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- Thirteen year-old Marta has recently moved back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly testing the boundaries of an unfamiliar city and the catechism of the Catholic church.
- Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
- An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
- A Palestinian family is trapped inside a house commandeered by Israeli soldiers.
- Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.
- Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy after having spent some years in another country. He decides to run for mayor in his little city.
- A Professor from Northern Italy hosts 6 migrants in his home, where he experiments with new forms of hospitality; the Mayor of Riace, in Southern Italy, experiments with new forms of shelter for political refugees, and in this way revives his small town, in which accommodating them gives rise to new business models, and social solidarity.Then, a director from Bologna, involves political refugees and citizens in a theatre workshop and performance through the streets of the city, and in Padua migrants reciprocate the hospitality received, helping to rebuild homes destroyed by a hurricane. A journey to get to know "The New frontiers of Migrant Acceptance and Assimilation" in Italy, the first Mediterranean European Frontier, where the migratory flows are causing emergency and controversy, in which we discover the revolutionary stories of ordinary people capable of inventing new forms of coexistence.
- An elderly farmer befriends a woman whose family believe is possessed.
- Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia's unborn daughter.
- In 1951 in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time as no route connects Africo with the other villages. The inhabitants get together to build it up.
- This documentary short film shows how 300 immigrants, who had debarked on the Ionic side of Italy, were welcomed by the local Calabrian communities of the so-called ghost towns or shrinking cities in the Locride.
- In Duisburg, an Italian restaurateur and four of his collaborators are executed. The tracks lead to a village to Italy from which all victims originate.
- On December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969, Pinelli was seen falling to his death from a fourth-floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder, but charges were dropped for lack of evidence.
- Maurizio, tiny, reckless and full of energy, grew up in the poorest outskirts of Reggio Calabria, he argues with spiteful hens, speaks to wise donkeys and fights for his dream: to play the snare drum in the neighborhood's band.
- Patricia and Ikendu meet in a town in Italian-speaking Switzerland. He comes from Mali, she's employed and the single mother of two daughters. He keeps silent about the reasons for his flight, but he's a fantastic cook and brings warmth and stability into the chaos that is Patricia's life. After their wedding, they live a carefree life, without asking each other too many questions. But one day, Ikendu is arrested and incriminated as a drug dealer by his co-defendants. Now, a difficult period begins for the couple. They both find out things they had previously hidden from one another. At times, this leaves them speechless, at others it causes violent arguments. They often don't understand the world any longer. Nonetheless their relationship takes an important step forward.
- Italian magistrate Paolo Pizzi (Franco Nero) has devoted his life to justice. With an inflexible sense of honour and duty, he has stood up to the crime bosses, the corrupt judges and the politicians. One day, Paolo's public zeal leads to a private loss; his wife is killed and his son disappears. As he follows a potential Mafia connection to Australia, his search for his son turns into an obsessive pursuit but in an ominous landscape of political and police corruption, business fraud, media intrigue, drugs smuggling and illegal arms dealing, the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
- Four young girls (Claudia, Monica, Michèle and Marina) and two boys (Peter and Marco) during an excursion by motorboat are running out of gasoline.
- A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
- Father and son try to rebuild their relationship after they have a paragliding accident and end up being stuck in an opening.
- Grazia is 17 and lives in a small town in the South of Italy. Her brother Pietro disappeared years ago; she was told he was dead and her father never wanted to talk about it. One night, after a fight, Grazia enters into the sea and sees a human figure, in which she recognises her brother. That night she decides to search for him, breaking the rule of silence to which her father has always obeyed.
- Assuntina is the mother of Domenico and Nicola, two Calabrian brothers who keep arguing against each other. When she finds a religious host on the ground, she thinks that miracle is going to stop them.
- "Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning "La strada di Levi", Ferrario sets off on a journey: this time, on the traces of the expedition of the Thousand. The aim: to verify the relationship between past and present, starting from Bergamo, formerly the "City of the Thousand" and today a bastion of Padania, and arriving at Teano. The voyage is full of surprises, meetings, reflections: a sweeping road movie through the history and geography of the country, seeking to answer a nagging question: why are Italians no longer able to imagine a future for themselves?
- When Rita discovers she has little time left to live, her primary concern is to fight death. She is overcome with concern for her son Gianni, who has a heart of gold, but who is socially awkward and still lives at home. Rita asks Daniela for help, a newcomer in town, who recently divorced and who has sworn to forget men altogether. Daniela agrees to become a teacher for Gianni's relationships, and that's how things start to get complicated.
- In his attempt to grow up and become a man, Pietro, a 15 years old boy who lives in the extreme south of Italy, begins to understand the reality in which he is growing up and touches what represents the most violent aspect of mafia: the silence.
- Pietro returns to Italy to attend his mother's funeral. During his stay, Pietro came into contact with his parents' friends and learned of a series of events unknown to him until then, relating to the death of his father Antonio.
- Two friends flee to another country in order to start another life after one of them murders his girlfriend and they are forced to cover it up.
- Among the first structures to be built on the Calabrian shore is the Fort of Matiniti Superiore, known as Siacci. This is the most important Strait fortification in terms of size, architectural features and functions, together with its twin Fort Masotto on the Sicilian shore. This documentary tells the story of the social impact that Fort Siacci had on the territory, through the testimony of those who lived through it and those who, for various reasons, saw their lives linked to it.
- Micareju's vague memories of Calabrian summers in the '80.
- The Italian mob plans to buy cocaine, but the Don's son scuttles the deal. The Mexicans sit down to sell, but the special police attack them. The American brokers put in their own money for the time being to make the deal go through.
- Lynwood dies in the shootout with the Mexican armed forces. The armed forces suspect a mole. One of the members is made a scapegoat. The mole attacks the ship with the drugs but turns tables on his Captain and allows it to escape.
- As Manuel and his team face the consequences of their choices, Chris and Don Minu, at the opposites of the world, have to face some dangerous and unexpected circumstances.
- In Calabria, the enemies of Don Minu understand that the only way to definitively destabilise the boss of the 'Ndrangheta is by stopping the Lynwoods and their shipment once and for all.