Renato Scarpa – MRQE

Tommaso

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tommaso has just left his first wife but he will meet a new person who will change everything in his life.

The Two Popes

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

Croce e delizia

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On July 1921, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where a hundred unarmed people between protestersmostly studentsand independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next would be called by Amnesty International “the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II.”

We Have a Pope

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope’s fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

Honolulu Baby

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A man learns about the down side of paradise when his company sends him to a community populated by beautiful women.

Azzurro

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla’s sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla’s visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of…

Ribelli per caso

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Il postino

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an unemployed, uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. His job is simply to deliver Neruda’s daily mail. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet, learning the art of poetry to woo a local barmaid (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) and tell about the struggles of the working-class villagers. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man.

Un’anima divisa in due

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Store security guard Pietro spends his days catching shoplifters, his weekends visiting his children who are in custody of his ex-wife, and his nights thinking about new ways to flirt with the store’s makeup consultant. His malaise psychosomatically manifests itself in nosebleeds, outbursts of anger, visions, etc. One day, he sees a young Gypsy girl steal something from the store and lets it slide: he can’t explain why, but she caught his eye. Pietro and Pabe that’s her name warily start to hang out, knowing each other more and more, until something begins to blossom in them. Could their shared dream for a new, more compassionate life finally be at their fingertips?