Dora is a 25-year-old girl with an apparently rough and impenetrable character who works by bringing shopping home, a very heavy job. This is not the only difficulty in her life though, as she comes from a broken family.

A Sicilian young woman named Modesta, born into an impoverished family in early 1900 and driven by a strong belief that she's destined for a better life.

A story able to excite and surprise to celebrate an incredible goal. "INTER. DUE STELLE SUL CUORE" is the film-event that celebrates the Nerazzurri club's 20th Scudetto through never-before-seen images, exclusive stories and testimonials, behind the scenes and the unforgettable moments that accompanied the incredible ride towards the conquest of the Second Star. Filmmaster and Inter together for a feature film dedicated to fans and sports enthusiasts. A tale full of emotions, intertwined with the city of Milan, and exalting its values.

The aftermath of WW2. In a rural village in the South of Italy, a single mother befriends the local homosexual wedding planner. Through him, she is introduced to the hidden community of gays and starts understanding her rights as a woman.

The film exposes the links between Agrifood and politics. With a pool of international experts it analyses the many problems related to factory farming: water pollution, migrants exploitation, biodiversity loss and antibiotic resistance.

When Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with leading one of the world's most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, he finds himself at the center of a web of conspiracies and intrigue that could shake the very foundation of the Catholic Church.

A seven-year-old boy named Amerigo who in 1946 leaves his impoverished family in Naples and gets on a train to go live with a wealthier family in the north as part of a postwar initiative to rescue children from poverty.

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

Follows an assertive young woman as she fights to become an Olympic athlete.

Giovanna inherited the family business from her father, which deals with the industrial (but artisanal) processing of natural stone. The woman does not have a partner, and although she maintains a close relationship with her mother Lilia and her 15-year-old daughter Alida, it seems that she is unable to build completely sincere bonds with them or to be completely transparent. So when she gets sick, she keeps the situation hidden from the girl, and only talks to her mother because she discovers that the only cure would be an urgent liver transplant from a blood relative in adulthood. But Lilia cannot help her, because... she is not her biological mother. Giovanna discovers that she was adopted and that she has lived a life in the dark about that important information regarding her identity. And she begins a search for her biological mother, the only one who could really save her life. 'Per il mio bene' is an unusual film in the Italian panorama because, despite starting from a melodramatic premise with a high risk of television (and the first scenes struggle a bit to find the necessary tone), it unfolds cinematically in a sober and calm way, working "in levare" and relying on the rigor of its protagonists: Barbora Bobulova in the role of Giovanna, Marie-Christine Barrault - a very welcome return - in that of her biological mother, Sara Ciocca in the role of Alida and Stefania Sandrelli in that of Lilia. Sandrelli performs an act of great generosity in leaving the more substantial role (which she could have easily played herself) to her French colleague: but with a couple of "piercing" expressions she lets Lilia's living pain filter through in witnessing Giovanna's rejection (and illness), as only a great actress can do. However, it is Barrault who towers over the big screen, beautiful in her lonely and angry old age, and Bobulova holds her own, with sweetness and a sense of deep affinity. Ciocca closes this quadrilateral of painful but loving relationships, letting all the adolescent need for truth and affective presence shine through. 'Per il mio bene' is a treatise on motherhood as the ability to act "for the good" of one's children, without sacrificing the right to one's own identity. The excellent screenplay by Monica Zapelli, Pierpaolo De Mejo and Mimmo Verdesca, clear and never insistent, avoids underlining and spares us useless explanations on what we have already understood, also because the images and the acting of the actresses (and actors: there is a splendid cameo by Leo Gullotta, also a very welcome return) speak for themselves, and clearly. Verdesca's direction, at his debut in fictional cinema after some documentaries and supported by the essential editing of Alessio Doglione, is careful and modest, and takes all the time and calm necessary to tell an adult story in which the elderly are finally treated with respect and realism, or as the complex people they have been all their lives - and who do not deserve to be reduced to a single note, mostly ridiculous, in favor of the younger audience (or cast). In a delicate moment of her life, Giovanna needs the person who abandoned her, her biological mother. The precision of the images, the ability to narrate a story full of emotion without ever bordering on gratuitous tears, make Verdesca welcome as a director of fiction, capable of "working the natural stone" that is cinema with grace and competence. A curiosity: the names of two of the protagonists seem to be homages to his previous documentaries, 'Alida' (on Valli) and 'In arte Lilia Silvi' (on the diva of white telephones). 'Per il mio bene' therefore appears as a (further) gesture of gratitude from a man towards the women he observes, and wants to tell, with discretion and solicitude.

Biopic telling the life of the great and popular political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who almost led Italy's Communist Party into power in 1978.

Liberato, the anonymous Neapolitan artist whose career began in 2017 with music fusing Neapolitan neo-melodic tradition, R&B, and electronics with hip-hop influences. Nothing is known about him, not even his face, only his symbol: a rose.

Issa is a young undocumented immigrant, struggling to survive in a large city in Italy. Thanks to a friend who lends him his identity, he starts to work as a rider. The precarious balance collapses when his bike is stolen. As he desperately searches for it, Issa is sucked into a dramatic spiral of events.