Rosebud Entertainment Pictures

Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federal, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an atavistic hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don't know it and between them "the greatest friendship in the world" is born, impervious to the divisions of history that bloodies Europe. But on October 16 the Jewish boy is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo's father Federale, the three friends believe they know where he is and, to honor the "spit pact", decide to leave in secret to convince the Germans to free their friend. Yet another imaginative mission becomes reality, the three children travel alone in an Italy exhausted by war, among disbanded soldiers, deserters, occupying German troops, exhausted and hungry populations.

In 2011 the Syrian people rise up against the Assad regime. When Dr. Haider, a pediatric heart surgeon, loses his brother in a terrorist attack, he decides to fulfill his last wish, finding himself questioning everything he has always believed in.

It's one of the many anonymous nights of quarantine when Irene's phone rings. It's Pietro, her ex. Irene hasn't heard him for months, since their story ended, she hesitates, but in the end she answers. Pietro is beside himself and his confused words suggest a desperate act. Irene just has to travel, to a ghostly city, without ever hanging up, with the hope of reaching him in time.

Louis is a talented jazz musician who, after giving up music, now makes ends meet by working as a taxi driver and dealing cocaine, but ruining his relationship with his wife and daughter. But when an old friend of his father offers him to join his band for an important concert, the protagonist is presented with an opportunity for redemption.

Dumped over a video he made to amuse his ailing dad, a heartsick Jérémy hatches an elaborate scheme to win back his superhero-loving girlfriend, Lola.

A farmhouse in the countryside around Rome in the 70s. Livia and Pietro write a script for Luchino Visconti based on 'In Search of Lost Time' by Marcel Proust.

According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.

Tehran, October 2022; a theater ensemble is rehearsing the ancient greek Lysistrata by Aristophanes. In the middle of a scene in which old men storm and attack the Acropolis, which the women of Athens have taken, the ensemble learns that they are surrounded because anti-riot forces are marching around the building and putting down a large demonstration. The street noise is deafening, and the room is filled with fear and anger. Some want to hide, others, led by the leading actress, want to go out into the streets and fight alongside the people. Despite disagreements, one thing is clear, the team does not want to continue the play in the time of the revolution.

The story of two brothers, separated by time and their character, and their journey back to Italy, homeward, in the summer of 1956.

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory