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- Friday night in Rome: a group of thirty-five old friends decides to try and renew a kinda private ceremony of the good ole days: what they call "bastard night" - wandering all night long in pubs, parties and friend's houses, tuxedo dressed, doing nothing but smoking, drinking and talking until they have no more energy to go on. Together with them, two girls: the italian Cate, the girlfirend of the most radical and fool of the group Marcello, and the spanish Carmen, whom they met that night. But time has passed, and the "bastard night" reveals to be but an inachievable desire of the past. One of them, Alex, renounces to go. As a matter of fact, even if all of the others pretend to be still young and foolish, each one of them has tried to make a living, and bears with him failures and traces of aborted adult lives ready to spoil their night: a violent ex wife and a daughter to take care, a pregnant girlfriend... on their way, the group of friends will meet a lot of weird night creatures, such as a sad jazz singer with his mother in jail, a japanese award-winner writer, two sons of the same father unknown to each other looking for the man through the night while he's been robbed at the airport, and an odd, jealous friend of the spanish girl, "El Fantasma"... then comes another day.
- The ostensibly simple story of a sympathetic veteran teacher giving Italian lessons to a weekly class of diverse immigrants is given infinitely more depth and complexity by the manner in which director Daniele Gaglianone renders his story. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, truth and artifice, and between documentary and drama, Gaglianone has created a film within a film. You see the apparent artifice of Gaglianone's crew using professionals, including the noted film actor Valerio Mastandrea as the teacher, interlinked with 'real' immigrant protagonists, studying the language to improve their chances of employment and of gaining a permanent residence permit. Thus in the course of the lessons there is simultaneously the painful and upsetting relation of the students' personal stories but also humour, as they interact and share their humanity, bridging cultural differences, united in their striving to make a better life for themselves.
- What happened in Genoa (Italy) between the 16th and the 21th of July 2001 during the G8 meeting. From the pacific moviment against the G8 economic system to its catastrophic repression by the Italian police.
- Summer 2001. Twenty-three young Argentinean and Uruguayan soccer players arrived in Italy: they will all join a small soccer club team, the "U. S. Fiorenzuola", without no problem of nationality because they have all Italian passport. The coach is Mario Kempes. The film follow the 52 days of the young players waiting to play in the Italian Championship. Among promises and hopes, enthusiasm and extenuating waiting revealing a bizarre facet of the soccer "made in Italy" but also the romantic aspect that bring a group of boys overseas following the dream of their lives to play in the land of their ancestors. A document on soccer, on certain aspects that in a stadium tribune is very difficult to observe. A document on return emigration, on the circularity of the history, on human beings that generations through generations carry on crossing the Atlantic in search of a better life.
- While Sao Paolo celebrates the election victory of Lula, motoboy Ratinho loses his only means of survival. Chaotic traffic and growing unemployment have transformed the job of delivering mail with mopeds into one of the most popular occupations among young people: only in the city of Sao Paolo there are more than 300.000 motoboys. Every day, at least two of them have an accident, leaving on a grey road, the dream of a better future. People think they are stealers, drug addicts, killers. The story of Ratinho, age 23, develops through the testimonies of other motoboys and becomes dreams, fears, dramas and hopes of all.
- An existence scored by an uncommon event: born in the sea. The story of a man that since his birth seeks for his land without ever reaching it.
- During their jogging, two girl friends bump into a run-away convict laying down with a briefcase loaded with dollars. They snatch the bag from him and run away from him and his fellow-convict who has come into the scene. While running away, they give a lift to a nun escaping from her cloistered life, who suddenly...