Roberto Zibetti

The Kidnapping of Arabella (2025)

Precocious seven-year-old Arabella convinces troubled young woman named Holly to take her on a road trip, accidentally faking her own kidnapping—and leaving her father in a panic. ...

My Tennis Maestro (2025)

Italy, 1989. After years of hard training, 13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, finally sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. While dreaming of a simple summer vacation, he's instead placed under the wi ...

Maria Montessori (2023)

Set in 1900, Lili d'Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her "idiot" daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child. ...

Il confessore (2023)

KM 9 (2022)

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. ...

Yara (2021)

The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutors have only scant DNA evidence and no database to compare them to. Based on a true story. ...

Romantic Guide to Lost Places (2020)

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the ...

Cobra non è (2020)

A crime comedy about the crazy night of a rapper and his manager ...

The Most Beautiful Day in the World (2019)

Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes. ...

Il mio unico crimine è vedere chiaro nella notte (2018)

Il mio unico crimine è vedere chiaro nella notte addresses the issues of censorship in Italian cinema and psychological removal in art. The work's title—my only crime is seeing clearly in the night—incisively highlights the conflict at the basis of cr ...

Addio fottuti musi verdi (2017)

Young Ciro Priello, an ultra-skilled Neapolitan graphic, can not find a job that satisfies and appreciates him. After sending the curriculum practically everywhere, he just have to send a copy in space. He will thus be able to work for an alien society bas ...

I Killed Napoleon (2015)

In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble. ...

Sfumature di verità (2015)

Pasolini (2014)

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo ...

Le Donne della Vucciria (2013)

In "Le Donne della Vucciria", sixth Miu Miu Women's Tale, Palestinian female director Hiam Abbass contemplates the transformative power of clothes, music and dance in a charming, evocative study of the women of the Sicilian city of Palermo. ...

Zinì e Amì (2012)

A technological love story between a boy and an android faces difficulties and complications, similar to relationships with technology. Zinì, after a disappointing love, buys Amì, a perfect android with similar interests to him. Everything seems ideal, b ...

Back from Hell (2012)

When six pals escape the chaos of the city for a brief getaway, the manor home they rent in the countryside may not be so idyllic after all… The party mood soon sours as strange phenomenon begins. The group initially attempts to rationalize the occurrenc ...

Twins (2012)

Angela Wyler asks police chief Valerio Strada to find Christine, her twin, who she hasn't heard from in two years and who had a stormy relationship with the officer years back. ...

Visions of Murder (2012)

Jesse Newman is an ambitious psychologist in a therapy center. One day Gloria Hager appears in her office and starts telling about her husband, who beats her. But suddenly she runs out... When Jesse starts having visions of Gloria shortly after, she at fir ...

Se sei così, ti dico sì (2011)

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems that fame is definitively confined to the past, Piero recei ...

La donna della domenica (2011)

Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garr ...

Vivaldi, the Red Priest (2009)

The life of Antonio Vivaldi, called "the red priest", his relationship with the world and the Church, his spiritual battles, his love for a woman. ...

Anotherworld (2008)

An experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in monologues performed by actors and adapted from interviews with ordinary It ...

Political Target (2006)

The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police ...

Sleepless (2001)

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus. ...

Nella terra di nessuno (2000)

Radiofreccia (1998)

April 24, 1993: it's the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, an independent radio station closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age. Bruno, one of its founders, begins to tell its story, the story of a group of friends—especially trouble ...

The Game Bag (1997)

In late summer 1991, three Italians reach a hunting reserve in Croatia with a station wagon. They go to deer, but, unaware of what's in store for months, they do not decipher the enigmatic signs that surround them. One of the three is suddendly wounded in ...

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reac ...

Diary of a Rapist (1995)

This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some viewers. Outwardly Luca seems to be a normal, quiet 20-year ...

Mario and the Magician (1994)

The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. ...

The Last Days of Humanity (1991)

The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai ...