GLI ANNI BELLI
by Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho – 2022 – 100′ – comedy
Screenplay: Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho e Anne-Riitta Ciccone
With: Romana Maggiora Vergano, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Ninni Bruschetta
Synopsis:
Italy, summer 1994. A new government has just taken offce and Elena, 16 years old Nirvana fan and wannabe pasionaria, can’t wait to take it down. Unfortunately, her parents seems to have different plans for her.
As every summer, Eugenio (a grumpy, old fashioned communist greek teacher) and Adele (his gentle although ironical wife) force Elena to hit the road towards the same sunny family campsite. But a surprise is waiting for them: there’s a new manager in town who decided to change everything, starting with the campsite very name. The all country is on the threshold of the shiny, glittery, fun-driven Berlusconi’s era, and the “Bella Italia” wants to be all of that wrapped into the perfect vacation package.
The unexpected new order that is ruling the campsite, combined with the appearance of a group of youngsters that look just so cool, gives Elena a chance to turn her vacation upside-down. If her parents won’t let her stay in Rome preparing the Revolution, she will bring the revolution down to this miniature Italy. On the background of a country that does not realize how deep it is changing, Elena will live the most exciting summer ever, filled with fights, kisses, tears, love, laughters, secrets, bonfires, betrayals, surprises… and a waterspout!
If it is true that life can be summed up in 10 unforgettable summers, for Elena this will be definitely one of them. The summer of the best years of her life.
RUA DO PRIOR 41
by Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho – 2021 – 77′ – experimental
Screenplay: Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho e Anne-Riitta Ciccone
With: Franco Lorenzoni
Synopsis:
Ludovica and Alessandro are quite young, decidedly cute and partially employed.
Today is their day, that one they have been waiting for weeks: today they will conceive a child.
But just as they get ready to get to work, the world around them suddenly seems to rebel.
A continuous series of setbacks will bring to light all the fears that the two protagonists hide behind the apparent conviction of being ready to become parents today.
Will our heroes come out alive – and united- from the Helzapoppin preparing to put their quiet country house on fire?
UN GIORNO POSITIVO
by Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho – 2017 – 22′ – comedy
Screenplay: Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho and Anne-Riitta Ciccone
With: Francesca Ziggiotti, Riccardo Sinibaldi, Beniamino Marcone
Synopsis:
Ludovica and Alessandro are quite young, decidedly cute and partially employed.
Today is their day, that one they have been waiting for weeks: today they will conceive a child.
But just as they get ready to get to work, the world around them suddenly seems to rebel.
A continuous series of setbacks will bring to light all the fears that the two protagonists hide behind the apparent conviction of being ready to become parents today.
Will our heroes come out alive – and united- from the Helzapoppin preparing to put their quiet country house on fire?
L'UOMO CHE RIDE – SERGIO CORBUCCI
by Goia Magrini and Roberto Meddi – 2013 – 54′ – documentary
Synopsis:
Sergio Corbucci was one of the most prolific and eclectic directors of Italian cinema: in 40 years of career he made about 70 films of all the genres, from “peplum” to horror, from comedy to detective story, from musical film to western, the genre that he perhaps preferred and in which he is considered a master as Sergio Leone.
Always attentive to the tastes of the public that rewarded him with record income, Corbucci never gave up on a meticulous professionalism.
Based on the unpublished autobiography of Sergio Corbucci, the documentary traces his human and professional history using materials from the Istituto Luce’s repertoire and private amateur photos and films, as well as testimonies of his friends and collaborators, and especially of his wife Nori, who shared with him 31 years of life from their first meeting in 1959.
TORMENTI-FILM DISEGNATO
by Filiberto Scarpelli – 2012 – 80′ – animation
Synopsis:
During the fascist period in Rome a clumsy and tragic lawyer Rinaldo Maria Bonci Pavonazzi seduces a young ironer Lolli Cianciarelli because of his existential boredom.
The girl falls in love soon with Mario Marchetti, an university student who is also a boxer. In this way a love triangle full of passions and torments starts, the one the lawyer would never have imagined before, becoming suddenly obsessive and aggressive and ending up recalled by the army of the Black Shirts in Spain during the civil war, where he will meet Lolli and Mario engaged as International Brigatists.
SUSO – CONVERSAZIONI CON MARGHERITA D'AMICO
by Luca Zingaretti – 2007 – 58′ – documentary
Synopsis:
A precious documentary directed by Luca Zingaretti, about a great screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, master of our times.
Famous for having participated in the preparation of numerous masterpieces of Italian and international cinema, Suso pleasantly talks to her granddaughter Margherita in the living room of the beloved house, sharing the meetings with directors, actors, and intellectuals, tells about herself, her life as daughter, wife, mother, woman.
In more than 50 years of career d’Amico tightens, in particular, a strong and lasting partnership with Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli.
RITRATTO DI SCONOSCIUTO – MARCELLUS, DOMINICUS, VINCENTIUS
by Gioia Magrini and Roberto Meddi – 2007 – 38′ – documentary
Synopsis:
Ten years after the death of the actor Marcello Mastroiani, extraordinary icon of the Italian cinema, his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara, meet in their house in Torre di Lucca and exchange memories of their childhood and their father.