Oggi Gira Così, directed by Sydney Sibilia, tells the story of the bizarre day of Gianni, a professor in Latin and Greek undergoing a nervous breakdown, and Mirko and Danilo, two thirty-something misfits who, to eke out a living, invented a rather unique job.
Their lives cross by accident in a luxurious apartment in the center of Latina where an upper-class family lives. Lucia, one of the family members, is a pretty adolescent who is already bored with life.

Rome, the Eternal City, is like a huge natural theater. The streets, alleys, squares, restaurants, and even public transportation become a natural stage upon which to tell the stories of every genre of musician.

The Music Hall of Rome, a film project produced by Ascent Film, directed by Serafino Murri and Andrés Arce Maldonado and developed with the support of the Università “La Sapienza” and Rai Cinema, is a musical documentary where the City of Rome has the starring role and is presented with the symbolic and cosmopolitan expression, “Metropolitan Music Hall”.

November 1944, the Lazio countryside. A partisan’s last hours. The attempt to remember what it means, and how difficult it is, to be free. At the beginning sparks fly between them but it doesn’t take long for them find themselves side by side. They develop a bond which will make them both grow and change.

Written by Matteo Rovere, Giuliano Bottani

Vittorio, a modern dancer, falls in love with Marco, the choreographer he is working with, and leaves his girlfriend. Vittorio’s unrequited love is not returned by Marco who loves another man. Vittorio finds himself alone but made stronger by the fact that he has discovered a new side to himself.

About ten nautical miles of the coast of Trapani in Sicily, there is an archipelago of three small islands. One of these, from a bird’s eye view, is shaped like a butterfly. It is the Island of Favignana.

Both of us have spent a lot of our summers there throughout our lives, as well as many winters, because one of us is the son of islanders and the other has been going to the island on holiday for years with his family. We noticed that the island doesn’t live only off fishing and is not populated exclusively by fishermen with sea salt encrusted and sunburnt faces, it also survives thanks to the women in the community who in very different ways from each other, but almost always attributable to a common thread, hold the reins of Favignana’s life in their hands. At times in extraordinary ways and in our opinion the opposite of what one might expect when talking about a tiny Sicilian town.

The documentary gathers the stories of a dozen of these women who are aged between 17 and 87 years old. Three of them guide us within the film: three women who, like the others, by birth or by choice have made Favignana a decidedly female island.

A web commercial for Renault Trafic launched by Publicis Italia and produced by Ascent Film.

Renault Business booster. Video campaign for Renault commercial vehicles, dedicated to the world of work and family businesses. Big stories about small businesses, told through the relationship and exchange between fathers, mothers, sons and daughters.

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Renault Business Booster. Campagna video per i veicoli commerciali Renault, dedicata al mondo del lavoro e alle imprese familiari. Grandi storie di piccole aziende, attraverso il rapporto e lo scambio tra padri e figli.

AGENCY: Publicis

Renault Business Booster. Campagna video per i veicoli commerciali Renault, dedicata al mondo del lavoro e alle imprese familiari. Grandi storie di piccole aziende, attraverso il rapporto e lo scambio tra padri e figli.

AGENCY: Publicis

Every year on the 24th and 25th of May, the features of the French town Saintes Maries de la Mer completely change. The colors change, the sounds change: the people change. During those days, in fact, for many years (perhaps hundreds), thousands of Gypsies, Romani people and Manouches gather in the small streets of the city to celebrate Sara the Black, their patron saint, and the two Maries, Mary Salomé and Mary Jacobé.

This is the scenario of the film for Sara’s trip, an Italian journalist who, with the audience, enters the fascinating and unknown world of the Gypsies in the only time of the year where they come from all over the world and gather in one place.
The film is a 54’ long docufiction: the religious pilgrimage and the celebration of the gypsies are the backdrop to the personal experience of a young woman, Sara, who will try to understand this incredible people better.

But this is not just your usual documentary: the point of view is through the eyes of the young journalist who left to write a short piece about the event and found herself intrigued and involved personally, experiencing an unexpected human adventure, perhaps the first in her lifetime. The Gypsies: free men who choose, for necessity or by habit, to live with no fixed abode, wandering and roaming streets around the world. It is their spirit of community that guides them each year to Saintes-Maries de la Mer, in the Camargue, to celebrate their people and their Saint, immersed in the scenery of this beautiful and mysterious region.
They are days where moments of profound religious belief alternate with feasts full of singing, dancing and music. Notes from the violins and guitars fill the air of the town in a crescendo of tradition and spirituality.

The aim of the film is to tell the story of the celebration from a “traditional” Westerner’s point of view who, captivated by the event and above all by the people, is seduced by it. Her values and past will remain, but she will return home with something that changes her: in fact, she will observe the Gypsy people with a more knowledgeable eye, enriched by her direct experience with them.

My Father’s Garden tells the story of a young woman who has never met her father. The occasion in which she meets him will be the first and last: her father is dying in a small hospital in the south of France. A house has been rented for her in the French countryside where she expects to be alone to prepare herself emotionally for the encounter, but she discovers two odd characters wandering around the house. Her anxiety rises; are the two people real or are they a projection of her distress?

The time for questioning is over; the young woman accepts that the moment to confront her father has arrived.