Flavio Parenti

Margherita delle stelle (2024)

The life of astrophysics Margherita Hack, from curious child to unconventional girl at the direction of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory. ...

Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo (2022)

The exemplary story of one of the most important pioneers of the Italian publishing industry who, with his vision, brought books and reading into the homes of all Italians. ...

Darkling (2022)

In NATO-occupied Kosovo, a little girl writes an essay for the United Nations about her father who has gone missing. Meanwhile, the girl's grandfather becomes increasingly paranoid of the unseen threats that lurk in the dark. ...

Superheroes (2021)

The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives. ...

The Space Between (2017)

Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When traged ...

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts (2017)

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio. ...

Nessuno siamo perfetti (2015)

A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog ...

Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, ...

Un marito di troppo (2014)

A Wedding (2013)

A love story unfolds between two people from different social classes in postwar Italy. Spanning from 1948 to their golden wedding anniversary in 2005, the narrative follows their journey through personal struggles, family life, and the historical challeng ...

Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)

Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into pa ...

To Rome with Love (2012)

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and h ...

Cinderella (2011)

Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother died, Valerio hired Irene, a single mother of two girls, to run the household. To Aurora's regret he decides t ...

Un altro mondo (2010)

Andrea is a twentysomething from a rich but cold family who leads a superficial life devoid of responsibility. After receiving a letter from his dying father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, Andrea reluctantly joins him in Kenya to bid him farewe ...

I Am Love (2010)

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle. ...

Bets & Wedding Dresses (2009)

Franco Campanella, a former postal worker earning under €1,000 monthly, is devoted to his family but addicted to gambling. On his daughter Luisa's wedding eve, he promises to save for expenses but, after being denied a loan, gambles away tens of thousand ...

The Red Shadows (2009)

An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change. ...

At a Glance (2008)

Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two something's born and soon she becomes Adrian's lover and ...

Tell Me About Love (2008)

Sasha is a 25-year-old orphan who asks Nicole, a married Frenchwoman in her forties, for advice to seduce Benedetta, his long-unrequited love. The two eventually bond over their shared past traumas and pains of love, until... ...

Blood Of The Losers (2008)

Inspired by Giampaolo Pansa's controversial book, the film traces the story of a family torn apart by political divisions at the end of the Second World War: a son joined the partisan brigades and a daughter, instead, joined the militia of the Republic of ...