Paolo Sassanelli

Incanto (2025)

On his deathbed, Ludovico entrusts his daughter Margot to the housekeeper, Felicia, asking that the family villa be transformed into an orphanage so that the little girl can grow up in joy with other children. But the wicked Felicia only wants the little g ...

Il pirata - Memorie da Spoon River (2023)

La tentazione di esistere (2023)

A pensioner with many phobias realises one day that four million francs have been mistakenly deposited into his account. Instead of notifying the bank, he makes an unexpected decision: he withdraws the money and flees on his moped. ...

Quasi orfano (2022)

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins. ...

Viaggio a sorpresa (2022)

Sulla giostra (2021)

Salento, today. Irene wants to sell the family villa, but the elderly housekeeper Ada has no intention of leaving. A friendship develops between the two women, based on shared insecurities and aspirations yet to be realized. ...

Castelli di sabbia (2021)

Past and present mood surface and superimpose in the director's parents' private archive images, among the relations which retrace the same, inexplicable steps. ...

Sassiwood (2020)

Compagni di Viaggio (2020)

This is the story of Abou, a man who lives far from his country and his affections. ...

Tuttapposto (2019)

Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives. ...

A Whole New Life (2019)

Gianni is a taxi driver dissatisfied with his life. One day by chance he gets the opportunity to take possession of the villa and life of a billionaire on holiday. ...

Passeggeri notturni (2019)

L'eroe (2019)

The life of Giorgio, a mediocre journalist, changes abruptly when the director of the newspaper decides to transfer him to a provincial office. Only the kidnapping of young Carlo gives him back his work as a correspondent. ...

Magical Nights (2018)

Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who†...

Nevermind (2018)

A lawyer with a deplorable habit; a sitter struggling with her disturbing new job; a childhood friend who's hiding something; a chef with an unspeakable desire; a psychologist haunted by a tow truck... In each segment, a normal person suffers extremely wei ...

Due Piccoli Italiani (2018)

The daring journey through Europe of two somewhat naive friends, Salvatore and Felice, fleeing a small town in Puglia, who find themselves catapulted to Rotterdam and then to Iceland. For the first time in their lives they will discover what it means to fe ...

Youtopia (2018)

Eighteen-year-old Matilde lives with her grandmother and her mother Laura, a woman struggling with debt and failures. Completely disconnected from reality and attached to her online avatar, Matilde has found her own way to make money: stripping on webcam. ...

Equilibrium (2017)

Tough, gripping drama about a committed, principled priest taking on the Mafia and risking his life in a poverty-stricken parish in Naples. ...

Abbraccialo per me (2016)

Somewhere Amazing (2015)

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine. ...

We Are Francesco (2015)

Francesco, a young man born without arms who has learned to live despite his disability, has access to good education thanks to material wealth and the love of his parents. But his sexual drive remains unfulfilled. Only his childhood friend Stefano will un ...

Ameluk (2015)

La dolce arte di esistere (2015)

From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real. ...

Sun in My Eyes (2015)

After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life. ...

Ever Been to the Moon? (2015)

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in ...

Una domenica notte (2014)

At 46, Antonio Colucci realizes his dream of becoming a great horror movie director is far from being accomplished and he tries hard to seize what might be his last chance of getting a story of his on the screen. ...

Song'e Napule (2013)

The police send an unemployed classically-trained musician—under the cover of a trashy wedding singer—to infiltrate the entourage of an elusive Mafia boss. ...

All Against All (2013)

Cosimo and Nicole (2012)

Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, wh ...

Paura (2012)

Three young musicians think they have luck on their side when they score the keys to a beautiful villa outside of Rome for the weekend. Unfortunately, they soon discover that they are not alone. ...

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 ...

FRATELLI MINORI (2012)

Un Natale per due (2011)

An Italian style remake of "Due Date". ...

Oltre il Mare (2011)

Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2011)

Alessio Rinaldi, a 25-year-old director, gets the charge from a producer to write the script of his first movie with Ubaldo Terzani, a well-known writer of horror novels. Alessio moves into Terzani's house to start this collaboration, and a strange relatio ...

Make a Fake (2011)

Questo mondo è per te (2011)

19-year-old Teo, an aspiring writer who has grown up worshipping the likes of John Fante, Bukowski and Luciano Bianciardi, suddenly finds himself in dire need of becoming financially independent in the wake of his father's health problems, jeopardizing his ...

Unlikely Revolutionaries (2010)

Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict—decide to kidnap a politician, to dispense justice and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a blue-collar work ...

La strategia degli affetti (2010)

Interferenze (2009)

La casa sulle nuvole (2009)

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009)

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret. ...

Days and Clouds (2007)

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new w ...

Don't Think About It (2007)

Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business. ...

Last Minute Marocco (2007)

Guided by the spirit of adventure and desire to escape, a group of Italian boys decide to leave secretly for Morocco, soon followed by one of their apprensive parents. ...

Nicola, lì dove sorge il sole (2006)

"Nicola, where the sun rises" - Tells the true story of the transfer, from Myra (today Demre in Turkey ) to Bari , of the relics of St. Nicholas. 62 sailors arrive in Lycia aboard 3 sailing ships to steal the bones of the saint. They return to Bari on 8 Ma ...

Red Like the Sky (2006)

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound. ...

Ma che ci faccio qui! (2006)

...e se domani (2006)

Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life. ...

The Life I Want (2004)

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off. ...

La vita è breve ma la giornata è lunghissima (2004)

DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors . ...

Fate come noi (2004)

Aria (2004)

A Donatello award nominated short feature. ...

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. ...

Sotto gli occhi di tutti (2003)

Una famiglia per caso (2003)

Senza Filtro (2001)

Nico and Ray are surrounded by a gang of friends who love to have fun and brighten up the gray days of Milan's suburbs. They believe that love and friendship are the key ingredients for escaping the slums where they live. Between rap songs, Nico and Ray's ...

L'ultima lezione (2001)

Tandem (2000)

Roman Summer (2000)

Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and th ...

My Younger Brother (2000)

Michele Moretti is an aspiring director who lives with his brother Niccolò with whom he manages mattresses sales; he spends his free time with his friends Francone and Giovanni and with Anna, a girl he has met and who sells paintings at traffic lights. On ...

Fuori di me (2000)

Documentary about a screening of Zanasi's previous film "Nella mischia" (1995) in an impoverished district of Bari. ...

See You (1999)

15-year-old Andrea lives in a world of his own, where an innocent friendship with a pretty girl becomes a full-blown romance. He invites her to a motor show in nearby Bologna, but she fails to show up at the bus station. Instead, Andrea is joined by his ol ...

LaCapaGira (1999)

Bari, the last chills of a very cold winter. A gang of petty criminals rummages through the day and night of the suburbs, searching for a precious package sent from the Balkans and destined never to reach its final destination. What does the package contai ...

The Wasp and the Queen (1999)

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple! ...

Sono positivo (1999)

A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and b ...

Guests (1998)

Gheni and Gherti, two young Albanian immigrants who live in Rome and work in a restaurant, settle in the home of the photographer Corrado, who makes friends with the first. In a torrid and empty city for the summer holidays Gherti, more restless, binds wit ...

Land In Between (1996)

On the edge of a road that leads out of town, some Nigerian prostitutes pass the time on sagging sofas, bargaining with white clients for their bodies and their thoughts. On another street, some Slavic boys wait to be hired as bricklayers, but they are wil ...

Nella mischia (1995)

Italian slice-of-life comedy-drama following the exploits of four low-life teenagers from Rome's suburbs. ...

Moon Shadow (1995)

Astrophysicist Lorenzo returns to Sicily from Milan to sell his childhood home. Upon arrival, he meets Salvatore, whom he enlists to help with maintenance work. Lorenzo discovers that he does not have the funds he hoped for to continue the research he was ...

Se non avessi l'amore (1991)

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990. ...

Due Piccoli Italiani (2018)

The daring journey through Europe of two somewhat naive friends, Salvatore and Felice, fleeing a small town in Puglia, who find themselves catapulted to Rotterdam and then to Iceland. For the first time in their lives they will discover what it means to fe ...

Red Like the Sky (2006)

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound. ...