Manuela Cacciamani

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Marco is an anxious nineteen-year-old approaching his final exams, with three subjects to catch up on, a mother glued to her smartphone, and a brother who dreams of becoming an indie singer. He is antisocial and wishes he could love the way people used to. Aria graduated the previous year, has *one day at a time* tattooed on her arm, and lives every day as if it were her last.

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What would you do if one day a faceless person blackmailed you and became your worst nightmare? The first reaction of Camilla, a 17-year-old musician, after being the victim of sextortion is to feel ashamed, hide away, and give up her passions and performances. Will she find the strength to fight back and reclaim what has been taken from her?

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A docufilm retracing the life, successes, and great eras of Italy’s most beloved and longest-running band. A story told in chapters, each corresponding to a major theme explored by the group in their songs: love, children, and more. An exceptional and often unreleased repertoire ties together the story of Pooh—from their beginnings to their rise to fame, from their toughest choices to their commitment to environmental causes, from legendary live concerts to the moment they decided to bring this incredible journey to an end. Roby Facchinetti, Dodi Battaglia, and Red Canzian guide us through a musical and cultural legacy that has united multiple generations of fans, joined by the voices of the late drummer Stefano D’Orazio and Riccardo Fogli.

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Michele Anacondia is a criminal on the fringes of the Apulian mafia, whose wife pushes him to achieve more. Their only son dies in an ambush and the man kills half of a rival gang. The boss promotes him, and when his enemies set fire to his residence, he takes refuge with Michele and his wife. Michele is not satisfied: he kills the godfather and takes command of the Sacra Corona. But his thirst for blood will plunge him into madness.

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Mia is 16 years old, and through her virtual diary, she meets Tommaso—sensitive, attentive, and full of energy—a Prince Charming who seems tailor-made for her. But who is Tommaso really? *The Rag Doll* is a short film that is part of a transmedia project on online grooming, premiered as a special event at the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

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A train station in Sicily. There are two people in the waiting room: one is “the man with the flower in his mouth” in the film's title, who has confronted and threatened a mysterious woman outside the station. The other is “the peaceful customer,” who missed his train because of presents for the women in his family which hindered him as he ran and made him trip on the train tracks. The man with the flower in his mouth has helped the peaceful customer and immediately establishes a relationship of trust and empathy with him. The two recount their lives, but whereas the peaceful man talks about his frustrations, the man with the flower in his mouth keeps steering the conversation toward just one topic: death. Everything seems wrapped in mystery, starting with the identity of the woman outside the station...

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Alice is 18 and afraid of falling asleep. Every night she relives the same nightmare, made of endless races, terrible challenges in which she faces a disturbing Queen of Hearts. Art, her friends, her boyfriend seem unable to help her overcome a nightmare deeply tied to her past. When do wounds become scars? Can scars disappear?

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The personal journey of a motivated and determined bio-medical researcher who was marked by the early loss of his mother during his childhood.

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A love story between a lonely bar owner and a young African immigrant working in his restaurant leads to scandal and violence in a small Italian town.

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There's something wrong with Sara's birthday.

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Kip is an intelligent and sensitive boy with a great passion for anthropology, thanks to his mother who is studying the glacier mummy Ötzi, displayed in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano. When a tragic accident changes Kip’s life, he has to leave Bolzano and his best friends. On his last days in the city, Kip a final time goes to the museum to say goodbye to the mummy, as something magical happens and Ötzi wakes up ...

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The protagonists of the short film are the very young patients in the pediatric ward of a hospital. The young patients are projected into the most famous scene from "Full Metal Jacket" alongside a sergeant/doctor who encourages them to face adversity with the most effective weapon a child has at their disposal: the power of imagination.

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Five women are victims of various forms of violence. In each of them the story of reality overlaps with that of imagination, thus creating a parallel world in which the desire to experience a healthy love becomes possible.

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When young Tommi goes missing during a festival in the Dolomites in 2010, his parents are devastated. Five years later, a boy is found with no name or records; DNA tests prove it is Tommi. But while Tommi's father Manuel welcomes him back with open arms, his mother Linda is not convinced that it is her son. Suspicion and superstition permeate the pores of this eerie mystery thriller.

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The problem of parental alienation told through three stories of children involved in conflictual separations and divorces.

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Three episodes offer the opportunity to tell "another story", id est an unexpectedly positive epilogue to what initially may seem like the umpteenth case of violence.

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On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.

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After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep...

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