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 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

Giganti

Giganti 2007

1

In his attempt to grow up and become a man, Pietro, a 15 years old boy who lives in the extreme south of Italy, begins to understand the reality in which he is growing up and touches what represents the most violent aspect of mafia: the silence.

2007

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

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 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 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

Pure

Pure 2023

1.00

Love, hate, desire and jealousies are in the midle of a couple, that of Andrea and Fabrizio, who questioning the certainties of their relationship and their feelings.

2023

Anne

Anne 2019

8.00

James wakes up in the middle of night after a nightmare regarding war and deaths.

2019

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