Elda Ferri

How Kids Roll (2024)

In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two 12-year-old boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other. ...

Folle d'amore - Alda Merini (2023)

The extraordinary life of the great poet Alda Merini: from mental illness to motherhood, from impossible loves to access to culture and fame. An unprecedented and fascinating portrait of a contemporary icon. ...

Hill of Vision (2022)

Italy, WWII. After his anti-fascist mother is arrested, Mario spends his childhood on the streets. In 1947 they are miraculously reunited and start a new life in America. Based on the life of Mario Capecchi, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine. ...

Sin (2019)

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti. ...

5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime hench ...

La notte è piccola per noi (2019)

A spacious ballroom, a place outside of time, and the interlacing stories of its customers on a Saturday night. ...

La verità sta in cielo (2016)

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl. ...

Last Summer (2014)

A yacht lies at anchor in a bay off the Sicilian coast. Naomi, a young Japanese woman, has four days to leave her son with a lasting memory of her before she loses custody of him forever. In this hostile environment, Naomi faces the difficulty of approachi ...

Anita B. (2014)

After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life. ...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)

Precocious yet sensitive teenager James has a deep perception of the world but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents nor his older memoir-writing sister, he decides to reject the beliefs adults try to push on him, starting wi ...

The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)

In Prague, a musician is consumed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend. He hires a private eye to spy on her, but the plan backfires... ...

The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)

St. Petersburg, 1860. After a member of the imperial family is assassinated, Fyodor Dostoevsky meets one of the conspirators, who reveals that his comrades are planning another attack to the Tsar's life. Plagued by debts and struggling to finish his latest ...

I Vicerè (2007)

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime. ...

The Tiger and the Snow (2005)

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as ...

The Days of Abandonment (2005)

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors. ...

Come Into the Light (2005)

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continu ...

The Soul Keeper (2003)

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first ti ...

Pinocchio (2002)

Roberto Benigni adapts the classic children's tale by Carlo Collodi for the big-budget family-oriented comedy Pinocchio. ...

Between Strangers (2002)

Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures. ...

The Lost Lover (1999)

After their son dies, a Jewish family moves from London to Israel in an attempt to piece their lives back together. The mother finds a way out of her depression through a relationship with a younger man—which doesn't seem to bother her husband. Meanwhile ...

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up h ...

Marianna Ucrìa (1997)

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive s ...

Scarpette bianche (1997)

RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country. ...

Pereira Declares (1995)

Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with ...

The Monster (1994)

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation ...

Look to the Sky (1993)

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski. ...

The Bachelor (1990)

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry. ...

I ragazzi di Torino sognano Tokyo e vanno a Berlino (1985)

Vincenzo and Luciano, after having witnessed the successful performance of a Japanese ensemble in Rome, return to Turin with the firm intention of putting on a concert, baptizing it "Electronic Granita" and producing themselves as dancers. It's the story ...

Copkiller (1983)

A NYPD officer imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment. ...

La festa perduta (1981)

Forza Italia! (1977)

Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage. ...

Revisiting Life is Beautiful 15 Years After (2012)

In this documentary film, directed by Dominique Maillet for StudioCanal, director Martin Scorsese, cast and crew members, and prominent critics and historians discuss Life is Beautiful and its success, as well as Roberto Benigni's career. ...