Christian Poli

A Rashomon-esque journey through enmeshing power and institutional violence, focusing on three different characters navigating Sendai City on the verge of a new era, where democracy will be perfected, human will be machines and rebels will be exterminated for this sakes

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...

Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.

Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions.

There are people still searching for a place in the world, wayfarers marked by painful histories looking for a place to start over: a house. The Passengers tells their stories and that of "Housing first," a philosophy that puts social housing at its core. In their stories of often-conflicting cohabitation, and in the evocation of tortuous life paths, a sense of a possible way to seize an opportunity for redemption emerges.

From her roots in Southern Italy to her landing in Bologna, the trans leader Porpora Marcasciano relives her self-discovery, from a negated identity to battles for human rights.