Rolando Ravello

En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

Italy, 1980s. Three thugs stumble upon a remote, out-of-place hotel: a refuge at the edge of the world. But this isn't just their story. Because at the Bellevue Hotel, other guests exist, breathing or crying behind a door with worn numbers, gestures of love or desperation, whispered voices or screams. In the intertwining of each of these stories, walls dissolve and doors open, revealing the thread that binds the destinies of all the guests.

The determination of cyclist Marco Pantani leads him to win the Giro d'Italia and (as the only Italian) the Tour de France, as well as to overcome serious accidents. In 1999, his hematocrit level is found to be above the permitted threshold: this marks the beginning of a downward spiral that leads to depression and death from drugs.

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?

Rapporti Impropri: After the death of her mother, Silvia, a sexually jaunty 16-year-old girl, is welcomed for a certain period by her uncle Carlo where as a child she spent the summer holidays and of which she is always secretly in love. Silvia's goal is to be accepted and ready to do anything, even to seduce the whole family. Benedetta Transgressione: A young separated couple meets by chance on the terrace of a Roman park. The husband hardly recognizes in the woman's uninhibited and provocative behavior his ex-wife, who, realizing the exciting effect it has on her ex-spouse, even offers him a threesome. Specchio, Specchio Delle Mie Brame: Giulia, Sandro's wife, helping Walter, her husband's brother, to mount a mirror, takes advantage of the situation to betray her narcissistic spouse, too arrogant and taken to notice the affair that takes place practically under his eyes...

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secretly wanted to do for years.

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Marta works for a poll company, listening all day to other people's dreams while leading a cold and solitary life. Having just cut off a long relationship, she tries an online sex chat under an alias, meeting a man who begins to advance more and more audacious requests, until they decide to discover their respective identities.

An evening at an Italian restaurant hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various middle-class parties enter – large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single – to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to eavesdrop, to interrupt, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life.

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."

Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up.

Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in 1938 Italy.

Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.

On the Adriatic Riviera the destinies of a variety of characters cross. A piano player is the lover of a rich woman who wants him to become a killer, a call girl is looking for her true love, two workers want to marry two old billionaires.

The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…

Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as pope John XXIII

A detective suspects an unreported serial killer is preying on the population of a college town, luring in his victims through online video chats and assuming their identity after the murder.

Four stories about football.

In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome Film Festival.

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the same. Forty years old and father of two children, Giulio is forced by circumstances to say goodbye to family and economic well-being and to study new solutions in order to stay afloat and not drown in a new poverty made of double rents and double bills to pay, solitary lunches in fourth-rate restaurants, children's wishes not to be ignored and creditors to hide from.

Rocky Giraldi, son of police officer Nico, followed in his father's footsteps and is now an agent in the police force's operational departments. He is currently working on a seemingly straightforward case: the murder of a burglar. In reality, behind the crime lies a dangerous network of drug dealers involved in money laundering, which also includes an important law enforcement official whom the man knows well.

Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.

A Donatello Award nominated short drama that illustrates a man's addiction to reading - and of the steps taken by some in society to limit this "habit".

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.

The protagonists of the short film are the very young patients in the pediatric ward of a hospital. The young patients are projected into the most famous scene from "Full Metal Jacket" alongside a sergeant/doctor who encourages them to face adversity with the most effective weapon a child has at their disposal: the power of imagination.

The protagonists of the short film are the very young patients in the pediatric ward of a hospital. The young patients are projected into the most famous scene from "Full Metal Jacket" alongside a sergeant/doctor who encourages them to face adversity with the most effective weapon a child has at their disposal: the power of imagination.

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?

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