Film candidati al David di Donatello 2023

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming. The informant is his partner's father.

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets Onofrio Principato and Sebastiano Vella, two actors rehearsing a new show with the actors of their amateur dramatics. This meeting brings great surprises.

An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to his hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.

Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses as her new mission to convince her childhood friend that they are still best friends.

In the process of searching for her beloved lost dog Marcel, a mother reconnects with her neglected young daughter.

Grosseto, 2008. Edoardo, Iacopo and Michele are the three young members of a punk band. Tired of performing in cheap contexts and local festivals, they finally have the opportunity to open for a popular hardcore American band: the Defense. The arrival of the band is inexorably sneaking up and, besides the doubtful turnout of the endeavour, their personal lives are on shaky ground as well. The risk is to lose something precious and irreplaceable that they have always been taking for granted: their strong and unique friendship.

One day in September, three characters realize that the life they find themselves in is not the one they had dreamed of; that happiness is a distant idea, but perhaps still possible.

In an old warehouse, on the outskirts of the Sicilian capital, a group of people crushes their arms and legs with a trolley full of gym weights

Astolfo a retired professor, settles in his ancestral dilapidated palace in an Abruzzo village, forming unlikely friendships with a vagabond, chef, and handyman. He meets Stefania and overcomes hesitation to find love with their support.

A biography of St. Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to become a nun after hearing St. Francis preach.

The story of love between Clara and her children, set in Rome in the '70s.

A son who no longer wanted to have anything to do with his father is forced to help him run the family ranch after he fractured some bones. The two come together to train a recalcitrant horse and lead it to win a cross-country competition, but at the same time try to dissolve that lump of anger, hostility, resentment, which has prevented them from being close for so long. It is a difficult obstacle course that the horse must go through, but also what the two must face to rebuild the love and closeness they had lost. A horse trainer, with whom the young man falls in love, will help them heal from their pain and walk together on the steep path to forgiveness.

The life of Marco Carrera from the 1970s to the near future and the myriad relationships that have criss-crossed its path along the way.

Raffaele has just assembled his little pile of grain, which serves as his provisions for an entire year. Not wishing to get caught unprepared, he has been sleeping in the countryside for days, far from everybody, waiting for the wind to arrive and help him at last to separate the wheat-grains from the chaff. But the wind will not show up. Only Angelino comes to visit him every day, making him feel less lonely. Maybe one day, when he is all grown up, Raffaele will lend him his indomitable mare and he will finally manage to ride her. But Angelino has no intention of waiting.

A young African woman is a victim of the sex trade.

Rome has not seen rain in three years, and regulations and customs change as a group of intertwined characters deals with the water shortage.

It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.

An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled.

Follows Diabolik and his accomplice Eva Kant in a new adventure against a more combative Inspector Ginko than ever.

The forbidden love between Andrea, the reluctant heir of the Malatesta family, and Marilena, the beautiful wife of the Camporeale boss, rekindles an old feud between two rival families. Marilena, now cast out by the Camporeales and prisoner of the Malatestas, will oppose to a destiny already written.

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Italy, 1330. Ten years after Dante Alighieri's death, Giovanni Boccaccio travels to Ravenna in search of his daughter Beatrice to whom he must deliver ten gold florins from the Orsanmichele's Company as compensation for unjust exile.

Harlan Draka is a Dampyr, half-human and half-vampire, but he doesn't know it. Soon he will have to face his powers to destroy a terrible Master of The Night.