Gherardo Gossi

Arsa (2024)

Felicità Cannibale (2024)

When Antonella discovers the contents of her father's will, she is left speechless: if she wants the substantial inheritance he left her, she will have to eat a spoonful of his ashes. But the notary, an inflexible woman dedicated to her role, does not seem ...

Santocielo (2023)

In paradise, a group gathers to discuss why people still act selfishly, even though Jesus sacrificed himself for them 2,000 years ago. As a result, a new Messiah is sent to Earth to address the issue. ...

Filumena Marturano (2022)

Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one. ...

Orlando (2022)

Orlando and Lyse's is a fairy tale, a modern tale of an old man and a little girl who, unwittingly, find themselves facing the present together and the choices it brings, despite their being as distant as the rural life of a small inland village and the me ...

The Mute Man of Sardinia (2022)

Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, a ...

Una squadra (2022)

The story of the Italian national tennis team that won the Davis Cup in '76 and reached the final three more times in the following years. ...

The Legend of the Christmas Witch: The Origins (2021)

18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for power a ...

Il giorno e la notte (2021)

After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown. ...

The Macaluso Sisters (2020)

Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks. ...

Il regno (2020)

The king of a secret modern-time Medieval kingdom leaves his throne in inheritance to his son, who struggles to lead the kingdom in fight for its independence from the Italian state. ...

18 Presents (2020)

Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year ...

The Armadillo's Prophecy (2018)

A 27-year-old suburban slacker entertains daily conversations bordering on paradoxical with his conscience, which manifests itself in the form of a human-sized armadillo. Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Zerocalcare. ...

Before the Night (2018)

The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end. ...

Sun, Heart, Love (2017)

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the s ...

Andron (2015)

A group of people are plunged into a dark, claustrophobic maze, where they must fight to survive, as the outside world watches. ...

Banana (2015)

Giovanni, known as "Banana" because of his mania for wearing a Brazil jersey, is a 14-year-old boy trying not to give up on his dreams in a world of frustrated, giving up and courageless people. ...

A Street in Palermo (2013)

Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuated by the refusal to drink, eat and sleep; more obstinate than the sun of Palermo and more stubborn than t ...

Discovery at Dawn (2013)

Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she lear ...

The Human Cargo (2012)

On 8 August 1991, an Albanian ship carrying 20,000 people reached the port of Bari. The ship was called the "Vlora". Mooring was difficult, and some of the passengers jumped overboard to swim to land, while many others chanted "Italia, Italia", making the ...

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. ...

Rust (2011)

In a hot summer, the lives of the children are about to be changed forever when two girls are found raped and murdered. The children know who the suspect is but knowing that the adults will never believe them, they decide to keep quiet. When one of their f ...

Pietro (2010)

Pietro lives in Turin with his drug-addicted brother in an apartment he inherited from them. He makes a living by handing out flyers and has a mild intellectual disability, which makes him the target of ridicule from his brother's friends. One day he meets ...

Cosmonaut (2009)

Against the backdrop of the space race between the Soviets and the US, a 15-year-old girl struggles to affirm her political and gender identity in 1960s Italy. ...

The Past Is a Foreign Land (2008)

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known. ...

Lecture 21 (2008)

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony. ...

Scemi di guerra - La follia nelle trincee (2008)

L'uomo privato (2007)

Between Turin and Pisa unfolds the life of a socially and professionally successful university professor of law. Endowed with great intelligence and an elusive charm, the man and the professor lead a "withdrawn" existence that occasionally borders on the b ...

Primo Levi's Journey (2006)

In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienc ...

Il mio paese (2006)

A journey from the south to the north of Italy covering the track of the legendary Joris Ivens documentary "L'Italia non è un paese povero". ...

Texas (2005)

Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet town in Piedmont. One night in November, one in December close to Christmas, the third in February. A look at their lives and their daily problems, more or l ...

L'Orizzonte Degli Eventi (2005)

The film is about two worlds, different and parallel, living together in the same territory: the Gran Sasso of Italy. The contact between the two realities occurs through the characters of Max, a nuclear physics researcher who works tirelessly in the labor ...

3.87 (2005)

During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them. ...

Nemmeno Il Destino (2004)

A story of friendship in a squalid suburb of a city of southern Italy. Alexander and Ferdi come from poor families and live in a city in decline, where there is no future. ...

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)

Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement. ...

Now or Never (2003)

2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful events of the G8 summit in Genoa. ...

Maximum Velocity (V-Max) (2002)

In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, but gets himself involved with the latter's former girlfriend. ...

Alice è in paradiso (2002)

Documentary about the short life of 'Radio Alice' (one of the first and most influential free radios in Italy), and its surreal political/dadaist milieu. ...

Da zero a dieci (2002)

Twenty years after tragedy cut their graduation trip short, four friends return to that destination to finish what they started in 1980. However, as they find out, you can't repeat the past. ...

Johnny the Partisan (2000)

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Jo ...

Our Years (2000)

The Resistance, an ancient theme. Almost always approached from a realistic, if not documentary, perspective. Yet memory reworks in a fantastic, sometimes sinister, way all kinds of memories, even dramas. It is from this point of view that first-time direc ...

Non mi basta mai (1999)

Welcome to San Salvario (1999)

In San Salvario, the area in Turin with the largest number of immigrants, an unemployed photographer adapts himself to working for them. They are eager to send their families and friends at home pictures proving their success in Italy. After being fired fr ...

Partigiani (1997)

Materiale resistente (1995)

Documentary about the concert for the 50th anniversary of Italy's liberation from Fascism, held in Correggio on April 25, 1995. ...

Love Burns (1994)

Lies to Live By: Babylon (1994)

During a trip to the USA Carla falls in love with Charles, an ex-punk rocker now working as a security guard. She returns to Torino, Italy, and breaks the bad news to Francesco, her fiancee; they have a fight, she leaves him and apparently disappears. ...

Remzija (1992)

Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam. ...

Il caso Martello (1991)

The Thing (1990)

1989. Amid the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the largest communist party in Western Europe—Italy's PCI—announces that it'll change its name, vowing to become 'a new thing'. The film follows the debates taking place in various PCI branches across Italy ...

Italia '90: lavori in corso (1990)

Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. ...

Alla Fiat era così (1990)

Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something alive again in one of the worker's solitary gestures. However, twenty years later.... ...

Materiale resistente (1995)

Documentary about the concert for the 50th anniversary of Italy's liberation from Fascism, held in Correggio on April 25, 1995. ...