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WWI has ended but events surrounding the first free election in Italy threaten to tear the village apart. Padre Pio struggles with his own personal demons, ultimately emerging to become one of Catholicism's most venerated figures.

Ugo Conti, charismatic Italian aristocrat and influencer, arrives in Mexico where he seduces the Mexican high society. When he meets Frida Becker again, the love of his past, he will end up in the center of a struggle for political power.

Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.

A couple inherits their family's ancient Italian palazzo where sinister shadows from the past reappear.

Juliet Merdinian, who, 20 years since she was orphaned, seeks out the men who changed her destiny with one powerful memory - that of their scent.

A film exploring performance, poetry, and music amidst war. It examines the search for meaning and freedom in ongoing suffering and echoes of the past, focusing on people's experiences of oppression and military force.

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge. As Federica struggles to find meaning in her life, she wrestles with her feelings about death and responsibility. She alleviates the added weight of the haunting guilt that her wealth derives through her vivid imagination, where her reality grows wonderful and, if only fleetingly, gives her the sense that all is perfect in her world.

A film documentary on the life, works and life ethics of famous director Mario Monicelli. Mario Monicelli has witnessed and depicted the great changes that the Italians from the WW2 to modern days. In his nineties Monicelli is as sharp as a nail and has a clear view of the world and cynical humor on recent contradictions and changes in society.

The project is based on the best seller book written by Carmelo Sardo, famous Italian Journalist and the prisoner Giuseppe Grassonelli. The documentary tells the story of Giuseppe Grassonelli, in prison for several murders connected to the war between Mafia and Stidda during the 80s in Sicily. It collects testimonies of judges, politicians and people involved in various ways in these events. Footage of the time and personal documents of the Grassonelli family enriches the documentary.

Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini's government. They were sent to a prison camp in Nagoya with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today: Toni's daughter Mujah explores her family's experience and legacy by bringing their memories to life as she makes her own journey to Japan.

Jacqueline, a music composer is forced to leave her apartment and struggles to find a new home. Through Wanted in Rome, a magazine for foreigners, she finally meets Louise and has to move in her house. after breaking up with Pietro, her boyfriend, she does not know how to move her piano there. At her critical moment, Louise's son Luca, a stranger to Jacqueline, comes to her aid and offers to help Jacqueline move her piano in a magic night of Rome. In the morning, Jacqueline realizes that who Luka is and what he represents and what has really happened. She will remember this when finally practicing for the opening of her grand concerto.