Agostino
9 September 2024
This is the new film by one of the most interesting Italian directors on the contemporary scene, Andrea Pallaoro, whose three last works have always been selected for main competition in Venice. This time he will try his hand at adapting a classic written by one of the most significant European and Italian intellectuals of the 20th century, Alberto Moravia, who in 1943 wrote this book entitled “Agostino”, the intense and dramatic coming-of-age story of Agostino, a 13-Years old boy who finds himself questioning his own identity and future during a dramatic summer vacation. Even through the troubled relationship with his mother and an authentic and necessary crisis, the boy eventually discloses the meaning of his life and the desire to rebuild his own world.
Costanera
Diego is a talented yet restless young trumpet player who decides to leave Rome and his girlfriend Alice to follow his musician friend Nacho to Buenos Aires, where he can test his skills in a new jazz recording, which will be the springboard for his musical career. In Argentina, Diego gradually immerses himself in the country, finding new loves and new inspirations, but he cannot escape the usual questions: does he really want to be a musician? And what if he hasn’t yet discovered his true goals?
The Move
13 February 2024
Based on the novel by Georges Simenon.
Executive Producer John Simenon.
Emilio lives a happy life. He has a nice family, a job and now he can finally realize his dream: to leave the narrow streets of the center and move into the house he bought in a new and sparkling suburb. While his wife Bianca and his teenage son Alessandro seem to slide happily into the new routine, Emilio feels the doubt of the wrong choice. His sense of inadequacy is fed by the new neighbors. Listening to their erotic games through the wall, torn between discomfort and excitement, soon becomes an obsession for Emilio, who increasingly disconnects from reality.
Les Italiens
The true story of Les Italiens: Gigi Rizzi, Beppe Piroddi and Franco Rapetti, dashing youths armed with charme and joie de vivre, who in the summer of ‘68, while revolutions were raging through the streets and squares of the entire world, inflamed the beaches and the movida of Saint Tropez.
Firenze
After the death of her parents, Lucia – a middle-age woman – needs to understand what to do with their house – a wonderful villa in the center of Florence where she grew up: for Lucia, taking a decision will mean putting her life into question.
Pompei – The Ancient Domina in Abbondanza Street
The dream of eternal beauty, art as a common thread of history and human restlessness. The vitality of a woman determines the course of events over the centuries. Set in four distinct and distant eras, a “villa”, of the legendary Pompeian Via dell’Abbondanza, rebuilt and frescoed with the help of the most modern digital special effects, “Pompei” is the new work by Giuseppe Gaudino, one of the most eccentric and visionary talents of Italian cinema.
Memory Hole
9 February 2024
Vallata, a picturesque village in the heart of the Marche region, was devastated by bombings during World War II. Despite its small number of houses, it became a refuge for people on the run: former fascists, collaborators, partisans, the rich, the poor—anyone with one clear desire: to erase their past and start a new life. A sort of unspoken agreement among the inhabitants emerged, coinciding with the birth of the Italian Republic. No resentment, no dissent. Everything buried forever. The result? The children and grandchildren of that village grew up with a past shrouded in mystery and uncertainty.
In 2024, eighty years later, everything seems to have been forgotten. Then the unthinkable happens. Suddenly, people aged 16 to 67 begin losing their memories. Those affected by this phenomenon, nicknamed the “Memory Hole,” experience the disappearance of their memories, forgetting relatives, routines, and even their own identities. But what is causing this? While official investigations continue, two individuals take matters into their own hands: Stefania Giovannini, a brilliant oncologist who ended up there by chance, and Matteo Basile, a photojournalist who returned to the village to care for his older brother, who is suffering from the Memory Hole.
They will uncover that the roots of this mystery reach back to the inexplicable massacre that shook the village eighty years earlier. “Through our children, we will live again,” said an old tale Matteo’s grandfather had heard as a child. The Memory Hole seems to attempt just that: to revive the memories of fathers in the minds of their children. But who is the puppeteer behind it all? And what dark purpose lies behind this unsettling resurrection of memory?
Created by: Isabella Aguilar, Gaetano Colella e Andrea Simonetti
Bye Bye, Men!
Near future: women no longer need men to reproduce. It’s been five years since an individual with XY chromosomes was last born. In other words: males are on the brink of extinction. Dario (28) is admitted to the dreaded Bechdel Clinic, a rehabilitation center for men unable to accept their new marginal role in society. Here, Dr. Rosa (47) employs methods as bizarre as they are controversial to transform patients into the perfect men of the future.
But for Dario, the choice is far from simple. He could follow the therapy and become the ideal man for Giulia (25), a young journalist and unwavering feminist… or carry out the mission entrusted to him by his father Silvio (56), leader of the Circle of Men, determined to expose the clinic’s alleged dark secrets.
Three weeks, one therapy, and one infiltration: who will Dario be when he comes out?
The Ballad of Mila
17 March 2023
Tv series based upon the novel “The Ballad of Mila” by the best-selling author Matteo Strukul.
Two criminal gangs compete for the control of the territory in Veneto. In the middle, a ruthless woman ready to rewrite the fate of the contenders: Mila Zago, aka Red Dread.
Mila was just a little girl when the local clique murdered her father right in front of her and then raped her. From that moment she spent the last years honing her revenge: Mila has forgotten the beauty of life, and she has already planned her own death: the day in which the last killer of her father will die, she will use the last bullet for herself. Her plan is questioned after meeting with the analyst Chiara, if Mila can find a reason to live, she will not kill herself.
Official selection at the Mia Drama Pitching Forum 2022
Gangs of Rome
Rome 1892. A small criminal from the working-class district of Testaccio starts from the street and aims to conquer Rome, in the years in which the city is turning into a metropolis. An unstoppable rise, a great aspirational novel, a journey into the dark side of power.
Selected for the Official Competition at the Mia Drama Pitching Forum 2021
From ad idea of Gianluca Curti
