Sonia Bergamasco

The Negotiator (2025)

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission. ...

Ari-Cassamortari (2024)

After the Arcangelo affair, the Pasti brothers, together with an eccentric half-sister they didn't know they had, have made a name for themselves as "gravediggers of VIPs" and are vying for a coveted category award never won before, the Vespillone D'oro. B ...

The Life Apart (2024)

In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child's face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the ...

Thank You Guys (2023)

An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot. ...

Tonight in Milan (2022)

Starting from the main spire of the Duomo, right under the Madonnina, Alberto crosses the city at night, discovering the more or less hidden treasures of the Lombard capital: from the stage of the Teatro alla Scala to the basilica of S. Ambrogio, from the ...

Il coraggio di essere Franco (2022)

I cassamortari (2022)

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black. ...

La scelta di Maria (2021)

In a stirring blend of archival footage, fictional recreations, interviews, and animation, the film delves into the story of Italy's 'Unknown Soldier'. November 4, 2021, in fact, is the hundredth anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier in the Alta ...

Like a Cat on a Highway 2 (2021)

Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help. ...

Agalma (2020)

A whirlwind of activity sweeps us into the daily routine at the Archaeological Museum of Naples. ...

Mia Martini - Fammi sentire bella (2020)

Like a Cat on a Highway (2017)

The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love. ...

Bloody Richard (2017)

Riccardo Mancini (Ranieri) is discharged from the forensic psychiatric hospital, where he has spent many long years serving time for a crime shrouded in mystery; now he is determined to wreak revenge and win back power within his crime family. ...

Evviva Giuseppe (2017)

The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues. ...

Vita agli arresti di Aung San Suu Kyi (2017)

Karenina & I (2017)

The actor Gøril Mauseth goes on a 11.000 kilometer travel with the Trans-Siberian to play Anna Karenina in a new language in Leo Tolstoj's Russia, discovering the language, and the reasons Tolstoj wrote what he wrote, changing her forever. ...

Leave the Saints Alone (2017)

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perha ...

Where Am I Going? (2016)

Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever... ...

Rubando Bellezza (2015)

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema (2014)

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, ...

Me & You (2012)

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as planned after his half sister joins him. ...

Maledimiele (2012)

Maledimiele tells the story of Sara, a teenage girl who sinks – slowly but inevitably – into the abyss of anorexia. ...

Make a Fake (2011)

Woman of My Life (2010)

Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in lo ...

Bakhita (2009)

Born in a village in Sudan, kidnapped by slavers, often beaten and abused, and later sold to Federico Marin, a Venetian merchant, Bakhita then came to Italy and became the nanny servant of Federico's daughter, Aurora, who had lost her mother at birth. She ...

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. ...

La straniera (2009)

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. ...

Wild Blood (2008)

The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall. ...

Niente è come sembra (2007)

Musikanten (2006)

During research for a series focused on the greatest scientists of the past, a TV producer, following a hypnosis experiment, finds herself catapulted into the 19th century, participating in the last years of Ludwig Van Beethoven's life. ...

De Gasperi: The Man of Hope (2005)

In August 1954, Alcide De Gasperi, now at the end of his personal and political career, left the Christian Democrats' headquarters in Rome and visited his daughter, Lucia, a nun. He revealed to her that he had definitively retired from active politics and ...

Amorfù (2003)

Elena, a young trainee psychiatrist, dreams of bringing "mad" people back to a normal life; she makes them talk, she provokes and incites them in the hope of finding the distinguishing signs of normality. Fausto is a boy judged "mad", who has been hospital ...

Nessuna Paura (2003)

It's a night like any other for Captain Marco Giordani, or so he thinks until Silvia has a fight with her companion and ends up alone in the middle of the station square. Giordani offers to help her, and soon finds himself entangled in a murder case. ...

The Best of Youth (2003)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades. ...

Rumors (2002)

An inexperienced journalist tries to discover who murdered her friend. ...

Probably Love (2001)

Sofia is a young student in an acting class who learns some of the secrets of the trade from three great actresses: Mariangela Melato teaches her to lie, Stefania Sandrelli teaches her to tell the truth, and Alida Valli teaches her about the illusion of ar ...

Come si fa un Martini (2001)

Il mnemonista (2000)

First violin in the orchestra of a big city, S. has an extraordinary memory, which leads him to remember every detail of what falls under his attention. When he realizes that he can no longer read a score, because the notes before his eyes explode into mov ...

Pinocchio, ovvero lo spettacolo della Provvidenza (1999)

Screenplay by C. B. ...

Voce dei Canti (1998)

On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth, Carmelo Bene returns to the verses of the poet from Recanati. In this film the most beautiful poems by Giacomo Leopardi (La Ginestra, Il Canto Notturno, Le Ricordanze, A Silvia, L'Infinito ...), but also som ...