Social & External
The people behind it
Siria Alexander Minnì
Siria
Daniele Leonforte
Andrea
Ginevra Gagliano
Ginevra
Silvia Torregrossa
Arianna
Alessio Zito
Luca
Andrea Oliveri
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
Eden, a young man, makes his first steps on stage as a drag queen. During a crucial day, he learns to let go of his insecurities.
In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).
It tells the story of two young people who, in the context of the 1968 student movement, awaken to love life and social conscience.
A short film made by three students who are trying to escape the reality.
On the night of their secondary school graduation, Ben and Lily, former friends, have what could be their last conversation before they go their separate ways.
After years of living away from home and leaving a trauma in the past, Emile receives a phone call from his mother prompting him to go back home, there is a secret he shares with his father, Dele, and his mother, Amina.
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school, Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long, and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.
A tortured man struggles to cope with the fallout from a tragic accident. Starring Adam Long (Dunkirk)
16-year-old Lara takes nude photos for her boyfriend, which soon flood social media. Lara's phone has been hacked, the photos published, and she's being blackmailed.
Young teenager Sofia is entering the difficult world of high school. Her perspective of her world changes when she meets the exciting and mysterious Ruth, who changes everything.
Sol, a reserved young woman, sees her world shift after meeting the charismatic Tainá and being introduced to the mysterious “Clube dos 27,” a social circle that challenges her sense of identity. As Sol is drawn deeper into the group’s intense dynamics, her personality begins to transform, creating tension between her emerging self-image and her deepening relationship with Tainá. Navigating desire, belonging, and self-reinvention, Sol is forced to confront what she wants—and who she is becoming—in this first chapter of a coming-of-age queer drama.
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
A group of former high school classmates reunite after seventeen years for the funeral of an old friend. Aided by alcohol and a forgotten video, they sneak into their old school one night to relive the magic of that time. But a simple reunion quickly turns into a criminal adventure.
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts.
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the U.S.
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
A 22 year-old Bangladeshi-Italian Muslim boy meets a beautiful, exciting Italian girl who makes him re-analyze his beliefs and culture.
