Dorsia

An anxious young man struggles to accept his vulnerabilities whilst on holiday in an upper-class summer residence in Sardinia with his overtly masculine family.

The prototype [TEST TYPE • 154] is a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence, which is capable of autonomously acquiring notions from its surroundings and - eventually - developing autonomy of thought. Given the nearly human nature of its learning capabilities, the laboratory that programmed it hires a kindergarten teacher, asking him to instruct the machine as if it were a newborn child. The learning process - which spans 7 days - becomes increasingly insidious in the long run, posing a peculiar yet crucial problem: can there be a form of autonomous thinking that excludes emotions?

Federico celebrates his birthday in the mountains with his historical group of old friends. Despite the affection and memories of so many years spent together, Federico's mind is clouded by some doubts and uncertainties, which lead him to reflect on his relationships and on himself.

Lucas and his crew of fellow writers spend their days in a secret forest that stretches along the railway. Lucas, however, is uneasy: something ominous is happening in the woods and he is the only one able to sense it. An unexpected encounter with a mysterious figure leads Lucas to a cathartic moment, suspended between conflict and freedom.

The Lightning Woman can move at supersonic speed and teleport, watching over the city and its inhabitants. But, to face everyday life, sometimes superpowers are not enough.

Grosseto, early 1990s. In an abandoned quarry, Sami, a young Albanian boy, lives in isolation with Massimo, who looks after him. During the night, the arrival of a man with a kidnapped child transforms the quarry into a suspended, indecipherable space, in which Sami is left alone.

A woman with an hurted face sits in the half-light of a room. The incoming of a second character brokes the stasis in which she’s trapped.

Ian and Hector, two young men who grew up in the suburbs, want to spend the evening at Milan's most exclusive club. Turned away at the door, the boys end up getting lost in an urban odyssey.

At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.

On the evening of 21 November 1974, the Provisional Irish Republic of Army carried out a terrorist attack in Birmingham (UK). It was recognised as the bloodiest attack in the Troubles England. This short film tells the “behind the scenes” of this attack, which hides a series of mistakes, delays and frictions within the same terrorist cell responsible for it.

The first day of a boy fresh out of SERT, searching for beauty on the shores of Lake Garda. A melancholy look at the value of trust, the story of an impossible intimacy between two people unable to get close.

A garage night watchman must face the consequences of his lies when the ghost of his colleague who died because of him shows up to haunt him through the garage's surveillance system.