- A young man leaves his village to go into the city to audition to enter a dance company. He then is involved in illegal activities such as boxing and sleeping with men for money. Unwillingly, he falls in love with a man and suddenly is accepted in and starts dancing in the company. But his life will turn upside down wh…
- A story from the historic uprising of 1282 known as the War of the Sicilian Vespers (since it began during the evening prayer service of vespers on Easter Monday of that year). Sicily is in a state of unrest under the French rule of Charles of Anjou. Elena di Paterno is betrothed to Salerno gentleman Giovanni da Procid…
- The Ealing Club, dubbed ‘the cradle of British rock’ (Mojo), was a dingy, smoky, concrete-floored basement barely mentioned in music history books, and it would last only three years. However, its pivotal role in fostering a golden generat…
- Gianluca Ansanelli, best known as the screenwriter of Opposites Attract (LIFF16), pens a vibrant and endearing love letter to Naples through two interconnected love stories, as an eleven-year-old navigates his first crush with the help of his bookish psychologist, who himself is falling head over heels for the boy’s vi…
- An Italian submarine returns from a mission. The crew members look forward to reunite with their family, and to escape the promiscuity that causes tensions to run high amongst sailors. Shortly before reaching safe waters, disaster strikes: a squadron of enemy airplanes bombs the submarine, which sinks to the bottom of …