Mimmo Calopresti

Cutro, Calabria, Italia (2024)

On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left Izmir, Turkey, on February 21, there were over 180 human beings, mostly of Afghan, Pakistani, Syrian, Turkish, ...

Gianni Versace – Emperor of Dreams (2023)

The growth and success of Gianni Versace: his childhood and adolescence in Reggio Calabria in the 60s, his first steps in the world of fashion. The docufilm collects a series of interviews with friends and colleagues as well as archival images of fashion s ...

Romanzo radicale (2022)

Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era. ...

Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)

At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo's citi ...

Tutte le mie notti (2019)

On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the alleged murd ...

La fabbrica fantasma - Verità sulla mia Bambola (2016)

One for All (2015)

The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children. ...

Mirafiori Lunapark (2015)

Socrates uno di noi (2015)

La maglietta rossa (2009)

L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble (2009)

The Germans' Factory (2008)

L'abbuffata (2007)

A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project. ...

I Only Wanted to Live (2006)

A Donatello award nominated documentary following nine Italian survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. ...

It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)

As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-som ...

Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test. ...

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ...

Tutto era Fiat (1999)

Ten years later of "Alla Fiat era così", Calopresti interviews trade unionists, factory managers, former workers and recently hired young people at FIAT Turin, who expose different points of view on a very different factory from the Taylorist one of the 1 ...

Notes of Love (1998)

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness. ...

Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda (1998)

Interview with film director Riccardo Freda. ...

The Second Time (1995)

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand the reasons behind her gesture. ...

Remzija (1992)

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

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.... ...

Ripresi (1987)

Documentary about and made in collaboration the inmates of the fifth row of Turin's Carceri Nuove prison. Shot on U-matic. ...

A proposito di sbavature (1985)

Tonino De Bernardi, author of self-produced films, many Super8 and videos, talks about cinema and Turin. Shot on U-matic. ...

Qualcuno verrà (1985)

Documentary. Shot on U-matic. ...

Crash Editing (1984)

Documentary about advertising made for the 1984 Stuttgart Videocongress festival. Shot on U-matic. ...

Luxury (1984)

Shot on U-matic. ...

Cutro, Calabria, Italia (2024)

On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left Izmir, Turkey, on February 21, there were over 180 human beings, mostly of Afghan, Pakistani, Syrian, Turkish, ...

Good Vibes (2023)

Five stories that intertwine around a mysterious smartphone that allows you to have a copy of anyone's phone. Just enter the number and you immediately have access to bank accounts, photos, videos, emails, messages, even the most intimate ones, and if you ...

Cattiva Coscienza (2023)

In a parallel universe, live people's precious consciences. They all feel disheartened, demotivated, and unheard, except for Otto (Francesco Scianna). He is the top-ranked conscience, because his human Filippo (Filippo Scicchitano) follows him blindly, gua ...

L'altro buio in sala (2022)

The Gospel According to Mattei (2017)

A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini ...

Ultima Chiamata (2017)

A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the head, tries to open the door but it's locked, tries to call someone but nobody answers. He is a prisoner. A ...

La fabbrica fantasma - Verità sulla mia Bambola (2016)

Mirafiori Lunapark (2015)

Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test. ...

The Words of My Father (2001)

At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters, he's impressed by Malfenti's energy, and falls in love with one of his daughters. This relationship helps Ze ...

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ...

Notes of Love (1998)

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness. ...

Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda (1998)

Interview with film director Riccardo Freda. ...