Laura Nardi

Clara and Felice struggle to raise their three children in 1970s Rome. The eldest, Andrea, is transgender and yearns for another life where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Clara instinctively strives to protect her son by escaping into their imaginations to defuse family tensions.

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Eight fragments of life set in the outskirts of Rome. A recently divorced woman cynically faces her single life. During the lockdown, a father must deal with the consequences of a prank committed by his son. An elderly pensioner begins to worry about the prolonged silence of his pet bird. In the midst of COVID quarantine, a couple pretends to get married at home. A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman suffers the wrath of an exuberant and inhospitable widow. On Valentine's Day, a tight-fisted boy gives his girlfriend an unexpected gift. An unemployed man who still lives with his mother gets into trouble. Before going on vacation, an elderly lady delivers a special object to her neighbor, a lonely middle-aged man with no family.

Three months in the life of Chiara, an actress pushing forty and trying to find her way in a bustling Rome overrun by tourists. Invisible, precarious, Chiara restlessly piles up one experience after another, searching for the thing that will make her feel alive.

In Oslo, Thea and Matteo are awaiting the birth of their child. Meanwhile, in Mumbai, Charles asks Greta to marry him in public. Seven years later, in Rome, Matteo is playing tennis when Greta shows up for a match, dressed as a bride. For him it's love at first sight, but she's just married. Life goes on, yet Matteo cannot forget Greta. Seven years later, they meet again by chance; both are married and have children with other people. Love always brings them together at the wrong time. Loosely based on the short story collection "Legami" by Eshkol Nevo.

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.

Two old friends who grew up together in the 80's now find themselves overwhelmed by their unhappy lives to the point that one of them is almost going to commit suicide.

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.

Matrimony is a drama about the complexity of relationships. On Christmas Eve, perfect housewife Giulia Francesca Neri is worried about a family heirloom which has cracked and rushes to the junk shop to get it repaired -- little anticipating her perfect marriage is about to fall to pieces as well. While everyone in Bologna is making last minute preparations, Giulia runs into her childhood sweetheart, Fausto Paolo Sassanelli. The meeting rekindles old feelings and Giulia realizes that to create the perfect marriage which everyone adores, she has sacrificed her own personality. While waiting to meet her parents at the station, she climbs into a departing train and disappears. The family slowly disintegrates, as if she were the binding element.

This video addresses the complex and rich cultural history inherited by the children of immigrants. While official History is often presented as a single truth, "truth" is multi-layered and multi-valent. Through a layering of stories from Italian immigrants, images from Super 8 family films, and remembrances of my grandmother, "America il Paradiso" seeks to express the complexity of history.