Alfonso is a Neapolitan scientist; he is shy and inept and has just lost his job. Gayan is a fascinating former cricket champion from Sri Lanka. Now penniless, he has just arrived in Naples in the belief that here he will find Paradise. Alfonso has spent his life studying cell migration and watching soap operas with his mother. Gayan has travelled and known fame, glory and money. What do these two men have in common? How can two such different people come into contact and how can their lives become so indissolubly bound? In a multi-ethnic Naples, Alfonso and Gayan’s lives become intertwined as they are forced to share a shack built illegally on the rooftop of a building in the heart of the city’s Sri Lankan neighbourhood. Because of a tragicomic misunderstanding, Alfonso needs to hide from a gang of mobsters and Gayan becomes first a hostage and then his only ally. And from this paradoxical cohabitation, a very special friendship is born, a partnership that gives them the courage to face their fate and change it forever.

In 1618, at the age of 23, Artemisia became the first female artist to get international recognition. She came in touch with the most brilliant minds of her time, including Caravaggio. The film recalls her life, for which she is recognized as a modern feminist icon, due to her personality and the unyielding defense of her professional integrity, documented in the letters she wrote to art collectors and other eminent figures of her time, like Galileo Galilei. Artemisia’s fame is also tied to the rape trial she started against a colleague, Agostino Tassi. She survived the experience thanks to her moral strength and, through her painting, succeeded as a woman and as an artist, producing masterpieces that can touch the heart and soul of audiences who admire them four hundred years later.

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid’s Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journey between theatre and cinema, filmed in a single fixed shot running continuously over 80 minutes and half a kilometre, in Madrid’s popular Lavapiés district. The characters talk, argue, laugh, cry, threaten, whisper, shout, steal, make dates, get angry with and hug one another, prompting the spectator to reflect on the immense power of words.

The film tells the story of a shy genius of videogames. A friend wants to help him with a machine to detoxify him from dependence on video games, but the machine sends him instead in a virtual world, as Morpheus in Matrix. His friend be forced to follow him to save his life. There will be many action scenes, the two protagonists will have to fight for their lives.

A journey into the heart of Bangland, a city in a dystopian America now under the presidency of Steven Spielberg, who has declared war on the African nation Mahaba, thereby launching his own war on terror, the gist being that anyone who isn’t white is a potential terrorist. On the eve of the presidential elections that could spell the end of the Spielberg administration, the fates of a number of Bangland residents become entangled: Charlie Tucano and Tony Beretta, modern-day inquisitors working for the influential television evangelist Gold; Loogie Boogie, an Irish loan shark with a dysfunctional family.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Achille Franzi is the pastry chef. As a child he spent his days in the bakery of his father, whose advice represented a real guide for interpreting life, almost a gospel. Now that he is adult, Achille lives his work as a mission, to make people happy through the perfection of sweets. But one day the chance, or perhaps destiny, takes him away from the routine full of delicious creams and yeast, sugar and cream puffs. Despite himself, he begins a journey that will change his life. To survive, Achille will face dangerous tests, both escorted and hampered by a femme fatale, a shyster and a foul scrupulous cop. As the journey proceeds, Achilles will tell us his story, his past: a paradise of pastel colors, scents, flavors and secret recipes.

Alberto, owner of a small company, confronted with financial difficulties, becomes a courier for a powerful criminal organization in the attempt to save his company. He hides the truth of his trips from his loving wife Laura, who has always appreciated him for his honesty, until a rival gang’s interest in the illicit package he is about to deliver forces him to face the consequences of a choice far beyond his nature.

The distant outskirts of Rome witness the birth of three parallel stories destined to be tied together. Marco, ex prisoner, goes back to dealing cocaine for his old friends Glauco and Mauro. Faustino, Massimo and Federico spend their days doing drugs and irresponsible things. Sonia is a university student but also works in a gambling club. A trivial incident will force the main characters to leave a trail of fire, blood and violence behind them.

This is the story of an aspiring suicide, a former prisoner, a boy with Asperger's syndrome and a young Salentine athlete. Besieged by life, and tired of getting involved because now accustomed to defeat, for a strange twist of fate will be forced to undertake a journey together that will lead them to confront their own past, to fight with their demons and get out of their loneliness. A trivial amateur rowing race will make them a cohesive group, eager for a ransom at all costs. To win they will cheat and lose badly, but it will not be a real defeat, because in the meantime they will discover that they have become a family that is able to turn the sum of their individual defeats into success. A unique, eccentric, but enviable family that we would all like to have as neighbors.