Irene Grazioli

17.yy İtalya'da ünlü bir keman ustası tarafından üretilen kırmızı bir kemanin şimdiki tarihe kadar başından geçenleri anlatan uluslararası bir yapım. Film tarot falı ile açılır, süresince falın anlattığı 'doğacak çocuğun' yerini kırmızı keman alır. Keman kırmızıdır çünkü 'doğacak çocuk' doğamamış annesiyle beraber ölmüştür, kanlarıyla da keman cilalanmıştır. Bu muhteşem Kanada, ABD, İtalya ortak yapımı film alışılmışın dışında çarpıcı bir öyküyle çıkıyor karşımıza.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında bir grup İtalyan askeri, Ege Denizi'ndeki küçük bir adayı işgal etmek ve savunmak üzere gönderilir. Büyük bir tedirginlikle adaya çıkan askerler, karşılarında ıssız bir yer bulur. İlk şaşkınlık geçince adanın tadını çıkarmaya başlarlar. Zamanla, gelenlerin tehdit oluşturmadığını fark eden ve saklanan Yunan halkı ortaya çıkar. İki taraf arasında dostane ilişkiler kurulur ve adada hayat, sanki savaş yokmuş gibi devam eder. Farklı milletlerden bu insanlar öyle iyi anlaşır ki, İtalyanlar asker olduklarını bile unutur. Bu deneyim, onlara dostluk, aşk, düşmanlık ve sevgi gibi kavramları yeniden sorgulatır. Bu savaş, neredeyse güzel bile görünmeye başlar.

In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.

A struggling musician living in New York starts working at an Italian restaurant and falls in love with two women.

The story of a young Calabrian widow who initially reclusive, must come to terms with her loss and live her life.

Baron Jacopo lives with his beautiful wife and spends his days playing funny pranks and worrying about not having children. His life could change when a young revolutionary, Leonardo, enters the scene, belonging to a group to which Jacopo has procured weapons for fun. Leonardo, encouraged by Jacopo himself, will actively participate in the couple's sexual activity; then he will impregnate the woman and leave the palace.

A musician's brother's girlfriend is found dead, but is the brother or the sister to blame?

In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals effort to build a sort of precarious family. In the end you could almost feel there's still a slender thread of hope for them to hang on

Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?