True and unique story of three women, from different generations, united by a common thread and destiny.
1970 Rome, San Giovanni Hospital, Leondina Giacca is been kidnapped 2 hours after her birth and sold to the Villa Panphili Orphanage. At the age of 3, Leondina was given up for adoption with another name and date of birth: Monica Somma, born December 22, 1970.
In 1970, San Giovanni Hospital and Villa Pamphili Orphanage were owned by the Vatican.This is not an isolated case but a criminal system that enriched itself with a religious alibi.
A healer with extraordinary powers suffers the worst of curses: he can’t save his sick wife. But close to him there’s his beloved granddaughter, who doesn’t give up.
On the death of his stepfather, Aldo, an anchorman in crisis, inherits the farmhouse in the countryside where he spent most of his childhood. Depressed and waiting for an answer for the resumption of his old TV show, sends his young assistant Susy to deal with the paperwork. Susy reluctantly accepts and once there he will have to deal with a reality very different from how he had imagined it. The farmhouse is now a Country House managed by two factors, Ugo and Amalia, and five "madmen" who work the fields, the vineyards, look after the cattle and keep what it is a small but well equipped company: Casa Matta. The arrival of Susy and the probable sale of the farmhouse, will put them in fibrillation. And they will do everything to prevent this from happening.
The Confessor can be found in a black car, parked at night. He is a man with no name, who listens patiently to the secrets and desires of passersby. No obstacle lies in the way, no sin is too grievous: all those who enter that car, will leave, but only after having received penance and absolution. So who is the Confessor? A mobster? A priest? A chauffeur? A hitman? Men and women who enter the ‘Confessional’ ask the Confessor to rid them of their enemies and sins alike. In this half-way world, made up of veiled but strong metaphors, nothing is what it seems; not all sinners know they have sinned and many are unknowing puppets, manipulated from above by invisible strings and unseen hands. The Confessor ‘resolves problems’. His devotees’ enemies vanish into thin air, and the Confessor is like the heavenly and earthly needle on the scale of justice. Thanks to him, the ungodly actions of a few select people will remain unpunished and unknown to many. However, human life is fragile and this may well be the true divine justice. The Confessor has just found out his time is limited and close to the end. He therefore must extricate his life from that of others in order to find his own personal absolution.
In una famiglia di ladri di pecore, un ragazzo di 15 anni deve scontrarsi con la prepotenza del padre per aiutare il fratello minore a mantenere l'agnellino rimasto orfano dopo l'ultima razzia.
Twenty one long years. That’s how many Angelo Massaro spent under lock and key, before he was found innocent of a crime he never committed. He was the protagonist of one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice that has ever occurred in Italy. A human odyssey that brings back to life - emotionally and physically - the key places and people that frame the story of this man’s unjust incarceration, and the shocking events surrounding it.
"Seventh Degree" is a thriller set in a single location, developing the premise of the story through the flashback technique. A less than harmonious family meets for dinner at an isolated farmhouse in the Lazio countryside. A troubled son, with delusions of self-harm and suicidal instincts; a successful, but cynical and anaffective father; his new Ukrainian partner, algid and leading a double life (or so it seems); and a little deaf-mute, the couple's daughter, connected to the world through a Senegalese nanny who speaks to her through sign language. A somewhat ordinary evening, with the usual tensions and conflicts, which will be demolished, however, by a sequence of twists and turns.
After a long car journey, Roberta walks a few dozen metres far from her from home. Her journey goes smoothly until she receives a phone call that confronts her brother's petulance, her father's anxiety, her grandmother's madness and an unexpected realization.
A group of friends on the edge of adulthood travel to a party. Stuck in traffic, they make a stop and enter an abandoned place, which evokes in the group an ancient feeling that will plunge them into their inner turmoil.
Lucia, a 10-year-old girl, throws a stone at her little brother. Frightened, she runs away and hides at grandma Enza's house; to distract her, the woman will tell her a ghost story revealing an important truth.
Single mother, Clara, looks forward to dinner with her son Dario to give him a present she got for him. However, during dinner a terrible thing Dario did will come to light, and Clara will have to decide how to handle what her son has done.
During a couple’s therapy, a young woman realizes how her married life has definitely changed. Through the words of the psychotherapist, the woman must choose whether or not to accept the origin of her pain to try to move forward.
"Cani" is the story of a man, THE GUARDIAN, and of a CHILD. Both forced to live in a reality made of dust, blood and violence, that of clandestine dog fighting. The child is the protagonist of this story. Exploited like the dogs he takes care of, he too lives in a "cage" from which it is impossible to escape. He has no friends, desires or interests. Like an automaton with precise functions, he repeats his duties constantly, day after day, without knowing the difference between what is right and what is wrong. Only a chance encounter will be able to ignite hope in him. The guardian is a mysterious, scruffy man with an unknown past. He lives with the child, with whom he takes care of the fighting dogs. Aware of the ruthless reality in which they live, he too turns out to be a prisoner of this world.
Agosto 1988. In una campagna lontana un gruppo di ragazzi è intento a compiere una missione ignaro del destino che la terra ha in serbo per loro.
What seems to be an ordinary phone call between a man and a sex worker disguises a far more complex intent. A gesture of deep understanding. An act of unconditional love.
Una ragazza calva e un ragazzo dai capelli lunghi cercano di risolvere i loro problemi con l'hijab nella sede della Polizia morale di Teheran.
Boy meets girl in a house on the mountains. Out of the blue, he wakes up in his Turin flat in 2046, when technology has gained the upper hand over human relationships.
In 1985, the Pope visits Atri, a small town in the region of Abruzzo. It’s an important event for the town, and the whole community has taken the day off. Everyone is getting ready to welcome His Holiness, and even the farmers, dressed in their Sunday best, are preparing for the big day. Fernando, however, has other ideas. He gives his family the slip and sneaks off on his ramshackle scooter to the home of his sweetheart, Silvia. Meanwhile, the Pope is greeted by the enraptured crowds.
Joseph è un uomo di 50 anni solitario e sconfitto che lavora come clown vendendo palloncini fuori da un molo fatiscente. Il mondo ha rinunciato a lui. E lui ha rinunciato al mondo. Questo fino a quando Annie, cameriera di un bar, gli chiede un appuntamento e gli mostra che finalmente la vita può essere magnifica.
A bounty hunter rides for days looking for a bandit.... He finds him reveling in a saloon and decides to challenge him in a different way
Lucrezia, widowed and elderly, can no longer think about the future unless she buys a coffin in advance of her death. The most difficult thing will be explaining this to her son Antonio who is alarmed by the presence of the coffin in his mother's house and by the fact of explain that presence to his son, little Daniele.
Roberto, Giacomo e Giovanni sono preti che hanno deciso di risolvere il problema della povertà a loro modo: rubano nelle case dei ricchi per donare ai poveri.
A causa di un terribile incidente, l’astronauta Tommaso Benini si ritrova disperso nello spazio profondo con una riserva di ossigeno limitata. C’è la possibilità di un soccorso in extremis ma Tom, che si sente spacciato, vorrebbe solo parlare un’ultima volta con la sua amata moglie. La voce del comandante di volo della missione accompagna e sostiene i suoi respiri affannosi ma qualcosa non sta andando nel verso giusto.
After 40 years of exile in Argentina, Roberto, a blind novelist, comes back to his native city, Naples, for his mother’s death. Along with his brother Lorenzo, a former guitarist, he starts
a journey of memory through the city of his youth he can’t see anymore but only feel through the other senses and his imagination, looking for the tragic reason of his departure.
Lucie, 15 anni, ha un'immaginazione travolgente.
Vive sola con suo padre William, che a prima vista potrebbe
sembrare un adolescente ritardato, e invece lotta contro la
sclerosi a placche.
Tra il liceo, un piccolo lavoro e le faccende del quotidiano, Lucie
gestisce come meglio puo’ la situazione, e si rifugia nella scrittura
di un romanzo autobiografico di fantasia, che spazia tra sogno e
realtà... All'annuncio della visita di un assistente sociale il loro
equilibrio precario verrà sconvolto. Lucie e suo padre dovranno
far prova di inventiva per dare l'illusione di avere una vita
“normale”.
Rosemary, a young fairy, leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch so she can scream, fly on brooms and get really messy. Unfortunately her mother strongly disagrees, so Rosemary decides to run off to the mysterious witch forest.
The journey that the protagonist takes by bus is, as a matter of fact, an opportunity for her to think about the meaning of silence, her own and that which surrounds her, where she can grasp fragments of other people’s lives, reading and adding them in her considerations.
This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise (France). Huddled in a car in the parling lot, Fatih, 21, wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep’s sister. But neither Murat, his best friend, nor Recep, nor even Ipek are aware of this yet.
Grogh and his colony of beavers build a dam to protect themselves from the floods of the river. And then a hut, to defend against wild beasts. But faced with Tarlai, the fire, and Katai, the frost, Grogh just has to lead his people to bring them to safety and free them. From hunger, fear and man, enemy number one. Courage, adventure, team spirit, in a story in defense of nature and its inhabitants.
ITA
Checco is an abusive taxi driver from Naples. He drives around a variety of clients at all hours of the day, and especially at night, when the discos are open. His job leads him to gradually distance himself from his family, his wife Manuela and his daughter Sofia, with whom he tries to reestablish a relationship but without much success. In addition, his association with a drug dealer, Tony, draws him into shady and dangerous affairs, leading him to alienate himself and use drugs, but he sees in a young client, Viola, with whom he falls madly in love, a way out of his rut. Thus, he begins to think only of her and how to win her over, losing what little relationship he has left with his family.
Quattro adolescenti, in un remoto villaggio di montagna,
trascorrono le giornate all'interno di un autobus abbandonato sul crinale cantando e facendo musica. un contest per band emergenti li costringerà nella più vicina città.
In a Naples with a noir atmosphere, an oriental girl works as a waitress in a Japanese restaurant, dressed and made up as a Geisha, for a mysterious owner with a dark past. Their lives are linked by an origami crane and a legend, according to which upon completion of the thousandth origami a wish can become reality: the young girl's longing for freedom.
ITA
Argo e Odi si imbarcano: sono pronti ad attraversare il Mediterraneo. In mare una tempesta fa cadere in acqua Argo. Come un novello Ulisse, Argo inizierà il suo lungo viaggio, segnato dalla speranza di ritrovare Odi. Argo, come Ulisse nell’Odissea, matura come personaggio, andando oltre le sue paure affrontando avventure e pericoli, ricongiungendosi infine con Odi. L’amore disinteressato di un cagnolino, l’importanza del prendersi cura dei propri affetti, la famiglia e la paura dell’ignoto vengono trattati con delicatezza ed in modo comprensibile dai più piccoli.
ENG
Argo and Odi board the ship: they are ready to cross the Mediterranean sea. Once at sea they are surprised by a storm that makes the ship rock and Argo falls into the sea. As a new Ulysses Argo will start his long journey with the hope to be reunited with Odi. Argo, just like Ulysses in the Odyssey, grows as a character, learning to outcome his fears by confronting different adventures and risks, to finally find Odi again. The unbiased love of a puppy, the importance of taking care of one’s affections, family and the fear of the unknown are here represented with a delicate eye and in a way that is comprehensible to all ages.
When they learn of their mother's accident, two young brothers escape on an adventure.
Confronted with their fears they soon find out they need to rely on each other in order to overcome them.
Brotherness is a playful and emotional look at the world through the eyes of two kids, who unknowingly embark on a journey to discover the essence of their relationship.
In una Londra attanagliata dal terrorismo suprematista bianco, due mondi si scontrano quando un adolescente neurodiverso incontra un uomo in missione suicida.
Vittoria is an exuberant thirteen-year-old girl who lives in the province of Naples and who dreams of becoming an influencer. Her father, Fabrizio, on her birthday gives her a ticket to parade on the red carpet in Venice. She begins a bizarre preparation: clothes made up of newspaper clippings, the search for the right outfit to get the blue check and many, many stories on social media!
There are many feature films participating in the FCCV call. We have selected 5 from different parts of the world. The Prize will be awarded by the public who can participate in person or see the films online and fill out the form to vote.
The team of selectors has selected 25 shorts from all over the world, to deliver them to the FCCV Jury and the Young Jury who assign the Award to the best short film in their respective categories. Special mentions are also awarded for direction, photography, screenplay, actor, actress and soundtrack.
"The 48H" Award Winner.
Synopsis: After a long car journey, Roberta travels the few dozen meters that separate her from home. Her journey goes smoothly until a phone call arrives that brings her face to face with her brother's petulance, her father's anxiety, her grandmother's madness, and her mother's unexpected realization.
The selection and the Jury are managed by the Camera Film Association
The VI edition of the Castel Volturno Film Festival confirms documentaries among the categories that can apply to participate in the international competition that favors independent cinematography to win the FCCV DOCUMENTARY Award.
