Giustiniano Alpi

My Brilliant Friend

Rolando Berti

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Martin Eden

Arturo Orsini

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

The Commander

Morandi

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.

Kidnapped

Liberale

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

Blue Kids

Complice

A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.

Crystal Girl

Studente Rasato

A seventeen-year-old girl hasn’t left her room in an indefinite amount of time. Those like her call them hikikomori, they are teenagers who decide to build themselves a little prison, leaving the outside world outside the door. Her routine is broken when, online, she meets Dev, a boy ten years older. The two fall in love immediately.For her it is the first love. In order to meet Dev, she must leave that cage. But there is someone willing to do anything to prevent her from getting out of there.

Doppelgänger

July 22nd 2017, at first light. Anna Persico awakes and find a red box near her bed. Inside, just a note with incomprehensible symbols. From that moment, her life totally changes. Few moments later Anna's phone rings: it's a friend asking help. Just few and upset words asking Anna reaching her in a forsaken mansion in the nearby before the phone line breaks. At the same time, on October 15th 1817, police commissioner Fosco Oleari investigates on suicide of Vittoria Clementi, a girl who looks just alike Anna. On the crime scene there are also a cane and a gown soiled of blood. Local doctor's wife is missing from the day before. What will the past set aside?