Michele Riondino

Primavera (2025)

In 18th-century Venice, 20-year-old violin virtuoso Cecilia lives at the Pièta orphanage, where, despite her talent, she remains confined, knowing that marriage is the only way out. Yet, her life takes a turn after she meets Antonio Vivaldi, a brilliant a ...

The Holy Boy (2025)

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul ...

Interstate (2024)

A supernatural thriller in which a hitman, facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss. ...

Palazzina LAF (2023)

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be ass ...

The Man from Rome (2023)

A skeptical Vatican priest travels to the southern Dutch province of Limburg to investigate a reported miracle, only to get entangled in a series of apparently miraculous events that undermine his vocation. ...

A Man Falling (2021)

Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and nose that were covered with a mask, but our eyes. We couldn't see each other during the pandemic. The mask ...

Our Ghost (2021)

Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just ...

Pino (2020)

Rome, 1968: at the pinnacle of his artistic career, Pino Pascali died in an accident. 50 years later the Pascali Museum in Apulia—where Pino was born—buys and exhibits one of his works. This is the story of a work of art returning to its origins told t ...

Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto (2020)

Let's Stay Friends (2019)

Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested. ...

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 ...

La mossa del cavallo (2018)

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. ...

Diva! (2017)

The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva. ...

Falchi (2017)

Falchi is a melodrama set in the city of Naples, in its pulsating multi ethnic veins. The movie tells the story of two agents of the Special Squad of Naples, a police unit that investigates organized crime. Though impeccable at their work, the two cops hid ...

Worldly Girl (2016)

Giulia's is a poised world, made of rigour and sacred texts, which fiercely excludes those who do not belong to it. Libero's world is the world of all the others, of those who make mistakes, who fend for themselves looking for another chance and who love u ...

Senza lasciare traccia (2016)

Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino (2016)

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud (2015)

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, ...

Giro di giostra (2015)

Leopardi (2014)

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry. ...

Buongiorno Taranto (2014)

Con il fiato sospeso (2013)

A passionate pharmacy student gradually realizes that her university's chemistry lab poses a health and safety hazard. ...

Steel (2012)

Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and the unreachable dream of happy families. In the middle, on the shores their secret beach, neither ...

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. ...

Henry (2012)

The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. His investigation intersects the lives of young people and affected Nina and John, in spite of themselves in ...

Drifters (2011)

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee. ...

Scattered Cloud (2011)

Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wedding, when, while working on the renovation of a luxury home, he meets Viola, his boss's granddaughter, a ...

We Believed (2010)

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disill ...

Ten Winters (2009)

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms. ...

Marpiccolo (2009)

Tiziano, a seventeen-year-old boy, fights to change his destiny, against the backdrop of a Taranto oppressed by the underworld. With a father sick of video poker and a mother busy opposing the installation of an antenna in front of an elementary school, Ti ...

Principessa (2009)

Among the many odd jobs Matilda, a provincial girl, takes on to make ends meet is playing the role of a princess in historical costume reenactments. But when she finds herself pregnant, her boyfriend Pietro refuses to take any responsibility. Matilda then ...

Fort Apache Napoli (2009)

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985. ...

All Human Rights for All (2008)

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration. ...

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. ...

Palazzina LAF (2023)

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be ass ...