Natalie Cristiani

Jeff Koons: A Private Portrait (2023)

Jeff Koons is widely regarded as one of the most influential, popular and disputed artists of the last 30 years. Koons transforms mass-produced, everyday objects into the highest art forms. ...

The Temptation (2022)

Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths of the t ...

Crystal Girl (2022)

A seventeen-year-old girl hasn't left her room in an indefinite amount of time. Those like her call them hikikomori, they are teenagers who decide to build themselves a little prison, leaving the outside world outside the door. Her routine is broken when, ...

Takeaway (2022)

A racewalking athlete Maria runs a petrol station with a takeaway shop in a desolate mountain village, she is almost 30 years old, she may have little chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of success but at what cost? ...

Carosello Carosone (2021)

The life and times of Italian music legend Renato Carosone. ...

Pompeii: Sin City (2020)

A story about one of the most famous and mysterious archaeological sites in the world. ...

In a Future April: The Young Pasolini (2020)

A unique chance to explore Pier Paolo Pasolini's youth through the voice and the body of his direct cousin, writer and poet Nico Naldini. ...

iSola (2020)

A personal documentary shot on a mobile phone during lockdown, in which the director reflects on her own illness and isolation, and on how storytelling can be a way of overcoming one's own fears. ...

Capri-Revolution (2018)

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell. ...

Vita agli arresti di Aung San Suu Kyi (2017)

Tiger, Blood in the Mouth (2016)

Ramón Alvia is a professional boxer who, although he has won several international championships, is old and is at the end of his career. He resists. In the gym, Ramon discovers among the young boxers Deborah, a beautiful girl. ...

Nicola Costantino: La artefacta (2015)

Nicola Costantino is one of the most controversial and admired artist of Latin America. The documentary follows the visual artist, from the first origins of her work until her participation at the last Venice Biennale 2013. ...

Dancing with Maria (2014)

María Fux spends her life training dancers, particularly those with disabilities. But now, at 90, she finds her toughest student may be herself. ...

Quell'estate (2012)

Nina (2012)

The contemporary architecture of Rome are at the heart of the beautifully shot and winsomely appealing Nina, which charts the oddball escapades of a young woman in a depopulated Rome during one hot summer. This heartwarming tale of a lonesome girl who teac ...

The House in the Wind of the Dead (2012)

Italy, 1947. Attilio is a Fascist and disgraced former movie star. Out of desperation, he joins a band of robbers for a heist. After the robbery, Attilio and the robbers take refuge in a house that proves to be deadly. ...

Beirut – Buenos Aires – Beirut (2012)

Grace is a woman of Lebanese origin who lives in Buenos Aires. One day her great-aunt confides a secret to her: Mohammed, her father, Verónica's great-grandfather, did not die in Argentina but returned to Lebanon, her country of origin, and abandoned the ...

The Woman Dress (2012)

In this dark tale of an esoteric ritual, a woman enters a shadowy laboratory where three witches attend a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by hanging skeletons of dresses. She is disrobed, led to a bath, laid in the water and her finger pricked to draw blood. ...

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 ...

A Woman (2010)

A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her. ...

Solitaire (2008)

A three-billion-lire hit. A bloody hold-up. A sole survivor. Hunted down by fate and ruthless gangsters, Leo Piazza finds himself with a "hot" suitcase on his hands. Forced to go into hiding, time is running out. The killers want him dead so they can retri ...

Little Red Flowers (2006)

Qiang a rebellious 4-year-old is put in boarding school where he causes havoc by defying the teachers and principal who try to impose some discipline on him. ...

Before It Had a Name (2005)

A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house. ...

The Scent of Blood (2004)

A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In retur ...

Open My Heart (2002)

Maria lives with her 18-year-old sister, Caterina in a small apartment, tutors her at home, lets her out only for dance classes. Yet Maria sees no reason to hide her work as a prostitute from her sister. Men come in and out of the apartment constantly, and ...