Tommaso Avati

A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiography.

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan.

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.

The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to this day. On that day, radio took its first tentative steps into our homes, broadcasting a brief official announcement followed by the inaugural concert of Haydn's Quartet Op. 7. At that precise moment, we imagined that a child was born in a working-class neighborhood of the capital, whose voice would accompany us throughout this journey.

When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.

Rome, 1947. The war is over but in the eternal city is still open and obvious wounds of the conflict. In the maternity ward of a hospital, nine women are waiting to give birth...

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro.

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden.

40-year-old Arnold Gardner is put in charge of the talk show "The Twenty-fifth Hour" after the death of the former host Duncan Mackay. His role on screen creates immediate interest and the program becomes a great success with TV audiences. This proves to be a period of great satisfaction for Arnold, but his childhood friend, Eddie Greenberg, suddenly comes on the scene. Eddie is ill and frustrated by lack of success, and is so resentful and envious of Arnold's fame that he wants him to make a full public confession of a "sin" he committed in his young days.

After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.

Dony and Marco, two high school students from Bologna, live an intense love story until he starts suffering serious neurological damage after a ski accident.

The entire Rienzi family eagerly awaits their summer return to the country house, where each member hopes to experience a truly special stay. Vittorio, the father—recently struck by a heart attack—and his wife Marinella dream of revitalizing their troubled marriage; their daughter Eleonora, a single mother, hopes to rekindle a romance with the local heartthrob, Antonio; and their fifteen-year-old son Matteo—who has failed three school subjects—aims to win over the beautiful young Fiorenza, whom he has thought about all winter long. As their dreams and hopes collide with reality, the Rienzi family will experience a summer that proves pivotal and transformative for their lives.

The story, based on the lives of the director's parents, is set in Bologna and begins on the banks of the Reno River. The protagonists are Francesca Osti, daughter of a socialist worker, and Carlo Dagnini, son of a middle-class merchant. Within a few years, Francesca and Carlo leave their respective partners and begin a relationship despite their social and political differences. However, Carlo and Francesca are forced to return to Bologna to their families, partly due to the attack on Togliatti.