Silvana De Santis

Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap,...

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his...

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. Onboard is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was; a family of Albanian...

Dashing through the streets of Venice, slipping from the clutches of the law, darting across Europe in search of new challenges, Giacomo Casanova...

The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic...

A gay man and a lesbian, both having reasons to try going straight, end up as a couple!

Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to...

Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he...

At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So,...

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from...

When a man disappears and leaves a daughter and mother in heavy debt they have to live on a houseboat to make ends meet.

In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.