Antonio De Matteo

The Art of Joy (2024)

Born on the 1st of January 1900 in a poor family in rural Sicily, Modesta has pursued happiness since her childhood without falling victim to the constraints of society. After a tragic event that takes her away from her family, Modesta is welcomed into a m ...

Fireworks (2023)

The troubled relationship between Gianni and Nino, set in the narrow-minded and prejudicial Sicily of 1982. ...

The Bohemian (2022)

The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes into t ...

The Male Gaze: Fleeting Glances (2022)

A release that features 7 shorts from Italy, Israel, Tunisia, New Zealand, the United States and France, exploring those furtive first steps that men take as they decide to act on their sexuality. The 7 short films are: The First Time [La prima volta] (20 ...

War in Cuba (2021)

Fake news and racial integration: is there a connection? 5 stories, a rifle, the patron' festival and a small community with its everyday life are going to be upset by an outsider, an unscrupulous journalist coming from the big city. ...

The Abjurants (2020)

2087. Vera and Roberta are two "Abjurants", meaning women who refused to adhere to the Eugenics Programme imposed by the Government and who have been consequently confined to an unknown location and used as test subjects. Their only purpose in life is reca ...

Vita segreta di Maria Capasso (2019)

Maria married an honest worker at a very young age, works as a part-time beautician and has three children. Her life is like many others in the working-class suburbs of Naples, where the daily struggle to make ends meet makes you get used to everything. Wh ...

Forever You (2019)

Apulia, 1970s. Matteo is in love with Francesca, but she wants to leave provincial life behind and see the world. After four years traveling around the world, Francesca returns to her hometown to care for her sick mother, and she and Matteo rekindle their ...

On Your Tiptoes (2018)

A young girl dreams about becoming a ballet dancer, but when her father becomes a member of a different clan, she has to take classes in secret. ...

Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese (2018)

Love Pret-a-porte (2017)

Giorgio urgently needs to find a job but his only chance is in a Fashion House in Rome so he to pretend being gay in order to succeed in the fashion industry. But suddenly after meeting a Russian girl and falling in love all his fake universe collapses. ...

Tea & Sangria (2015)

Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way. ...

Assolo (2014)

Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play in the festival that will send him to the top amongst the jazz greats. With just 50 minutes standing between him and his consecration, as he runs over his l ...

The Necklace (2014)

Marco is a shy courier instructed to deliver some jewels in a photo studio. Here he meets Giorgio, the photographer: handsome, gay, cheeky. ...

The Pyramid (2013)

Four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object: a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death and destruction. ...

Dormant Beauty (2012)

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state. ...

Passi el que passi (2011)

Alex is a screenwriter working on a very personal script, the story of a weekend with a goal: to make love to his wife four times... Four times is not that many, isn't it? But with their daughter, friends, neighbors and a party getting in the way... things ...

Feisbum - Il film (2009)

The title translates literally as "Faceboom." An omnibus film helmed by seven top-tiered Italian directors, this comedy explores the worldwide Facebook craze of the early 21st century by recounting the adventures of numerous Europeans whose lives are alter ...

Ossidiana (2007)

Maria, a young Neapolitan painter, lives the artistic experimentation of the 1960s. She is a woman who does not hesitate to live her life adhering to the ideals of research and love, which are for her the very content of art. ...

Il grande Torino (2005)

The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino. ...

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Despite pulling off one of the biggest heists in Las Vegas history and splitting the $160 million take, each of the infamous Ocean's crew have tried to go straight, lay low and live a legit life... but that's proven to be a challenge. Casino owner Terry Be ...

Good Morning, Night (2003)

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade. ...