Cristina Puccinelli

L'ultimo weekend

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?

Desperate after losing her job, Alice starts a sexy webcam site with three friends. Successful at first, their new-found decadence sends them on a downward spiral of mutual resentment and dangerous excess.

Three shocking tales of horror that will get you beyond fear. From the mind of the filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins, Bloody Sin of Horror, Poe: Poetry of Eerie) and Mickael Abbate (Festival Director of "Samain du cinéma fantastique"), Phantasmagoria is a Franco-Italian co production.

A controversial stage director goes back to his birthplace to face his destiny.

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25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, quickly rising through the ranks of the company and experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees. Around her revolve other people, like delusional supervisor Daniela, her boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio, and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

Future. An analyst and his young patient Stefano, who is unable to relate serenely with love, talk during a psychoanalytic session. His tales of sentimental adventures become a fresco of enthusiasm and vitality, which we only glimpse in the eyes of our analyst.

Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.

Inspired by Giancarlo Marinelli's novel "Amori in stazione", the film talks about the fate of marginalization in the decay of a small railway station, where prostitutes, homosexuals, pimps, conscripts, immigrants, gypsies and ordinary people meet. Characters out of time and space. Artificiality is their language to get out of the rawness of the landscape.

A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.

Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a good advertising campaign for a new Japanese product. Niki is a bubbly 17 year old student. She has three best friends with whom she shares all her problems, and an annoying ex-boyfriend Fabio who is set on getting her back, but Niki's not interested. One day on his way to work, Alex collides with Niki on a city street. They soon begin a romance, despite their 20-year age gap.