FEATURE FILMS SPRING 2019 FEATURE FILMS FEATURE FILMS 5 DOGMAN DIRECTOR: Matteo Garrone Starring: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi In the outskirts suspended between metropolis and wilderness, where the only law seems to be that of the strongest, Marcello is a small and gentle man who divides his days between work in his modest grooming salon for dogs, love for his daughter Alida, and an ambiguous relationship of subjection with Simoncino, a former boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. Determined to reaffirm his dignity after an umpteenth oppression, Marcello will imagine revenge with an unexpected outcome. ARCHIMEDE, LE PACTE, RAI CINEMA DRAMA - 102’ - 2018 NOTE THE STOLEN CARAVAGGIO FEATURE FILMS 7 THE STOLEN CARAVAGGIO UNA STORIA SENZA NOME DIRECTOR: Roberto Andò STARRING: Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Laura Morante, Aessandro Gassman Valeria, works as the secretary of a film producer and lives next door to her mother, Amalia, an eccentric and neurotic woman. She’s also the ghost writer for Alessandro a successful screenwriter. One day, Valeria receives a present from a stranger, a retired policeman: it’s the plot of a film. But that plot is dangerous, it tells about the mysterious theft of a famous painting of Caravaggio, occurred in Palermo in 1969. From that moment on, our ghost writer will find herself consumed by a relentless and reckless mechanism. BIBI FILM, RAI CINEMA THRILLER - 110’ - 2018 NOTE FEATURE FILMS 9 BLUE KIDS DIRECTOR: Andrea Tagliaferri STARRING: Fabrizio Falco, Matilde Gioli Brother and sister, inseparable but both lonely. An expected inheritance that suddenly vanishes. The border between consciousness of one’s own actions and total recklessness. An extreme gesture that will bring them on a road with no return. ARCHIMEDE and RAI CINEMA DRAMA - 75’ - 2017 NOTE FEATURE FILMS 11 I’M NOT A KILLER NON SONO UN ASSASSINO DIRECTOR: Andrea Zaccariello Starring: Riccardo Scamarcio, Edoardo Pesce, Claudia Gerini, Alessio Boni, Sarah Felberbaum A man is walking alone in the last bits of darkness. It’s Deputy Police officer Francesco Prencipe, going to see his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo. They haven’t seen each other for over two years. A two hour ride only for a few words and nothing else. A question. An Answer. That same morning the judge is found dead: a bullet in his forehead. Francesco is the last one that saw him alive. Only his fingerprints are traced in the house. He only had time for the homicide. The prosecutor, who knows him well, his past, women, bad habits and other weaknesses, arrests him. His life flows in front of his eyes overlapping inconsistently in a desperate attempt to find the true killer, to the truth of an entire life. RAI CINEMA - PEPITO PRODUZIONI AND VIOLA FILM THRILLER - HD - 110’ - 2019 NOTE ROMANCE IN ROME FEATURE FILMS 13 ROMANCE IN ROME MUN - METTI UNA NOTTE DIRECTOR: Cosimo Messeri Starring: Cosimo Messeri, Amanda Lear, Cristiana Capotondi Martino, a young entomologist in a sentimental crisis, returns to Rome to find his beloved uncle. As soon as he arrives, his uncle asks him to babysitting the daughter of some friends. Once arrived at Linda’s home, the little girl, Martino finds out that along with her there is also Lulù, her eccentric and unpredictable grandmother. Everything becomes more complicated when Martino receives the phone call of Tea, an old love encountered by accident right that afternoon. The woman is in danger and asks him for help. Martino, excited about the idea of saving her, is forced to bring the grandmother and child into a series of adventures and misadventures, around a nocturnal Rome, seeking a new love. BIBI FILM, RAI CINEMA COMEDY ROMANCE - 87’ - 2017 NOTE UGLY NASTY PEOPLE FEATURE FILMS 15 UGLY NASTY PEOPLE BRUTTI E CATTIVI DIRECTOR: Cosimo Gomez Starring: Claudio Santamaria, Marco D’Amore, Sara Serraiocco The Gander, the Ballerina, the Crap and the Plissé, suddenly turn into the unlikely robbers for “the hit” that will give the final change to their lives. It doesn’t matter if the first is without legs and his beautiful wife, Ballerina, has no arms; if Crap is a toxic Rasta and Plissé a dwarf rapper. These are just details. There are no obstacles for them. Only big dreams! Even when, after the robbery things get complicated and each of them of the unlikely band seems to have a “personal” plan not to share the loot with the others. All deceive everyone else mercilessly, in a swirl of dizzying chases, revenge, bloody executions and cross betrayals. RAI CINEMA - CASANOVA MULTIMEDIA BLACK COMEDY/DRAMA - HD - 86’ - 2016 NOTE WE´LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL FEATURE FILMS 17 WE’LL BE YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL SAREMO GIOVANI E BELLISSIMI DIRECTOR: Letizia Lamartire STARRING: Barbora Bobulova, Alessandro Piavani, Massimiliano Gallo, Federica Sabatini, Elisabetta De Vito Isabella still sings Tic Tac, the song that made her famous in the early nineties, when she was only seventeen. Her place is the Big Star, which has also become her second home. Her young son Bruno is her guitarist. The two are inseparable, they perform every night together and they share a ramshackle but happy life of unpaid bills and midnight strolls around the city. Bruno, however, dreams of a different musical career. Light touches of comedy and the music bring to life the slow but necessary separation between mother and son, a crucial and painful detachment. Just like the end of any other love story. CSC PRODUCTION and RAI CINEMA DRAMA - HD 92’ - 2018 - Italian version with English subtitles NOTE FEATURE FILMS 19 DAFNE BRUTTI E CATTIVI DIRECTOR: Federico Bondi Starring: Carolina Raspanti, Antonio Piovanelli, Stefania Casini Dafne is a witty young woman with Down syndrome, who is a spring of contagious energy. She is fiercely independent, but still lives with her parents, Luigi and Maria. Suddenly Maria dies and the family’s balance is shattered. Luigi falls into depression, tormented by the future, by the moment when he will leave his daughter alone… Thanks to her job and her lifelong friends, Dafne instead deals with the loss with the thoughtlessness of a child and the bravery of a young woman, and tries to shake her father up. Until one day something unexpected happens: they decide to leave together for a hike in the mountains to the town where Maria was born. Along the walk, they will discover a lot about each other and they will learn together how to go beyond their limits. RAI CINEMA - VIVO FILM DRAMA - HD - 94’ - 2019 NOTE LOVE and BULLETS FEATURE FILMS 21 LOVE AND BULLETS AMMORE E MALAVITA DIRECTORS: Manetti Bros. STARRING: Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso e Raiz Naples. Ciro is a feared killer. Together with Rosario, he is one of the two “tigers” who serve Don Vincenzo, “o’ re do pesce”, and his shrewd wife, Donna Maria. Fatima, a young nurse, is a dreamer. Their lives are worlds apart, but destined to meet once again. RAI CINEMA - MADELEINE, MANETTI BROS. FILM MUSICAL, THRILLER, ROMANCE - HD - 134’ - 2016 NOTE FEATURE FILMS 23 CINDERELLA THE CAT GATTA CENERENTOLA DIRECTORS: Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone Cenerentola (Cinderella) grew up inside Megaride, a huge ship that has been anchored in the Port of Naples for more than 15 years. Her father, a rich ship owner and scientist, has died, taking to the grave the technological secrets of the ship and his dream of bringing the port back to life. RAI CINEMA - MAD ENTERTAINMENT ANIMATED - 3D - HD - 86’ - 2016 NOTE FEATURE FILMS 25 TENEREZZA LA TENEREZZA DIRECTOR: Gianni Amelio Starring: Elio Germano, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Micaela Ramazzotti Blended feelings between smile and violence. A father and his unloved children: a brother and a sister in permanent conflict, a young and seemingly peaceful couple, and as witnesses, their children, unable to react. Two families in an unseen Naples, far from the suburbs, a bourgeois city where wealth risks to turn into tragedy even when hope is just at hand. RAI CINEMA - PEPITO PRODUZIONI DRAMA - HD - 103’ - 2016 NOTE FRIENDS BY CHANCE FEATURE FILMS 27 FRIENDS BY CHANCE TUTTO QUELLO CHE VUOI DIRECTOR: Francesco Bruni Starring: Giuliano Montaldo, Andrea Carpenzano, Arturo Bruni Alessandro is a 22-year-old turbulent and ignorant slacker from Trastevere. He has lost his mother when he was two, and has become the torment of his father who can’t imagine a future for his lazy and furious son. Giorgio is an eighty-five year old “forgotten poet” who lives in solitude and restraint in a flat on the Gianicolo Hill, with the only help of his landlady and friend. RAI CINEMA - IBC MOVIE DRAMA - HD - 106’ - 2017 NOTE 28 FEATURE FILMS FIORE DIRECTOR: Claudio Giovannesi Starring: Daphne Scoccia, Josciua Algeri, Laura Vasiliu, Valerio Mastandrea Daphne is a young girl in prison for theft. Within the walls of her confinement, she falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Males and females cannot mix at the juvenile detention centre where they are serving their time. As their love story develops and is nourished by secret letters and fleeting conversations through the bars that separate them, their prison sentences become much more than the denial of freedom. Fiore is a story about the strong desire of teenage love and its power to break any law. RAI CINEMA - PUPKIN PRODUCTION - IBC MOVIE DRAMA - HD - 110’ - 2016 NOTE THE WAR OF THE YOKELS LA GUERRA DEI CAFONI DIRECTORS: Davide Barletti and Lorenzo Conte Starring: Claudio Santamaria, Ernesto Mahieux, Alice Azzariti, Piero Dionisio, Letizia Pia Cartolaro. In a small village on the eastern coast of Puglia, a continued war between the wealthy and the yokels starts over once again.