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A french couple adopt 2 lithuanian kids. To help them adapt they hire Gabi, a bilingual student. Cultural differences, mismatched attitudes, disparate values and diverse educational methods soon ignite conflicts between the adults.

Ivan and Chiara meet on a beautiful Sicilian island to prepare for the wedding of Ivan's brother and Chiara's best friend. Despite the fact that Ivan is determined not to repeat the failure of his last relationship and Chiara does not want to jeopardise her marriage, the two fall in love with each other. They resolve to live their relationship for only a few days and then break it off when the wedding guests arrive on the island. However, they made such a plan, without taking love into account...

GLASSBOY Pino Gambassi is a child suffering from haemophilia and is animated by an unbridled desire for freedom and boundless courage: he decides to start his adventure in the world and to show everyone that he can live his life like a normal kid.

In 1969, a Mexican town harbors a secret about Neil Armstrong's birthplace. A journalist tries to uncover the truth and gain fame by convincing the residents to confirm the rumor that "El Güero" Armstrong was born there.

They are very young and come from all over the industrial districts of Tuscany, so different from the famous hills of Chianti: the steelworks of Piombino, the port of Livorno and the Piaggio factories in Pontedera. It is the red province of "houses of the people" and the Italian Communist Party. Getting away from this region is a dream for them, but this is 1968 and everything is possible. They receive an offer they can't turn down, a tour in the Far East: Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore. Armed with musical instruments and a desire to sing, they set off hoping for success but find themselves in the middle of a war, and the war is the real one of Vietnam. Fifty years later Le Stars tell the story of their adventure amongst American soldiers, remote jungle bases and soul music.

Geneva, a man wakes up in a hotel room. He has a wound in the head and a gun under the pillow, but no recollection of his identity or past life. Soon he realizes he is in danger, chased by someone who wants to kill him. Yuki is a young illustrator of children's books who lives in Kyoto. Since the death of her Italian boyfriend, she has lost the power of speech, but has developed extrasensory abilities that allow her to see the dead and communicate with their spirits. After her boyfriend appears to her in a dream, she decides to go out to Italy and look for a legendary island where people can find the things they have lost. In Geneva, Yuki meets the man with no memory. She tells him that there is the ghost of a young Japanese woman constantly by his side. The man and Yuki establish a relationship of tenderness and care. The man finds out he was a former police chief who had resigned after the murder of his wife by some criminals acting out of retaliation. After disappearing without leaving a trace and committing murder in revenge, he is now not only in danger, but on the run from the police. The man decides to drive away with Yuko and start a journey that leads them to the legendary island. There they will eventually find what they have lost and rejoin, each in their own way, their loved ones. The project deals with the thriller genre combining a "ghost story", a "gangster story" and a "fantasy story" which should be set in Japan, Kyoto, and in Italy. White Flowers is an amazing fairy tale able to make meet Italian and Japanese cinema, an ideal movie on which to build a solid financing project and an innovative marketing strategy.

Chiara is the matriarch of an Italian-descendant family torn apart. After her youngest son moves out, she decides to go along with Alfredo, her husband, on his trips as a salesman in the bars of Serra Gaúcha, in Southern Brazil. Their trust in each other breaks down when Chiara finds out about Alfredo's life on the road and he realizes she hides something. A turtle and decks of cards will put to the test their 50-years relationship.

The after dinner chat between a banker and his friend. The overwhelming power of the money that turns a true anarchist into a true financier.

The documentary film Redemption Song sings the song of redemption that the African refugee Cissoko, dreams for his people and his land. Having arrived in Italy, in the hottest time of migration, Cissoko decides to return home to convince his young brothers to not emigrate in search of false dreams. Once in Africa, he begins to make projections in schools and villages to inform its people about the precarious living conditions of many immigrants, often dramatically close to slavery. 'Virtually' accompanied on his trip by a few artists and by the memory of Thomas Sankara, Cissoko reiterates over and over to his brothers his invitation to put an end to internal conflicts, to unite and to emancipate Africa, working for its progress while not abandoning it to Western chimera. Eventually, our protagonist's quest will take him to Brazil to pay homage to the descendants of slaves who, thanks to the unity they have achieved, have kept their African origins alive. At the core of the documentary lies the awareness that what is first and foremost necessary is an internal emancipation capable of inciting each individual to fight for their own true essence. Therefore, it is also the evocation of slavery that Redemption Song deals with, making itself spokesman of the black universe which, still today, is certainly the greatest victim of this injustice.

The documentary film was born with the idea of telling facts that really happened in the history of the famous Chilean artist Carmengloria Morales through her art and her relationship with music.

Yuki, a Japanese illustrator of fables, can see the spirits of the dead men. Called in dream by her dead fiancé, she goes to Italy, where she meets Marcello, a man who has lost his memory and that he is constantly followed by the ghost of a woman. In the meantime, Yuki draws the history, narrated by her fiancé, of a demon who holds imprisoned a young girl in a island. Marcello and Yuki start together a trip...

"I was born traveling. My first memories are connected to the scent of new places. Luggage just opened, mothballs, shoe polish and the particular scent that permeated my mother's dresses." The life experiences, and travel memoirs of one of the most fascinating witnesses of the XX century: Dacia Maraini, one of Italy's most famous writers, arguably the most translated Italian author in the world. This film is an intimate diary, narrated through unseen photos and film clips, revisiting her memories of legendary journeys around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and her close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas. "During our journeys Alberto used to write articles for magazines, I would jot down notes for my novels and Pier Paolo scouted for movie locations. A journey back through Dacia Maraini's past, as well as a gripping portrait of the XX century shown through the historical events she lived through first hand that would deeply influence her work and artistic path. "I travel a lot so as to surpass the temptation of settling into a routine. Routine shortens the time we have , travel enlarges it."

Electric bass, drums and percussion, guitar, clarinet, bass clarinet, double bass, piano, keyboard, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, violin, cello, viola, French horn, tuba, accordion, vocals (male and female): this are the instruments that will participate in the composition of the National Jazz Orchestra Young Talents. 125 talents from all over Italy, selected by the best representatives of the Italian jazz music, will become 25 boys and girls, twenty-five elements, twenty-five people who will give life to their swing, trying to follow their dream: a life playing music. A film that through the adventure of this orchestra, becomes the occasion to tell the present and the future of our country.

One morning, in Ottavia, in the northern suburbs of Rome, in the middle school Pablo Neruda a piece of news upsets the minds of the students of the classes II F and II G, linked by a deep and bitter rivalry. It seems in fact that Romeo of the second G and Juliet of the second F fell in love. Will it be true or not? And those two, don't they think about the consequences of their feelings? And what if the feeling of love between the two could put an end to any dispute?