We Believed
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini’s republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable…
Nostalgia
Felice Lasco returns to the Sanità district to look after his sick and dying mother after 45 years spent between the Middle East and Africa. In Naples he waits to…
The King of Laughter
Beloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success with timeless works such as “Miseria e nobiltà .” However,…
Teatro di guerra
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples’ Spanish Boroughs. Director’s plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic…
Capri-Revolution
In 1914, with Italy about to enter World War I, a commune of young artists from Northern Europe establishes itself on the rural island of Capri, a safe haven for…
Leopardi
A luminously beautiful biopic of the celebrated eighteenth-century Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verse whilst struggling with a debilitating illness.