Paola Sotgiu

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for advice on how to break up with her man: it is none other than Zoe, his partner of ten years, unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private to learn more.

Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?

Two young men from different backgrounds, with different upbringings and life stories, find themselves lost on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They soon realize that the only way for them to survive is to set aside their differences and work together.

"My Second Time" is a movie about the importance of choices. Every day, as we live, we face crossroads, more or less visible, that force us to choose: enter or exit, "yes" or "no." It's part of everyone's daily life. There are difficult choices, those that require attention, reflection, and time. And there are easy, immediate ones, which we respond to almost without thinking because "we like it." Choices of the mind and choices of the gut, we might say. Yet the common denominator of choices, whether easy or difficult, is the uncertainty of the outcome.

Fil and Mia are a close-knit couple and have lived together for years, although very different in character and attitudes: eclectic up-and-coming filmmaker he, methodical math professor she. Their routine is broken by an argument that culminates in an unexpected marriage proposal from Mia and Fil's subsequent elopement. This event triggers a set of stories that weave into a single narrative involving relatives and friends of the couple. Lives and loves at all ages will collide and intermingle only to end in a rousing surprise ending.

An Italian boy dreams of becoming a bullfighter. In the sunny Andalusian pasture, a calf is born destined to be a fighting bull. Humans and animals grow up in totally different worlds, but their lives reflect each other. Only in the end will they meet.

The film tells of a penniless young man who is forced to pretend to be a cancer patient in order not to be evicted from his house. The encounter with Claudia, a terminally ill girl, forces him to confront his castle of lies.

In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.

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

While chaos rules over Rome, established alliances are at risk as tensions rise with emerging criminal clans. The world of "Suburra" takes a new turn.