Mario Masini

Sea (2018)

Francisca, a beautiful 50-year-old widow, prepared a peaceful future for herself. In an unexpected outburst, she grabs an opportunity for change and embarks on a sailboat called 'Hovering Over the Water'. ...

Our Little Differences (2013)

In this acutely observed and sharply written debut feature from director Sylvie Michel, the contrasting parenting philosophies of a well-to-do divorcee and his immigrant cleaning lady becomes an angry debate over deeper issues of social class and cultural ...

Virgin Margarida (2012)

1975, Mozambique's rebirth as an independent nation. The young revolution sweeps the streets of Maputo clean of prostitutes and bad habits. The prostitutes are sent to re-education camps deep in the countryside, where they will become "new women" – loyal ...

The Great Kilapy (2012)

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds him ...

All About You (2012)

Pauline, a beguiling woman in her 60s, returns to her hometown, Turin, for the first time since she was ten years old. She has inherited her aunt's apartment in town. In Turin Pauline contacts Dr. Angela Gualtieri, a psychologist whom she had met abroad so ...

Teza (2008)

The Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values ...

We Want Roses Too (2008)

The film looks again at recent events from a female point of view, through the first-hand accounts provided by the diaries of three women. Rather than focusing on the alleged objectivity of facts, the film gives space to a chorus of voices that narrate tho ...

Another Man's Garden (2007)

Sofia, a young girl in Mozambique who is studying to be a doctor, finds that her professor wants more from her than hard work. An unwillingness to compromise her values and potentially her health, may cost her a place there. ...

The Hero (2004)

A 20-year veteran of the Angolan civil war returns to the capital city of Luanda where he faces the challenges of assimilation and survival. ...

Erros Meus (2000)

ORG (1979)

Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend ...

Die Faust in der Tasche (1979)

Wolle has lost his apprenticeship. Out of shame, he hides it from his parents and his girlfriend, who leaves him as a result. He starts drinking and joins a group of unemployed young people who are mainly interested in motorcycles and are in constant dange ...

Last Angels (1978)

Elisabeth and Massimo have been separated for two years and decide to affirm their independence with a divorce. The person who suffers the most from the situation is their son Marco, who normally lives with his father in a beautiful, but lonely country hou ...

Padre Padrone (1977)

The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father. ...

Il giorno dell'Assunta (1977)

Allegro non troppo (1976)

An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named 'Prisney,' he rallies an orchestra of geriatric w ...

Non si scrive sui muri a Milano (1975)

Luciana, a country girl who has moved to Milan, is married to Mario, an intellectual type who avoids her since an accident forced him to live with his torso permanently in a cast. Lonely and depressed because also of her recent dismissal, she asks for help ...

The Private Lesson (1975)

Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher. ...

C.I.A. Secret Story (1975)

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, ...

The Time of the Beginning (1974)

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations. ...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother. ...

Sarah's Last Man (1974)

With her marriage and her life disintegrating before her eyes, in this Italian political thriller, Sarah has made a detailed filmed record of it all. Not only that, she made a film of the man who flung bombs into a political demonstration and she is killed ...

One Hamlet Less (1973)

The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is little interested in family affairs and the fate of the kingdom, and not at all attracted by a doll-like Ophelia sucking his finger. Annoyed by his friend Horatio, who tells him of the apparition of his father's spectre t ...

Salomé (1972)

Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. ...

St. Michael Had a Rooster (1972)

Sentenced to life imprisonment for illegal activities, Italian International member Giulio Manieri holds on to his political ideals while struggling against madness in the loneliness of his prison cell. ...

Mio (1971)

A little Japanese girl of six is transferred to a school in Sardinia where she slowly finds friends and a place before going off again. ...

Don Giovanni (1970)

In this a baroque and claustrophobic take on Mozart's opera of the same name, Don Giovanni tries to seduce a girl who is manically searching for Christian icons. Loosely based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's short story "The Greatest Love of Don Juan". ...

RARA (1969)

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in ...

Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate him ...

Miti di oggi: I giocattoli (1967)

Il ragazzo motore (1967)

Documentary about motorbike crazy kids, introduced by Pasolini. ...

X chiama Y (1967)

Diary film about the life of a young couple. ...

The Blind Fly (1966)

This almost silent film has been censored and rejected for his violent scenes, even if it was well received at the Pesaro New Cinema in 1966. It contains a quotation from Beckett off-screen at the critical moment. The story sometimes seems like a puzzle wh ...

Bis (1966)

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis' lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play's rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented als ...

Amore, amore (1966)

The title Amore amore ( Love Love) defines the primary emotive motor of the film and constitutes the filter through which are selected the materials used - people, things, signs - and determines a good portion of the associations though which the sequences ...

The 10th Victim (1965)

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It ...

I Kill, You Kill (1965)

Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it. ...

Un'ora prima di Amleto, più Pinocchio (1965)

Backstage short documentary on Carmelo Bene's theatre works Amleto and Pinocchio. ...

Image of TIme (1964)

Mario Masini, collaborator of Alberto Grifi, cameraman for Carmelo Bene and cinematographer of Teza 2008 by the legendary Ethiopian director Haile Gerima, explores the lithograph by the artist Emilio Vedova that gives the film its title. A wide range of mo ...

Love on a Pillow (1962)

After rescuing a man from a suicide attempt, Geneviève's life is hijacked by his verbal and emotional abuse, yet she can't seem to tear herself from him. ...

X chiama Y (1967)

Diary film about the life of a young couple. ...