A love story turned assassination against the backdrop of the 1968 student massacre whose unresolved status is finally resolved in tense life threatening conditions. The story of a stubborn journalist who undertakes the clarification and bringing to justice of the heinous murder of one student forty years later represents a dedicated effort to force a country from denial to reconciliation and closure of tragic social and political events in a country´s history. A nation cannot allow official cover-ups that seek to delete and erase from the collective memory events that prevent a nation´s march towards social justice.

An ageing Mexican woman recalls ever-darker memories from her childhood over images that slowly detach from reality. 　　Festival alumna and Australian Directors’ Guild Award winner Chloe de Brito (Pink Reef, MIFF 2022) returns with a haunting, impressionistic work that reflects on familial history, dark secrets and the shapeshifting nature of memory.

Luca, a petrol dealer, marries a magazine dancer, Ippolita, a girl who likes to be courted by the many passing motorists. One day, the woman discovers that her husband has betrayed her with Adriana. Ippolita decides her revenge: she assures Luke that she will keep her duties as a wife only when she too has allowed herself similar distractions. Through a series of animated events, the two resume married life: but Luca will not be able to know if Ippolita was really unfaithful to him.

Barbara and Matteo are two Italians who live in Miami, managing a small restaurant overlooking the sea. Barbara is pregnant and the happy event brings their respective parents together in Miami: Massimo, Matteo's father, who has recently become a widower and has a hotel in Cortina, and Angela, Barbara's mother, who instead has a chain of restaurants and is separated from her husband. At first, the incompatibility between the two is sky-high. Then, while events, misunderstandings and plots of various kinds revolve around them, the ice slowly begins to break and affinities emerge when the two find themselves busy restoring peace between their children, who have entered into a crisis due to the birth of the little girl.

Chiara, insegnante alla John Dewey High School di Brooklyn e promettente pugile della leggendaria Gleason's Gym, sogna di diventare campionessa dei pesi piuma. Cresciuta in una problematica famiglia italo-americana di Bensonhurst, si aggrappa alla boxe come unica via di riscatto. Dopo una breve ma eccezionale carriera costellata di sole vittorie, un terribile incidente sul ring la costringe a ritirarsi, infrangendo il suo sogno. Ma è nel buio più profondo della sua vita che Chiara trova “la fede”, una forza spirituale che la spinge a rialzarsi e a sfidare l’impossibile. Contro i pronostici del proprio medico, Chiara decide di riprendere in mano i guantoni, rischiando la vita pur di inseguire la sua ambizione.

Mirko Bertuccioli is a musician from Pesaro: event organiser, DJ, and manager of Plastic, an unforgettable record shop in town. He is Zagor Camillas in the band/elective family I Camillas. He died, due to Covid, on April 14, 2020. The idea of making a film about him was a matter of heart and beat, also to prove that you can make music, and so much more. 　　A reporter and photographer, Filippo Biagianti makes documentaries and teaches video editing. Vittorio Ondedei is a musician, actor, writer, and co-founder of the band I Camillas (2004-2020).

The very first film by Jean Eustache (1938-1981), freely inspired in a short story by Guy de Maupassant, unfinished and without any soundtrack.

The very first film by Jean Eustache (1938-1981), freely inspired in a short story by Guy de Maupassant, unfinished and without any soundtrack.