GIFF XXXIX (2016) - Italy in Focus
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- DirectorEleonora DancoStarsEleonora Danco
- DirectorAdriano ValerioStarsEdoardo GabbrielliniElena RadonicichStefan VelniciucTwo Italians looking for work and happiness abroad.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsLello ArenaPaola CortellesiCarolina Crescentini10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsRoberto HerlitzkaPier Giorgio BellocchioLidiya LibermanBalancing between the past and the present, the darkness and the light, within the musky stone walls of Santa Chiara's 17th-century convent prison in Bobbio, a sinful Sister and a cultivated night owl Count are somehow linked together.
- DirectorClaudio CaligariStarsLuca MarinelliAlessandro BorghiSilvia D'AmicoVittorio and Cesare are brothers for life, but their friendship is put to the test in their search for wealth.
- DirectorGiorgia CecereStarsIsabella RagoneseAlessio BoniFaysal AbbaouiA married couple's seemingly perfect life is turned upside down when Lucia uncovers secrets that push her to break her usual routine.
- DirectorPietro MarcelloStarsTommaso CestroneSergio VitoloGesuino PittalisThe foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey's end does not bring what they were hoping for.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsTilda SwintonMatthias SchoenaertsRalph FiennesA famous rock star's vacation in Italy with her boyfriend is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
- DirectorMattia EpifaniStarsVito Alfieri FontanaA former manufacturer of landmines in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a journey where he will have the opportunity to come to terms with himself and face the ghosts of his past.
- DirectorAlessio Rigo de RighiMatteo ZoppisStarsErcole ColnagoBruno Di GiovanniUgo FarnettiA documentary about the story of Mario de Marcella, a hermit that lived in the woods near Rome. He was called by hunters "Il Solengo" because that's how they call the lone boar that is cut off from the rest of the pack.
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsMark KelleyLisa AllenJames Lee MillerIn an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, renowned documentarian Roberto Minervini opens a window to the abyss of today's America.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsVirna LisiMarisa ParedesAngela FinocchiaroThe five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
- DirectorFrancesca ArchibugiStarsAlessandro GassmannMicaela RamazzottiValeria GolinoPaolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsClaudio SantamariaCamillo GrassiNiccolò SenniA group of soldiers face the difficulty of war during one night at the Italian Front.
- DirectorFederico LodoliCarlo Gabriele TribbioliAn evocation of the God of war introduces the film. A framework ties together and abstracts seven portraits of Liberian warriors from their context. Their voices present war as an ineluctable human expression of destructive forces that are, at the same time, universal and individual, real and archetypical.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
- DirectorAlberto CavigliaStarsDavide GiordanoAnna FerruzzoBianca NappiTrastevere, the historic district of the Italian capital is put into turmoil by a sensational news story: Leonardo Zulliani has disappeared. The case becomes a true national emergency, but who's Leonardo? And what really happened?
- DirectorClaudio CupelliniStarsElio GermanoAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyValerio BinascoFausto and Nadine meet for the first time in a hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is working as a waiter hoping to find success, but in vain. Nadine is a young and beautiful French girl. They will fall in love with each other and suffer together for their fate.
- DirectorStefania BonaFrancesca ScalisiThe last public bath in the city of Turin where everybody can take a shower: a microcosm of our society where stories and conflicts flow as water on bodies.
- DirectorCarlo LavagnaStarsOndina QuadriMassimo PopolizioValentina CarneluttiAs Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- DirectorFerdinando Cito FilomarinoStarsLinda CaridiFilippo DiniAlessio PraticòA journey through the last ten years in the brief life of Italian poet Antonia Pozzi. This is the portrait of an artist and of her art set in 1930s Milan.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsJeanne MoreauMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiA day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsFreddie JonesBarbara JeffordVictor PolettiIn 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.