Italian Essai 2022
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- DirectorJonas CarpignanoStarsSwamy RotoloPio AmatoCarmelo CaccamoFollows the story of 15-year-old Chiara whose close-knit family falls apart after her father abandons them in Calabria.
- DirectorDamiano D'InnocenzoFabio D'InnocenzoStarsElio GermanoAstrid CasaliSara CioccaMassimo is a dentist from Latina, happily married with two daughters. One day he goes down to the cellar for housework and finds a girl tied up and gagged, asking for help.
- DirectorDario AlbertiniStarsGiustina BuonomoYuri Casagrande ContiEnzo CasertanoGioia, 18 years old, lives with her widowed father on their farm in the middle mountains. When she is not looking after the sheep, she is helping the villagers by delivering the farm's products, distributing water from the so-called "miraculous" fountain and helping the elderly. Everything would be fine if her father, Bruno, who loves her very much, did not play games of chance. Burdened with debts, he must gradually strip himself of his possessions. Gioia tries to help him, but the addiction is too strong. With time she manages to convince him to join a rehabilitation center for inveterate gamblers. But to do so, he has to go to the big city. Gioa goes with him, settles down in a hotel, takes a job as a pizza delivery girl and supports Bruno in his difficult fight.
- DirectorGiuseppe BonitoStarsAurora BarulliCarlotta De LeonardisFabrizio FerracaneA 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.
- DirectorYuri AncaraniStarsDaniele BarisonMaila DabalàBianka BerényiA young man from Sant'Erasmo, an island on the edges of the Venice Lagoon lives on his wits, isolated even from his peer group who are busy exploring an existence of pleasure-seeking expressed in the cult of the barchino (motorboat).
- DirectorRoberto AndòStarsSilvio OrlandoGiuseppe PirozziLino MusellaA piano teacher living in a working class area allows a 10 year old boy to hide from his family in the teacher's apartment.
- DirectorMichelangelo FrammartinoStarsNicola LanzaAntonio LanzaLeonardo LaroccaThe extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.
- DirectorChiara BellosiStarsGaia Di PietroAndrea CarpenzanoBarbara ChichiarelliWhen a fairground sets up outside her window, 15-year-old Benedetta meets Amanda who defies gender norms - and not just that. Fascinated, the two grow closer. A coming-of-age film about friendship and the experience of empowerment.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsEnnio MorriconeSilvano AgostiAlessandro AlessandroniA documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
- DirectorElisabetta SgarbiStarsMirco MarianiExtraliscioErmanno CavazzoniWith Extraliscio, the tradition of liscio Romagnolo, the one that "you dance until light cracks in", until people wants to dance, meets new sounds and new places. Romagnolo folk opens up to new horizons, and Romagna meets the world.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziAlice RohrwacherStarsPietro MarcelloFrancesco MunziCarlotta ParodiA portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
- DirectorBonifacio AngiusStarsBonifacio AngiusStefano DeffenuMichele MancaA reunion among old friends. A remote house in a forgotten valley. Many memories, bullets, and love stories from the abyss.
- DirectorCiro De CaroStarsRosa PalascianoFabrizio CiavoniValerio Di BenedettoSurrounded by characters somewhat like herself, a young woman searches during one hot summer in Rome to find her own special place.
- DirectorHleb PapouStarsMaurizio BoussoGiacomo CiarrapicoMarco FalaguastaDaniel, the only African-Italian officer in Rome's riot police, is forced to evict an apartment building with 150 families, including his own.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiStarsFabrizio FerracaneMatteo PittirutiDania MarinoThree surreal funerals are intertwined by the murder of a Sicilian immigrant boy in Brooklyn.
- DirectorElisa AmorusoStarsMicaela RamazzottiGiampaolo MorelliEmma FasanoPartly autobiographical story of the director's teenage years in Rome, when she formed a special friendship with a quarrelsome classmate, which compensated somewhat for trouble with maladjusted parents.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsAlberto BellocchioLetizia BellocchioMarco BellocchioA personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
- DirectorAlessandro CelliStarsDennis ProtopapaGiuliano SopranoAlessandro BorghiTaranto is a ghost town that no one dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
- DirectorMatteo FresiStarsAndrea ArcangeliMarco BullittaGiovanni CarroniThis story, set in the mid-nineteenth century Sardinia, revolves around the feud that truly took place between the Vasa and Mamia families, and that led to the death of more than seventy people. Bastiano Tansu is a character who really existed; he was death-mute since birth, and he was mistreated and marginalized until his fury and prodigious aim became useful to the feud's cause. The family connection and the murder of his brother Michele indissolubly tied him to one of the two faction leaders, Pietro Vasa, who turned him into one of the most feared killers of the entire feud. The State and the Church made some attempts, often clumsy, to stem the wave of terror as the two factions destroyed one another. When the peace of Aggius determined the end of the feud, Bastiano seemed to also have found inner peace thanks to the reciprocated love with a shepherd's daughter. But in a violent and superstitious world that accused him of being the devil's son already as a child, Bastiano couldn't be absolved, and was killed by his cousin Pietro Vasa.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsPierfrancesco FavinoFrancesco Di LevaTommaso RagnoAfter 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
- DirectorSimone AleandriStarsAnna AmmiratiGiovanni AndriuoliAmbra AngioliniPower. On the longest night of the year, Dec. 21-22, four stories intersect.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsRiccardo ScamarcioBenedetta PorcaroliWaël SersoubIt is a love story against the backdrop of fascist Italy and racial laws.
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsDominique SandaAlba RohrwacherMaya SansaNena's family, who reunite in their house by the sea to celebrate her birthday. Everybody is there. Even Paco, Alma's peacock.
- DirectorLaura SamaniStarsCeleste CescuttiOndina QuadriIvo BanItaly, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter's soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.