The Dependent Variables

The Dependent Variables 2022

6.00

In a dark, velvety theatre, there is a first kiss between Pietro and Tommaso. When the lights come back on, however, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.

2022

The March on Rome

The March on Rome 2022

6.40

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

2022

The Last House in the Woods

The Last House in the Woods 2006

4.40

A woman escapes a group of bullies seeking to rape her and takes refuge with a seemingly kind couple who have a dark secret hidden in their quiet, secluded house.

2006

The Necklace

The Necklace 2014

4.30

Marco is a shy courier instructed to deliver some jewels in a photo studio. Here he meets Giorgio, the photographer: handsome, gay, cheeky.

2014

The case is closed, go in peace

The case is closed, go in peace 2022

1

A tough detective is on the trail of a dangerous new drug that is flooding the area. With a lot of nonchalance and a perfect wig, he gets closer and closer to the culprits, but doesn't miss out on regularly attending church services. He has to! The only problem is that the local priest turns out to be not so innocent in the drug case.

2022

Wordless

Wordless 1996

5.70

Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her.

1996

Fake Shot

Fake Shot 2023

1

Two musicians brothers face the mob.

2023

Non sono nessuno

Non sono nessuno 2014

1

Inspired by actual events in Naples, a night shift of three paramedics goes slowly by, deadly dull as ever. Blood and suffering always belonging to the "nobodies" - but an unexpected call is going to jeopardize their lives.

2014

The Imperial Lullaby

The Imperial Lullaby 2020

5.30

The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.

2020

Cavie

Cavie 2009

1

Six strangers wake up handcuffed in the back of a truck. Left in the woods with just a chest full of weapons and a military strategy book, they soon find out that someone is after them and have to choose whether to be prey or hunters. Rare unreleased low-budget horror film, starring CSC (Rome Film School) students.

2009

A Conspiracy Man

A Conspiracy Man 2022

6.50

In a lower-class neighborhood in Rome, there is a barber who believes in conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock of his family but also at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police.

2022

In the Dark

In the Dark 2005

6.10

Sometimes eroticism lays hidden in that moment suspended within the space that separates two bodies which cannot touch each other.

2005