Simone Liberati

Bangla

A 22 year-old Bangladeshi-Italian Muslim boy meets a beautiful, exciting Italian girl who makes him re-analyze his beliefs and culture.

Antartica - Quasi una fiaba

A small group of scientists, unreachable for eight months, explores the future of humanity. Maria Medri, a foreign genius, arrives in Antarctica, challenging Fulvio Cadorna's plans. They are similar but conflicting, as everyone desires their own. This scientific, ideological, and emotional conflict unfolds.

Libre Garance !

It is the summer of 1982. Garance is eleven years old and lives in a remote hamlet in the Cevennes where her parents are trying to lead an alternative life. When two Italian activists rob a bank in the area, things go wrong. This event turns Garance and her family's life upside down.

Il primo figlio

Suburra

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

Golden Youth

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.

My Birthday

Riccardino has been separated for four years from his mother, a woman with strong personality disorders. Despite the thoughtful and attentive guidance of his educator, who wants to lead him towards a safe future in the family home, Riccardino decides to run away, join his mother and live with her.

The Match

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

Bangla

A 22 year-old Bangladeshi-Italian Muslim boy meets a beautiful, exciting Italian girl who makes him re-analyze his beliefs and culture.

Antartica - Quasi una fiaba

A small group of scientists, unreachable for eight months, explores the future of humanity. Maria Medri, a foreign genius, arrives in Antarctica, challenging Fulvio Cadorna's plans. They are similar but conflicting, as everyone desires their own. This scientific, ideological, and emotional conflict unfolds.

Libre Garance !

It is the summer of 1982. Garance is eleven years old and lives in a remote hamlet in the Cevennes where her parents are trying to lead an alternative life. When two Italian activists rob a bank in the area, things go wrong. This event turns Garance and her family's life upside down.

Il primo figlio

Suburra

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

Golden Youth

Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.

My Birthday

Riccardino has been separated for four years from his mother, a woman with strong personality disorders. Despite the thoughtful and attentive guidance of his educator, who wants to lead him towards a safe future in the family home, Riccardino decides to run away, join his mother and live with her.

The Match

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

My Daughter's First Time

Panicked after finding out that his teenage daughter wants to lose her virginity, an overprotective father comes up with a plan to dissuade her.

Quei due: Edda e Galeazzo Ciano

Love Under House Arrest

A young insurance salesman takes advantage of the fact that a beautiful young woman he is attracted to is under house arrest, so cannot go anywhere to escape him.

Sun, Heart, Love

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.

Pure Hearts

Agnese and Stefano are profoundly different. She is only seventeen, lives with her mother – a harsh and devoted woman – is a regular church-goer and is about to take a vow of chastity to last until marriage. He is twenty-five, has a violent temper and a difficult past behind. He works as a warden in a car park that borders a Roma camp. Their unexpected meeting engenders a true sentiment, made of little stolen moments and mutual help.

The Armadillo's Prophecy

A 27-year-old suburban slacker entertains daily conversations bordering on paradoxical with his conscience, which manifests itself in the form of a human-sized armadillo. Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Zerocalcare.

The Furlough

The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.

Feliz Navidad

If the heart remains the one of a child, is it really that absurd to meet Santa on a Christmas Eve?

L'ultimo piano

In the top-floor apartment of a large building on the outskirts of Rome, the lives of three young roommates intertwine with that of Aurelio, a former punk singer trapped in his glorious past.

La regola d'oro

Between Lazio, Taormina and Morocco is the story of Ettore, a young Italian soldier kidnapped in Lebanon after an act of insubordination. After several months of captivity, he is freed and finally returned to Italy. His home country waits for him with bated breath, ready to hail him as a hero. The army itself wants to present him in this capacity at the Taormina Film Festival. But the protagonist has only one wish: to disappear and leave the past behind. However, his expectations are not pandered to, and the soldier is entrusted to a TV writer whose job it is to prepare him for the show. And who knows, on stage Hector may discover a way to make peace with his past....

The Truth Between Us

Lucia and Paolo are two 30-something actors who have been together for many years. Their relationship, much like their careers, has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs—lately, more downs than ups. To reignite both their love life and their shot at fame, they decide to participate in a reality show where they must each recount their love story separately. They make a pact: they will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But is their version of the truth the same? Will this experience bring them closer together or tear them apart for good?

Holy Shoes

The film tells, through the stories of four characters whose lives, in different forms and manners, are either changed or endangered by shoes, an object symbolizing desire par excellence, what we are willing to do to find our identity in the world, how far we go to be loved and accepted. It narrates a world where everyone desires what they don't have, where everyone wants to be what they are not.

Bangla The Series

Rome, nowadays. Phaim and Asia are two distant worlds and, at first glance, incompatible. He is Muslim and rooted in Bengali family traditions, she is an atheist and the daughter of separated parents. Yet, despite everything, they love each other. The series is taken from the homonymous film "Bangla", which continues the story.

No Place Like Home

A loss and a secret from the past put in crisis an apparently perfect family.

Mental

Nico is a 16 year old girl who has in her head a chaos in which she can no longer orient herself, made of anxiety attacks, visions and voices that speak to her. After a hallucinatory episode, she is taken in charge by a psychiatric clinic with the diagnosis of schizophrenia and there she meets Michele, Emma and Daniel. The four boys form a group and face together a difficult, but fundamental, path towards self-knowledge and self-acceptance.

Doppio gioco

Chiamami ancora amore

After 11 years of marriage and one child, Anna and Enrico separate. Their separation soon becomes a destructive war, with the result that social services are forced to intervene to assess their parenting skills.